Bomb Bloke

* starts shooting his agents * * gets very depressed at the results * I really am confused, though. Why is TFTD so difficult again? Sure the Tasoths and Loby men take a bit of damage, but all that did was encourage me to us grenades. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/blink.gif I had much more trouble against the Etherals.

I don't think Carlos improved his weapons... but then I don't remember at all... Starting a new campaign? Hmm... I know I don't tend to finish the campaigns much these days... once you have supremacy, that's it... but then, it would only take two missions once your armed, one to get the commander and the other to trash cydonia.

My shields hold... for the first parts of the game anyway... but then I get attacked with those dimension missile things and they tend to fall a bit after that. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/wink.gif Once you've cleared all the alien craft, that's it. Sit back, tool up, research anything and everything, and raid the cultists till you get bored. Then raze the rest of the alien dimension.

Don't most things remove panels? I'm sure I blow the things away all the time... http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/eh.gif

Apparently some versions didn't care what difficulty you selected... but I think they fixed that. We ALL have old versions. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/sarcastic.gif To kill loby men, use drills. Oh yeah. That noise of crunching, and crackling... satisfaction in a job well done. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/smile.gif

We need to get Carlos in here. His idea of a challenge is to mod his troops into insignificance, play through the game, lower their stats yet furthar, repeat... Superhuman mode just doesn't cut it for some people. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/confused.gif

Are you sure there wasn't a sonic weilding loby man hiding behind the stun loby? I don't like heavy guass. No indeedy. 'Cause most of troops can't carry the things. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/confused.gif Well, not quickly, anyway. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/hmm.gif Often I can research (and produce a squad worth of) the laser/gauss rifles just before or after the first UFO turns up. Then I ignore weapon research (unless I got nothing else to do, you gotta have those plasma/sonic cannons) until I got the subs, armour, medkits and psi.

I armed my troops more or less the same way, with the flying torsos... but I think I'll stop that... to many fatal chest wounds. The teleporter is a late game thing. As in, you might not even have time to research it if you're in a hurry to finish the game. But if you're at the stage of air supremacy in the alien dimension, you've pretty much got it wrapped up. Once I let the aliens pull off the Apocalypse. It was actually very good for me, as just about everyone in the city allied with me on the spot. Then I finished my avengers, and the rest is history.

I ran out of armor, sent an unarmored rookie with an armoured team to attack a battleship. He was on the front line. He killed eleven aliens, this being his first mission, and LIVED. He died later, mores the pity. No psi strength on him, either. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/confused.gif

They just seem to float down, bouncing merrily as they go... :alien2: : Argh! We're going to hit that skyscraper! * BOUNCE *

My troops carry toxigun clips on all (spare) belt spots, shoulders, and... uh, whereever else I can think of. I tend to keep the packs free though.

Am I the only real man here? http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/blink.gif I always use guass rifles, unmodded. 'Cause half the loby men have stun launchers, which they are stupid enough to use at close range. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/sarcastic.gif And I bring a lance.

Ha! Set one up in your base... "Ok, Sarge, I'm just going to the psi room." "Why is that Overspawn doing the macarena? "

It sucks - as usual. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/angry.gif

You CHEATED on the first base mission?! http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/eh.gif

Sustained use of psiclone can cause the goverment to attack megapol, and so on, and so forth... http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/wink.gif

* ponders * Compatibility mode? Create a shortcut well away from the game (changing program settings on a read only drive is a good way to crash certon operating systems...)

Humour is taking sides. Once the crime networks decided they hated each other; each week I'd help out a different side... Actually, Humour is an organisation defecting, then the aliens forgetting to call off the overspawn.

... Skulls? http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/eh.gif

I remember my first base mission. I killed the brains on the basis that they were psychic. I was glad to see that psychic aliens had no guns. I killed the Tasoth because they had guns, but left them till last 'cause they weren't psychic. I said it was my first base mission. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/sarcastic.gif Killed everything, for traditions sake, and moved down into the base. Met my first ever lobsterman. Shot it with gauss rifles (autofire, sonic's don't), and it lived. Emptied several clips into the thing. Decided that I wasn't going to kill much mre then that (out of ammo), swung the thing over one of my troops soldiers and started limping for the exit. First time I took a base, walked down to the bottom floor and entered the control room (not knowing what it was, of course). Brought a troop up either side of the passages, walked into the final room. Saw three loby men, threw a grenade on the ornament in the middle. This killed one loby man and informed me that I was now safe too leave. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/smile.gif The other loby men, unarmed, couldn't keep up with my troops as they ran the hell out...

What we need is a way to get this to capture graphics as they are produced, then reproduce them on the screen... like a VM, or maybe even a TSR... I once thought of writting up a script that worked the same way... never thought it would actually WORK... impressive!

You can also get Terrorist units. They either give you the Terror mission info, or nothing much at all. Can't remeber which. Sme alien types, such as Reapers, are always Terrorists.

I've never seen an unarmored soldier take more then one heavy plasma shot and live. But then, I generally don't go out unarmored. As for building craft, I think I'm yet to build a lightning. You can push the research forward that fast that's not worth the effort. Aren't they those big octagonal things...? I like tanks. Better then loosing troops. And if you spot a supply route, funding is no problem.

Well... legal, depending on where you live. Some (most) companies now like to push the idea that the media is the license, so in some countries it is illegal to backup your software.

Yeah, it's like that, isn't it? http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/confused.gif Ah well, when the game is as popular as it is, you should expect the site to attract all sorts... No one will diss me for my opinions concerning UFO! I have heavy plasmas to enforce my will. http://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/bomberangry.gif