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Hm, is that just sound effects or music as well? Because I swear the windows version that came with the pc gamer cd didn't have the lady that says "warning, warning" in the intro movie ... I haven't played the 1.4 dos version much yet, just plopped down a base and went on the first couple small ufo mission to make sure it works. I just assumed that the 1.4 dos version would have the "original" sound effects. I haven't gotten to snakemen yet, so I didn't get to hear if the snakemen in my 1.4 dos version still have that weird cannon-thumping noise when they walk like they do in the windows/pc gamer cd version ... I'll give it another shot tonight, but as soon as it went to battlescape, it crashed. Error messages said something like "it can't find power armour" or something to that effect. Then i had to kill the dosbox window.

Hi, Question: Is there any signification downside to playing the original 1.4 dos version (using dosbox) versus the CE windoze version? I know the windoze version doesn't have the original sounds(one of the reasons I went looking for the dos 1.4 version), but are there any other significant differences(bug fixes)? For the last few years, I had been playing X-com via the Windoze version (the version that came with the pc gamer 'best of" cd - I believe it's the same as the Collectors edition) on my old Win98 machine. However, I recently managed to acquire the original Dos version of X-Com Enemy Unknown, (the cd version with ufocd.bat), patched to version 1.4. After doing a little research and installing dosbox + vdmsound, i was very happy to find that I could once again play xcom on my suped up XP machine without the game doing all sorts of mushroom induced crazyness as if the geoscape was on drugs. I was getting sick of sitting around for 5 minutes waiting for Win98 to boot just to play xcom. Last 2 weeks, i've been loving playing with the original sounds again, and have applied xcomutil to fix the difficulty bug. Scouring the net, it seems most talk is around the Windoze version. Is this just because most people no longer have the original dos version? (ie, Bomb Bloke's uniform mod doesn't seem to work with the dos 1.4 version ... ) Thx

This is great news. For me, they could leave everything alone, just update the graphics with dx9/10 effects, and update the tactical gameplay with some of the better aspects from JA2 (like going prone etc), then it would be perfect. Realtime combat would be awful. I hated Xcom Apoc with a passion.

Good stuff from everyone, i'll just add that i usually pick a couple of mental patients from the stock of rookies and strap them full of heavy explosives. Screw the piddly little human grenades. Especially on the terror mission early on, a rocket tank and some explosives will do wonders to protect your troops. Ofcourse, civilian causualties might be a bit high, but who's fault is it that they stuck around anyway?