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[PrejudiceSucks]

I totally agree with the guy who said that Mutons are the hardest - those guys are totally impossible to kill in the first couple of months (no lasers/alien grenades)

Oh and to the guy who had the problem with the crysallids - there is a really easy although quite dangerous way to solve your problem - keep proximity grenades (primed) in all of your soldiers pockets k:

If the Crysallid survives then you run up to them and taser them - once they drop, pick up the corpse and run back to your ship.

Then fly away before it wakes up!

(I think that getting a live crysallid gives you M.C something, but I'm not sure what)

[Karn Shiroshi]

The game is great. It takes a little to get used to, but when you do you'll be forging your own tactics in no time. I know I have.

[Lizard]

I finished this game few times but what actually does reaper.
(that big alien thing that comes with aliens which can float.I dunno their names,Floaters? )

[Karn Shiroshi]

Yeah that's it. Reapers, the big hulky aliens? Looks like something from Star Wars to me. *shrug* I never paid that much attention to them, they were just fodder.

[another_guest]

Reapers... usually they just hang around (well, not literally hanging), but they have some type of attack. It included those typical orange flashes you also get when ethereals try mind controlling your units. But I *think* it just dealt damage, nothing more.

I've finished the game without ever taking a live crysalid, so apparently it's not necessary taking the risks. Though that's a personal choice
It's also a good idea to let soldiers spread in groups of three: if one runs into a crysalid, the two others can still try to take it down in time.

As for mutons early in the game: don't heavy rockets damage them a decent bit (not enough though to take them out in a single shot)? Also, I prefer using auto cannons over rifles (I mean rifles, not laser rifles!) as a few hits with those still have more effect than rifles. A friend of mine once set out with 8 soldiers using only rifles. They all ended up dead while he didn't take out a single muton :whistle: Not me though, me likes heavy rockets early in the game...

[Yobor]

Since the whole thread is really long, I cannot read it all. So I apologize if my question has been answered a million times.

In the review it says there is a patch that stops the graphics problems. But I can't find it! When I try to run the game the screen flashes black and says "Input not Accepted"
Please Help! I have an Athlon 2600 with a Radeon 9600 Video Card. I have a Flat-screen Monitor (don't know if that makes a difference)
:help:

[Jman4117]

f0dder <---- :P

As for Reapers, they have a rather weak "hand to hand" attack. I've lost like....2 soldiers in 8 years of playing.

[Eagle of Fire]

I don't understand the deal with the Mutons. When I fight those I usually already have access to the best guns from a long time, so I don't really have a problem fighting them.

Fighting anything else than the Grey and Floaters with rifle is almost suicidal...

[Mr. Barman]

i usually give my men laser rifles with 2 or 4 heavy lasers, it just means that when it comes to the Avenger i can take 2 HWP - Plasma and 14 men with all the other equipment (psy amps, grenades, medikits and so on)

[Lizard]

Huh?I actually never used another weapon than laser rifle...I never had problems kill something with these,