PSI-gate reinforcements in vanilla?! The actual hell is that??

[Tamiore]

Just a normal covert op (with rapid response dark event active) when suddenly THIS happens:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=886957971
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=886957871

Then next turn NOTHING happens, vortex just disappears, no actual reinforcements arrive.
What was that?!

[Neckstabba]

'Troops lost in Warp'

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by iL.AndyMage:

'Troops lost in Warp'

Should I start checking for Pariah's on my team yet?

[alangriffith]

Codex? Their area attack is the original source of the 'psigate' animation, after all.

Assuming you already checked for that (or had your guys standing in it witrh no effect) then yeah, weird bug, cool story.

[Neckstabba]

Originally posted by st88:

Originally posted by iL.AndyMage:

'Troops lost in Warp'

Should I start checking for Pariah's on my team yet?

You should, just check if they are 98% metal, when they are ABORT the mission or the silent machines will kill you !

[Neckstabba]

Originally posted by alangriffith:

Codex? Their area attack is the original source of the 'psigate' animation, after all.

Assuming you already checked for that (or had your guys standing in it witrh no effect) then yeah, weird bug, cool story.

But Codex attack is a large "bubble" - not a vortex in itself?

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by alangriffith:

Codex? Their area attack is the original source of the 'psigate' animation, after all.

Assuming you already checked for that (or had your guys standing in it witrh no effect) then yeah, weird bug, cool story.

Have not even finsihed the skulljack, so codex'es are out of question.

[alangriffith]

Originally posted by iL.AndyMage:

But Codex attack is a large "bubble" - not a vortex in itself?

The codex attack I just got stuck on me in Long War was defaniately a vortex, but maybe they've changed the animation.

It;s been a long time since I had a codex do its area attack on me in vanilla - I tended to kill them the turn they appeared with bluescreen rounds. Much harder to get bluiescreen rounds in :Long War, and more high priority targets.

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by iL.AndyMage:

Originally posted by st88:

Should I start checking for Pariah's on my team yet?

You should, just check if they are 98% metal, when they are ABORT the mission or the silent machines will kill you !

On a completely unrelated note: I may now know what is it the elders are fleeing from.

[Neckstabba]

Originally posted by alangriffith:

The codex attack I jsut got stuck on me in Long War was defaniately a vortex, but maybe they've changed the animation.

It;s been a long time since I had a codex do its area attack on me in vanilla - I tended to kill them the turn they appeared with bluescreen rounds. Much harder to get bluiescreen rounds in :Long War, and more high priority targets.

Yeah i play LW too - but as far as i remember the vanilla Codex only uses the "bubble" thing to disarm your weapons and deal dmg afterwards. It can Teleport and Split up also.
Also he said hes not that far just now - so that isnt the case either..

[Tamiore]

I actually made a save game at that point, so if anyone has any ideas I can try to interact with this... phenomenon, heh.

[talemore]

The only reason why to use a psigate is if there's any forbidden aliens in the reinforcement group.
You should had been given a normal reinforcements group with advents dropping with a ship. In this case an alien who wasn't advent was in the group. Never seen a single reinforcement ever dropping in with a psigate in vanilla so I'd guess this is not vanilla but a modified version of xcom2 because the psigate isin't normally used. This can happen with ABA because a particular alien is not allowed to be the leader of the group so the group is never spawned because the groupleader wasn't spawned.

[Tamiore]

Originally posted by talemore:

The only reason why to use a psigate is if there's any forbidden aliens in the reinforcement group.
You should had been given a normal reinforcements group with advents dropping with a ship. In this case an alien who wasn't advent was in the group. Never seen a single reinforcement ever dropping in with a psigate in vanilla so I'd guess this is not vanilla but a modified version of xcom2 because the psigate isin't normally used. This can happen with ABA because a particular alien is not allowed to be the leader of the group so the group is never spawned because the groupleader wasn't spawned.

I assure you, it' was 100% vanilla.

Looks like that code was just never supposed to pop up, but still does because BUGS, I guess.