<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(laiocfar @ Jun 9 2006, 12:47 AM) [snapback]235198[/snapback]</div>
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I dont got such equiment when i meet them. When they come in play, the war changes 180 degrees, i try to avoid them and only stronger and better equiped squad try out on them. Anyway some little research and some lowering of their activity results in back to the normal situation.
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all you need is 10 soldiers with Psionic stregth higher then 90. The rest is not necessary. You can succefully play armed with only auto canons and with no armor. Once etherials become inefficient in
you can act like they are mutons (thanks god it is not a LobsterMans
)
Use every early Sectoid battleship to calculate out all betrayers(soldiers with psionic strength lower then 75)
Save three days before battleship. Shoot down a Battleship then send your rookies for test. Save mission here. Run around and shoot a bit. If you have some soldiers under control then remember their names, reload mission and shoot them. After you noticed that none of rest 2 or 5 soldiers was under control then reload the game(3 days before) and fire betrayers and hire a new squad.
EDIT: it takes 3 days for new rookies too arrive.
Wait again for the same Battleship ,shoot it again and go for test. Usually I have 2 bases with skyrangers for the time when 1st battleship arrives. So I can check 20 soldiers with 1 battleship and then merge the rest soldiers from both bases to make a good squad.
EDIT: Shooting down a battleship is a VERY VERY hard work so i prefer to check soldiers that i already have.
Remember: only Sectiod Commander can hypnotize so do not kill him occasionally.
Commander will not
-ze your soldiers at start you need to let him know "fresh meat arrived". You need to locate at least 1 Sectoid soldier and kill him. Or you need that Sectoids will see your units. And then Commander starts "working".
There's one more easy way. Use HEX Editor to view soldier's stats or use some UFO editors.
BTW, what is your research order?