In addition, there's a price difference when selling some items between v1.2 and v1.4
I've once heard that for the DOS version (even 1.4) the difficulty setting will return to normal after your first mission, but I have no idea whether that's true.

The difficulty would drop to beginner later in the game - I think it was the first time a soldier wearing a Flying Suit went to a mission, but I'm not 100% sure.

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I have downloaded UFO : Enemy Unknown after failing to find one in the stores for years :( I was so happy then suddenly something happened which really turns me off T_T

The grafic was in total chaos. Did the aliens succeed already in taking over the world before I can even play?

It was like...linesssss tying to force 5 pictures into this small monitor. Oh please reply ASAP I WANT TO PLAY CANT HOLD IT NO MORE hahehahaehehaheahhea


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Another way to know which version you got is that older versions still have the copy protection screen.

Make sure you run the file with the sun icon, NOT the one with the alien icon. That should fix your problem.

My X-Com keeps crashing at seemingly random times - it crashes when I complete research on a Sectoid Medic (it'll show me a screen of another alien i haven't researched and then quit out) or something it'll just crash right after I land and am about to begin a mission

someone please help me - i love this game but i can't keep playing it with all these random crashes ;p

Hi there,

finally got this great game back! Had it in 1996, played it 3 or 4 times till the end end got it deleted by formating my harddisk :wall:

It took me 8 years to get it back. Runs superior on my XP-Notebook, just one or two chrashes a day, never mind.

When I read these whole posts, (ok, not all 2000 and somewhat) I recognized that I have a quite different strategy which works out fine.

I just start of with a base in Italy or Croatia, sell off every heavy weapon and smoke-grenades etc.
The basic equipment for my soldiers: 1 Rifle, 1 extra clip, 1 or 2 grenades.

After 2 month: 1 Heavy plasma, 1 extra clip, 2 alien grenades.

The only other weapons of my choice are the blaster (this small H-Bomb :D ) , the stun-cannon and PSI-Amps.

By playing ALL missions with this crew and 2 soldiers more, I have quickly 8-10 super soldiers. 2 tanks are enough additional fire-power to clear EVERYTHING.

On missions agains PSI-aliens I just leave my PSI-weaklings inside the Avenger and take out the Ufo with max. 5 soldiers, but 3 are mainly enough if they are skilled. A tank (Plasma and big boom ball) is not nescessary but should bring more safety.

One hint: if you recognize, that psi-weaklings are getting to be mind controlled in the next move, just let them drop their weapons-one problem less...

Sometimes I'm building a second base in south america, but this is just for fun.

Getting cash should be a no-problem: Sell AFTER research every dead alien , sell the Ufo-equipment (Except of 115) and sell Plasma-weapons. (Yes, heavy plasma too, and clips for heavy plasma, you'll get it back from the aliens.) In my storage lie 30-40 heavy plasmas (you can never know, perhaps you want to build a third base, an aprox. 40-50 heavy plasma-clips. The rest is sold out. So, at the end of 1999. I have ~20.000.000 $ and 2 fully built out bases, 4 Avengers and 10-20 soldiers.

This should kick the aliens behind :bleh:

Hope there is nothing wrong with this strategy...

To "jb":

Yes, you can, just save often, its just the way I handle this crashes.

That's a known bug, there's no way around it. Just don't research a Sectoid Medic (set the research to 0 scientists) and you'll be fine, you don't need it anyways :P

Also, to all those that keep getting crashes or other problems and nobody here solves your problem, I'd really recommend you go find a solution here: http://www.xcomufo.com/forums/
You have a much bigger and more X-Com-dedicated community there, and even fan-made patches to fix some problems. Also, most of your problems have already been posted there so you have a better chance of finding a solution there.

Actually, it happens with Floater medics too. It's really, really annoying.

Running on a spanking new widscreen laptop, the game when first loaded and throughtout is stretched and pixelated accross my screen. I can't figure out why, I reset my Resolution to 800x600 to no avail. Can anyone help or am I just going to have to play on a normal monitor?

Thanks

~Ash