"Those Turrets Aren't Necessarily Our Friends" Phoenix Point - Terror From The Void - Episode 42

[@ZigZagZog]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone! My voice is a bit rough on this one because it was recorded just as I was getting ill.

[@tomsko863]

Hope you feel better ZZZ soon. Have a good holiday.

[@tomsko863]

53:33 - Chain linked fences in this game are coded like solid walls. You can't see or shoot through them. They can be easily destroyed but that's the only good part of them. 54:45 - That was weird... Anyone know what happened there? Is it fall damage? 1:33:20 - I would prefer if the Umbra had at least 1 extra turn of being alive. Maybe with an HP hit after the 1st turn? Otherwise, I will also opt to play keep away and make most Umbra encounters trivial. Maybe making them lose 30% of the remaining HP each turn would be a happy medium? 1:36:56 - With a term like "Chevengur" I would put money on whoever wrote this was either Russian or eastern European. Take a chance and look at the Kaos Market. The Vehicle equipment is really fun now.

[@HESHRocketWarhead]

"If we lose the FAR-M, will we have to jettison a soldier?" It's likely that you can still retain the aircraft capacity if it's disabled, but it will no longer replenish lost stamina. Alternatively at the absolute worst, I can see the Geoscape prompting you that there's no longer space on the aircraft for the additional soldiers, so you'd have to pick a base to move them to. "Hmmm...it's overcast. I know that when it's overcast it has an affect on our visual weapons." Excellent, you're paying attention to that! Analyzing the weather is one thing. The next step is equipping aircraft in anticipation for that. Though these guys were already in the air at the time. But it's the next step up from here. "To bad [This Dude] can't make it into that circle, as we'd have access to that Watcher." What do you mean? That's in the circle to activate it. You can get it booted up right now. "So the turn we activate [the Watcher], it's apparently not available." It's not that, it's because you don't have a Technician to manually control them yourself. They're gonna be on autopilot because of that. Really gotta make sure you bring a Technician to this mission in the future, so that you can get the turrets to function more in line with your intentions. "Oh no! We have a target for this turn, and it's This Dude!" Be glad that the Watcher didn't choose to target him for you. That would've been a nasty corrosive blast coupled with some vicious turret bullets right into his face. "We lost half our overwatch!" At the same time, that was a blessing in disguise. Floki was too close to that Umbra to be safe. It could have easily gone around the outside, avoided all except Floki's overwatch, and probably hit him twice, maybe three times if you're unlucky. The damage could've been fatal. Instead, Floki got mindfragged, and Shane got clipped once instead. That very easily could've been a lot worse if actions played out differently.

[@tomsko863]

"If we lose the FAR-M, will we have to jettison a soldier?" - This happened to me yesterday. I didn't have the FAR-M but another similar module that gives you 4 more spaces AND more speed. I had a full compliment of troops and after the battle there were still all there. I flew back immediately to get it repaired. I didn't notice if the module lost it's other capabilities, sorry.

[@Cervando]

I really don't like the fact that Umbra despawn so quickly. They have become far too trivial now. Note, in the event that your aircraft can no longer carry a full compliment of passengers, from memory the excess magically appear at the nearest base.