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Offline HaplessRookie

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[Answered] Confusing Alien Infiltration Behavior
« on: October 16, 2021, 09:47:15 am »
Hello, I'm playing XCOM for the first time and I'm using OXCE as well.  I'm having fun, but some of the aliens' decisions confuse me.  For example, in my game the aliens successfully infiltrated Brazil and stopped their funding in March 1999 (as seen in attachment 1).  I figured then they would move on to infiltrating another region & country, but in April and May 1999 all they have done is launch infiltration missions in the South America region even though they already got Brazil (Attachment 2).  Is this intended alien behavior, or a bug with XCom/Openxcom/OXCE?  Are they trying to rebuild the alien base I destroyed back in March when they first infiltrated South America/Brazil?  Can aliens infiltrate countries that don't show up on the geoscape?

Again, I don't know if this is intended behavior or not.  If there's more to the Alien Infiltration missions than infiltrating funding nations, then please enlighten me.  If this question would be better asked in another location, enlighten me as well :)
« Last Edit: February 12, 2023, 11:56:17 am by Meridian »

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Re: Confusing Alien Infiltration Behavior
« Reply #1 on: October 16, 2021, 10:37:25 am »
It's a known vanilla behavior.

Infiltration mission in a region continues forever, even if all countries were infiltrated already.

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Re: Confusing Alien Infiltration Behavior
« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2021, 11:01:30 pm »
It's a known vanilla behavior.

Infiltration mission in a region continues forever, even if all countries were infiltrated already.

OK, thanks for the quick clarification, Meridian!  ;D

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Re: [Answered] Confusing Alien Infiltration Behavior
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2023, 11:59:51 am »
To be even more precise, it is a known vanilla OpenXcom behavior.

OG indeed stopped the infiltration after all countries in a region were infiltrated.

OXC issue for reference: https://github.com/OpenXcom/OpenXcom/issues/1250