But Vital-Point Targeting is also very good. Likewise, Damage Control is fantastic at increasing survivability. With Overdrive, you can take a shot and then go into Overwatch for defense. Overwatch against aliens (and shots taken against units on overwatch) happens all the time the defense boost can definitely translate to hit point saved. The +15 defense from overwatch is one of the few methods a MEC has for increasing its defense and therefore its survivability. Only got to captain on my higher ranked mec, but is it just me or all the level up choices really obvious between each of the two options at every promotion? Sure yet another two rookies got tossed onto the pyre, but a wins a win

If I hadn't had that power fist I'd have been beyond screwed, as it was she ended punching out a heavy floater, a berserker, a muton, a mectoid and a sectoid commander though out the course of the mission. that it turned out I very, very sensibly I swapped out her flamethrower for the fist before the mission. still toting a scatter laser and the lower ranked of my mec, a Lt. Three rookies in carapace, scopes, regular grenades and light plasmas. Next round of abductions I just about manage to field five soldiers so not even a full squad. Still think it's pretty sodding ridiculous if it falls at the wrong time, which it seriously did for me.Īfterwards I didn't have a single soldier left standing and an amazingly full medibay. Came back a week later and just about managed to make it through the base assault mission.

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