Post by dragonspear on Oct 11, 2016 22:39:10 GMT -5
Hi,
I don't know if this is a bug, or just devious programming.
But the Leo Drop Zone became the first mission I had to abort and restart for something odd that kept occurring. Still on my first playthrough.
When you have one engineer, it takes (at least) one capture attempt to revert a tact point to 'neutral', and then one more capture to align it on your side.
Thing is, and this is the only time I've ever seen it - every time my engineer would revert the tac point to 'neutral', the xenos would somehow recapture it on their turn. Multiple times. It was impossible for a single engineer to fully capture it.
I had to abort and have the team start with two engineers in order to capture it.
And then, to add insult to injury, the bad guys wouldn't spawn fast enough for me to beat the time limit countdown combined with the kill requirement. I can live with that (none of my guys died) but could someone look into this? It was probably due to capturing the tac point so early (I think it was turn 3) but it feels wrong to in essence be punished for doing well. I wasn't able to do much with the tac point either, other than adding structure, so it didn't impact the tactics that much other than by reducing the rate of xeno spawn generation.
Played at demanding difficulty.
Specs: iOS, version 2.4.19
Respectfully yours,
Dragonspear
I don't know if this is a bug, or just devious programming.
But the Leo Drop Zone became the first mission I had to abort and restart for something odd that kept occurring. Still on my first playthrough.
When you have one engineer, it takes (at least) one capture attempt to revert a tact point to 'neutral', and then one more capture to align it on your side.
Thing is, and this is the only time I've ever seen it - every time my engineer would revert the tac point to 'neutral', the xenos would somehow recapture it on their turn. Multiple times. It was impossible for a single engineer to fully capture it.
I had to abort and have the team start with two engineers in order to capture it.
And then, to add insult to injury, the bad guys wouldn't spawn fast enough for me to beat the time limit countdown combined with the kill requirement. I can live with that (none of my guys died) but could someone look into this? It was probably due to capturing the tac point so early (I think it was turn 3) but it feels wrong to in essence be punished for doing well. I wasn't able to do much with the tac point either, other than adding structure, so it didn't impact the tactics that much other than by reducing the rate of xeno spawn generation.
Played at demanding difficulty.
Specs: iOS, version 2.4.19
Respectfully yours,
Dragonspear
(You can even upgrade the TP to have higher HP once you've captured it, if you have enough SP to spare, so that it's an irreversible violent takeover. 
Or at least, it will survive past one more turn.)