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Originally posted by laiocfar@Dec 11 2005, 03:33 AM
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I managed to successfully finish off the commander of a sectoid battleship, before my last trooper succumbed to his fatal wounds (would it not be great if troopers could use medkits on themselves?). Despite nine KIA's and a destroyed tank, I still received a good mission rating! This was back in my "damn the torpedoes" attitude of leaving no UFO unlooted. After the incident with the etherial battleship, this attitude was subject to some adjustment.
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U didnīt know when to abort a mission?! if u lost an skyranger it will take days before u can go out to another mission.
Interesting rdition rbell and Aries try by next time use two saves slots one ifor save during mission at end of each turn and other for save before star a mission.
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Aborting the mission would have been good idea, if I was certain that the trooper would live all of the way to the skyranger. The details of the mission are a little fuzzy, (it occured in the summer of 1994*) but it was some combination of MC'ed troopers, blaster bombs, and panicked troopers dropping live grenades. Things went pear-shaped rather quickly and going back to the skyranger seemed less practical than finishing the mission. Finally, if it a battleship landed for the purpose of alien infiltration, in the USA, you have to pull it off; unless, you are using some kind of money cheat.
I am not a big fan of saving and reloading. I accept the fact that stuff happens. I save more often than I used to, but I still tend to play ironman-style, and only save when I get off of the computer. Saving and reloading also breaks up the flow of the game. I would rather scarper back to the transport and abort than reload from a save in any situation where the transport returns home.
* The mission, one of several at that playing session, was not as memorable as getting home to my soon-to-be wife and finding out how upset she was that I was seven hours late for a meal that I had promised to cook. In my background, when you have done something bad, you accept the browbeating and apologise when the browbeating is finished. In her family, if you have been wronged, you berate the person, until they apologise. Thus was set the stage for comedy. Two hours after my return she is wondering what kind of insensitive clod she got engaged to and I am wondering if she is ever going to stop. She finally screamed at me "Why haven't you apologised?", and I meekly told her "I didn't want to interrupt.". She gave me this blank stare and we have been laughing about it ever since.