In Progress Let's avoid world getting destroyed by anomaly in openxcom

[Awor Szurkrarz]

A small UFO was detected over China on 8th May. It was destroyed by Interceptor from Japan.

 

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A very large UFO was detected over Siberia on 9th may.

 

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A small UFO was detected and destroyed over China on 17th may.

 

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Another small UFO was detected and damaged over China on 19th May. It crash landed and X-Com Platoon 2 was sent to recover it.

 

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UFO was very destroyed and apparently the Power Source exploded before anything managed to get out of it.

 

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On 20th May, a large UFO was detected, flying fast over Russia.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

It was pursued by Interceptors from Israel and North Europe until contact was lost over Libya. It was feared that it's a Terror Ship heading towards North Africa. Interceptors were spread out to find it and shot it down when it will decelerate to approach the target city.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Two hours later the UFO was detected and intercepted near Bomako by an Interceptor from West Europe.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

The UFO crash landed.

 

[Storyfag]

You have made UFO recovery too easy by making the power source explosions so destructive

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

You have made UFO recovery too easy by making the power source explosions so destructive

I'd say it made it very hard, taking in account that in vast majority of cases, the crashed ship gets completely gutted by power source explosions. There's almost nothing of value to recover and usually all the important aliens get burned inside the ship.
Actually I wonder if attacking crashed is worth casualties. I usually end up with a few wounded soldiers and a few dead and often a destroyed HWP. Is it even profitable?

One thing that concerns me is that I haven't seen an alien throw an alien grenade since I changed the visual range.
Which is pretty bad because here's what an alien grenade does:

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

X-Com Platoon 2 was assigned to assault the crash-landing site.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

It turned out that due to an administrative mistake, the platoon went to battle without its two HWPs.

 

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Immediately after landing contact with an alien was made.

 

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It was killed with an Auto-Cannon burst.

 

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Initial deployment:

 

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Another alien was detected a moment later.

 

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It turned out to be surprisingly hard to kill.

 

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About half-a-minute into the mission, contact was lost with one of the soldiers.

 

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Rifleman saw that the lost soldier was turned into some sort of a bloated monster and opened fire.

 

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Only to see another monster burst out of the corpse!

 

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Which in turn was killed by machine-gunner.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

A moment later more monster were detected west of the landing zone. They didn't seem to be affected by cannon shells hitting them. One route towards the landing site was mined.