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Revision as of 21:51, 9 November 2008 by Arrow Quivershaft (talk | contribs) (The latter issue of no detection likely means the UFO zipped through in between detection checks for the radar.)

The information the Decoder gives can sometimes be incorrect. For example, a retaliator Battleship showed up in Africa and the Decoder said the destination is somewhere in South East Asia. However, it headed north, straight onto my European base! Another bug: my base got attacked but no Battleship showed up on the Geoscape! Even if it would enter the atmosphere right above my base (which is unlikely, to say the best), I would get a warning before the base is attacked, right?--amitakartok 15:12, 9 November 2008 (CST)

While I don't know what caused the prior issue, the latter issue is easily explainable. Each radar at an X-COM base runs a detection check for every UFO in range, every half hour. (XX:00 and XX:30.) During the intervening time, the radar will detect no UFOs, so even the 100% detection HWD falls flat if the UFO enters and leaves the range of the radar in that narrow window. Arrow Quivershaft 15:51, 9 November 2008 (CST)
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