I've found apocalypse to be my favourite X-com game as well. Mostly because of the real time game mode, I can't stand being shot at and not being able to return fire because I've used up all my TUs. And the fights in the city and between companies are great ofcourse
The fourth mission is way too hard compared to the third. The only thing that made the third mission annoying was that I had to walk through the city three times to get all the aliens. Too bad.. this mod looked kinda cool at first.
I downloaded the mod a few days ago, I can't get past the 4th mission Blasted Mutons. I tried blinding them with smoke grenades and then normal grenades but there's just too many of them...
a "fan weapon" would be nice, not too effective though, short range and all. I'd like to see an ion cannon, somewhat like in the c&c ion cannon, fired from a satellite. See that suspicious looking tree there? I bet there are 10 sectoids behind it. Throw an ion homing beacon at it, WOOSH, tree? where? Ok I know a grenade would do the same thing but this looks a bit more spectacular. On the downside, nothing left to do an autopsy on.
The compatability tab can be used to install programs that say they can't be installed on a windows NT system. It fools the application into believing you're using an older version of windows but it doesn't change anything else.
The only disadvantage of a fast game is that if laser beams, plasma, whatever are fired at your troops you'll have no idea where they came from because they're just to fast. However it saves you a lot of time not having to watch lasers miss their target and strike a barn at the other side of the map.
Money is not my main concern got about 80 million. It's more that I don't want them to defect Edit: I've managed to assault almost every ufo that landed. Had to let a couple go. Probably found the reason for all the activity in the area, found two bases there.
I have about 10 ufo's flying around in and around Saudi Arabia and just don't have enough forces to handle an invasion of this scale. The worst part is that my 2 avengers and firestorm are being repaired and I was cutting back on interceptors to free hangars for new craft. I'd like to know how to handle these types of situations, if there's a reason for this sudden increase of activity in one area and what to do to prevent it from happening again. Is there any way of speeding up the repairs on my ufo's? or getting them back into the air when they're still damaged?
My ufo used to crash a lot and without any error messages. Turning on the win xp compatibility mode with all its features (256 colours, no visual theme's, no advanced text services) drastically reduced the number of crashes.
Get your skyranger to the ufo ASAP. Send it out at the same time as your interceptors. The faster you get to the UFO the more aliens will still be inside and will not come at you from places you'd never expect. Also, develop a special tactic per ufo type. There aren't that many kinds of ufo's so that shouldn't be too hard. Enter the ufo from multiple entrances at the same time to prevent any aliens from escaping.