General > Discussion
2.5-dev play through
ShipIt:
--- Quote from: rodo on May 23, 2012, 05:36:27 am ---Money?.. won't you be flooding on that on the next two months?
You could go for the EM rifle instead.
--- End quote ---
Money : I try to expand fast in order to reach a maximum of radar coverage as fast as I can. One can never have too much money that way. :)
After looking at the stats I feel like the EM-Rifle is not worth it. You cannot even step out of cover, take an aimed shot and step back. This means you will not shot that often. Also, i don´t like to exploit the AI by waiting for the aliens to rush at me. But we could do this one, too.
ChemBro:
--- Quote from: ShipIt on May 23, 2012, 06:35:05 am ---After looking at the stats I feel like the EM-Rifle is not worth it.
--- End quote ---
Well, I dunno, but the em-rifle is my main weapon and it takes a loooong time, until you get a better (assault) weapon. Longer than the sniper rifle alternative coil gun. Not so good with aimed shot, I guess, but you can one-shot almost every alien with the three shot burst, or how it is called. Only thing I don't get is, why it is a "heavy" weapon, if it doesn't use heavy weapon skill.
ShipIt:
--- Quote from: ChemBro on May 23, 2012, 12:03:10 pm ---Well, I dunno, but the em-rifle is my main weapon and it takes a loooong time, until you get a better (assault) weapon. Longer than the sniper rifle alternative coil gun. Not so good with aimed shot, I guess, but you can one-shot almost every alien with the three shot burst, or how it is called. Only thing I don't get is, why it is a "heavy" weapon, if it doesn't use heavy weapon skill.
--- End quote ---
In 2.5-dev the EM-Rifle is an advanced Sniper Rifle. Very accurate, powerfull, but high TU cost and low ammo.
We needed to change it (thats a point I agree with H-Hour now), because it was kind of overpowered. You could research it very fast and early in the game, and after you had it there was no more need to use something else. Just ike the Laser Rifle was in XCOM.
ShipIt:
Alpha Squad was ordered to secure the landed UFO for further research. Night mission, a small industrial area.
I expected an epic fight, but instead it was just a slaughter.
The bug like alien machines were killed by grenades from Julia Kuzmin and Thierry Zhang without mercy in this corner.
This Taman was somewhat smarter than his mechanic teammates. Not smart enough. He comes under fire from Jon_dArc, who shoots twice and hits both times.
But it was not enough to kill the alien and Femke Sivertsen has to finish the job. The assault Rifle seems to be a real painmaker here and Femke Sivertsen does as well as Wonderwoman, clearly outperforming all the wannabe heros in the squad. The Riot Shotgun again seems quite inadequate.
This finished the missions. There were only four aliens in the UFO, which is now transfered to our UFO-Yard.
Killed all aliens, saved all civvies, recovered an undamaged UFO, no injuries, no losses. This should give a real boost in the relationship to nations, especially Russia.
ShipIt:
I sold some of the plasma pistols to collect some money and built an hospital in America North. We are down to ~1500 credits after this.
Rodo and Jon_dArc switched from Riot Shotgun to Submachine Gun. "Full Auto" looks looks like a good thing to have in a weapon.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version