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* [[Oh Crap]]: Ignoring the amount of times this happens to you while playing, reading the research letters has the Chief Science Officer having a lot of these. The most notable example is where they are taking a UFO apart and find that it's powered by antimatter and they only found this out after opening up the fuel tank.

** Also several times he will also realized just how technologically advanced they are compared to us.

* [[Pistol Whipping]] - You can bludgeon aliens with your guns in recent 2.3 updates, though proper melee weapons will do a better job.

* [[Pistol-Whipping]] - You can bludgeon aliens with your guns in recent 2.3 updates, though proper melee weapons will do a better job.

* [[Relationship Values]] - For each of the multinational power blocs funding your organization. Their happiness with you influences the amount of money you receive and the number and quality of recruits you're given - a nation that barely tolerates you will give you barely any money, and either very crappy troops or no troops at all, while a nation that loves you will shower you in money and give you the best and brightest men they can find.

* [[RPG Elements]] - Your soldiers have a series of stats and skills that improve with use.

* [[Save Scumming]]: Not a completely straight example since saving and loading isn't allowed in battle. However you can hit the reset mission button as many times as you like.

* [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] - The original story for <nowiki>UFO:AI</nowiki> had the aliens invade earth on their mothership, housing it's entire population (several trillion alliens). In order for the mothership to contain, let alone sustain, those numbers, the ship would have to be larger than Jupiter.

* [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]] - The original story for <nowiki>UFO:AI</nowiki> had the aliens invade earth on their mothership, housing it's entire population (several trillion alliens). In order for the mothership to contain, let alone sustain, those numbers, the ship would have to be larger than Jupiter.

** Averted later with the Antimatter specs. The Chief Science Officer says at one point about current antimatter production on Earth "That may sound like a lot Commander but it would take us 80 million years to make a gram of antimatter at the current rates."

* [[Short-Range Long-Range Weapon]] - The sniper rifle from earlier build appears to be unusually inaccurate even if it is used in what is normally Assault Rifle range. Fixed in newer build. Laser weapons are exact opposite as even the pistols are deadly accurate at long range, but they don't do much damage to compensate it.

* [[Short Range Shotgun]] - Largely averted. The riot shotgun has decent range--if not necessarily great stopping power at maximum range--with flechette shells, and can alternately be loaded with slug rounds. The micro shotgun is a bit truer to this trope, though.

* [[Short-Range Shotgun]] - Largely averted. The riot shotgun has decent range--if not necessarily great stopping power at maximum range--with flechette shells, and can alternately be loaded with slug rounds. The micro shotgun is a bit truer to this trope, though.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: All over the place. It helps that anything wrong will quickly be pointed out in the forums.

* [[Shout Out]] - The Plasma Pistol looks a LOT like ''[[Halo]]'''s plasma rifle.

* [[Shout-Out]] - The Plasma Pistol looks a LOT like ''[[Halo]]'''s plasma rifle.

* [[Spiritual Successor]] - To [[X-COM]], of which it is basically a direct remake (the ''weapon progression'' is even the same) and somewhat to the ''[[UFO After Blank]]'' games.

* [[Standard FPS Guns]] - This is not an FPS game, but the weapons appear to have this idea, one for each family of weapons. It's actually [[Shown Their Work|justified in-story]] - a program called 'Excalibur' was instituted that selected a range of different weapons from throughout the world in various different classes, collecting the best weapons humanity has to offer and providing them to your troops in a standardized form.

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