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Winning strategy?

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geisthund:
if you have plasma blades, that would have been a great moment to holster the grenade launcher and stick one into the alien. the number of time units required is low, and the aliens never have time to RF.

just as an aside - just how does one use the night vision goggles? nothing seems to happen when I click the icon. And I notice I can hold them in my hand and I get two use options... (which I haven't tried)... but who takes their night goggles off to use them anyway?!?

bit5nip3r:
I have noticed that when you click on the night vision button, you do lose time units.  So I assume they have been put on their heads.  Maybe a UI tweak is in order to alert you that goggles are activated.  Other than that haven't noticed any real improvement in visibility.  I generally tried to avoid night time missions, and make my firebird wait right next to a crash site if need be , just to get it to land at day.

Nokim:

--- Quote from: geisthund on June 01, 2012, 08:11:57 pm ---just as an aside - just how does one use the night vision goggles? nothing seems to happen when I click the icon. And I notice I can hold them in my hand and I get two use options... (which I haven't tried)... but who takes their night goggles off to use them anyway?!?

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IR-googles is short range, very short. But it's very useful sometimes because it's able to see through floor and walls. Very useful for quick check for alien before entering room/building.

My winning strategy includes two Saracens on every base (ok, first one have two Stilettos). Pair of Saracens with particle beams can shoot down everything except of Corruptor. Against Harvester there is 50% chance to lose one Saracen, though. All aircraft have polymer armor. There is no use for alien aircraft armor - for Corruptor or Harvester i have Stingray, others can be shoot down by Saracens very quickly and without any problems. Until i have got Stingray i never attacked Harvesters. This saved me a lot of money and provided with HUGE amount of antimatter (i captured them all on landing).

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