SerAris

Well, it didn't at first but I updated it and now it shows in the first msg. Haven't got time to make it bigger to fit. Looking forward to new UFO-type games. Best Wishes, SerAris

Posting only to see if my UFOA avatar was saved from old forum. Best wishes, Josh

Yeah, I guess the thread started with an real, modern tank. I was discussing firepower in the current (unmod) game. I think it would be hard to fit a tank in this game. You'd have to have: balanced power proper maneuverability (clogged streets and narrow base corridors -not that it could go anywhere...just you'd have to figure all that out) Lotsa game developing time, if it could be done at all. Remember in XCom, UFO unk, the tanks were fun but they could be junked by plasma pistols! Like their armor was made out of RDX or C4! But hey, I'm not arguing, just discussing. Whatever yanks your crank.

Sigget wrote: Thanks, but i also need the capacity skill value. Oh dear, he went up to level 17 last night. Here are all his skill and attributes at this time. MKSMN HEROIC (H) STR E RIFLES SUPER HEROIC (SH) AGIL H HANDG EXCEL (E) DEX VG LAUNCH H WILLP H THROW H INT VG PSI SH PERC G DODGE E OBSV VERY GOOD (VG) STEALTH GOOD ALIENS E MEDIC E CAPACTY H I now have his load at 37Kg (70%) and he still has Heroic speed. I'm finished with this thread. Hope this helps. SerAris

Don't know nuthin' 'bout calculashuns but FYI I have one soldier with heroic speed. Lvl 16 Load: 24kg (45%) That is, Acc. Intl L115 AE sniper rifle w/1 45 round reload, Warp Med Kit, Psi Projector, warp assault rifle, 4 grenades. Bio Armor. Str VG Ag Heroic Dex VG WP Heroic Int VG Perc G He's been at 55% and maintains heroic speed Hope this is useful to you. See Brian run. See Brian scout. Go Brian, go! I :inlove: Brian

As in real combat, "don't bunch up, one round will get you all". Have your fast people scout and run away. Spread out, you can kill the DBs with sniper rifles. When you see the little buggies coming at your shooter, run out of the kill zone. Have someone else shoot. When THEY get fired at, you switch who runs/who shoots. If you're initially too close, go down the street and come at the DB on a long axis. Another tactic on a long street: get your heavy weapons set up behind your runners and paste the DB from long range. NEVER move all 7 soldiers together when rounding a corner or opening a door. If there's a DB or Blow fish around/behind it, you're toast.

Did you know that when you kneel your soldier with the human made rocket launcer, it's better than tanks? You can fire a spread of rockets to one or several targets taking only about a second or less per rocket! It's a Katushya, if you want! But don't waste them. When you're out of rockets, you can't reload or shoot anything else. Also, heroic strength and marksmanship soldiers with the quad machine gun are awsome. If you kneel them with a wide field of fire, they can kill fast at great distances, even when it shows a low percentage to hit. Put both RL+MGs pretty far behind a fast soldier who will decoy and run out of the blast zone of those pesky alien R/L. Make sure he can heal well. Good hunting. SerAris

If you read your autopsy reports carefully, you will see that some TGs are immune or vulnerable to this or that attack. This helps you kill them quicker and/or not wasting ammo and taking more damage. Shooting the car crabs with plasma weapons actually increases the crab's battery power. So, I think it pays to research all the TG's When I first read the thread, I wondered why I hadn't run into auto-psi ops. Then I got it. What a difference a letter makes. Silly me.

Sigget wrote: "If you have the english version, without mods applied, patched to version 1.3 and get this error then your gamedata.vfs is messed up and you need to reinstall. " I will remove, reinstall from CD, install patches to 1.3. I presume my saved games will then work with this fix? Or will they re-mess up the gamedata? I'm 75 missions into the game (not counting delegated ones)! I'd hate to have to start over (until I've finished this one). Best wishes, S.A.

True, Sigget, never turn your back on the screen. It hates to be ignored and if you leave it too long, it's magic lantern show time! It doesn't go flicker as much in the menu page. If I'm tactical, I don't even risk going to pee.

When I load the game from the desktop icon, everything goes smoothly except occasionally, my video goes nuts (flicker) See below. When I close the tray of my CD and autorun, I get the setup window and two things happen: 1. Zone Alarm asks me if I want to enable explorer.exe. a. If I say "yes", I get "Assert_Fatal" errors. (I have recorded the details, if needed) b. If I say "no", I load the setup window OK. So that's what I do. (This problem doesn't come up when I load from the desktop.) Question: what is the function of explorer.exe 2. Whenever I check my refresh rate, it's ALWAYS shows 90mhz. I select 60mhz and play the game. Two questions: a. Why doesn't my 60mhz selection become the default, so I would see that each time I open setup, video settings, with the CD loading? b. Do you think my refresh rate stays at 60 when I open with the desktop icon, or is it defaulting to 90, thereby giving me my occasional flicker probs? Best wishes, SerAris

In my latest tactical mission, there was NO WAY for my squad to get to the UFO downed in the mountains. I killed all the outside aliens but all around the valley/mountain border, there was always at least one "red" square between the "green" square in the valley and the green square on the mountain. I tried grenades, rockets, warps, to blast a path but could not get my squad to the UFO entry. No matter where my squad was, there was, "No way to get there" This caused me to fail the mission. Do I need warp demolition (which I didn't take on this mission) or flying suits or what? Is having the UFO unaccessible part of the game, or is this a bug? SerAris P.S. I tried to research this but got no hits, so I hope I'm not repeating a thread

OK, I've followed your instructions. The first line of the check sum was identical to yours. but the "new" line was: sum: 8B5B764473492d96b6328DC0773708D4 Can you tell me what this means and/or what I should do next? TIA, Ser Aris

RL are tough but OK with me. My technique is, ASAP, to run everyone to the back of the screen and spread them out. If I'm (we're) in a "corner" start, I have my "excellent" mobility people run on the edges of of the tac area to draw the fire and scoot out of its way. Also, if you can kneel some units behind trees (spread out too), they don't get seen or shot at as much. It's not perfect but sometimes it works great. I'm playing normal mode and maybe this won't work as well in hard? My worst nightmare is in mountainous terrain. The aliens can take cover (and only 1-2 units can return fire) and you can't even get your team close enough to the cliff face to keep from getting blown away! Sometimes I, um, er, delegate these cans of worms. ??? In the alien ships, I have my fastest/best dodger soldier come up to a corner, run out one space, and run back, then go out 2 spaces, etc.. If there's an alien, he has a good chance of ducking back w/o getting hit. If a rocket comes, he can usually get away with little or no damage. I try to set up rocket launcher. grenade ambushes and time things to explode just before the "chasing" alien turns the corner. If that doesn't work, I have a couple of psiops soldiers with psi-projectors take control, have them drop their weapons and walk into our midst, then kill them when they wake up. Hope you find this interesting. Not trying to brag. :angel: I don't reload a lot. Well, you know that's Bull S__. Too bad we don't have a "load saved game" in real life! Best wishes, SerAris

Sigget wrote: "To calculate it (check sum), either use my tool (from the link in my signature) or use the games builtin command,..." Sigget, thanks for the suggestions. I don't know how to access the built in command and I'm not sure what file (of the 10 or so there) to d/l from your link. Could you give me a little more help on how to do either or both? Sorry for the lack of knowledge. TIA. Best wishes, SerAris