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Article #35452Aftermath: Capturing Aliens
From: Warren
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:13
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:13
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Got Aftermatch last Friday and played it for a bit on the weekend. While it might not be everything I wished it to be, I think it's a worthwhile game and am having fun ... albeit getting my butt kicked. Actually, I'm not doing that badly, but I can tell that I will be getting my butt kicked shortly. :) Anyway, sometimes I get missions to recover a live alien. I can win these when I incapacitate/kill all the aliens, but the mission objectives and game manual say it's possible to pick up an incapacitated alien and carry him back to the LZ without wiping out all aliens on the map. I can't for the life of me figure out how to pick up an incapacitated alien. I can pick up dead aliens, but this doesn't really help complete the mission. Anybody figure this out? It seems the only way you can pick something up is by walking directly on top of it, but you can't move on top of an incapacitated alien. When I unequip my weapon and try to click on the alien, I get an "I don't understand" message from my soldier. It hasn't been an issue yet, but I can imagine that some mission with a lot of dangerous aliens might be better to grab your target and run to keep from getting your agents shot up more. On another note, anybody come up with good rules of thumb for delegating missions. Unless agents are critically injured, they can immediately go on another mission at full strength. So, it doesn't seem real necessary to delegate missions (yet) as I haven't noticed any disappear if I don't get to them immediately. That said, I have delegated some of the missions whose effect isn't great, but am wondering how others delegate missions, if at all. Thanks. Warren
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!news5.aus1.giganews.com!firehose2!nntp4!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: wsmithjr001@yahoo.com (Warren) Newsgroups: alt.games.x-com Subject: Aftermath: Capturing Aliens Date: 20 Oct 2003 07:13:28 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 32 Message-ID: <81d917d0.0310200613.3d2af651@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.208.149.146 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1066659209 4541 127.0.0.1 (20 Oct 2003 14:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:13:29 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit