Mines

[MigraineMax]

Use mines. Seriously. Save a command point or two, but put mines everywhere, especially narrow paths. There is no downside.
You don't lose anything by just sitting in a room and resting, right? Its a game play feature. So is going slow, regaining a new command point every 30 seconds to a minute (can be shortened), and laying down mines everywhere. Sure, you can kill a paroling drone with a sniper rifle, or leave a precious turret somewhere, but those require line of sight or losing a resource. You have command pints for days! Use them! Spam mines! Even elites take massive damage from mines, and you unlock them at level 2!

[alex010300]

Yup, I used them to kill patrolling Aliens. Count as a silent weapon.

[Moffin Bovin]

tbh. i found mines to mostly be a waste of command points. They don't reliably kill a drone, and some of them will just not get triggered (making them a waste of a cp)

sniper rifle and motion trackers are just better uses of your cp.

[MigraineMax]

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

tbh. i found mines to mostly be a waste of command points. They don't reliably kill a drone, and some of them will just not get triggered (making them a waste of a cp)

sniper rifle and motion trackers are just better uses of your cp.

While I agree about the motion trackers, which I never use as distractions, since long range intel is ALWAYS valuable, I disagree with the sniper precision shot. First of all, it requires line of sight, which must be maintained for at least 1 full second. If trying to remain undetected, your time is often better spent breaking line of sight than lining up the shot. Not always, but from what I have experienced.
I will note, however, that sniper rifle shots are not particularly powerful against anything other than drones. If their power was buffed to do much more damage, then they would have a true utility in fights against Preatorians, for example. I think that the 1 second wind up is strange, since a grenade flies across the map instantly and explodes on contact almost immediately.
Of course, the whole purpose of the post was to say, stop walking around with 3+ command points just sitting there uselessly. Just lay down a mine every once in a while, and you will smile when you hear an Alien explode somewhere in the distance.

[Monogoose]

Originally posted by Moffin Bovin:

They don't reliably kill a drone

Im pretty sure they do it consistently on hard. Mby its difrent on nightmare

[Anubis °-^]

I love mines. Sometimes, when I want to have more fun I put a motion tracker an a mine in the same spot. It a nice trap >:D