HARD_Sarge

yea that one took me by surprise too (the bad part, is it got me twice when I restarted with the 1.09 RB mod) but I kicking now got to say, it is addictive little bugger LOL, ran into the Matarch seen something walking down the hallway, with what looked like 2 Jet Engines stapped to it's arm, the bad part, my "Commando" had to sit out 3 missions and some, to heal from her last battle, then first shot in this battle and she was down to 1 point !, major battle fought to keep her alive great battle, with 4 down and the 3 left standing, all were down to less then 1/3 points ahhh, dumb question, how do you use rockets !!!!!! (which I got enough goodies now, that I may not need them anymore, but would be nice to be able to use them)

I was going to post a substory about how they didn't ship it until yesterday, so still am waiting, get up from my nap (I work nights) and see 3 packages at the door, but all 3 were books, I ordered getting ready to write and say, Guess I will have to wait until tomorrow, when I hear the door open, so I guess I can say, I am in, LOL, still fighting with the shipping box, it don't want to open okay installing now guess i should start asking questions in about an hour or so I got the rebalancer mod, any others that should be added ?????

Well, got to say, I feel stuipd now, I been waiting for UFO ET to be released and it is/was Afterlight I should of been looking for (I should drop in more (should get my copy tomorrow) Demo was fun, but was pretty lost glad to see the modders have already been at work

Also, when you can, build up the Knowledge of bases that produce the type of resourses you need I got a base that is just colleges, so it improves the amount of Alien resourses I pull in (you need to build a school, to build a college, but once you have 2 colleges you can knock down the school and then replace it with a college and so on) that is a good mod for the base size and SW's mod is a must have

yea, wait till you run into the new SG's what good are tactics ? they rush you and get as close as they can, and only warp weapons seem to do any damage to them (Lazer pistols do 11 a hit) so far, from what I have seen, Warp rifles are useless against the SG's , the trooper gets hit and stunned before he can fire Spiders and Hogs (?) go down easy enough, Clouds are easy too the defenders are HARD to kill, and pack a punch, maybe they are just too fast though (is there anything the 2 Eng weapons can take down ? I not found anything yet that makes a hole or damage combat damage with them) over all, with the new mod, may as well take the commando and ranger skills out of the game, no reason for them in the end game (may as well take out sniper too, since the Defender is going to on top of him/her before she can fire) (point gain for the SG's should be improved, waste too many batt and Ecells killing them for what you gain)

you don't always get the province, if it belongs to some one else, you just improve your standings with them most times, if you get a message for a mission, win the mission and then try to get another mission in the same place, then you will take it over

yes, but the hassle is, that is not a Cheat, it is a game play issue, there has to be at least one Cult base in the world for the game to work right, so if you take all of the Cult Bases, it will take some back I got stuck by that for bit, then let the Cult have LA (it just seemed like the thing to do, they fit so well) now, I just get the odd Wargot/Cult raid, or a Starghost raid (them things are strange) still waiting to take out the Wargot ship

Over all, I would say I do not read follow reviews, other then to try to see what the game system is like, not how the reviewer liked the system or game, most times they got there own point of view to begin with I remember one, the reveiwer was going off on how bad the game was, it is all Hack and Slash, no game play, nothing that a real gamer would want to do, just hack and slash, and I got to thinking, I like hack and slash, so went out and bought it, and it was one of my favorite games for years ! I remember another one (you all may remember it too) the review was bad, the info on the game was bad, how the game would play sounded bad, but for some reason, they had included the demo, as a joke ?, here this game sucks, but you can play the demo and see how bad it really is I loaded up the demo, I didn't even finish the first mission, I paused the game, made a phone call to my friend who worked at EB and found out they had a copy, and went down to buy it I mean, I bought the game before I even finished off the first demo mission as I said, you may remember it, X-Com so, read the reviews to get ideas about the game, maybe look at the screen shots, but make up your own mind on how good or bad the game is

Just sitting around parked in orbit, waiting for something to happen, when the Wargots, hit 3 of my provinces at the same time, the middle east, Spain and New York, so load up the boys and go for a ride the first missions were pretty much standard fare, but plenty of wear and tear on the troops, so by the 3rd mission, a number of replacements are in the line up oh this is a nasty one, the map is the one with the fort door way, enter all your troops to the area to go to the next level yea right, 9 gots and a PW Armor boy standing out in the street behind me which over all, would not of been so bad, but the chain link fence, means I can't fire though it (?) so am pretty much channelled into one place and got to slug it out (of course, in hind site, would of been smarter to just run to the door way and go down ) yuck, looked like 4 or 5 of these guys had flame weapons, fires all over the place soon all of the bad guys are down, I had one of mine dropped, but spend some time healing all my troops (only one made it out with out a dent) (LOL found out a D Kanata, will not dent a PW Armor, even with Crits !, but the back up 50 cal DE did the job) got everyone healed up and restocked and head on down caught 4 of the bad guys in a room, my ranger took them out, but strange there launcher guy was able to fire into the roof and then do damage into the hallway ?, didn't do him any good, but odd then had to hunt down the rest of them, found another 4 in another room, guess they were too big to come out, and were stuck inside of the room oh joy, another PW Armor dude !, my Ranger wasted all of his ammo, as he was standing in the doorway, pulled him back and had him heal and draw his backup DE's had my 2 Snipers at the end of the hallway, but the angle was wrong, they could see there were bad guys but couldn't get a shot off sent my M60 guy to the door for his 2nd try, half his ammo load didn't do much to the PW, but then he moved, and I was able to do some damage to his mates, then somehow when the PW turned he gave me a shot at a weak point in his armor and down he goes then it was just clean up, 5 boxes of M-60 ammo, but they did the job got the box saying the mission was over (think there were more down there, but I was running low on ammo, so took it) end of mission, says I killed 8 guys (I killed 18, 10 top side, 8 down below) got the points for a 8 kill battle, but it was worth it seen something I had never seen before, and don't know why or how it happened, but it was interesting ! topside, just as I had finished off most of the bad guys, one of them turned and tried to run away, and not sure what happened, but all of a sudden, I see a Wargot come flying though the air !, head over heels, about 20 feet in the air I seen he was down and out, so went to work on healing my troops, when all of a sudden I seen movement, the flyer had gotten up and was walking away, my Sniper dropped him he looked interesting, he fell on his face, with his butt in the air and his legs bent back over his head, it looked kind of painful, other then the fact I don't think he was feeling any pain Kewl

Okay, see where the glossery explains the Prem damage repair (should be explained better in the tooltip info for the build though still don't see how you can revive a dead trooper though

it can take time until you start hitting the provinces with bases in them (you should run into a cut seen when you hit the bases for each Pop type) also, don't build many tracks !!!!!!! only build tracks to connect the bases (move your mouse around and click on the provinces you do not own but can see, if there is a base there, it will show up in the little round map at the bottom of the screen, then try and place missions on these)

I think you need to do some more checking I see men with 800 hit points, and women with 1000, it all depends on there Hit point levels to begin with (I can recuit a level 5 Female with 720 hit points)

not sure about it being a mod ? I got the weapon reblancer mod installed, but that is it didn't see anywhere where SW had added that to his mod ? under level 3 medic, that is part of the skill you are suppost to learn ?? (Odd how some one can say, that Perm damage is, well perm, it needs to be healed at base, if it can be healed at base, it is not perm !)

Hi Guys well, i am doing much better now got to the Wargots (whooo that was a shock) now that I am getting some skills and new stuff the info for the level 3 Medic says he can repair perm damage and revive (?) dead troops How ?, I got advance med kits, but all i do is repair temp damage and blood loss ?? am I doing something wrong, or not got enough tech for the right med kit ??? well, thought I would use this as a started, and then we can add more questions as they come up (I got some, but I forget now that I am out of the game)

I think what you need to do is click on the weapon type, and then when the info for that weapon comes up, click on compose, and it will bring up a screen for items that can be added to the weapon I don't have the scope yet, but I got the underbarrel Shotgun and Granade hope that is what you were looking for

Not trying to be smart, but why complain about a weapon, when you do not have anyone with the skills to use it ? for going one on one, a Sword man is nasty (in a hall way or small room, I do like my Rangers with double SMG's) (of course, a good number of my Rangers are also Commandos, so they got SMGs and Swords) I am still too early in the game, to know if they are a long term weapon, but I like to use them

Well as I am still pretty new to the game (on my 3rd start, but doing okay now) still think the first Cult mission is the best one so far the haul is just great when your a newbie, and are straining to do anything wonder if they could add in medals or awards for combat in the system (my level 2/3 Cyborg, took down 7 Cultests in this mission, of course, he is still in the sickbay and has been for almost forever !!!!) I even was able to get a simi high level Cyborg for hire (level 5) with training in Gunman, after a few missions, he has 2300 hit points !, pretty good for a rookie

Thanks for the replies the guide I found from Avenger , showed me what i was doing wrong (LOL I thought I was setting up the least amount of tracks !!!) restarted another one and I now have some 4000 low tech (have traded over 2000 High tech to the Cyborgs)(did have to ask the Psi for some Allen though) LOL figures, got the worse group of starting Troops in any of my games so far !!! Got a good chunk of Eruope, Spain and England, got a sea lane up and running game is much more fun when you can do something

Ahhh well I found a guide at least (wasn't looking in that area) which found something that may help this dummy, so guess I will give it another try

made my first try at the game, thought I was doing good enough but running out of resourses, and then everything I tried to construt got stopped due to resourses running out and I would have to demo them, and try again either I am totally screwed up in the rules or the game makes no sense you need to build tracks to have the bases work, but building tracks to nothing but new bases, costs more then you are getting in return (which I don't understand, the 3 types, why do I run out of the 1st and 3rd, yet have a very large stock pile of the 2nd ?) time in the game don't make much sense either, I can fly to NY, take a province, fly back and fight a battle in Moscow, then drop down to Morroco and fight another battle, and still have half the time to wait to build "one" Grenade also seems like you can take over most of Eruope in less time then it takes to reseach something simple I am in my 2nd game, was doing even better or so I thought, I am in the count down for the ship to come, but haven't done anything for 5-6 days, but fight some battles, as I have no resourses, so reseach and builds are screwed, i have had a Psi Lab, builting twice, but stoped at 93 and 72% sooooo we either need some guides on how to play with the resourses for dummies a mod to lower the cost/drain on resourses or a mod to add Resourses to the battle results just in case, I am using rebalance mod 2.13 exp mod patched to 1.1

I am still pretty early in my game, think I on the 6th day in South Arm, I got 2 Cult provinces and 2 of my own (more in central Arm, and in Eruope) I had tried a raid into one of them, but they were way too strong for me was trying to rest some of my hurting troops, when they attacked me ! so had to respond had a great battle ! ( even though it crashed 3 times n the middle of it) I had 2 Lazer rifles, a lazer pistol and a shotgun, and one M4 rifle killed 2 cultists, fast in a ally, and sent one of my cyborg to check the loot, then a number of other bad guys started to show up, so was only able to grap a M4 and take off running down the ally, trying to flank a sniper that popped up that sniper, hit and really hurt my PSI, so she was down and out my other Cyborg had a med kit, so rushed to her aid, while the other 2 members tried to protect her once she was stable and ordered to get out of the line of fire, he fired off the last of his rifle ammo and then made a beeline to the dead Cultists to grap some of there's the sniper went down, as well as two other Females, before that cyborg started takeing fire my young shotgunner made a rush two the last of the Cultists, getting off a couple shots before being shot dead the Psi pulled out her med kit and rushed to the aid of the fallen Cryborg, while the last two standing members took down the last of the cultists end of battle, 10 Cultists down, I lost one young lady, the Cyborg and Psi are out for 4 days from there wounds, the other 2 are out for over a day I got 2 M4 rifles, a HK33 ? and a AK 47, and a lazer sniper rifle, along with lots of side goodies so a good haul, lots of Exp and almost no troops left got some of the youngen's decked out with decent weapons and holding the fort until the old troopers (LOL level 5 and 6) get out of the sickbay GREAT BATTLE

I am still somewhat new to this game so not sure if my point of view is anygood but I think what you may be seeing when you hire someone is that is part of the idea of where the reseach idea came from or, you find a SMG, take it back to base and the tech guy is saying, hmmm, that is a interesting Idea, I bet we could do that too, and then goes to work (if you select it to reseach) I think the reseach idea in the game is not really the right term, it is not trying to think and figure out how a weapon would work, but how it would be made you may find 20 of them, but you still build any of them, until you figure out how to build it (reseach) ?????

Well, I not got a middle button, but I got a wheel, and that does work, push down on wheel and turn mouse and the map follows thanks

Duh how do I turn the map view ? all i see in the rules is the 2d map uses the same commands as the main map, but I don't find anything on how to change the view/angle for the main map ????? I'm on the 2nd mission, won it, but need to enter the cap, but I am standing to the side of it and can't figure out how to change the faceing so I am faceing it thanks

Yea, I got a 3.4 gig CPU, 3 Gigs of Ram, and the fancy Vid card like yours, and the demo was hanging up Hi Slaughter the last patch I had said they fixed the path way inside of the UFO's, but I still had trouble with them, last mission, I couldn't enter the short hallway to the last room/battle some people said there was another way in, but I couldn't find it following there advice I think I remember you could win the game other then the last battle, but I gave up Looking forward to tomorrow, so I can get started, have already downloaded a number of the Mod's