Talk:Sectopod (EU2012) - Revision history

Miteusz at 10:58, 18 August 2016

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	Heh, the limbs on sectopods (and mechtoids) aren't entirely connected, so when you kill them--- well, I've had a Mechtoid's head go flying off, and Sectopod bodies roll away downhill. Not a bug, just amusing of the 'puppet' mechanics of how they were animated. --[[User:Xuncu\|Xuncu]] ([[User talk:Xuncu\|talk]]) 15:45, 8 July 2014 (EDT)		Heh, the limbs on sectopods (and mechtoids) aren't entirely connected, so when you kill them--- well, I've had a Mechtoid's head go flying off, and Sectopod bodies roll away downhill. Not a bug, just amusing of the 'puppet' mechanics of how they were animated. --[[User:Xuncu\|Xuncu]] ([[User talk:Xuncu\|talk]]) 15:45, 8 July 2014 (EDT)

	I had a situation, in which all my soldiers in Sectopod's line of sight were in ghost mode, which was from activated pod. Sectopod shot somewhere in area unknown to me, in opposite ~~site~~ Sectopod was seeing my soldier turn before, so targeting cover theory seems legit. --[[User:Miteusz\|Miteusz]] ([[User talk:Miteusz\|talk]]) 10:57, 18 August 2016 (UTC)		I had a situation, in which all my soldiers in Sectopod's line of sight were in ghost mode, which was from activated pod. Sectopod shot somewhere in area unknown to me, in opposite direction Sectopod was seeing my soldier turn before, so targeting cover theory seems legit. --[[User:Miteusz\|Miteusz]] ([[User talk:Miteusz\|talk]]) 10:57, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

	==Electro Pulse disables death explosion?==		==Electro Pulse disables death explosion?==

Miteusz: targeting cover

2016-08-18T10:57:40Z

targeting cover

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	Heh, the limbs on sectopods (and mechtoids) aren't entirely connected, so when you kill them--- well, I've had a Mechtoid's head go flying off, and Sectopod bodies roll away downhill. Not a bug, just amusing of the 'puppet' mechanics of how they were animated. --[[User:Xuncu\|Xuncu]] ([[User talk:Xuncu\|talk]]) 15:45, 8 July 2014 (EDT)		Heh, the limbs on sectopods (and mechtoids) aren't entirely connected, so when you kill them--- well, I've had a Mechtoid's head go flying off, and Sectopod bodies roll away downhill. Not a bug, just amusing of the 'puppet' mechanics of how they were animated. --[[User:Xuncu\|Xuncu]] ([[User talk:Xuncu\|talk]]) 15:45, 8 July 2014 (EDT)

			I had a situation, in which all my soldiers in Sectopod's line of sight were in ghost mode, which was from activated pod. Sectopod shot somewhere in area unknown to me, in opposite site Sectopod was seeing my soldier turn before, so targeting cover theory seems legit. --[[User:Miteusz\|Miteusz]] ([[User talk:Miteusz\|talk]]) 10:57, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

	==Electro Pulse disables death explosion?==		==Electro Pulse disables death explosion?==

Miteusz at 13:15, 12 August 2016

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	--[[User:Pjw\|Pjw]] 18:14, 04 August 2015 (EST)		--[[User:Pjw\|Pjw]] 18:14, 04 August 2015 (EST)

	It's not true that Sectopod have two reaction shots on overwatch, as you can see in video in link given by Zyxophoj. --[[User:Miteusz\|Miteusz]] ([[User talk:Miteusz\|talk]]) 09:14, 12 August 2016 (EDT)		It's not true that Sectopod have two reaction shots on overwatch, as you can see in video in link given by Zyxophoj (without using Disabling Shot ability). --[[User:Miteusz\|Miteusz]] ([[User talk:Miteusz\|talk]]) 09:14, 12 August 2016 (EDT)

Miteusz: Sectopod overwatch

2016-08-12T13:14:38Z

Sectopod overwatch

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	This may be late to the discussion, but I just had this bug or something similar happen (EW, Normal, Iron Man, December 2015 Terrorism CommercialStreet; Windows 7, Steam). One Sectopod was on the map, and it was firing reaction shots, about one reaction shot for every 2 or 3 tiles moved by every soldier in its view. Fired one Disabling Shot at it but missed, not sure if that triggered the bug or if it was already doing it, since early on most of the soldiers were only moving on and off corners or back into full cover from now-destroyed cover (no opportunity for multiple reaction shots at same soldier). In one turn, since most of the walls were being destroyed, I tried to sprint an Assault (Lightning Reflexes) to use a stanchion as cover, then tried to normal-move a Sniper to the same spot; each was killed by the Sectopod's fourth reaction shot against it (8 reaction shots against the 2 soldiers in the same turn). The page may need to be updated to indicate that if this bug was fixed, it's back, or it may have simply been made more intermittent.		This may be late to the discussion, but I just had this bug or something similar happen (EW, Normal, Iron Man, December 2015 Terrorism CommercialStreet; Windows 7, Steam). One Sectopod was on the map, and it was firing reaction shots, about one reaction shot for every 2 or 3 tiles moved by every soldier in its view. Fired one Disabling Shot at it but missed, not sure if that triggered the bug or if it was already doing it, since early on most of the soldiers were only moving on and off corners or back into full cover from now-destroyed cover (no opportunity for multiple reaction shots at same soldier). In one turn, since most of the walls were being destroyed, I tried to sprint an Assault (Lightning Reflexes) to use a stanchion as cover, then tried to normal-move a Sniper to the same spot; each was killed by the Sectopod's fourth reaction shot against it (8 reaction shots against the 2 soldiers in the same turn). The page may need to be updated to indicate that if this bug was fixed, it's back, or it may have simply been made more intermittent.
	--[[User:Pjw\|Pjw]] 18:14, 04 August 2015 (EST)		--[[User:Pjw\|Pjw]] 18:14, 04 August 2015 (EST)

			It's not true that Sectopod have two reaction shots on overwatch, as you can see in video in link given by Zyxophoj. --[[User:Miteusz\|Miteusz]] ([[User talk:Miteusz\|talk]]) 09:14, 12 August 2016 (EDT)

Pjw: /* Sectopod Overwatch in EW: Infinite Overwatch Shots? */

2015-08-04T22:16:59Z

Sectopod Overwatch in EW: Infinite Overwatch Shots?

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	This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)		This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)

			This may be late to the discussion, but I just had this bug or something similar happen (EW, Normal, Iron Man, December 2015 Terrorism CommercialStreet; Windows 7, Steam). One Sectopod was on the map, and it was firing reaction shots, about one reaction shot for every 2 or 3 tiles moved by every soldier in its view. Fired one Disabling Shot at it but missed, not sure if that triggered the bug or if it was already doing it, since early on most of the soldiers were only moving on and off corners or back into full cover from now-destroyed cover (no opportunity for multiple reaction shots at same soldier). In one turn, since most of the walls were being destroyed, I tried to sprint an Assault (Lightning Reflexes) to use a stanchion as cover, then tried to normal-move a Sniper to the same spot; each was killed by the Sectopod's fourth reaction shot against it (8 reaction shots against the 2 soldiers in the same turn). The page may need to be updated to indicate that if this bug was fixed, it's back, or it may have simply been made more intermittent.
			--[[User:Pjw\|Pjw]] 18:14, 04 August 2015 (EST)

Medinoc: Undo revision 67033 by Medinoc (talk) Nevermind, I clearly saw it on the next Sectopod I faced.

2015-08-03T21:23:40Z

Undo revision 67033 by Medinoc (talk) Nevermind, I clearly saw it on the next Sectopod I faced.

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	This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)		This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)

	~~== 30% Defense? ==~~
	I encountered my first Sectopod in a Normal-difficulty EW game, and didn't notice the 30% defense when shooting at it. Could it have been removed when EW added Reinforced Armor and the HEAT nerf? That would make sense, because who's gonna miss ''that''? The Sectopod was also under a Shredder rocket at the time, so it could also have been an undocumented effect thereof. [[User:Medinoc\|Medinoc]] ([[User talk:Medinoc\|talk]]) 03:57, 3 August 2015 (EDT)

Medinoc: New topic: 30% Defense?

2015-08-03T07:57:00Z

New topic: 30% Defense?

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	This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)		This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)

			== 30% Defense? ==
			I encountered my first Sectopod in a Normal-difficulty EW game, and didn't notice the 30% defense when shooting at it. Could it have been removed when EW added Reinforced Armor and the HEAT nerf? That would make sense, because who's gonna miss ''that''? The Sectopod was also under a Shredder rocket at the time, so it could also have been an undocumented effect thereof. [[User:Medinoc\|Medinoc]] ([[User talk:Medinoc\|talk]]) 03:57, 3 August 2015 (EDT)

Xuncu at 19:45, 8 July 2014

2014-07-08T19:45:13Z

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	:::::The Sectopod will target cover, I'd seen yet before on EU but it seems more now on EW. I just had a mission where it deliberately fired its cannon against a wall that was covering a ghosted soldier. Since it couldn't hit the soldier because of the stealth, the AI decided to blast the cover instead. Lucky for the soldier it had stealth because of Ghost Armor, not Mimetic Skin, otherwise it would be revealed and dead afterward. It is possible that the shot at the van was a miss although I don't recall seeing the "Missed" message. [[User:Hobbes\|Hobbes]] 13:04, 12 December 2013 (EST)		:::::The Sectopod will target cover, I'd seen yet before on EU but it seems more now on EW. I just had a mission where it deliberately fired its cannon against a wall that was covering a ghosted soldier. Since it couldn't hit the soldier because of the stealth, the AI decided to blast the cover instead. Lucky for the soldier it had stealth because of Ghost Armor, not Mimetic Skin, otherwise it would be revealed and dead afterward. It is possible that the shot at the van was a miss although I don't recall seeing the "Missed" message. [[User:Hobbes\|Hobbes]] 13:04, 12 December 2013 (EST)
	:I've only had them attack separate targets, even against MECs, although I have had the shooting of nothing quite a few times. (Sectopod glitched onto a navigation unit in the alien base mission and fired at the Door continuously, before coming down and through the door.--[[User:Ditto51\|Ditto51]] 12:46, 12 December 2013 (EST)		:I've only had them attack separate targets, even against MECs, although I have had the shooting of nothing quite a few times. (Sectopod glitched onto a navigation unit in the alien base mission and fired at the Door continuously, before coming down and through the door.--[[User:Ditto51\|Ditto51]] 12:46, 12 December 2013 (EST)

			Heh, the limbs on sectopods (and mechtoids) aren't entirely connected, so when you kill them--- well, I've had a Mechtoid's head go flying off, and Sectopod bodies roll away downhill. Not a bug, just amusing of the 'puppet' mechanics of how they were animated. --[[User:Xuncu\|Xuncu]] ([[User talk:Xuncu\|talk]]) 15:45, 8 July 2014 (EDT)

	==Electro Pulse disables death explosion?==		==Electro Pulse disables death explosion?==

Zyxophoj: /* Sectopod Overwatch in EW: Infinite Overwatch Shots? */

2014-02-23T10:30:11Z

Sectopod Overwatch in EW: Infinite Overwatch Shots?

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	*'''B''': Suppression fire Sectopod seems to "disable" Overwatches in my experience		*'''B''': Suppression fire Sectopod seems to "disable" Overwatches in my experience
	Could you perhaps expand on the sequence of events?--[[User:DracoGriffin\|DracoGriffin]] 03:21, 17 December 2013 (EST)		Could you perhaps expand on the sequence of events?--[[User:DracoGriffin\|DracoGriffin]] 03:21, 17 December 2013 (EST)

			This might be of interest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWO1YDlkVs It looks like Disabling Shot is a really bad idea vs Sectopods in EU. --[[User:Zyxophoj\|Zyxophoj]] ([[User talk:Zyxophoj\|talk]]) 05:30, 23 February 2014 (EST)

Xuncu: /* Electro Pulse disables death explosion? */

2013-12-24T08:45:34Z

Electro Pulse disables death explosion?

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	Seems to be what I experienced in a recent game. My MEC ran into melee with the Sectopod and stunned it with Electropulse. The next turn, while the Sectopod was still stunned, I had her beat it down with Kinetic Strike Module, and there was no death explosion damage to her after the Sectopod died. [[User:Arrow Quivershaft\|Arrow Quivershaft]] 13:52, 12 December 2013 (EST)		Seems to be what I experienced in a recent game. My MEC ran into melee with the Sectopod and stunned it with Electropulse. The next turn, while the Sectopod was still stunned, I had her beat it down with Kinetic Strike Module, and there was no death explosion damage to her after the Sectopod died. [[User:Arrow Quivershaft\|Arrow Quivershaft]] 13:52, 12 December 2013 (EST)
			:Mm, no. Stunned, and then had someone else do the kill, still took damage. If oppertunity arises, will test if still so if killing hit is with the EMP attack... heh, killed one on an embankment, the 'head' fell off the legs and rolled all the way down the hill! --[[User:Xuncu\|Xuncu]] 03:45, 24 December 2013 (EST)

	== Sectopod Overwatch in EW: Infinite Overwatch Shots? ==		== Sectopod Overwatch in EW: Infinite Overwatch Shots? ==