A premiere for me...

[new_civilian]

20+ years of XCom playing and today i got this for the first time ever. It appeared when I sent my troops to a downed Fighter (mod) crash site. I received some Alien Alloys and nothing else, but I was very surprised to see this. 

[7Saturn]

I had this a few times, but never with the original game. I believe, that this as been implemented only in openxcom, hasn't it?

[Meridian]

I had it in original too I think.

Usually when I shot down a very small UFO without destroying it, maybe 1 in 5 chance.

[7Saturn]

Usually when I shot down a very small UFO without destroying it, maybe 1 in 5 chance.

That on the other hand I never had. They were always destroyed. But maybe that's because I never use the cannons.

[yrizoud]

When a crash mission begins, the only UFO damage is applied to UFO power sources (either blow up or not).
https://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=UFO_Crash_Recovery#Power_Source_Explosions_and_Elerium_Recovery
I got this message once, I assumed it was because all the deployed aliens happen to be in the blast radius.

[pilot00]

I had that one happen to me in the original as well. It happens in TFTD too.

[Hobbes]

20+ years of XCom playing and today i got this for the first time ever. It appeared when I sent my troops to a downed Fighter (mod) crash site. I received some Alien Alloys and nothing else, but I was very surprised to see this. 

I had it in original too I think.

I had that one happen to me in the original as well. It happens in TFTD too.

EDIT: this feature appears on OpenXCom and in the original TFTD, but not in the original UFO.

One easy to check is to see if that text string appears on the original ENGLISH.DAT and ENGLISH2.DAT files and their TFTD equivalents, which contains the text strings used on the original game.

Since it isn't present for the original UFO, your memory is playing tricks on all who remember seeing it there.

[7Saturn]

It's nice being right. ;-)

[Hobbes]

It's nice being right. ;-)

I've rechecked and it actually appears on TFTD, but not UFO

[7Saturn]

TFTD I rarely played, as I was often disturbed by techtree-bugs. So about that I wouldn't know...

[Meridian]

I've rechecked and it actually appears on TFTD, but not UFO

Yeah, that must be it... I remember it from my early LPs, so it couldn't have been OpenXcom.
Or maybe I am just delusional.

[Hobbes]

Yeah, that must be it... I remember it from my early LPs, so it couldn't have been OpenXcom.
Or maybe I am just delusional.

It's a known neural phenomenon - most of our memories are reinvented by our subconscious in order to fit the present. This is also why eye witnesses can be very unreliable.

If you're a diary writer you'll see this when you reread entries from years ago and realize that your current impression of those events is different from when you experienced then and wrote in your diary.

[Arthanor]

Interesting! I do remember seeing that too, but not while playing OpenXCom. Must be TftD!

What happened in the original if all aliens got killed by the crash? I sort of remember going through the inventory, seeing the map, playing my turn and winning as soon as I press end turn because everything was already dead.

[kharille]

Never seen this before.  And I've been playing since 94'....

[SIMON BAILIE]

Would the most likely case of this happening not be a vanilla medium scout as a small scout has no power source? All the aliens could get roasted in the medium scout but surely the walls in bigger crafts would spare some of them until you finish them off