Adie

Im using a GF4600 and a friend has a GF6800 and yeh i can certainly agree with you and say the graphics are certainly different. One main thing thats different is the power shields. On mine they are a static grey/white and sometimes difficult to see which way the soldier faces. On my friends the shield is blue/purple transparent and swirling around the soldier. Plus many other things are hugely noticable.

Yeh seems to be a bug. Like you mentioned i reloaded from a previous save. Im alot further now and im guessing ive had a dozen or so PoD missions, and it seems a 50/50 chance that the pillar is there or not. Reloading from a time before the mission appears on the Earth seems to be the best way of resolving it, as reloading the autosave just before the mission continously has no PoD or so it seems. Recently loaded 5 times the same mission with out any luck, but reloaded before mission appeared i had the luck.

Yeh i know the one you mean, it had vehicle wreckages on. BUT this one im talking about stretches the full width of the map with nothing on it. It has wreckages under it, in parked up positions on both sides of all the pillars that support the road.

Im on the second mission that i have to locate the pillar of death and destroy it. The map is a warehouse with a suspended motorway (freeway), and no way to get up there. Now after killing all SGs and running around the map several times, in every room etc, the pillar of death is nowhere to be seen. I thought ok this must be a bug cos the game has planted it on the motorway and i have no chance of completing the mission. So i reloaded the autosave and retried. Same again no sight of the Pillar of Death. Anyone have this problem or know if its supposed to do this so im forced to lose territory?

The more knowledge you have in a base the more resources you yield. I had all the bases that were gathering alien materials full of collages. I was gaining +156 alien materials from one base alone. At the moment i have 500k normal resources, 300k advanced resources and 150k alien resources and im just slight past the wargots mothership assault. Also when you have huge amounts of normal material you can give the Cyborgs or the Psionics 20k normal materials to get their deplomacy from neutral to full then take materials off of them. They will give you about 10k of advanced resources or alien resources for your 20k normal resources.

I tried with the Warp Rifles and no luck, but i did have a few grenades which worked. Thx

I have made my way to the mothership and i have researched everything and decided that all i needed, to wipe out any enemies, was to have all my soldiers carry Warp Rifles. These are awsome weapons especially if you got the Underbarrel Laser Sights and Movement Detection Scope on. Anyhow im at the objectives of blowing up parts of the mothership but i have no idea how to do this. The object that needs blowing up (with the red icon above it) doesn't make my cursor change when i scroll over it. Can anyone shed some light please. Thanks in advance.