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Random Technical Opinions:

Personal shields take a long time to manufacture, but they are worth it. Use more than one on each soldier for extra protection.
Very nice to have when those Entropies start flying from the mist.

Make sure you mop up all the aliens that land in the buildings of the city. Don't wait until the alarm goes off; observe where the UFO's deploy their mega-bowels and funnel the troops down.

Before a UFO attack, save your game. Then ultraspeed until the UFO's appear and note the time at which they do so.
Now load your game. This time, deploy your combat vehicles before-hand so that you are better prepared to face the threat. Don't do it too early - that will consume more fuel that you might need - and obviously not too late.

When the Brainsuckers come, put all your weapons into auto fire mode and focus fire on the suckers. Experienced agents can take'em in the air like a clay pigeon.

Raid the snot out of the cult buildings. Reap the rewards; among other things the coveted PsiClones - those things usually (initially) sell for over 4000 credits a piece. The cultists are numerous, but have weak armor.
However, sometimes you may face one or two who wield the rocket launcher. This is extremely dangerous - watch out.

Auto Cannon with explosive - or even better (but more dangerous) - incendiary rounds are super-efficient against Hyper Worms in auto fire mode.

If you're feeling lucky, you can hurl enemy grenades back at the enemy. It may explode in your hands, but then again, it might also land right at the enemy's feet. Can you say 0wned-D'oh!

After reading through this thread from start to finish it seems a lot of peeps are having un-necessary troubles running APOC in XP. Firstly although DosBox is a useful program it severely eats processor power, and I don't care how tough you think your machine is, it will still eat it. I use a 3.4GHz processor in an Alienware laptop and Dosbox is still using 65% of my processor resources just to tick over. So instead, for APOC anyway, I use XP to run it. Best method is to first install VDM sound if you haven't already, it can be found all over the net, just google it. Then open up your xcom folder and change the compatibility settings on xcomapoc.exe and on setup.exe to windows 95 compatibility, and 256 colours only. Then run setup.exe and choose a soundblaster card, settings as 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1. Save and exit, now to run the game, right click on the xcomapoc.exe file and select "run with VDMS". The intro video messes up but just hit enter or space to skip past it, and the rest of the game runs like a dream. The video's run in DosBox, but the rest of the game was very choppy to me, no matter how much I increased the cycles.

I hope this helps those who still aren't getting to experience this great game. I understand there are a lot of people better versed in X-Com than me as I've only ever played apocalypse, but from this stance, of playing the game as a unit in itself rather than a sequel to the previous games I feel it's a very good addictive game.

how can i get to research toxin C for toxiguns? i did it with A and B and i have researched everything that could possibly be researched (though i still havent visited alien dimension with squaddies, only the probe, could this be the problem?) and i still dont have it available for research. i have examined all the aliens, ufos and weapons that those slimes carry with them on trips to the city and still cant get to the C toxin
help me please!

[Eagle of Fire]

Hummm, I don't know. In some of my games I never had access to toxin A while in others it seemed like I never got access to toxin C...

All in all, toxin B is powerfull enough for every needs as it is only slightly less powerfull and still have all the advantage of toxin A (and thus, C).

To get Toxin C you have to capture the alien Queen alive. Its really difficult, because it takes dozens gas Grenades to stun her. Also I think you need an empty cell to keep her. When you have her you also get gas-grenades and rockets.

[SoniG]

yes and also one was is kill everything around it, than save!
after that u shuld try to shot it whit devestator cannon one or 2 times.. if u kill it, reload. than it will be ALOT easyer to capture it

after that, everybody in agency says: lets party

Originally posted by enemy unknown@Mar 23 2005, 02:44 AM
i have played a lot of UFO and terror from the deep, but i cant understand this third game without a manual. where to find one?

The manual, along with hundres of other pc game manuals, can be found here:

http://www.replacementdocs.com/download.php?view.1133

Just click the little disk image to download

You better put aside a few hours tho, as this baby is 200 pages long!!!!

I myself have never played Apocalypse, but loved the 1st 2 games, so though I would give this a go.

For those that cant get it to run, try using the VDMS_Apoc.bat file to run the game and not xcomapoc.exe. Runs it fine me for me.

Anyhow, hope the link to the manual comes in handy. Have Fun

Got a question. I remember looking in the folders of my X-com apoc (original CD version, long ago ) and finding a folder with a load of images and pictures in it. Among those pictures were a load of guns and utilities I never had / found. They all had the design style of the toxic pistol, just bigger and looked awsome.

So I wonder, I read in the posts that you guys say "toxic gunS", does this mean I missed out on these superior weapons? When I finshed the game, I had nothing left to research, and all I had was the toxic pistol...

[Filipsan]

Originally posted by FishBone@Apr 22 2005, 11:51 AM
Got a question. I remember looking in the folders of my X-com apoc (original CD version, long ago ) and finding a folder with a load of images and pictures in it. Among those pictures were a load of guns and utilities I never had / found. They all had the design style of the toxic pistol, just bigger and looked awsome.

So I wonder, I read in the posts that you guys say "toxic gunS", does this mean I missed out on these superior weapons? When I finshed the game, I had nothing left to research, and all I had was the toxic pistol...

I know what you mean

Yes, there are some really strange pictures, but they don't have any purpose (e.g. they aren't in the game)

I think that also picture for walls that are around city can be found there..

Ive used the hover bikes with the best engines and they set shoot + they die after an minute of fighting (game minute).They were flying at highest altitude. :ranting:
they got destroyed by 1 or 2 shots the same for armoredcars, tanks, hovercars, vakyries and Hawks.And one more thing WHY I CANT USE MY TANKS IN BUILDNINGS or in base defense.