2.2.1 Aliens Starting With Human Weapons

[Redtide]

I've played through the UFO:AI mod through several versions and this is the first time this has happened. I started a downed ufo mission and to my surprise an Ortnox comes up and almost kills my guy with a flamethrower. I thought maybe it was a skin bug but then another Ortnox tries knifing my soldier and does like 6 damage a pop. Needless to say it was easy to kill them but has anyone else had this happen?

[Chriswriter90]

Yes, it does happen, but rarely.

[nllsq]

For me it happens all the time while clearing downed harvester ships.  I usually encounter a sniper guy, 1-2 guys with grenade launchers and (unfortunately) a rocket launcher guy. I think it will be nice to keep it in the game: aliens experimenting with human weapons.

P.S. On "very hard" the rocket launcher in the hands of an alien kills nanocomposite armor-clad soldiers with one hit.

[Redtide]

I think mine was on a downed harvester as well. Interesting.

[Chriswriter90]

I think mine was on a downed harvester as well. Interesting.

Now that I think of it, It does mostly happen on downed Harvester missions.

[Kildor]

Afaik, it was a bug fixed in 2.3

[shevegen]

haha sounds hilarious!


The flamethrower attack is fun, but the alien rushing in with a knife is a bit weird though

but hilarious still :-)

[Redtide]

Yeah, I just kept expecting him to nuke me with a plasma blade but he chips away at my health with a knife doing ridiculously low damage. Wish I could have videoed it. A record feature would be nice if the engine could handle it.