Chryssalid_Victim

Great, I find this thread just in time for Chryssalids in their thousands to show up Oh the plus side reminded me of how much I love this game and I booted up a Superhuman campaign....and got invaded in Late Jan....THAT'S NOT FAIR!! And what's the deal with 27 aliens...ITEM LIMIT PEOPLE!!! On the plus side, Psi Capable Sectoid captured, 7 rookies and a tank down. Result!! (Even if 3 of the deaths were self inflicted thanks to rather ambitiously priming grenades early )

I'd say give them a chance. A lot of the 2k guys are self confessed X-Com fans and obviously they believe they can pull something off. They know they're going to cause a stir by turing it into an FPS and re-booting the franchise but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt until we actually see anything. I have no doubt it'll be a great FPS with a highly immersive storyline, because that's what those guys do, but whether it's a X-Com game remains to be seen. Still, not writing them off yet. I can think of plenty of really cool things to see from an FPS perspective....like a Chyrssalid dragging a squad member off and promptly shivving him in true Chryssalid fashion...although I doubt they'll be in the game it's something I could dream of....and then have nightmares about. At least I've got the Steam Pack to fall back on if it is a big dark gothy failure...man that first game just NEVER gets old.

If I'm correct though even if a Chryssalid is armed it can only shoot via reaction fire but that was certainly something not expected when I first saw it. "OI!! That's not fair!!" As if anything about the way the aliens fight in that game can be considered "Fair"

On this note in the TFTD LP going on on Something Awful atm the guy doing it claims to have overcome the Tentaculat's lack of attack (since he's playing as the aliens) My guess is some kind of Util Hack so long story short no In Apocalypse you can get Alien Weapons through hacks though...the Popper is especailly funny.

When the universe (or at least UFO) was new my most famous oops was the obvious first contact with Snakeman and Chryssalids on a Terror Mission including a fun moment where i turned to the guy with me and noted: "That black thing is STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIRE!!" (Rocket Launcher) Doom followed but I got out of there....and have been terrified ever since

4 Since you can see it's a gif I turned on the DOSBox recorder to get this image because I couldn't remember the screenshot key Left it recording and the rest of this mission was just one of those standard free-for-all's you got when you first get the game Also I made a Rookier error by Priming a Grenade, forgetting about it and getting the holder of the Grenade killed by reaction fire.....whoops Later on after clearing the hangar here (costly) sent 2 guys with mighty Laser Pistols in, they spot a Disk... 1) Errr...you got anything? 2) Yeah this HE...... Boom....Second Disk comes wandering in to see what happened 2) Err I'm out 1) I've got an HE too...our commander's Boom happy Boom.... Third disk comes through the SAME DOOR!! 1) Ummm.... 2) DAMN!!! *Sound of 20-odd Laser Pistol shots bouncing off just about everything* And obviously the final Sectoid alive is a LEader/Commander and nooooooo he doesn't mind rape one of my guys with no weapons...it's the guy with the Laser Rifle...in the middle of the backup squad....*insert cheating scum rant* Net Result: 25 Aliens dead in one form or another...mostly atomised thanks to Disks 7 Xcommies Dead 3 Stunned and Dizzy Ruined Hanger Tank Dead Overworked Engineering Team building MOAR Weapons!! This is the awesomness I remember Edit: And I just got Extender loaded and working....UFO Cydonia's Fall as the music...BEEFED up Heavy Laser....oh this is gonna be sweeeeeeet 2 versions....that's ho wmuch I love this game...and I still suck

Nah no Elerium Trigger that I known off Just started my first attempt at Superhuman (with a few changes like no Psi for me etc) and I got a base attack before I'd got any Elerium which resulted in something I haven't seen before without using an editor.... http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t24/Boomer2k6/Whoops-1.gif Then I remembered I was on Superhuman and this is probably to be expected. What a nightmare, half my guys didn't even have guns becasue I accidentally double recruited...it was almost like being in the British Army

Wow it's been a while Just wondering if anyone, like me, uses DOSBox to fire up the original DOS version of the games and thus has the ability to record the carnage (nice little feature built into DOSBox). Was thinking it would be possible to edit the recordings (Windows Movie Maker will probably do it) and have a bit of a "That didn't go as planned" gallery I may have one later as, in my current round of the game it's Snakeman/Chrysslid Terror in dark w/ no flying suits mission time.... this can only go well... EDIT: ...it didn't and comedy resulted...I may have to post a section

I managed to record the whole FMV sequences from Freespace. I think the older versions may have allowed longer recording

I've recorded a lot of Freespace and Freespace 2 using using FRAPS so can vouch for the software. Should work on UFo EU as well since the res is about 640*480 (Shareware Version of FRAPS here ) Would love to see some gameplay vids too

I've had UFO:Aftershock now for a while and, despite being under the system requirements, my system has always run it perfectly, no real slowdown and the only bummer being the lack of extra view modes (Psionic, Infra etc.). Hell it didn't even crash whent eh Wargots arrived Yesterday i update my nVidia Drivers (Got a Ti4600) to the latest version (81.93 or somthing) from the 2003 Windows Versions (45.23 if I'm right), which seem to me to be a tad out of date, and lo and behold I now get fatal errors when trying to start the game This has got me more than annoyed as I love this game and I'm just reaching a critical stage but now somehow upgrading my software has caused it to go backwards in performance (i.e from performing to not at all) Anyone got any suggestions apart from upgrading my whole PC? Really don't want to have to downgrade to 2 year old drivers.

Oh yeah, I've given him 2 MP5's for extra "I fire before you see me" happiness...and a katana for the bloodthirtsy parts of me Glad to have them back as I was a bit afraid of having to rifle everyone up

Thanks Slaughter, that's fixed it. Back to the ol' Super Heroic +2 speed.

Maybe, like all things Aftershock at the beginning, they simply didn't know they were there, heck they didn't even know that Reticulans and Transgenants existed so what hope for a long lost Martian Colony? As you said even by the time they would have done things would have gone...well...a bit skewy back at home (Wargots and Starghosts and all manner of Cultists) so contact from a lone faction you probably can't help from Mars would really be the least of your troubles. Sounds like a good idea though and I'm really interested in what they come up with.

Just a qucik question now that patch 1.2 is out and comes with it's own bugfix for this problem Will the two conflict and reverse it back to v1.1 stats?