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Originally posted by *Happy*@Jan 26 2006, 09:25 PM
:help: I get creamed when fighting skeletoids with cloaking devices and entropy launchers - I cant even see them, and they fill me full of those @!*$ missiles in no time. It's especially bad if they're supported by lots of grenade-throwing anthropoids. Any suggestions on how to beat them? In enclosed areas waithing behing a corner with devastator cannons set on auto works well, but in open areas I have great difficulties.
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You are in a tough spot in the game. Basically, you kind of have to tough it out until you can fight fire with fire, i.e. use those personal shields yourself. Here are a few tips that might help.
If you find yourself trapped by multiple incoming enemies, sometimes what I would do (before I got shields) was drop a few smokes to block their view. The enemy won't fire unless they can see you and so will wander into the smoke, until they are adjacent to your units. If you are lucky, you will gun them down before they know what hits them (may take a few reloads to achieve this). Don't sweat losing armors and equipment to entropy missiles. You will be producing your own x-com armor in a few days.
I saw alot of good tips in this thread but I just want to reiterate, you must race as fast as you can to get toxiguns and toxin level B as quickly as you can. The devastator cannons simply don't cut it after awhile. On the flipside, after you get toxiguns and personal shield generators will full x-com armor and marsec bodies, the game becomes kinda boring.