The only bad thing about Predator Armor ...

[ccwylde70]

... is the effect they have on small doors, lol ... going through the small doors on Carriers, I noticed that afterwards my other guys couldn't reclose the doors. Guess they made rather large human-shaped holes where the doors used to be !

Not too big a deal, really. Just one of my dude's standing there at end of turn, waiting for a buddy to close the door, and staring right at a Harridan atm, heheh ...

[Pingu_the_Great]

They have the same effect on some types of cover - they tend to smush the barriers in alien bases and UFOs. "Whoops! Did I do that?"

[GramboStorm]

The only bad thing about Predator Armour is Reapers.

That'sssssss a verrry niccccccce Predator Heavy you have theeeeeeeere, it would be a sssssssssssssshame if ssomething were to ahppen too ittttt...

*Splat* new Reaper.

Best of all, you don't get the equipment back. GLHF ;)

[Mr.Kill]

Predator armor does reduce TU usage by 35%. So doesn't that mean if the reaper spends 45% TU to get into range he'll get shot by machinegun fire?

[ccwylde70]

Originally posted by GramboStorm:

The only bad thing about Predator Armour is Reapers.

That'sssssss a verrry niccccccce Predator Heavy you have theeeeeeeere, it would be a sssssssssssssshame if ssomething were to ahppen too ittttt...

*Splat* new Reaper.

Best of all, you don't get the equipment back. GLHF ;)

See, I was wondering about that - because on 2 occassions now, I've had Alpha Reapers who looked like they were capable of getting the drop on my Predator MG'ers walk by them trying to get further into the ranks of my squad, like they're ignoring them to eat someone else. Guess maybe they randomly decide who they want and ignore others even if they are closer.

[Mr.Kill]

Originally posted by ccwylde70:

Originally posted by GramboStorm:

The only bad thing about Predator Armour is Reapers.

That'sssssss a verrry niccccccce Predator Heavy you have theeeeeeeere, it would be a sssssssssssssshame if ssomething were to ahppen too ittttt...

*Splat* new Reaper.

Best of all, you don't get the equipment back. GLHF ;)

See, I was wondering about that - because on 2 occassions now, I've had Alpha Reapers who looked like they were capable of getting the drop on my Predator MG'ers walk by them trying to get further into the ranks of my squad, like they're ignoring them to eat someone else. Guess maybe they randomly decide who they want and ignore others even if they are closer.

Reapers must expend 35% of their TU to attack. Odds are the reaper got to your squad with less than 35% TU and said "Ah screw it" and then walked into the middle of your team. You should definitely use that opportunity to capture one for damage boost.

[ccwylde70]

Originally posted by Mr.Kill:

Reapers must expend 35% of their TU to attack. Odds are the reaper got to your squad with less than 35% TU and said "Ah screw it" and then walked into the middle of your team. You should definitely use that opportunity to capture one for damage boost.

Lol, I'm now picturing the Reaper saying "Ah screw it" ... yeah, I've captured them before ... though leaving one behind unconscious while I continued the rest of the mission was cause for some paranoia, I must say !

[Mr.Kill]

Just had a predator armor reaction fire on a reaper. It was so one-sided it was hilarious. If only this game had rag doll physics!

[ccwylde70]

Huzzah for reaction fire ! Congratz on another 'save-your-own-bacon' !

[Alpha1]

Yeah I had a stunned reaper stand up, come up behind me and kill two of my best guys once :(

[Mr.Kill]

Originally posted by Alpha1:

Yeah I had a stunned reaper stand up, come up behind me and kill two of my best guys once :(

holy crap. how long did it take for the reaper to get back up! That's never happened to me! When I stun an alpha reaper, I'm gonna park my tank on top of him.

[Alpha1]

3-4 turns, I was just beginning my breach of the UFO so all my guys were facing the entrance or inside and then this one reaper comes up and kills one of my guys and then the one that got killed killed another guy the following turn. I know it got up because I scouted back to see if it had killed any civvies and the body was no longer there.