T-1 Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 How do they work? What makes the different from human explosives? In UFO it just said "A more powerful grenade" for the alien grenade description. Now I think it'd be cool if you said that it somehow plasmafies/ionizes/whatever the air around it and it's a "plasma grenade", 'cause then you'd have a great excuse for some cool looking explosion graphics, instead of the normal thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qonfused Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I think it uses Xenium, and flings plasma all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 or more likely it uses antimater a microscopic amount of anitmater is about 5 times as powerful than a hand grenade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
54x Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 I'd imagine it would be some xenium along with a fuse, basically. I'd find it kinda hard to romanticise that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Just get one or two atoms of antimatter, and beleive me you'll get your blaster bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-1 Posted October 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 OK so here's my theory based on your responses: Blaster Bomb = Antimatter+matterAlien Grenade = Plasma Grenade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paladin Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Yeah, looks about right, but it's all full of technobabble in-game anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-1 Posted October 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Wait, aren't these things supposed to have xenocide names? Antimatter bomb sounds cooler than blaster bomb IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex the greater Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 no alien grenade and BBs bolth use antmatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_schwick Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 I thought the aliens should have had some demolition quality explosives too. Obliterator = 700 damage(XCOM 1 terms) 10 square radius, heavy as heck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qonfused Posted December 4, 2004 Report Share Posted December 4, 2004 you should eventualy get some kind of explosives to blow open a holle in the ufo, so that you wont have to go through that death trap of a door all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_schwick Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Breaching charges would be more useful then heavy explosive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakeman Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 (edited) I'm not completely sure on the jargon used, but doesn't the military use "shaped charges" for breaching doors and the like? Maybe I've seen too many military movies that got it wrong? Heh, anyway I've seen them use bits of plastic explosive on locks but I don't know any of the technical names of all the forms of explosives seen relating to the activity. All I know is they seem to act with varying degrees of intensity (destructive power if not outright noise factor). Edited December 5, 2004 by Snakeman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sir_schwick Posted December 5, 2004 Report Share Posted December 5, 2004 Exactly, only trained personnel could use shaped charges for a variety of purposes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frozenezorf Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 Exactly, only trained personnel could use shaped charges for a variety of purposes.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> I can't see any reason why untrained personel couldn't use shaped charges... Wouldn't it be like: Shape it, place it, rig it, detonate it?Though an untrained person would proabably use more TU's doing that, and the resulting explosion might be 'a bit' bigger than what it was supposed to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MirariNefas Posted January 30, 2006 Report Share Posted January 30, 2006 you should eventualy get some kind of explosives to blow open a holle in the ufo, so that you wont have to go through that death trap of a door all the time. Actually, I'd rather suspect that would come first, not after. How could a soldier on his first encounter with a UFO be able to operate the door? The alien threat is remarkably unsophisticated if it just uses a handle and a latch. At first, our options would just be a blowtorch or packing enough explosives in one place to make a hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceBoy2000 Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 Well, explosives preshaped to blow a hole through a wall would be, IMO, a lot more useful than a blob of explosives that makes big explosions. That said, it should take more time to make/research and probably would require the person using the explosive to place it right on the wall. Heck, doesn't have to be explosives, just something to make a hole in the wall. Burst of plasma, special catalyst, big batch of thermite, whatever. Just having an explosive like that would be really helpful... That said, it could make it too easy. Perhaps it takes longer than a move to cut through, so the aliens can mount some sort of resistance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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