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frdnwsm Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:41am
Nothing to research?
For a month or so now, nothing really new has come up on the research screen. I have rendered down all the alien corpses I had, and now all I can do is research the basic rsearch and engineering topics. No magnetics, gauss weapons, etc. etc. ever show up.

What's going on? What do I need to open up new technical areas to reseach?

Oh, and every now and then the research department urges me to do an autopsy on the Advent officer corpse ... but I don't have one, and never did. I haven't brought ny back from missions, despite having killed a bunch of them. How do I bring one of their coprses back?
Last edited by frdnwsm; Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:53am
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frankie60 Jan 27, 2019 @ 6:08am 
Trooper and Officer corpses are THE most important in the early game research. Everything stalls without it. You can only bring back corpses from Supply Raids, Troop columns, Rendezvous missions, and HQ assaults. Maybe one other, but I can't remember. And that only works if there is an officer on the mission and you don't blow him up. So don't destroy them before you can research them. Maybe too late, huh...

I accidentally used my last officer corpse to make an incendiary grenade, before I did a skull jack and it set me back literally months.

Another thing is DON'T render all the corpses. You need them to make advanced ammo, etc. Never render hard to find corpses like shield bearers, Muton Elites and the like. I don't render any corpses, because I can't never remember what corpse is used for what item. If there's an emergency and you need crystals or alloys, then make sure you don't need they item you get from them.

You need to find the XCOM LW2 tech tree so you can see what's going on with that.
Last edited by frankie60; Jan 27, 2019 @ 6:15am
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frdnwsm Jan 27, 2019 @ 7:34am 
Well, screw.
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frankie60 Jan 27, 2019 @ 1:13pm 
Originally posted by frdnwsm:
Well, screw.

Yeah. The trooper corpse lets you build the Proving Ground and the Officer gets you Mag Weapons. But troopers are pretty easy to come by. Officers maybe not so much. You might get lucky. But you can't do anything without the Troopers / Proving Ground.
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frdnwsm Jan 27, 2019 @ 2:21pm 
Oh, I built the Proving Ground sometime ago. An hour ago I finally got an officer corpse ... as well as a shield bearer, muton and some sectoids ... after a rather brilliantly executed (shamelessly blowing my own horn here) tactical victory over a far superior alien force. (Supply convoy mission).

So I can finally(!) start autopsying the damned critter.
Last edited by frdnwsm; Jan 28, 2019 @ 3:44am
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Chokes Jan 27, 2019 @ 3:48pm 
Originally posted by frdnwsm:
Oh, I built the Proving Ground sometime ago. An hour ago I finally got an officer corpse ..
Build Incendiary Grenades ASAP, they're busted as hell.
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frdnwsm Jan 27, 2019 @ 5:24pm 
Yeah, some alien grenadier hit us with one. Ouch!

Still, I'm not going to be in a rush to get rid of my one and only officer corpse. Not easy to come by.
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