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[PrejudiceSucks]

Why are you using DOSBox in Win98? Use DOS prompt, either that or use the windows icon that looks like the sun.

And take any mods off, they can screw the game up a lot.

[font=Courier][size=7][color=red] one word: PERFECT

[Sqauddie_Anderson]

Hello UFO: Enemy Unknown regulars. I've spent the last 4-5 days at work reading this entire thread. I am a huge XCom fan from way back when. I came across this site by chance when looking for something else, and started looking for my old favorites. Imagine my glee at finding Enemy Unknown and once again fueling my Avenger and charging my laser rifle. Time to smoke some martians! I have 2 games going right now, game one is on Vet difficulty and I use all my old tricks ~ currently I dominate the planet and nothing gets by while I attempt to train up a full platoon of 14 soldiers at 99-100 psi strength. In game two I am enforcing a strict no-reload (except for crashes) on Superhuman. This game is much more fun and challenging. Only a few months in but I went right for Hyperwave Decoder (got a sectoid engineer at Crash Site #1 ) and Plasma Cannons for my Interceptors. I suffered a serious blow when I got an unexpected visit to my European HQ from a sectoid/cyberdisk battleship a few days before finishing construction on my HWD. I came out with 2 wounded soldiers. All my flying armor and personal armor was killed along with my good troops. I have recovered somewhat and am ready to put the screws to the alien menace.

Here's my Tip of the Day:
You can change the names of your soldiers by clicking thier name in the soldier info display from the Base menu 'Soldiers'. This can be either 1) fun to make a platoon of people you know, suicide bombers named after exgirlfriends is a joy OR 2) useful. you can add a description of the soldiers usefulness at the end. Such as Uta Keller PSI (high psi soldier)or Andrea Blake HVY (heavy weapon trooper).

PS:
Ever notice how, while there are many name combos, there are really only a few families sending their young men and women to die for XCom?

Hello,

This is a fun game, im encountering a small problem however. Sometimes for apparenlty no reason, the game will "lock up". The mouse wont work or anything. The screen also randomly "flicers" but this isint as big a problem, as its rare and dosen't seem to effect much.

Im running Windows XP. I tried doing a search(didn't read threw all 100 pages) but it only came up with this thread, not a specific post...

Thanks for any help

Sorry to double post, but I couldn't find a edit button, guess we guest don't get one...

The problem I was having apparenlty only happens on the first mission/setting first base, so i'll just save and keep going untill I get past it, then save again.

I found this site to be helpfull...

http://www.xcomufo.com/x1faq.html

This game looks pretty good, I think I may make a 3d remake of it if I like it

I hate this game :ranting:

I am fed up of alien fire power that seems to come from no where. I lost a ten man team to one stupid alien, and could I find the thing?

Hate it hate it hate it

Going back to Worms. Far more enjoyable

[The Fifth Horseman]

Yeah, yeah... ever heard of such an elusive thing as tactics? I mean something more sophisticated then "lug your behind around the map and kill an alien when you spot one". I mean "carefully search the map using the cover of terrain and eliminate aliens when you spot one".

[PrejudiceSucks]

Try getting a good formation set up, with spotters looking around (a circle is good, then grenages won't do as much damage) and you will almost certainly win against only a single alien.

And only fight in the day!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Why? Flares easily negate any advantage the aliens might have.