[–] [deleted] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

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[–] betrayor [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It happened with a Dark Event.

I had a choice between stopping Avatar project progress, or stopping a UFO hunting me. I chose to stop the Avatar project progress, so then the UFO started chasing me on the map, and shot me down.

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[–] SkepticalMartian 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I had this happen in the first two hours of play. They EMP your ship and it's forced to land. On the ground they set up an EMP beacon that pulses regularly preventing you from taking off. Your mission becomes to destroy the beacon and evac. You'll basically get endless waves of baddies until you do. I found the easiest way to do this is to get line of sight on the beacon and just let sharpshooters take it out at range so it's less distance to run back to the ship when it's time to GTFO. You can get overrun during these events, so you really want to stay as close to the ship as possible.

During the mission you'll periodically get reinforcements from the ship - up to basically your entire roster if it goes on long enough. Even your wounded will eventually come out to fight. I had 9 guys on the ground when I finished it. I got pretty lucky when it happened to me, and started on elevated terrain which gave my sharpshooters a pretty big advantage.

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[–] a_random_sith 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I had this happen on a normal playthrough. I'm running on easy currently and it hasn't happened yet. It is probably random.

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[–] Alkedamus 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

This occurs as a random event if you are being hunted by an alien UFO and fail to evade properly.