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[PrejudiceSucks]

Oh and another thing, regarding the guy who talked abot proxy nades 1 square away from the door, what you should do if you really need to finish off that one last alien is to save before you throw the grenade, that way if it misses the target, you can load and try again!

k: That's my top tip for the day.

[another_guest]

Originally posted by PrejudiceSucks@Feb 23 2005, 12:31 PM
Actually, you do not lose all of the ammo if you unload the weapon.

Good to know, I didn't know that k:

[PrejudiceSucks]

By any chance is there a hint of sarcasm in those words? :crazy:

[another_guest]

No, on the contrary!
I used to play UFO a lot, so it's only seldom that someone comes up with something useful that I didn't know about

[PrejudiceSucks]

LOL

I am usually a source of not-so-handy advice!

Another thing regarding unloading weapons - you cannot, I repeat cannot unload them at the pre-battle setup screen!

Whenever this is attempted, it skips right to the mission, meaning the only way to make sure (for example) your Missile Launchers start off with incediary rounds is to take only them along, which is a bit lame really.

And one more thing - on the original - again, I repeat original UFO : Enemy Unknown without any patches (and not X-COM - UFO Defence) if a battleship attacks your base (this is a good reason to not defend bases using missile/plasma defences etc. when you have a lot of tanks / soldiers free inside) and you kill all of the aliens who come you can get upwards of 500 elerium! That's enough for about 90 Firestorm flights!

[Eagle of Fire]

Also another thing - you cannot, under any circumstances Taser your own soldiers (and believe me, I've tried), to knock them out (for example when they keep getting mind-controlled and have large amounts of explosives) you will have to either throw a lot of smoke grenades or fire a small launcher at them - annoying it may be, but it is sometimes the best alternitive to killing them.

This is completely false, I used to do it all the time. I think armor give a certain degree of protection against tasers tough but you can stun one of your teamate just as well as any other units.

I never try to stun a mind controled unit anyways. I either run away and immediatly make him throw all his stuff at me when he stop being controlled or kill him on the spot when this happen.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Oh! Well I didn't know that! I tried it about 10 minutes ago and it didn't work!

Maybe it is just on UFO Defence that it doesn't work! (I have both)

Hmm... well there I am. Thanks for the heads up, it really did help, especially on those pesky terror missions (which I very rarely actually do - I land and then whoosh! Right off again, until I have power suits)

*retracts previous comment*

Hi there, i ve taken a look at your discussion and you might be just the ones to help me out:

I just researched the psi lab and built one in every base i have...but how can i send my soldiers to train?

i really have no idea, how to do this

[TwoHedWlf]

At the end of every month it pops up a screen asking which soldiers you want in training. Kind of a pain in the behind that it only goes monthly though. So if you build the lab near the beginning of the month you have to wait almost a whole month to start training.

hey there.

I have an question, how do I take screenshots (in battle to more precise) while using the windows version? Everytime I hit Print Screen, and paste the image on Paint the screen is all f*cked up.
Is there any software that can help me?