Snipers are just OP towards the end.
Double-tapping sectopods to death is kind of boring....
Snipers are just OP towards the end.
Double-tapping sectopods to death is kind of boring....
I OPed my team in Normal. Ghostx5, plus AA on Sniper, everyone has Mind Control and 80+ will. Double shot crits are amazing.LOL. My Sniper is also Psi-Ops. She is hands down the most powerful of my entire squad. If she isn't sniping (I took ITZ) for a double kill, she is either mind controlling or mind zapping the aliens. And with an accuracy of 105, she wracks up all of the kills. She has 50% more kills than any other member of my squad, even from those who have been with me longer.
Is anyone else getting the whole "My soldiers are too powerful" towards the end? I set down and don't even take any injuries. Just mop them up. Sure I use tactics and have to heal occasionally, but with Titan armor, anything other than a grave wound is just scar tissue. But then again, I am playing Normal, so I imagine Classic is much harder.
LOL. My Sniper is also Psi-Ops. She is hands down the most powerful of my entire squad. If she isn't sniping (I took ITZ) for a double kill, she is either mind controlling or mind zapping the aliens. And with an accuracy of 105, she wracks up all of the kills. She has 50% more kills than any other member of my squad, even from those who have been with me longer.
Is anyone else getting the whole "My soldiers are too powerful" towards the end? I set down and don't even take any injuries. Just mop them up. Sure I use tactics and have to heal occasionally, but with Titan armor, anything other than a grave wound is just scar tissue. But then again, I am playing Normal, so I imagine Classic is much harder.
Normal becomes way too easy once you get the hang of things. A lot of things change when you switch over to classic. For one, I have a much greater appreciation for heavies when I started over in classic. The rocket launchers are invaluable.
Even on Classic and Impossible the game is much much less punishing in the late game compared to the early game. But the cost of messing up is greater.
I actually carry 2 Heavies now because they're your "Get Out of Jail Free" cards. You will sometimes just aggro a larger group than expected and the only possible solution to survive is to explode all the cover with explosions, softening up the aliens and hopefully killing enough that your squad isn't wiped.
Is there even a reason to detract someone from dragging out the late game until you upgrade all the tech and beef up your dudes? I finished my normal game in a hurry because there's no challenge, but the game is starting to get easier now that I have plasma weapons.
I have a squad full of Cols including three maxed out Psi-Ops and Titan armor plus Alloy Guns and Plasma Weapons. I have been dragging it out for the simple reason that I don't want the game to end. But I am thinking of taking the plunge. I hope the end is worth it.
Ghost Armor is better. Inherent Defense up and guaranteed critical hit during cloak. Play your cards right and you shouldn't need the extra HP.I have a squad full of Cols including three maxed out Psi-Ops and Titan armor plus Alloy Guns and Plasma Weapons. I have been dragging it out for the simple reason that I don't want the game to end. But I am thinking of taking the plunge. I hope the end is worth it.
Ghost Armor is better. Inherent Defense up and guaranteed critical hit during cloak. Play your cards right and you shouldn't need the extra HP.
Meh. End-game I was doing very little actual fighting. I was MCing M/Es left and right and using them to suicide-grenade and whatnot against the others.I must admit it's fun to see an assault have almost as much HP as a sectopod and capable of more single-target damage output.
Meh. End-game I was doing very little actual fighting. I was MCing M/Es left and right and using them to suicide-grenade and whatnot against the others.
Great for a long distance scout too if you. Turn GA on and run whoever you are using as scouting their max distance to try and reveal enemies (works great on outside areas where you know they generally are). Snipers with team vision and double tap clean that up real quick generally
I admit I really didn't think much of the ghost armor. With it being limited use and only lasting one turn, or until attack, seems like not much added benefit (to me). Maybe I need to rethink?
Yes, but it's still fun to see that assault with 28 hp.Meh. End-game I was doing very little actual fighting. I was MCing M/Es left and right and using them to suicide-grenade and whatnot against the others.
Weirdly enough, I never found MC that great of a skill. I always seemed to be able to kill everything anyways, so I was left with an MC'd baddie that I didn't know what to do with.
Mostly though, I think it was always that I had something better to do with my guy. Heavy - Rocket launcher, or blasting down a Sectopod; Sniper - Double Tap/ITZ; Assault - MC this muton, or blow this cyberdisc to smithereens... I suppose if I had more psi supports, I'd do it more.
One tactic that I quite like is MC the last baddie on the block. Then I have four rounds to position guys in strike range with Arc Throwers. When the Baddie comes around, ZAP, ZAP, ZAP and down they go. If nothing else, you get a free plasma gun out of the deal.
If you think about it, it is a real shame that you can't zap them WHILE they are under. or at least shoot them defenseless. Yeah, it is morally ambiguous, But then they are plundering our planet, so... All's fair in war. etc....
I learned to start carrying more grenades just for that reason. I could always get the victim to get to low HP easily, and then I would have one of my guys mop up with their own grenade if it was the end of the mission.Yes, you do
Ghost armour gives you 6 hp, +2 moves, +20% defense (permanent half cover, stacks with normal cover), grappling hook.
Oh, you get ghosting with that, which gives you either free scouting, +100% crit, or get out of jail free. Four times.
Titan gives you immunity to fire/poison (marginally useful) and 4 extra hp over ghost armour.
Yes, but it's still fun to see that assault with 28 hp.
Weirdly enough, I never found MC that great of a skill. I always seemed to be able to kill everything anyways, so I was left with an MC'd baddie that I didn't know what to do with.
Mostly though, I think it was always that I had something better to do with my guy. Heavy - Rocket launcher, or blasting down a Sectopod; Sniper - Double Tap/ITZ; Assault - MC this muton, or blow this cyberdisc to smithereens... I suppose if I had more psi supports, I'd do it more.
On their last turn, put them out in the open and have all your guys in full cover and overwatch. Since they don't have a grenade (you should've used theirs already), they will probably miss and are going to die quickly.I always found that once they got out of MC, they got a free turn that I couldn't do anything about. More than once that's gotten one of my guys either killed or critically injured.