Gameplay Mechanics (EU2012) - Revision history

Parogen: /* Sub Sections */

2025-04-29T06:30:03Z

Sub Sections

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	*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.		*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.
	[[Flanking (EU2012)\|Flanking]]		[[Flanking (EU2012)\|Flanking]]
	*A flanked target is indicated with a yellow shield. This target receives no benefits from cover and chances to score a critical hit against it are increased by 50%.		*A flanked target is indicated with a yellow shield. This target receives no benefits from cover and chances to score a critical hit against it are increased by 50%.
			[[Line of Sight (EU2012)\|Line of Sight]]
			*Determining what surroundings is visible or not is crucial for map analysis.
	[[Overwatch (EU2012)\|Overwatch]]		[[Overwatch (EU2012)\|Overwatch]]
	*A soldier or alien with a remaining action can enter Overwatch (default hotkey Y). This ends the soldier's turn, but allows them to shoot at the first enemy that enters their overwatch range during the enemy turn, albeit at a small penalty (aim penalty/no critical hits).		*A soldier or alien with a remaining action can enter Overwatch (default hotkey Y). This ends the soldier's turn, but allows them to shoot at the first enemy that enters their overwatch range during the enemy turn, albeit at a small penalty (aim penalty/no critical hits).

Hobbes at 18:47, 13 December 2013

2013-12-13T18:47:09Z

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Hobbes at 15:10, 8 December 2013

2013-12-08T15:10:08Z

Hobbes at 16:24, 28 August 2013

2013-08-28T16:24:38Z

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	[[Category: Enemy Unknown (2012)]]		[[Category: Enemy Unknown (2012)]]

Bomb Bloke: /* Sub Sections */ Addition of Critical Hits.

2013-02-03T07:38:35Z

Sub Sections: Addition of Critical Hits.

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	[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]		[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]
	*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.		*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.
			[[Critical_Hits_(EU2012)\|Critical Hits]]
			*In many cases, shots may have a chance to incur up to around 150% of their usual damage.
	[[Critical Wounds (EU2012)\|Critical Wounds]]		[[Critical Wounds (EU2012)\|Critical Wounds]]
	*After sustaining more damage than the Soldiers hitpoints, the ~~Solider~~ will either become critically wounded or die.		*After sustaining more damage than the Soldiers hitpoints, the Soldier will either become critically wounded or die.
	[[Damage (EU2012)\|Damage]]		[[Damage (EU2012)\|Damage]]
	*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.		*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.

Bomb Bloke: A little relinking

2013-01-30T06:47:19Z

A little relinking

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	==Sub Sections==		==Sub Sections==
	[[~~Attack~~ (EU2012)\|~~Attack~~]]		[[Chance to Hit (EU2012)\|Chance to Hit]]
	*		* Aim, Defence, and a number of other bonuses and penalties all combine to determine the final chance that a shot will hit.
	[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]		[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]
	*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.		*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.
	[[Critical Wounds (EU2012)\|Critical Wounds]]		[[Critical Wounds (EU2012)\|Critical Wounds]]
	*After sustaining more damage than the Soldiers hitpoints, the Solider will either become critically wounded or die.		*After sustaining more damage than the Soldiers hitpoints, the Solider will either become critically wounded or die.
	[[~~Defense~~ (EU2012)\|~~Defense~~]]		[[Damage (EU2012)\|Damage]]
	*~~Defense reduces~~ the chance of being hit. Each point of Defense reduces the chance to be hit by 1%. In addition, using Suppression to reduce an enemy's chance to hit indirectly increases defense. Some aliens have innate Defense bonuses.		*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.
	[[Flanking (EU2012)\|Flanking]]		[[Flanking (EU2012)\|Flanking]]
	*A flanked target is indicated with a yellow shield. This target receives no benefits from cover and chances to score a critical hit against it are increased by 50%.		*A flanked target is indicated with a yellow shield. This target receives no benefits from cover and chances to score a critical hit against it are increased by 50%.
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	[[Suppression (EU2012)\|Suppression]]		[[Suppression (EU2012)\|Suppression]]
	*Its purpose is to degrade the enemy's ability to fire and maneuver.		*Its purpose is to degrade the enemy's ability to fire and maneuver.
	~~[[Damage (EU2012)\|Damage]]~~
	*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.

	==Action System==		==Action System==
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	[[Category: Enemy Unknown (2012)]]		[[Category: Enemy Unknown (2012)]]

Monster2821: /* List of Actions */

2013-01-28T01:59:19Z

List of Actions

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	\| align="center" \| '''Suppress''' \|\| align="center" \| Fires at the area around the target to reduce its aim.		\| align="center" \| '''Suppress''' \|\| align="center" \| Fires at the area around the target to reduce its aim.
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	\| align="center" \| '''Overwatch''' \|\| align="center" \| Takes a shot at the next enemy that moves through that unit's line of sight. A ~~small (?how much?)~~ Aim penalty applies.		\| align="center" \| '''Overwatch''' \|\| align="center" \| Takes a shot at the next enemy that moves through that unit's line of sight. A 20% Aim penalty applies.
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	\| align="center" \| '''Reload''' \|\| align="center" \| Spend a full action to reload weapon.		\| align="center" \| '''Reload''' \|\| align="center" \| Spend a full action to reload weapon.

Hobbes: /* Sub Sections */

2012-12-16T21:59:42Z

Sub Sections

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			[[Attack (EU2012)\|Attack]]
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	[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]		[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]
	*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.		*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.

Hobbes at 21:57, 16 December 2012

2012-12-16T21:57:34Z

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	[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]		[[Cover (EU2012)\|Cover]]
	*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.		*In combat, soldiers and aliens can take cover behind objects in the environment to lower their chance of being hit by enemy fire. Cover is taken automatically as the soldier moves through the environment. While in cover the soldier gains a defensive bonus against enemy attacks unless the enemy has flanked the soldier.
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	* Alien encounters: Sometimes aliens are setup to spawn at a given point on the map, such that they do not move until discovered by one of your units. Upon discovery, the aliens interrupt your squad's turn and immediately move (but do not take action/attack). They tend to move relative to the unit discovering them and either attack that position (e.g., aggressive Floaters) or take cover against that unit's position (e.g., Sectoids, Thin Men). Therefore, if you're on a mission where time/turns don't matter (e.g., mission brief indicates no civilians; no countdown timer for mission objectives) you should move units one movement each at a time. In other words, don't immediately dash a unit as far as possible, especially without overwatch protection. Cycle through your whole squad giving each unit their first move before deciding whether to move each again or take action. Otherwise, you may encounter a group of aliens that can quickly flank that forward unit while the rest of your squad is out of moves/actions. Also, you may hinder your ability to purposefully flush the aliens toward a choke point, bunch them up in range of a specific unit (e.g., Heavy who can still fire his rocket, in Sniper LOS), or limit them to an area of the map with poor cover (e.g., explodable vehicles, half-cover).		* Alien encounters: Sometimes aliens are setup to spawn at a given point on the map, such that they do not move until discovered by one of your units. Upon discovery, the aliens interrupt your squad's turn and immediately move (but do not take action/attack). They tend to move relative to the unit discovering them and either attack that position (e.g., aggressive Floaters) or take cover against that unit's position (e.g., Sectoids, Thin Men). Therefore, if you're on a mission where time/turns don't matter (e.g., mission brief indicates no civilians; no countdown timer for mission objectives) you should move units one movement each at a time. In other words, don't immediately dash a unit as far as possible, especially without overwatch protection. Cycle through your whole squad giving each unit their first move before deciding whether to move each again or take action. Otherwise, you may encounter a group of aliens that can quickly flank that forward unit while the rest of your squad is out of moves/actions. Also, you may hinder your ability to purposefully flush the aliens toward a choke point, bunch them up in range of a specific unit (e.g., Heavy who can still fire his rocket, in Sniper LOS), or limit them to an area of the map with poor cover (e.g., explodable vehicles, half-cover).

	* Taking advantage of alien squad script: Aliens can never attack you unless you "awaken" them first (a cinematic has played where camera shows a bunch of aliens) and when alien squad is provoked, they never take any offensive action or overwatch, only move. This means that you are never in danger of receiving any damage unless you have an unfinished alien alive from a provoked pack on the map. Therefore, there is not much ~~incentitive~~ to stay in cover when there are no "provoked" aliens alive - rather, having suitable cover in range of 1 movement is enough. Taking advantage of this fact, you can beat enemy in tactical quite ~~easilly~~ and without casualties. If you keep your people together (you can even stand in the open and on adjacent tiles), and advance slowly, every time going on overwatch with all your soldiers, you can make it so that aliens pop up on their turn (all except immobile squads, which are rare). This will make them trigger your overwatch, and then run to cover, and give you a full turn to either take them down or retreat into cover and setup an overwatch ambush. When having 2 squad sight snipers on a team, this usually lets you take down any alien squad before they even get a chance to fire a shot at you, and if they live, you retreat into cover which is beyond their line of sight, so that your snipers can squad-sight-overwatch enemy advance, which will finish them off. Take opportunist on snipers to have better hit chance on overwatch and lightning reflexes on assault to discover remaining enemies (letting snipers take care of them) without getting damage.		* Taking advantage of alien squad script: Aliens can never attack you unless you "awaken" them first (a cinematic has played where camera shows a bunch of aliens) and when alien squad is provoked, they never take any offensive action or overwatch, only move. This means that you are never in danger of receiving any damage unless you have an unfinished alien alive from a provoked pack on the map. Therefore, there is not much incentive to stay in cover when there are no "provoked" aliens alive - rather, having suitable cover in range of 1 movement is enough. Taking advantage of this fact, you can beat enemy in tactical quite easily and without casualties. If you keep your people together (you can even stand in the open and on adjacent tiles), and advance slowly, every time going on overwatch with all your soldiers, you can make it so that aliens pop up on their turn (all except immobile squads, which are rare). This will make them trigger your overwatch, and then run to cover, and give you a full turn to either take them down or retreat into cover and setup an overwatch ambush. When having 2 squad sight snipers on a team, this usually lets you take down any alien squad before they even get a chance to fire a shot at you, and if they live, you retreat into cover which is beyond their line of sight, so that your snipers can squad-sight-overwatch enemy advance, which will finish them off. Take opportunist on snipers to have better hit chance on overwatch and lightning reflexes on assault to discover remaining enemies (letting snipers take care of them) without getting damage.

	* Do not provoke more aliens: Each extra tile you reveal (get sight on) can have next alien pack waiting. Provoking them when you are not ready can prove fatal. This means that for example, if you've just finished fighting cryssalids and have only one soldier with action points remaining, never move him in a position where he'd uncover new area, because if you happen to find new aliens there, they'll get to attack you before you can do something about it. However, ending turn, you either get aliens on their turn (they do their free movement, you get your turn to attack them) or dont (again, you have full action points to do something).		* Do not provoke more aliens: Each extra tile you reveal (get sight on) can have next alien pack waiting. Provoking them when you are not ready can prove fatal. This means that for example, if you've just finished fighting cryssalids and have only one soldier with action points remaining, never move him in a position where he'd uncover new area, because if you happen to find new aliens there, they'll get to attack you before you can do something about it. However, ending turn, you either get aliens on their turn (they do their free movement, you get your turn to attack them) or dont (again, you have full action points to do something).

Hobbes: moved Gameplay Mechanics (EU2013) to Gameplay Mechanics (EU2012) over redirect: revert

2012-12-16T21:56:48Z

moved Gameplay Mechanics (EU2013) to Gameplay Mechanics (EU2012) over redirect: revert

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	*In many cases, shots may have a chance to incur up to around 150% of their usual damage.		*In many cases, shots may have a chance to incur up to around 150% of their usual damage.
	[[Critical Wounds (EU2012)\|Critical Wounds]]		[[Critical Wounds (EU2012)\|Critical Wounds]]
	*After sustaining more damage than the Soldiers ~~hitpoints~~, the Soldier will either become critically wounded or die.		*After sustaining more damage than the Soldiers Health Points (HPs), the Soldier will either become critically wounded or die.
	[[Damage (EU2012)\|Damage]]		[[Damage (EU2012)\|Damage]]
	*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.		*Current theories on how the weapon damage works.
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	*A flanked target is indicated with a yellow shield. This target receives no benefits from cover and chances to score a critical hit against it are increased by 50%.		*A flanked target is indicated with a yellow shield. This target receives no benefits from cover and chances to score a critical hit against it are increased by 50%.
	[[Overwatch (EU2012)\|Overwatch]]		[[Overwatch (EU2012)\|Overwatch]]
	*A soldier or alien with a remaining action can enter Overwatch (default hotkey Y). This ends the soldier's turn, but allows them to shoot at the first enemy that enters their overwatch range during the enemy turn, albeit at a small penalty(aim penalty/~~cannot crit~~).		*A soldier or alien with a remaining action can enter Overwatch (default hotkey Y). This ends the soldier's turn, but allows them to shoot at the first enemy that enters their overwatch range during the enemy turn, albeit at a small penalty (aim penalty/no critical hits).
	[[~~Scouting~~ (EU2012)\|~~Scouting~~]]		[[Movement (EU2012)\|Movement]]
	*		*How movement is translated into actual game squares (1.625 points = 1 square)-
	[[Suppression (EU2012)\|Suppression]]		[[Suppression (EU2012)\|Suppression]]
	*Its purpose is to degrade the enemy's ability to fire and maneuver.		*Its purpose is to degrade the enemy's ability to fire and maneuver.