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Barozi on 16 October 2012
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zarx said:
Barozi said:
yeah the accuracy of your guys at the beginning is horrible. It gets a lot better later on, but then you have these floaters which reduce your hit chance, because well they're floating in the air. Okay makes even some kind of sense.

Then even later you fight these big Mutons. When they're in cover I only have like 35% hit chance even though I have a much higher hit chance for other alien creatures at the same distance. Why can't I reduce the hit chance for the enemy ?

It just feels like the CPU always finds more tricks to easily keep up with you, no matter how strong you've become.

Now don't get me wrong. Until the middle of day 3 I really really liked the game and I think it was worth the purchase, because I already spent 15 hours or so with the game. But I'm not sure if I will ever finish it now.


Elevation and flanking both help. You get a bonus to hit chance if you are higher than the enemy, and also if you are beside or behind them, you can also use S.C.O.P.E. and also Heavies with Holo targeting, get them to fire first and it will give everyone else a bonus to hit. Also diferent types of cover has different defense bonuses. Mutons also have supression which lowers your chance to hit so watch out for that of course, they also like to hunker down. 

To lower the enemy hit chance, you can use supression, use full cover, and high ground. There are also perks like Assault's Tactical Sense, Damn Good Ground and Low Profile for Snipers, Support has Smoke Grenade, there is also the Psi power Telekinetic Field.

Thing is I'm already doing everything you said.... well except for the psi powers that facility is currently in the works.

It's simply an unfair map where the enemy inside the ship have full cover and me being outside don't have it. Not even enough standard cover. Then this happens what I wrote in my rant.  I need to move 2 or more soldiers behind standard cover (or else I cannot attack), one of the Mutons responds by throwing a grenade and *whoosh* my cover is entirely gone.
Throwing one smoke grenade simply isn't enough in this case.

Maybe I just need to try finding another entry to the ship so I might not be disadvantaged for a change. Haven't looked at the back of the ship yet.