Talk:Field Manual: Terrain

Jasonred:

The 'Field Manual' entries belong to the X-Com Field Manual. The style of writing was to make it read like a military combat manual.

It was originally written with starting players in mind, where alien technology is unknown and all you have to work with is your standard weapons. So man-portable weapons refer to weapons like the pistol, rifle, heavy cannons, etc. Mind you, there aren't any real concrete artificial structures in this game. There is of course the Skyranger...

- NKF

[Jasonred] : Well... if it's written with starting players in mind, and you just wrote something about concrete artificial structures... aren't you going to confuse starting players? Even a semi veteran like me got confused.

AFAIK, the only time you get brick/ concrete/ non-wood buildings on missions is terror missions. Where you get shops and gas stations, which actually MIGHT be concrete. PLUS, if I'm not mistaken, large rockets will blow these up.

So... yeah, I understand that you might want to maintain the "combat manual" feel of the game, but I feel that this online wiki ufopedia should provide "correct" info and "useful" info, rather than "pretty but misleading" info.

Fair enough

But remember that these are just simple copy and pastes from the field manual, an entirely separate project from the wiki.

The content of the wiki itself is at a, well, brainstorming stage where all the ideas are being lumped together. Someone has to come along and rewrite everything into something finished.

- NKF