Pvt Rejescu sacrificed himself to save cmd Herostratus and col Cojones by blowing up an alien point blank with a rocket, so 36 bodybags
Debating whether to start this or wait for the forthcoming patch in the next couple weeks.
Definitely wait for patch. I thought it was perfectly playable at first when I started, but the late game areas start wracking up so many nigh-gamebreaking bugs, it's literally becoming unplayable for me.
While playing V21 beta I got maybe 2-3 "regular" (out of the blue) crashes. On the other hand, reloading a save where one of your guys was bleeding led to a crash in 99% cases.
This one keeps crashing all the fucking time once large ufos start appearing. Although while you might be lucky and go through a krooza without any CTDs, massive ones are completely impossible to recover. I tried them like 6 times or so, but it's always the same - I can't go more than 3 or 4 turns before it starts crashing all the time the aliens start their turn. It also tends to mercilessly bug saves for missions that take longer than others (alien bases, terror).
It was very rare during my playthrough. Aliens felt mostly as accurate as humans.
I've seen a few such bullshit situations in this one mission that I don't think I'd believe that if someone told me beforehand.
Some spotlights: a caesarian is behind a wall. He obviously must have a 0% to hit because of 100% block. My dude is on the other side of said wall, behind 2 or 3 rows of cover, and VERY VERY far away across the map. The caesarian fires a burst. Two shots hit the wall and destroy it, the third one strikes true and obliterates my hapless kommandant with a 90hp hit.
Another good one. A caesarian is on the second floor of a building. Shoots my guy who is across the map in another building, ground floor. The shot goes through one set of windows, over a car, through a fence, another window, some cupboards and a sofa AND HITS MY GUY DEAD.
I was able to kill almost everything with 2-3 hits max.
In that terror mission, I had to protect the city from a massive caesarian ship. 24 aliens, including a handful of wraiths and 2 uber cyberdisks. There was not a S I N G L E alien that didn't have less than 200 hp. One of them even survived a scatter lazer burst at point blank. P. much all them, both wraiths and regular redshirt terrorists, had about 200-250 hp, which provided such ridiculous bloat, it quickly made me go into rage mode.