Martian base commander

Thanks for the replies,even though they were of not much use to me. Ricardo, The supplies may come in handy if ever you do 3 or more missions in one 'clean sweep' of the area,especially against BM who can sap a load of AP rounds sometimes.And as I said,I needed medical supplies as we took a bit of a hammering on one mission.The BM have just introduced their new cannon,so...it hurt a bit. Kret, I know about the 'default' area for accessing the boot,I just have problems on THIS particular map,it seems the UFO is placed in such a position so as not to be able to access it.Ive played it long enough to realise about the 'correct positioning of the squad' Thanks anyway,guess its just one of those maps.

Has anyone ever had trouble accessing the UFO for supplies when in mission?.I have only experienced it on the BM level which has a long thin design,you then go through a small valley before entering the BM camp below.Actually there is 2 routes into the camp,but I normally take the left route through the valley.I tried accessing the UFO but it seems that the UFO starts in a strange position to begin with,denying access. This in my opinion is quite a serious bug,if thats what it is,as I needed extra medical supplies but was unable to do so,eventually having to abort and go back to base,to try again. Thanks.

hehe , nope,I was trying to change my old ID which you may have remembered me as BlueBlood Well I am pleased all is sorted out now,and am enjoying my new alias.

Thanks a lot zombie! ,that is really helpful,and damn quick too.

To the mods - I was hoping I could change my name to something more accessible to me.As I have recently opened my own UFOAL group / forum with a new name more appropriate,I was hoping I could do the same in here and change my current name Blueblood to the name I use at my group,and is also the name I have chose at the official UFOAL forum.I remember I changed my user name a long time ago to the one I have now and I want to change again,and this time its for the last time.This will help to make my new alias universal and easier to manage all my accounts. If this can be done,I really appreciate that,and I hope its not an inconvenience. New desired name - Martian base commander ( dont laugh ) Thanks for your support.

I thought I ought to post you all an official invite to my new club I recently opened,dedicated to UFOAL.I appreciate it will never be as good as this site,but it will hopefully be more streamlined,and allow you to get to the information you need at the moment. Please take the time to consider becoming a member,it would be great to see some of you in there.If you DO decide to join will you pass an invite on to anyone else you know?. GROUP ADDRESS - http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/the_uf...ecreation_dome/ Cheers guys!

I have just experienced my first crash in ages now,on the mission completed screen.I had just completed a mission against the robots and was waiting for the mission complete screen to finish loading and take me back to the geosphere,when the game froze at about 90%.Does anyone know the cause of this crash?.I have been playing since this morning,so the game may have suffered some sort of serious memory leak or my system was overheating.In the end I had to restart my system. I really hope we are not seeing an annoying return to all the crashes that plagued UFOAS in the latter stages.My current campaign's date is about half way through July,if this crash is date related. And,in case anyone cares to mention about this,I have the 1.6 patch installed. Thanks for your help.

Slaughter,you are right,F12 does it.Thanks for the reminder.

I'll try F12 mate,I forgot about that one.Glad you are still around by the way,I thought Mars had been deserted and was left alone!

Surely somebody can tell me how to take screenshots.I can't find any reference to it in this forum or anywhere else on the web for that matter.All I know is,is that it involves the print screen button! Is it Ctrl + print?,shift + print? Thanks for any replies here.

Can someone remind me how to take screenshots.I'ts been a while since I last played AL,and as I have started a new campaign I want to take a few screens,but can't remember how to.All I can remember is its in conjunction with the print screen button and thats all,whats the other button?. Sorry if this has been covered before in here by the way. Thanks.

Cheers mate

So,the game is still in development?. I looked at some screenshots earlier and they look better than what I originally expected,the green aliens in particular (Mutons from X-COM?) looked pretty good.Are there Sectoids in this?,I loved them hehe. All in all,I think its a very impressive effort from fans alone,to say that they have had no professional help either?,just shows you what can happen when similar minds get together. Looking forward to playing this,if all goes well of course. I have approx 23 hrs of dload left *sigh* Thanks.

Slaughter, Thanks a lot for that info,thats just what I needed.For ages now I have wanted to play my old X-COM games on PC,but for obvious reasons they have a lot of difficulty due to the complexity of OSs today.I really hope I manage to get UFO-AI installed and running ok. Finally,do YOU yourself have this game?,and do you rate it next to the X-COM games? Cheers One last thing Slaughter, At the download location,there are a few to choose from,but with Windows XP I expect I would choose the bottom one win32.exe ? Thanks again!

This might not be the relevant section to post such a post,but nonetheless here it is. Regarding UFOAI,I am new to this game and the team behind it,but am a long term fan of the X-COM games and have all the UFO games also,but is this program free to the public?,and can someone tell me what else I might need to run this program? In a nutshell,just tell me what I need from the beginning? *really interested in this new project* Many thanks

It's great to be back Slaughter.Do you ever have moments like that yourself,you don't play a game for a while then just get a huge urge to get back to it?.Hope I finish it this time. Shame about Gringo,hope he hasnt been KIA somewhere Good to hear about fans developments,i'll be looking into them very soon. Also,don't forget to let me know about anything else in the future if you dont mind? Cheers mate!

Just a quick post to some of my old mates in here,that may remember me of course.Don't worry,i'm still alive and am due to start a new campaign on UFOAL.I still havent finished it yet!. Are you still here Gringo my old battle hardened pal? Also,if there has been any major developments with UFOAL i'd appreciate someone letting me know,you know patches etc,just in case I have missed anything in the support section. Right,hope to see you all soon!

Couple more I did earlier tonight. Here my Anti Beastman squad begin to pulverise a Matriarch,just a damn pity that Gatling cannon suffers from poor accuracy (even with the accuracy enhancement to the suit).Even so,it/she hit the dirt like all the rest. She DID manage to squeeze a Plasma round onto my squad,with little effect. I lost my old Medic Tadeusz in a previous mission to a f##king spider that managed to worm its way into my squad's REAR somehow!,and so is now replaced by the little mardy-arse Rita.I hate spiders in real life anyhow,so they are gonna be burnt from now on!. http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=s...20153434ac4.jpg Here the squad feel the heat again with another searing Plasma round,but survived...again. http://img50.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ss...20153604gm5.jpg My current game: I have now managed to successfully contain the BM in a small pocket on the Southern pole of Mars,where they will stay for a while,as I now take my war to the Rets.All the BM artifact sites are now secure and that has slowed their attacks down to a virtual stop. The Martians have about 3 territories,and will be invaded very soon in response to their attacks on my territories earlier in the game.No mercy EVER is my bloody motto!! I am still a little wary of the Expedition,but they have kept to their word so far,and so are still my allies.

Long live the king

Thanks for the replies here. I agree Pete,a wishlist is definitely in order. I think we should keep this post very much active (among ourselves anyhow),and post all our ideas/likes/dislikes ect,and what could be a potential future for a very successful story. I agree with what you said about less RPG elements SV,having more battle casualties would make it more realistic and emulate the war that is upon us,after all it is impossible to imagine superhuman people never dying or being allowed to die against what are probably far superior beings than any of us are!. R.I.P. X-COM (you were truly an inspiration to some of us). *sniff*

Just a short post here,but an important one nonetheless. Being an ardent X-COM fan and owning all the UFO games I think I would really like to see this saga continuing for a while yet.Does anyone have any insight into a possible 4th release?,and if so could they post the relevant links to the info?. The most important changes for starters would be to make the game have a more sinister and daunting feel to it,graphically (with gore,slime,bloody corpses) at least.The sound effects could also be made to emulate the almost futile resistance and survival of mankind,like more serious squad voices,screams and moans ect,the music should also inspire doom and melancholy. Maybe it could even take us to the far reaches of our KNOWN solar system?,and could re introduce the classic interceptions from X-COM! This game in my opinion should be directed more at the adults among us and feature things like more advanced tactics,and user defined battle formations that could be saved and activated when needed. More destructive weapons and munitions should now be employed with the advancement of human technology over the years,with the ability to level cliffsides,buildings ect,taking out even more enemy numbers than ever before! We should really take this and our ideas to the developers,maybe they may consider it? UFO: The Final Conflict! (or is it?) Thanks.

As I mentioned in an earlier post,and as Kret says,the main crash appears to be with the overview screen.Always make sure a vehicle is out of base before you consult any info in the overview screen,primarily when double clicking a territory's name.Personally,I have not had a crash in the tactical screen...yet. Finally,a v1.6 patch should address this,and one or two memory problems too (speed,loading times ect),and I expect the developers are at the very least considering one soon. All in all,good game,better than its predeccessors depth wise and tactically.

Wait till you start going up against 4 or 5 Matriarchs!

Cheers mate.

This is a shot I took about half an hour ago.As you can see,it is dark,and I like the dark,it gives me an advantage you see,a BIG one! very rarely do I attack in daylight these days.Very effective tactic against Beastmen too,they just stumble blindly into my squad who are all kitted with night vision,and the scout/sniper has thermal vision...just in case he needs to pick out a vulnerable part (I think thats its main purpose).Having said that,the thermal mode doesnt appear to be THAT effective,and its still a resource hog like in AL,night vision is much better. Must say the first time I saw these new suits I was quite impressed. http://img127.imageshack.us/my.php?image=s...16183756ek2.jpg