Is it better to abort or to fail a mission?

[Oneamongus]

If I know that I'm a going to fail a mission should I abort it or just go with it till the end?
Is there and achievements for not failing any missions? and if so does aborting count?

[Private Nickel]

The penalty for aborting is the same as failing a mission (Which depends on your current difficulty).

AFAIK there are no achievements that keep track of how many failed/aborted missions you have.

It's generally better to try to finish the mission instead of aborting, since you still get to keep loot and XP. The only thing you'll lose for not aborting when a mission goes south is time.

[Oneamongus]

Thanks that helps alot.

[fredingue]

in fact i alt-F4 clicked after a wrong choice due to confusing cover point...just after my Captain had been hit by his own teammate, so she was hit and died. i could not stand that unfair death, so i forced quit and restarted (just the turn before that fatal situation)

so, i should keep on a mission and even succeed it with only 1 char with no penalty for others ?
technically, they should get no XP

if i read you clear, it is better to continue and try to succeed with only 1 char so he will get full XP and all loot will be kept, and i can redo the mission with no specific penalty (game or achievement)

[Maacbeyr]

Originally posted by fredingue:

in fact i alt-F4 clicked after a wrong choice due to confusing cover point...just after my Captain had been hit by his own teammate, so she was hit and died. i could not stand that unfair death, so i forced quit and restarted (just the turn before that fatal situation)

so, i should keep on a mission and even succeed it with only 1 char with no penalty for others ?
technically, they should get no XP

if i read you clear, it is better to continue and try to succeed with only 1 char so he will get full XP and all loot will be kept, and i can redo the mission with no specific penalty (game or achievement)

Yup. On experienced and higher difficulty you lose 50% of your water if you lose. But if you technically win, even with one bot (what I call "get to da choppa" mode) you only lose out on XP that would have gone to the scrapped bots. But you can replay as much as you like, so not a big deal. Just replay easier missions a couple times til you iron out the kinks.

[fredingue]

well, usually i like to play those kind of games ironman way and most of time permadeath and kinda dislike to redo several times easy missions to level up new chars (Jagged Alliance online is really boring on this aspect...among some others) :p

but i understand this game has background based chars and so uses different mechanisms than a large roster of heroes and gunmeat :)