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Could anyone tell me what happened at the end of this game? I played and completed UFO, but after buying this on the first day of release got bored... Tried again about a year or 2 ago and got quite far but again got side tracked with the pressures of a new wife, kids and a new machine with XP.

[Cockroach]

You send a squad to the Yucatan impact site to assault the alien colony ship and you get blown up while destroying it.

[duckpatch]

Thanks for spoiling it...

[another_guest]

Hm, maybe it's better to delete that post and PM the info to whoever asked for it?

OK just need one of you guys to tell me you've finished the copy thats downloadable from this site, I can deal with the glitches withBad Saves, dead aliens on your craft when you land, reasearch bugs etc etc etc...but BEFFORE i invest another 200 hours in the game I just wanna know that I can actually finish it this time.....been foiled 3-4 times on really good solid tries by research glitches, bad save , ^$^%&%*# Computer died last time and i was reaserching the ultimate craft too dammit,.

Ive got it installed via DOSBox and played an experimental scenario and all seems fine just tell me one of ya have finished the game posted here pleeeease

[rlbell]

Originally posted by Oldblue153@Jan 9 2006, 03:12 AM
OK just need one of you guys to tell me you've finished the copy thats downloadable from this site, I can deal with the glitches withBad Saves, dead aliens on your craft when you land, reasearch bugs etc etc etc...but BEFFORE i invest another 200 hours in the game I just wanna know that I can actually finish it this time.....been foiled 3-4 times on really good solid tries by research glitches, bad save , ^$^%&%*# Computer died last time and i was reaserching the ultimate craft too dammit,.

Ive got it installed via DOSBox and played an experimental scenario and all seems fine just tell me one of ya have finished the game posted here pleeeease

I know the feeling. After much experimentation, I have discovered that I have precisely the wrong hardware to play this game. It is too slow to emulate a 486 with dosbox, and Win98SE has a file handling problem that usually corrupts the game file (dreaded green text bug).

I did complete the game about three and a half years ago, but my 486 has lain idle for most of the time since, so I do not know if it still works. I have some other hardware that I might run it on, but my children complain when I hog their computer (I can get away with it if they have gone to bed, or they are doing something else, but TFTD needs alot of time).

[gregor]

Originally posted by rlbell@Jan 9 2006, 05:47 AM

I know the feeling. After much experimentation, I have discovered that I have precisely the wrong hardware to play this game. It is too slow to emulate a 486 with dosbox, and Win98SE has a file handling problem that usually corrupts the game file (dreaded green text bug).

what do you mean??? if you have win 98 SE you dont' need dosbox to play it. you simply make dos boot disk, boot your computer with it and start the game. it works perfectly.


@ Oldblue153

I don't know about this version, but i have some previous one, which i completed it about 3 times. it has some bugs, but nothing major. i mena i just load the previous save.

Here is how i manage my save files. if iremember correctly there are 10 of them, right?

slot 1 - saving only on planet surface
slot 2 only mission start where i put description and size of ship
slot 3-8 - save each turn when on a mission where i add a nbumber of turn to the filename and short description of events (e.g.slot 3: sees 2 being the rock t2,slot 4: behind rock killed t3...)
slot 9 - use it to save in the middle of turn. for example i already killed 2 aliens but i know there is a 3rd one (hard to kill) hiding at the next corner. so i save and then use other team member to progress.
slot 10 - use it to save at the end of each month - can be used as "backup save"

this save technique enables that all of the crew survives almoust always. my death rate is max 2 aquanauts per game - sometimes i really must sacrifice them. so basically almoust everyone from my xcom teams survives.

Oh and another thing (this one i learned from FAQ) is that it pays off to have your tema members renamed in such a way that you immediatelly know their fucntion. you frist check their poins, do a Strengs and weakness check up and then they get a letter added to their name. eg. aquanaut that is very strong should get a rocket launcher, so at the end of his name i woul dive him letter R- for example "Orski Manski R". you can also give them team insignia e.g. Orski Manski RED R

Btw the first time i played it i didnt' know how to go on special mission. so i played and played when finnaly a friend told me where i must click. by the time he told me that i had 4 bases and instead of aquanauts i had SUPERNOUTS. their skills were amazin - snap shot accuracy 160%, throwing accuracy over 180%. took out the terror sites in few mins, as they could accuratelly shoot form one side of map to the other one with snapshot or throw a greande very very far. all had over 90 MC resistance... anyway with this special team assembled only form the best of all bases i went to final mission. it all went like a swiss clock.

[Cockroach]

this save technique enables that all of the crew survives almoust always. my death rate is max 2 aquanauts per game - sometimes i really must sacrifice them. so basically almoust everyone from my xcom teams survives.

cheater..... :whistle:

Btw the first time i played it i didnt' know how to go on special mission. so i played and played when finnaly a friend told me where i must click. by the time he told me that i had 4 bases and instead of aquanauts i had SUPERNOUTS. their skills were amazin - snap shot accuracy 160%, throwing accuracy over 180%. took out the terror sites in few mins, as they could accuratelly shoot form one side of map to the other one with snapshot or throw a greande very very far. all had over 90 MC resistance... anyway with this special team assembled only form the best of all bases i went to final mission. it all went like a swiss clock.

wierd..thought they had that bug fixed before TftD came out...

Wellllll Gregor....with all due respect I know how to play the game, been at it for 10 years. and theres MAJOR glitches in the game like the "Invisable Alien ...these appear on Alien Bases Very Large Dreadnaughts and possibly Alien Artifact sites ( not positive on the last) once youve saved when even 1 alien turns invisable during your turn it will happen everytime you play these types of scenario's....also the glitch comes into play on those rare occasions when you land and whats this? a dead Alien on my ship ..hahah free kill...NOT if you complete the mission and save again youve hit the invisable ALien GLitch (its Very disheartening to play a 200 turn Extra Large Mission only to see the one of the last Aliens turn invisable when you kill him and theres no body there ughhh gotta reload and do the entire mission over).

IF you place more than 255 Manufacturers or Scientists on 1 single Base BAM A new glitch end of the month you have -255 manufactueres or scientists..again to follow you for the entirety of you campaign no fix for it.

Theres the Research GLitches that prevent you from continuing the research tree if youve mistakenly researched an item out of a peticular order Armor, and Molecular control comes to mind regarding these issues.

Theres the rarely talked about glitch that if you sell off all your Sonic Pistols + Clips in the game and DONT save at least 1 to research that after the first month passess you simple dont find them anymore thus preventing you from continuing the Sonic research tree.

Thers the INFAMOUS Tsoth Commander Glitch which prevents you from getting to the last mission if you research him at ALL.

Not to Mention silly stuff like needing a Live Deep one terrorist to research Armor and you really only have 1 or 2 shots at this cause generally you get a Gillman Terror mid to late Jan and possible a second mid to late feb then you face tougher ones and these Deep Ones are very very rare after April 1st.

Ive found all these glitches the HARD way by playing and discovering them.

My Question was Regarding the program itself I'de hate to play a years game time n find out I'm missing some bloody folder on the DL that makes it impossible to finish yet once again.

And Sir ...well...Some of us don't feel that resetting after we miss a shot or our soldiers die is a realistic or fun way of approaching the game...matter of fact some of us play on Superhuman and play NO RESETS (unless one of those many many Glitches appear)

So to say ive only lost 2 men...well dude that really doesnt impress a harcore fanatic of the game hell ive lost 4 to one frikking sectiod with a pistol just this morning.

Anyone can keep thier soldiers alive by resetting over n over ...

Oh n PS just read a new Glitch for those poor poor People who own the Gold Edition Win 98 Version....It Crashes on the very very very last mission and closes the program...poor buggers

[gregor]

Originally posted by Cockroach@Jan 9 2006, 01:45 PM

wierd..thought they had that bug fixed before TftD came out...

what bug is that??? anyway i only enocuntered one bug during my play. and that was that i didn't get molecular control somehow (i only had the M.C. lab). even if i researched the deep ones. oh well i didn't need it anyway...

my save technique is not cheating. it's just using save function. what you always play strategy games with no save? i am sorry but there is and was not time for that. sometimes i would play 3 turns combat mode and then do some homework and go play some more etc.

@ Oldblue153

Ehm most of those i never got (i guess i never put myself in those situations). especially invisible alien. i never got that one.

yes deep one are hard to find later in game. not alway though. once i got them back next year and i think in August same year. quite a lot of them actually and they got annoying cause they are no challenge.

but that's preety easy to avoid (you just capture them in early game stage).

in fact much of the problems you've mentioned are easy to avoid (except for the invisible alien :blink: ), so i dont' see a problem here. you know where the error might occur so you just play in a way that it doesn't. like instead of 255 people you get 200. it will still get you through as you really dont' need that new technology that much once you have sonic blasters & shock rifles. you just stun the lobster and throw a grenade and he is dead.