Cosmetic items as pre ordet bonuses is great incentive. QQ about hats in TF2 next?
For me, at least, there is a difference between "HERE'S A FANCY HAT!" and "Here's a much higher level of customization than a regular purchaser will get." A hat is not the same as being able to have nearly twice as much fun in "barbie dress up" mode. In fact, it's a little silly to try and compare the two.
It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the game, but it's dumb and any defense of it is also dumb. In my eyes you will never convince me that disabling customization for non-pre-order customers is good business. I buy games because they are good games, not having access to fun widgets that were already programmed sucks.
So i've seen pictures where people have different coloured armour. Not just carapace/titan armour but various other colours. Is that in multiplayer only because I don't have such an option. (on pc)
Preorder-only stuff, I believe.
Does the base game not get any color tinting options?
@anon the felon What armor is that your Assault has? Is it Titan or something else?
Yeah Titan armor. I think it was a poor move to make armor color/helmets pre-order. They should release that pack ASAP. "Pre-order bonuses" are dumb and need to quit being a thing.
That's weird, because Titan armor on my Assaults don't have shoulderpads like yours does. It's a smooth shoulderless suit like what's on your Sniper and Support.
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Actually the customization options are.. less than I thought they would be when they were hyping it.
It amounts to a second look for some (not all) of the armor types, and overall armor tints, which sometimes don't play nice with the default armor tints, either.
The pre-order thing was one different type of armour look, and that becomes irrelevant once you research carapace armour or better because they force their own look anyway. Also the pre-order colours are garish neon colours so you're not missing much.
My first month results for Classic Ironman, ignoring Lasers and going straight for Plasma.
@Last Son may still be a rookie, but he was the first to take our new arc thrower tech into the field, and bagged himself two live sectoids, which means two plasma pistols for our troops once we study them.
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The pre-order thing was one different type of armour look, and that becomes irrelevant once you research carapace armour or better because they force their own look anyway. Also the pre-order colours are garish neon colours so you're not missing much.
My first month results for Classic Ironman, ignoring Lasers and going straight for Plasma.
@Last Son may still be a rookie, but he was the first to take our new arc thrower tech into the field, and bagged himself two live sectoids, which means two plasma pistols for our troops once we study them.
Umm.. all the alternate colors are preorder, and they're are a bunch that aren't neon.
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That's a really good first month for Classic. Nice job man.
It is my third go around...
My mistake on the colours then, that is kinda of lame to have no options.
Which is my entire complaint. It's an example of bad pre-order stuff. It's totally binary, and not "5 more shades". I'm sure it will get released as DLC...just dumb.
I triggered a group of Muton Elites and one of them ran out the door and took cover against a wall. Two squares away from one of my soldiers. On the same side of the wall.
Heavy Cover.
Ffffffff--
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKERS
My ironman classic run is going very well, and yet very poorly at the same time. I'm still alive in September, but I basically want to lose at this point. I made some mistakes early on which might still end up costing me the game, and I want to get my inevitable defeat over with and start fresh with a clean slate. I still haven't captured an Outsider, and I'm also still running carapace armor due to lack of alloys. My research has stalled for the same reason. I've researched firestorms but can't build any yet (alloy...), and its my lack of interception capability that's really killing me at this point. I have plasma cannons but only one actually built, my other 3 interceptors are using lasers. Next UFO I see I'm going to have to go balls-out on the boosts and hope for the best.
Fortunately, I'm only one bar on the doom counter from losing and have two countries one tick away from panic; so if I lose any non-ufo mission I'm pretty much fucked at this point. On top of that, I haven't met Ethereals, Sectoid Commanders, Sectopods or Muton elites yet, so I'm confident the game will find a way to legitimately beat me. Come at me bro!
so if im halfway through researching something and change to research something else, does the first project stay half researched or do i have to start from scratch on it the second time?
edit: it saves your progress when you restart research, in case anyone else has this question
Unless there is some mechanic in the game that I have never seen before, my game just bugged out in a way that will completely fuck me over in the long run.
I had started building Satellites very late this month, and they were set to be completed less than a day before the council report. That was fine though, because I even did a test run where I ignored all the missions just to see that they would be completed in time and then loaded back.
Except now that I finish the last mission of the month, their order in the queue somehow got switched. My satellites are currently set to be completed a couple of hours after the council report (where three nations are set to leave the council) instead of the 12 or so hours before that they previously were.
So that sucks. Time to look for some kind of way to edit my save file to restore my campaign.
Edit: The only explanation I can see would be that engineering projects are paused while you are flying with the skyranger. I am tempted to replay the mission and see if it ends up the same way, but it is a really tough terror mission that took a lot of skill and luck to get through without any deaths so I would rather not (hooray for a warehouse with 10 civilians and 6 chryssalids inside).
The smooth one is Archangel...are you sure you don't have them flip-flopped?
Nah, for some reason my Assaults only get the left-hand shoulderpad, so it's not immediately noticeable that Titan gives it.
It's based on equipped weapon. Rifles gives the shoulder pads with the appropriate glow for weapon tech level, shotguns or the alloy cannon give the one shoulder look.
Oh also, what size UFO can I expect to shoot down with a plasma-armed interceptor? Can I expect to shoot down a large one with some boosts thrown in? What about with lasers? I'm assuming the "Very Large" one I've seen floating around is going to take a fully kitted out Firestorm.
God damnit. Managed to take a floater alive, but it appears the car that exploded next turn killed it so I lost the research and more importantly, the plasma rifle.
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so I'm halfway through september on my classic ironman, still trudging along confidently towards taking down the UFO with the gollop chamber device even though the fifth and sixth slots on my squad have an alarming turnover rate, and I get my first asset recovery mission thus far in all my playthroughs. oh man, they're been holding this one back to clobber me with...
twelve thin men and nothing else later, I have panic reduction and a new major heavy for my troubles. while I'm sure this was just to lull me into a false sense of security, I respect the game all the more for suckering me in to continue watching xcom mans die to muton elites.
Oh also, what size UFO can I expect to shoot down with a plasma-armed interceptor? Can I expect to shoot down a large one with some boosts thrown in? What about with lasers? I'm assuming the "Very Large" one I've seen floating around is going to take a fully kitted out Firestorm.
I believe almost everything except the Battleship.
Probably can take the Battleship with boosts though.
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"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Oh also, what size UFO can I expect to shoot down with a plasma-armed interceptor? Can I expect to shoot down a large one with some boosts thrown in? What about with lasers? I'm assuming the "Very Large" one I've seen floating around is going to take a fully kitted out Firestorm.
I believe almost everything except the Battleship.
Probably can take the Battleship with boosts though.
Awesome, now its just a question of luck I guess. If I detect a UFO I can shoot down over Europe I'm fine (plasma), if its over the U.S or Africa I might have problems. If I get a couple of very large ones it might be game-over.
The multiplayer in this game is so much fun. I love how quickly the matches go by. I'm definitely interested in a PA in-house tournament... maybe interested enough to set one up over this weekend. Would folks want to play in that? It'd be a series of Best of 3, I imagine.
Oh also, what size UFO can I expect to shoot down with a plasma-armed interceptor? Can I expect to shoot down a large one with some boosts thrown in? What about with lasers? I'm assuming the "Very Large" one I've seen floating around is going to take a fully kitted out Firestorm.
I shot down a rather large supply ship with my plasma interceptor taking only light damage.
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So, after a number of aborted Classic Ironman runs, I've finally got one going my way!
I'm in mid September, my last death in June when I lost a Captain to a tank I hadn't realised was on fire :P 6 Colonels, two with max psi powers. Plasma weapons, titan/ghost armour, 5 EMP Firestorms and most importantly a 12+ roster to do missions should my main team take a beating (this is what cost me my last run). Just about to hit the first Ethereal UFO, feeling pretty good about this one.
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Cosmetic items as pre ordet bonuses is great incentive. QQ about hats in TF2 next?
For me, at least, there is a difference between "HERE'S A FANCY HAT!" and "Here's a much higher level of customization than a regular purchaser will get." A hat is not the same as being able to have nearly twice as much fun in "barbie dress up" mode. In fact, it's a little silly to try and compare the two.
It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the game, but it's dumb and any defense of it is also dumb. In my eyes you will never convince me that disabling customization for non-pre-order customers is good business. I buy games because they are good games, not having access to fun widgets that were already programmed sucks.
Any defense of enticements are dumb. Hahaha millions of dollars disagree
The point of taking ITZ on your sniper is so your heavy blows up all of the aliens cover with a rocket and your sniper then 1 shots 3 of them in a single overwatch.
Not taking SS also cripples your ability to actually snipe. A sniper without SS can only shoot as far as he can see, which is about 13 tiles. The range of the sniper rifle far exceeds 13 tiles though, it seems to be at least 40-50 tiles if it even has a limit at all. It's crazy to give up that much range. I can see someone wanting a front line 'scout' and taking it, but I don't know why you'd do that when the assault class can be better skilled to do that job.
Assault class is amazing at any rate, taking one down the right side for something like +60% crit chance and +5 crit damage, with the best shotgun you can find and rapid fire, you can one shot basically anything you can run next to.
Looking at the game files, most weapons have a range value of 27, shotguns have a value of 10, most grenades 15 except for alien grenades which have a range of 17, medikits and combat stims 3, and all snipers plus the blaster launcher are 100. Strangely, arc throwers have a value of 27, but there's probably a flag that modifies it to melee range.
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Cosmetic items as pre ordet bonuses is great incentive. QQ about hats in TF2 next?
For me, at least, there is a difference between "HERE'S A FANCY HAT!" and "Here's a much higher level of customization than a regular purchaser will get." A hat is not the same as being able to have nearly twice as much fun in "barbie dress up" mode. In fact, it's a little silly to try and compare the two.
It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the game, but it's dumb and any defense of it is also dumb. In my eyes you will never convince me that disabling customization for non-pre-order customers is good business. I buy games because they are good games, not having access to fun widgets that were already programmed sucks.
Any defense of enticements are dumb. Hahaha millions of dollars disagree
I really wish I could continue playing this... so far every game I've suffered numerous "freezes" in tactical combat. The game itself doesn't freeze - I just cannot issue orders to my troops and I cant even hit escape to exit out. Need to kill the process. It's really lessened my desire to continue playing
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I triggered a group of Muton Elites and one of them ran out the door and took cover against a wall. Two squares away from one of my soldiers. On the same side of the wall.
Heavy Cover.
Ffffffff--
I'm pretty sure that if you select that soldier, the alien's heavy cover symbol should turn yellow, indicating that it has been flanked by your soldier. Of course, only that soldier will get the bonus.
I really wish I could continue playing this... so far every game I've suffered numerous "freezes" in tactical combat. The game itself doesn't freeze - I just cannot issue orders to my troops and I cant even hit escape to exit out. Need to kill the process. It's really lessened my desire to continue playing
I know this is going to sound silly, but it seems like you're having a bottleneck that's jamming everything up.
Have you tried a hard re-start recently? I know we live in the future, but I've found when I get odd freezes or graphical crashes/lag...powering down and waiting 10 seconds seems to clear everything up for months.
I triggered a group of Muton Elites and one of them ran out the door and took cover against a wall. Two squares away from one of my soldiers. On the same side of the wall.
Heavy Cover.
Ffffffff--
I'm pretty sure that if you select that soldier, the alien's heavy cover symbol should turn yellow, indicating that it has been flanked by your soldier. Of course, only that soldier will get the bonus.
Nope!
Alien head was red until I unhooked that soldier from the wall, marched him two squares over, gave the Muton a back rub and whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and then gave him both barrels of an alloy cannon.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKERS
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Cosmetic items as pre ordet bonuses is great incentive. QQ about hats in TF2 next?
For me, at least, there is a difference between "HERE'S A FANCY HAT!" and "Here's a much higher level of customization than a regular purchaser will get." A hat is not the same as being able to have nearly twice as much fun in "barbie dress up" mode. In fact, it's a little silly to try and compare the two.
It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the game, but it's dumb and any defense of it is also dumb. In my eyes you will never convince me that disabling customization for non-pre-order customers is good business. I buy games because they are good games, not having access to fun widgets that were already programmed sucks.
Any defense of enticements are dumb. Hahaha millions of dollars disagree
This level of goosery is amazing.
Why is it amazing? You have no reason to complain abput enticements and disagree with them because ypur maximal value derived is contingent on free content and thats divergent from standard business practice and marketing campaigns.
Im sorry but dollar bills speak louder than your whining when it comes to game content. Dont like it? Dont bore us with your impotent outrage
I triggered a group of Muton Elites and one of them ran out the door and took cover against a wall. Two squares away from one of my soldiers. On the same side of the wall.
Heavy Cover.
Ffffffff--
I'm pretty sure that if you select that soldier, the alien's heavy cover symbol should turn yellow, indicating that it has been flanked by your soldier. Of course, only that soldier will get the bonus.
Nope!
Alien head was red until I unhooked that soldier from the wall, marched him two squares over, gave the Muton a back rub and whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and then gave him both barrels of an alloy cannon.
Usually moving clears this up for me. I think it just forces the cover stuff to re-evaluate itself and notice it's made a huge mistake. But, it only helps when I'm moving a guy that would force that specific alien to recheck it's cover.
I really wish I could continue playing this... so far every game I've suffered numerous "freezes" in tactical combat. The game itself doesn't freeze - I just cannot issue orders to my troops and I cant even hit escape to exit out. Need to kill the process. It's really lessened my desire to continue playing
I know this is going to sound silly, but it seems like you're having a bottleneck that's jamming everything up.
Have you tried a hard re-start recently? I know we live in the future, but I've found when I get odd freezes or graphical crashes/lag...powering down and waiting 10 seconds seems to clear everything up for months.
Yep - Done that a few times. If I load the save it doesn't always get stuck in the same spot. Like I said the game itself continues to chug on... its just that none of my inputs work any more and all I can do is rotate the camera. I cannot switch to another unit or issue any orders to the current unit I have selected. It's extremely aggravating.
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The pre-order thing was one different type of armour look, and that becomes irrelevant once you research carapace armour or better because they force their own look anyway. Also the pre-order colours are garish neon colours so you're not missing much.
My first month results for Classic Ironman, ignoring Lasers and going straight for Plasma.
@Last Son may still be a rookie, but he was the first to take our new arc thrower tech into the field, and bagged himself two live sectoids, which means two plasma pistols for our troops once we study them.
Assault AND the nickname Devil Dog? That is spectacular. Of course now I'll promptly get murdered, because XCOM.
I really wish I could continue playing this... so far every game I've suffered numerous "freezes" in tactical combat. The game itself doesn't freeze - I just cannot issue orders to my troops and I cant even hit escape to exit out. Need to kill the process. It's really lessened my desire to continue playing
I know this is going to sound silly, but it seems like you're having a bottleneck that's jamming everything up.
Have you tried a hard re-start recently? I know we live in the future, but I've found when I get odd freezes or graphical crashes/lag...powering down and waiting 10 seconds seems to clear everything up for months.
Yep - Done that a few times. If I load the save it doesn't always get stuck in the same spot. Like I said the game itself continues to chug on... its just that none of my inputs work any more and all I can do is rotate the camera. I cannot switch to another unit or issue any orders to the current unit I have selected. It's extremely aggravating.
That happened to me and I had to kill XCOM. Did it make a sound when you tried any other button?
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I really wish I could continue playing this... so far every game I've suffered numerous "freezes" in tactical combat. The game itself doesn't freeze - I just cannot issue orders to my troops and I cant even hit escape to exit out. Need to kill the process. It's really lessened my desire to continue playing
I know this is going to sound silly, but it seems like you're having a bottleneck that's jamming everything up.
Have you tried a hard re-start recently? I know we live in the future, but I've found when I get odd freezes or graphical crashes/lag...powering down and waiting 10 seconds seems to clear everything up for months.
Yep - Done that a few times. If I load the save it doesn't always get stuck in the same spot. Like I said the game itself continues to chug on... its just that none of my inputs work any more and all I can do is rotate the camera. I cannot switch to another unit or issue any orders to the current unit I have selected. It's extremely aggravating.
Verified game cache?
Updated graphical drivers?
I mean...those are the only other two things I can think of that might do this. Other than the fact that your system is below requirements. But, I figured you'd have mentioned it if that was the case.
So final mission bugged out on me... it only let 2 people in the door... i find that one of my files needed fixing... I don't wanna go through that again
Guys, I am finally getting to the end game... after about 75 dead... I feel that this is how Stalin would play XCOM. Additionally, since this has been a pure Iron Man run I must say in my defense, that there were a couple of missions rockets did NO damage to enemies... this as you can guess led to wipes. I don't know if they hit cover just wrong or what... Either way Great game thus far.
Were the enemies Sectopods? I think they're immune to explosives. None of the rockets I fired at them did anything.
Anyhow, I just tested in out on my game, and you do keep the bonus for the continent your base is on if you lose one of the countries on that continent.
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For me, at least, there is a difference between "HERE'S A FANCY HAT!" and "Here's a much higher level of customization than a regular purchaser will get." A hat is not the same as being able to have nearly twice as much fun in "barbie dress up" mode. In fact, it's a little silly to try and compare the two.
It doesn't detract from my enjoyment of the game, but it's dumb and any defense of it is also dumb. In my eyes you will never convince me that disabling customization for non-pre-order customers is good business. I buy games because they are good games, not having access to fun widgets that were already programmed sucks.
That's weird, because Titan armor on my Assaults don't have shoulderpads like yours does. It's a smooth shoulderless suit like what's on your Sniper and Support.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
It amounts to a second look for some (not all) of the armor types, and overall armor tints, which sometimes don't play nice with the default armor tints, either.
My first month results for Classic Ironman, ignoring Lasers and going straight for Plasma.
@Last Son may still be a rookie, but he was the first to take our new arc thrower tech into the field, and bagged himself two live sectoids, which means two plasma pistols for our troops once we study them.
Umm.. all the alternate colors are preorder, and they're are a bunch that aren't neon.
It is my third go around...
My mistake on the colours then, that is kinda of lame to have no options.
Which is my entire complaint. It's an example of bad pre-order stuff. It's totally binary, and not "5 more shades". I'm sure it will get released as DLC...just dumb.
Nah, for some reason my Assaults only get the left-hand shoulderpad, so it's not immediately noticeable that Titan gives it.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
I triggered a group of Muton Elites and one of them ran out the door and took cover against a wall. Two squares away from one of my soldiers. On the same side of the wall.
Heavy Cover.
Ffffffff--
Fortunately, I'm only one bar on the doom counter from losing and have two countries one tick away from panic; so if I lose any non-ufo mission I'm pretty much fucked at this point. On top of that, I haven't met Ethereals, Sectoid Commanders, Sectopods or Muton elites yet, so I'm confident the game will find a way to legitimately beat me. Come at me bro!
edit: it saves your progress when you restart research, in case anyone else has this question
I had started building Satellites very late this month, and they were set to be completed less than a day before the council report. That was fine though, because I even did a test run where I ignored all the missions just to see that they would be completed in time and then loaded back.
Except now that I finish the last mission of the month, their order in the queue somehow got switched. My satellites are currently set to be completed a couple of hours after the council report (where three nations are set to leave the council) instead of the 12 or so hours before that they previously were.
So that sucks. Time to look for some kind of way to edit my save file to restore my campaign.
Edit: The only explanation I can see would be that engineering projects are paused while you are flying with the skyranger. I am tempted to replay the mission and see if it ends up the same way, but it is a really tough terror mission that took a lot of skill and luck to get through without any deaths so I would rather not (hooray for a warehouse with 10 civilians and 6 chryssalids inside).
It's based on equipped weapon. Rifles gives the shoulder pads with the appropriate glow for weapon tech level, shotguns or the alloy cannon give the one shoulder look.
twelve thin men and nothing else later, I have panic reduction and a new major heavy for my troubles. while I'm sure this was just to lull me into a false sense of security, I respect the game all the more for suckering me in to continue watching xcom mans die to muton elites.
srsly, screw muton elites.
I believe almost everything except the Battleship.
Probably can take the Battleship with boosts though.
"Orkses never lose a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fightin so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!".
Awesome, now its just a question of luck I guess. If I detect a UFO I can shoot down over Europe I'm fine (plasma), if its over the U.S or Africa I might have problems. If I get a couple of very large ones it might be game-over.
I shot down a rather large supply ship with my plasma interceptor taking only light damage.
Shoulda pre ordered
I'm in mid September, my last death in June when I lost a Captain to a tank I hadn't realised was on fire :P 6 Colonels, two with max psi powers. Plasma weapons, titan/ghost armour, 5 EMP Firestorms and most importantly a 12+ roster to do missions should my main team take a beating (this is what cost me my last run). Just about to hit the first Ethereal UFO, feeling pretty good about this one.
Any defense of enticements are dumb. Hahaha millions of dollars disagree
Looking at the game files, most weapons have a range value of 27, shotguns have a value of 10, most grenades 15 except for alien grenades which have a range of 17, medikits and combat stims 3, and all snipers plus the blaster launcher are 100. Strangely, arc throwers have a value of 27, but there's probably a flag that modifies it to melee range.
This level of goosery is amazing.
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I'm pretty sure that if you select that soldier, the alien's heavy cover symbol should turn yellow, indicating that it has been flanked by your soldier. Of course, only that soldier will get the bonus.
I know this is going to sound silly, but it seems like you're having a bottleneck that's jamming everything up.
Have you tried a hard re-start recently? I know we live in the future, but I've found when I get odd freezes or graphical crashes/lag...powering down and waiting 10 seconds seems to clear everything up for months.
Nope!
Alien head was red until I unhooked that soldier from the wall, marched him two squares over, gave the Muton a back rub and whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and then gave him both barrels of an alloy cannon.
Why is it amazing? You have no reason to complain abput enticements and disagree with them because ypur maximal value derived is contingent on free content and thats divergent from standard business practice and marketing campaigns.
Im sorry but dollar bills speak louder than your whining when it comes to game content. Dont like it? Dont bore us with your impotent outrage
Usually moving clears this up for me. I think it just forces the cover stuff to re-evaluate itself and notice it's made a huge mistake. But, it only helps when I'm moving a guy that would force that specific alien to recheck it's cover.
Yep - Done that a few times. If I load the save it doesn't always get stuck in the same spot. Like I said the game itself continues to chug on... its just that none of my inputs work any more and all I can do is rotate the camera. I cannot switch to another unit or issue any orders to the current unit I have selected. It's extremely aggravating.
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Assault AND the nickname Devil Dog? That is spectacular. Of course now I'll promptly get murdered, because XCOM.
That happened to me and I had to kill XCOM. Did it make a sound when you tried any other button?
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Verified game cache?
Updated graphical drivers?
I mean...those are the only other two things I can think of that might do this. Other than the fact that your system is below requirements. But, I figured you'd have mentioned it if that was the case.
Anyhow, I just tested in out on my game, and you do keep the bonus for the continent your base is on if you lose one of the countries on that continent.