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If you've killed all the aliens, any remaining civilians will be considered "rescued". On the roof is probably a pretty safe place for civilians to be, so you might just be able to ignore them and clear out the rest of the xenos.
Otherwise, if you really need to get up there, look for a drainpipe or ladder on an outside wall, or a staircase to the roof from ...
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According to your list, you did not interrogate a Floater.
That is required for getting the achievement.
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/xcom-enemy-unknown/achievement/69356-Edison.html#3
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In order to revive someone, you need a special skill from the Support tree. Otherwise, you'll always just stabilize them.
Stabilized soldiers will live to fight another day, although they take a Will hit. This makes them more likely to panic and succumb to Psi attacks in the future.
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There is a grappling hook (on the Skeleton Suit and Ghost Armor) and a jetpack (on the Archangel Armor), but you won't ever be required to have them to complete a mission.
Usually, if you move your soldiers around the outside of a building, you'll see in their move radius the methods by which they can get up to the next level. There are also occasionally ...
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You can skip the time watching units move by ordering a unit where to move, then immediately hitting tab to switch to the next unit. If the unit can do an action after moving, you'll still be able to select them again later, once they've reached their destination.
The actual firing sequences cannot be skipped (which I'm okay with this, since I'd like to ...
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XCOM ToolBoks has a "Fast Motion" option allowing you to toggle between faster and normal speeds. ToolBoks also has many other tweaks and improvements you might be interested in.
As far as I'm aware, it's compatible with all the major overhaul mods such as Warspace Extension and Long War.
You can still obtain achievements using ToolBoks :)
Discussion and ...
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You can use the XCOM ToolBoks mod to speed up combat in several ways:
Speed up time in combat up to 9 times, with hotkeys to turn it on and off
Remove the alien detection dance
Remove the 1.75 second delay after activating hunker down and overwatch.
There are many other options, one particular time-saver that doesn't have to do with combat is the ability ...
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