Can't build predator armor ...

[Flambeau200061]

Playing L/I (with some mods ABA and others). Have been playing ultra conservative viz. always evac when activating more than one pod. Have been doing fine so far but now I got a small problem: I haven't enough Advent trooper corpses to build predator armor and there aren't any Advent troopers showing up, just Mutons, Vipers, Advent officers etc. Any ideas?

[Perplex]

Wait untill you run in to a pod with advent soldiers. They are very common in all stages of the game. (Unless your addons turn them off ofc) So just truck on.

[Flambeau200061]

Yeah, i think A better Advent might alter the appearance of the troop types somewhat. Problem is, if you finish the main objective, like say kill Advent commander etc. and then evac before clearing the map of all enemies, you don't get any corpses. Which makes sense, but can lead to some difficulties if you play safety first. On Legendary I usually avoid taking on the Chosen or that last pod with mutons as long as I don't have full squad size and better gear, since that may just be the one encounter that proves to be fatal.

[Zyrrashijn]

If you evac often, you might want to look into this: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1144390426

[Flambeau200061]

Thanks, I'll take a look at this. It just struck me as odd that you'd need bodies at all to build armor. Alloys or Elerium I could understand, but bodies? Unless of course Asvent troopers are covered in some kind of mock turtle shells ...

[Zyrrashijn]

the in-lore explanation is that XCOM recycles ADVENT armour parts, I believe.

[Flambeau200061]

Originally posted by Zyrrashijn:

the in-lore explanation is that XCOM recycles ADVENT armour parts, I believe.

o.k. it's rather simplified though as you really should have to produce extra armor once you increase your squad size, but I guess they didn't want to make it too complicated.