Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N7 16-Dec-2023 Flying Tiger, Hidden Tentacle

[Ethereal_Medic]

You can check the gun for the bullets using bootypedia and check the "ANAL" switch.
AP ignores a portion of armor (by multiplying armor values like X*0.75 = 25% armor ignored)

Non-AP rounds do more health damage and offer no further armor-penetration.

[BBHood217]

I don't know when the flechette weapons became infinite ammo guns, but that along with the spray fire feature has turned the multicannon into the best shotgun ever.

[Ethereal_Medic]

This doesn't sound like something intended to.
But in that case those shotguns are once-again super OP and you can equip every assault with it and destroy everything.

[Solarius Scorch]

Flechettes aren't infinite, they just don't have clips. They run out at random.

[Dioxine]

It's a bug, flechettes running out of ammo will be restored next ver.

[BBHood217]

I knew it was too good to be true.  I better spam them while I still can.

I thought it was intentional because the old description of them possibly breaking down after use (because of partial ammo recovery) has disappeared, leaving only the bit about unlimited ammo.

[Ethereal_Medic]

I knew it was too good to be true.  I better spam them while I still can.

While that's fun to use while it lasts you should reconsider to do so and play the way it was intended to function.
Either don't use the guns at all or sell one gun per type each time it fired once per mission.
Since it's a game (meant to be fun/entertaining) you can also do w/e you want. No competition to impress

[silencer_pl]

So I've assaulted Shrine ship and in it's description said - should contain Reverent, but the highest ranking members where priests/beastmasters/matrons. Do I miss something or description is super out of date?

[BBHood217]

Armor piercing lasers are the best addition ever.  The advanced lasgun is still fine for general fights; but for the big engagements, you bring out the custom lasguns with AP ammo.  It just goes to show that no matter the Xcom mod, lasers are always king.

So I've assaulted Shrine ship and in it's description said - should contain Reverent, but the highest ranking members where priests/beastmasters/matrons. Do I miss something or description is super out of date?

That doesn't seem right.  Shrine ships don't have priests and matrons; a typical shrine ship is crewed by neophytes, zealots, a few eggsalts and beastmasters, and a reverend, or two if you're lucky.

[Ethereal_Medic]

Difficult-setting is a thing here.
Like the nazi-ship that only gets a leader on level 5 difficult.

[silencer_pl]

This is the Shrine ship right?



If you see, there are corpses of Warmaidens, Altar Boys, Celatids, Priests and Matrons on higher floors are 2 Beastmasters that wore 'Plastic Aqua Armor'

[Ridаn]

Description is a leftover from version that didnt have non-military crews, each faction had only one set of personel that could spawn. Matrons and War Maiden didnt exist back then.

[cc]

Difficult-setting is a thing here.

Actually, it isn't. There is a "non-combat" and a regular version for the Conversion mission. The "non-combat" option was encountered by silencer_pl and that does not feature a Reverend.

[legionof1]

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lasers are always king.
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Funny nuff for a good long while there Piratez lasers, even the nuke lasers, where worse against everything but mercs, then alot of the ballistic options. Like i advised folks to skip euro-syndicate and Russian base entirely. Scavenged stocks handled the eva missions and mercs before you have plasma and that was it.

[BBHood217]

Actually, it isn't. There is a "non-combat" and a regular version for the Conversion mission. The "non-combat" option was encountered by silencer_pl and that does not feature a Reverend.

I've never encountered the non-combat crew.  Sounds like bad luck, it's like assaulting an ethereal cruiser only to find waspites and gazers so you already know that the highest ranking ethereal you'll find there is only an operative instead of a coordinator.

Well, there'll be more conversion missions in the future; and if you're somehow still unlucky with those, other mission types elsewhere have guaranteed reverends.