Aight, beat the game, thanks in no small part to broken Chaplain Crozius spam:
Lost a bunch of disposable hero Sentinel Guardsman on base defenses, a marine or two on an early Khorne terror mission with absolutely awful droppod placement, and came close to suffering losses on the final mission, especially the part where a shit ton of surprise bloodletters spawn near cover with
full TUs, but pulling back to the Rhinos and creating a defensive line with my flying Assault Marines (suck it bloodies) saw me through easily after the initial surprise.
So some additional feedback:
- Already stated my views on daemons and especially Daemonettes.
- Terminator armor is really bad for the cost. Sergeant Terminator armor is decent, but its Salvo ability is frankly garbage. It should either cost less TUs or have a half-decent range; I'm not exactly sure what it's supposed to be, but doesn't quite have the blast radius or accuracy to be effective long range artillery. All Terminator armor including enemy Terminator armor should have Refractor/Conversion Shields. A teleport/deep strike ability that required all of your TUs and inflicted Morale damage to teleport to a place you could see, maybe with a random offset would be neat, but I'm not sure if it's currently doable with OpenXcom.
- As stated, the Chaplain's Crozius fireball is utterly insane and broken; see the above image. It needs not to have an AoE that covers a third of the screen at max Bravery. Lorewise I'm not sure how this makes sense either.
- Librarian implementation is pretty cool.
- Plasma is wildly inconsistent; that 0-2x roll really makes it more of an NPC weapon.
- Book of Speed is insanely good, giving a marine an extra turn at the low cost of some Energy and 25 TUs. Not sure if intended.
- Smoke cheese is insanely good; more enemies should have thermal and psychic vision.
- The Heavy Bolter is probably too good; it was my mainstay weapon well into the late game despite being a weapon you can purchase at the very beginning. Might consider nerfing it, but adding an improved pattern that can be researched and developed later.
- No Mastercrafted Assault Cannon?
- Low fire rate, precision weapons like Lascannons and Sniper Rifles should probably have Gaussian Damage as Stormbolters do (0-200, 2 dice roll) so they have more consistency.
- Ended up with an absolute abundance of Ceramite Plates albeit a dearth of Adamantium; these should probably be used in place of Adamantium for a lot of recipes.
- I believe the Chimera Turret corpse is broken?
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