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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Re: Bug - Base attack screws up equipping soldiers

« on: December 22, 2010, 07:08:35 pm »

I would if that site's scripts actually worked in my phone's browser... As it is, it's the only thing I have 'net access on right now.
Also, I have no idea at what moment I should capture the log?
I can *e-mail* the savegame somewhere, but most upload sites don't exactly work right on my phone, either.

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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Bug/screw up -- medkits

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:15:42 pm »

Who needs hospitals when medkits heal all the damage, permanently, and aren't even expendable?

I mean... I have a soldier down to 30 HP... If I keep him in a hospital, off-duty, he'd heal in about a month and a half. If I take him on a mission, all it takes is someone using a medkit on him two, tops three, times, and he's at 100% health -- even after mission ends.

Short-term/long-term damage anyone? Come on, it was even in the very first UFO

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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Bug/missing option? Can't sell "collected" UFOs

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:12:29 pm »

Whenever I collect an UFO, I have an option to either sell it, or (provided I have an UFO yard), store it there. Now, the problem. I can't for whatever reason, be that lack of free space (if I wanna store an UFO type I don't have yet, but have the yard full, or just wanna intact one instead of a damaged), or cash shortage, sell those I have stored. Nor, actually, get a list of what I have there.

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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Bug - Base attack screws up equipping soldiers

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:08:59 pm »

OK, here it is:

I have two bases. 8 soldiers on one, two on another.

I got the base 2 attacked, after which I couldn't have soldiers on base 1 equipped anymore.

Whenever I go to equip screen, be that at any time via craft, or when a base gets attacked, I receive equip options only for the two soldiers on base 2. Now, where it gets even funnier is:

equipping them with whatever stuff actually equips that stuff to soldiers in slots 1 and 2 in base 1. Even if I don't have these weapons on base 1 at all

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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Bug - Autosell doesn't work

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:05:19 pm »

Autosell doesn't work. Moreover, the tickmark gets reset when I leave base.

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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Bug - RF reservation for different kinds of fire

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:04:08 pm »

There's a bug with RF TUs reservation. It's most apparent with snipers.

When I reserve for RF, if I have RF Snap Shot selected, it reserves 12 TUs. If I later change to Aimed Shot, cancel RF, reserve for RF again, it needs 18. But I still can have RF Aimed Shot selected with 12 TUs reserve long as it was reserved when selection was for Snap Shot.

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Bugs in older version (2.3.1) / Re: Aimed Shot doesnt hit

« on: December 22, 2010, 04:00:53 pm »

More like it is totally off. With a sniper rifle, aimed shot showing about 65% probability to hit in reality has about 5% chance of hitting. Checked that by using multiple restarts on a mining/Asia UFO crash map, because there it repeatedly deployed one sniper where I could crouch and fire at an alien deployed in the same spot on turn one in 19 out of 20 loadups. And even when hitting, a kill (even against a non-armored one) was scored in about 1/10 cases.

Now, the funner part. A rocket launcher shot at the same target from same spot with displayed hit probability of about 30% was scoring a direct hit in two out of three shots (and in all other maps, it's apparently the most accurate weapon). A kill was scored only in half the hits, though. And frankly, it seems to cause almost no splash damage whatsoever. I only twice managed to kill someone with splash damage, and it includes the cases with aliens standing adjacent to each other in a small (3x4) room, so there just was NO WAY to not catch them in the explosion. So I score a direct hit on one, it dies, but the other just goes like, "Huh? Someone farted?"

What's the problem with using the same thing to determine hit probability when aiming and when the actual shot is fired?