A warning: please do not get used to the "Make Items Available" button as a convenience, it will bite you in the ass later.
The XCOM Base Defense is a surprise mission and will force you to send out troops with whatever they have equipped. If you constantly use Make Items Available then everyone besides the A-Team will go out with basic gear and it will get hairy
It also looks like South Africa's going to pull out of the council unless a miracle happens in the next 3 days. I could have sworn that capturing the outsider dropped the terror level everywhere, but maybe I'm thinking of how XCOM 2 main objectives work.
These two things are connected. The location that gets a Covert Ops opportunity has its panic increased. Completing the Covert Op successfully will reduce the panic.
@nevergameover: They are not playing Long War, they don't need full squad rotations and augmentation really helped them out. I don't think they should do more than two MECs right now and I probably would have been fine with one but they already shipped in some squaddies and that's all right for now
OK I get why Abby got frustrated over not hitting with the second KSM (even though this game always indicates when you hit something by making it glow red and it was clearly not red), but I don't understand why she threw a grenade with Jason instead of running up and shotgunning that Muton in the face
Edit: "This game is so fucking stupid" Giant Bomb GOTY 2012
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