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[Fama]

Oh yes, heavy plasma can break inner walls only. I, too, have always breached outer walls with only 1 blaster launcher shot.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Could it depend on the difficulty level?

Beginner?

you might not have aimed it right, if you hit it straight into the outer wall it will always break*

Square hit at 90* angle.

Problem with x-com

I cant seem to find this answer anywhere in the forum.

I have the abandonia version, but everytime i run it under windows xp/sp2 the visuals are all messed up. The screen is compressed up to the first 1/3 of the monitor, and theres a duplicate screen below it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[bahman]

Originally posted by mcapaldo912@May 18 2005, 11:45 PM
Problem with x-com

I cant seem to find this answer anywhere in the forum.

I have the abandonia version, but everytime i run it under windows xp/sp2 the visuals are all messed up. The screen is compressed up to the first 1/3 of the monitor, and theres a duplicate screen below it.

Any help would be appreciated.

Run "ufo.exe".

Originally posted by the_fifth_horseman@May 18 2005, 12:30 PM
What the heck are they built of, Adamantium?

No... ALIEN ALLOYS :bleh:

Where can i get XCOMUTIL

[efthimios]

Originally posted by Student@May 19 2005, 08:42 AM
Where can i get XCOMUTIL

Havey you tried this one?

[PrejudiceSucks]

Very good tool is XcomUtil, but I can't get it to work with XP! Woe is me!

It crashes as soon as I get to a battle. Which is annyoing. To a high degree indeed.

Thanks :Brain:

[axident]

Guys, I've been away from this forum for school (mostly) and another game (recently). If you like UFO, check out a tile-based, turn-based, multi-player online game by the name of Tactics Arena Online at: http://digisonline.com/ or http://www.tacticsarena.com/

I play on the former URL on a lifetime membership, since the latter has 4 servers but requires 5 bucks a month. It has a free forum, though: http://www.tacticsarena.com/forum/

You need Flash 6 or higher to play: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/

Now for some X-COM Chat:

To get psi-labs, I used to try for Sectoid leaders/commanders, but they usually come in the bigger ships, and you have to fight through lots of aliens and probably lose most of your guys due to the MC, just to get at the sucker.

A far safer way is to wait until Ethereal craft show up. Knock down as many as you safely can. (An interceptor with one single plasma beam can do it.) If it's a big ship, just land and take off immediately. But if you down a small or tiny Ethereal UFO (probably with something weaker than a plasma beam.. try a laser cannon or something like that), send in your squad armed with only stun weapons and rush the small number of Ethereals. Research any Ethereal--they do not have to be leaders or commanders to give you psi. Voila.

I've also never seen a Celatid reproduce. Silacoids and Celatids both die very quickly, though I sometimes mind control them to scout around for me.

PrejudiceSucks is probably waiting to post no. 1600, so I'm doing him a favor by posting no. 1599.