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@@neoteraflare Eh, it went well enough anyway. Lots of rookies died, and they're replaceable, but the people who were left got promotions.

@@steamrangercomputing Good to see you could stay calm and push through. When I played the game first time (25 years ago...), when cases like these happened I got tilted and quit the game or save scummed through it.

@@neoteraflare Well I think the right attitude is just remembering that everything's pretty easily replaceable, except the loot from the end of the mission. Attacking a UFO, all but your highest ranking guys can be replaced cheaply and decently quickly; The weapons they carry can easily be bought/manufactured/found (Except for the blaster launchers); What is more expensive and difficult to get is Elerium, Alloys, power sources/navigation, etc.

I like to set the manufacturing limit for sales to be around a month, as that way I get notified once it's done and check if I need to make anything else before starting another manufacturing job for money. I tried the path preview before I started this series and I found it to be a bit annoying. I think by the time I entered the supply ship at least a few of the aliens had moved around, for example the one that came into the elevator and shot two of my people. Do enemies wake up, or just my people?

@@steamrangercomputing Yeah, understandable your manufacture method too. There is 2 kind of alien in a ship mission: One is outside of the ship going randomly hunting xcom and the others inside the ship patrolling in circles. The patrol ones that are the ones inside the ship that stay the same. They can meet your soldiers this way. Also be careful, according to rumors (maybe it is really just a rumor) after turn 20 aliens will know your position and start hunting you. This could be the reason they went out of the ship hunting for the 2 people outside Everyone wakes up after a time. The same rules go for everybody in everything. Aliens or xcom. You can haste the waking up with the medikit's stimulant if you stand above the unconscious body

@@neoteraflare I find it odd that the aliens chose to go for my people outside the ship, rather than the ones inside. Perhaps they saw that the outside ones were lower health?

@@steamrangercomputing I don't really know how exactly the AI works. My guess would be they were the nearest according to pathfinding and not just distance. Maybe they spot him while he was collecting the stuff from the dead guys. Or it is just totally random

@@andrewriker2192 Yes, it can take quite a while to do things. I find it is nicer than some UIs of more modern games, particularly simulation or grand strategy. It would be nice if there was a reaction shot calculator, or something of that nature, where you could mouse over a tile and see the chance of reaction shooting an enemy there, but I guess that was beyond the limits of 90s UI design.

Good to know about the time thing, I thought they only stayed there for a single day or so. So I don't have to shoot people under mind control? Will aliens always try to go for the weakest psy people, even if everyone else isn't particulaly strong? I'd assume this would mean to just keep people with weak psy using laser rifles, rather than heavy weapons.

@@steamrangercomputing You can stun mindcontrolled people or just drop the weapon at the end of the turn and pick up the next turn. This will remove overwatch and wastes time units (2 for drop and 8 for pickup), but mindcontrolling them will be worthless. They go for the easiest to mind control. Usually this means the weakest psy strenght. (people mark these people with a # in their name to remember) but psy has 2 factor for success: psy strenght/skill and the distance from the psy user. So a stronger one closer to the alien could be an easier target than a weaker one further away. Also unless you changed it in the options aliens cheat and as soon as they see only 1 of your unit they can try mind controlling anybody even people they can't see. You can give normal pistol to psy weak people. Since sectoids are weak anyway they can be killed with a pistol too and when you will have armor, pistol won't really hurt your own people.

@@JuanCoso-o5v Perhaps I will later, I'm planning on doing at least another playthrough on difficulty 5, which will actually be harder as OpenXCom fixes the difficulty bug. I haven't just started playing, I've done like 5 hours of the quick battlescape missions without the geoscape, but I've never played a proper game like this before.

@@hercufles Thanks for the comment. I do have an Amiga, though X-COM would look terrible on it because it doesn't have the AGA chipset, it's an Amiga 2000.

Further development has taken a lot longer than I expected, as I decided to do a rework of what I had and also develop the library according to feature documents that I write first.

7. Usually 5 are pulled.