Talk:Ethereal
Rarely seen? I see nothing but these after half to three quarters of a year.
Agreed, they don't seem rarer than any other race. We also should think about removing this statement:
"If X-COM ground forces encounter Ethereals on Earth, it will usually be at an Alien Base, or terror site."--Trotsky 00:33, 4 July 2006 (PDT)
Etherals are not common until later in the game. By the time you're seeing them on a regular basis, you should be ready to head off to Cydonia.
True. But there is no reason why they should appear more often in terror sites or bases than in crafts.--Trotsky 02:54, 4 July 2006 (PDT)
Flying Ethereals
Ethereals fly half of everywhere on the later levels. It's NOT uncommon to have an Ethereal on L1(above the ground) floating in midair waiting to peg your troops with reaction fire. Arrow Quivershaft 11:40, 16 May 2008 (PDT)
Personally I've only ever seen them fly once, maybe even twice... And that was to hop straight onto a building that was next to them. You say they tend to do it more often as the game progresses?
- Bomb Bloke 18:24, 16 May 2008 (PDT)
- I misspoke slightly. While I do see them set up midair sniping positions fairly often(Especially at night!), I meant to say I see them fly more often on higher difficulty levels. I should also note that I tend to wait around for significant periods before launching Cydonia, often a few years, so I see a lot of Ethereals. Arrow Quivershaft 18:43, 16 May 2008 (PDT)
- I never found they fly when play with beginner difficulty though. L-Zwei 21:44, 16 May 2008 (PDT)
- Happens to me. Dunno, really. Just saying in my experience they do actually fly an awful lot, or more generally hover to snipe(over cornfields is most annoying but a close second is using flight to leave through the hole that used to be the roof of the crashed UFO.) Arrow Quivershaft 21:47, 16 May 2008 (PDT)
- I don't see ethereals very often, but on the rare occasions i do, they fly a lot. this is why fighting any number of etherals at night is a recipe for disaster. i once wiped hitting a small scout at night because it turned out the guy in the back with a heavy plasma was psi-weak, plus i didn't want to have to kill anyone off