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Hi. Is there or is there not a way to get the music files to play in the correct place in the game? I mean, the original was on floppy disks, I believe, so there's no way the music played off CD.

Thankeedoo.

I am trying to run the DOS version but i just get spammed with a file not found error when i try to start it =(

Can anyone please help?

(trying to run the UFO.bat file)

Originally posted by JB@May 3 2006, 02:17 AM
I am trying to run the DOS version but i just get spammed with a file not found error when i try to start it =(

Can anyone please help?

(trying to run the UFO.bat file)

It's been years since I did anything with DOS, but I believe you need an .EXE file. A .BAT file usually contains shell instructions.

[laiocfar]

I have been able to survive a terror attack with a *ok* rating, with just two survivors, though it was a nervous time untill the replacements arrived.

Well it can be worst. But i dont get why nodoby abort a mission. Nobody accepts that two people isnt enough to fight and i suspecting than most only carry one medic and no pullback the woundeds.

[Raasted]

I read every one of the posts in these 178 pages! Wow...I need a life.*

Indeed......

Well, one time i started a new game, sent my skyranger to a crashed very small ufo, when i step outside the doors, the aliens instantly hurl grenades at me* Needless to say that i died very fast*

Now I know I'm behaving like a "smart guy" but very small ufos you wont encounter "aliens" - just "alien" k:

Ok, just had to get that out of my system, sorry guys

/Raasted

[ShadowXIX]

I got the game working Man is it a addicting game, they dont make them like this anymore IMHO.

I have bases AREA 51 in Nevada in its real location and a base in the Ural mountains in Russia "Yamantau" Both real life secret military bases.

Ive gotten increases in funding from pretty much every member nation every month but now Im comming across Ertheal (spelling?) Terror ships that are doing a number on my men with the Mind control even when I shoot them done before they land. Plus I just saw my first alien retaliation Battleship looking for my bases

[another_guest]

1) Until your men start having psi capabilities, you might want to ignore large ufos and terrorships with Ethereals, even if it hurts your monthly appraisal. Try to capture live Ethereals by attacking smaller ufos, then you stand a better chance of not getting slaughtered :P

2) Base defense... Particularly ethereals can be absolutely deadly if they attack your base. Go for at least plasma and fusion ball defenses, preferably more than one each + an anti-grav shield.
By the way, do multiple anti-grav shields have a cumulative effect?

[Sharp]

Grav Shield do not have a cumulative effect, you can only use one, any extras will just not work.

Originally posted by ShadowXIX
I have bases AREA 51 in Nevada in its real location and a base in the Ural mountains in Russia "Yamantau" Both real life secret military bases.

Not very "secret" then are they

[ShadowXIX]

Originally posted by Sharp@May 6 2006, 11:55 AM


Not very "secret" then are they*

They are still pretty secret in the case of Area 51 you cant hide the worlds largest runway in this day and age when anyone can rent time on civilian satellites. But daily operations of what goes on at the base are still highly secret. Most of the work is done at night and they know when every satellite is over head thanks to NORAD so you never going to catch a picture of a secret plane out of a hangar.

Yamantau Mountain on the other hand not much is really known about that site even in the CIA. All they really know is the Russian have moved a massive amount of material out of the mountain, By some estimation enough to build a 400 square mile structure underground :blink: Nobody even really knows its real name ("Yamantau" is just the mountain its under) or what goes on their. Some think its a nuclear super bunker which could take multiple direct hits and some think its a Nuclear weapon production site along with dozens of other theories.

This brings me too a interesting point concerning XCOM anyone eles notice the makers of the game knew a impressive amount of reak Ufology and conspiracy theories?

A few examples

Elerium - 115 Is clearly taken from Bob Lazars story of working at AREA-51 and S-4, where he claimed to work on UFO tech. He talked about Element-115 which was used in the power source for the alien crafts to create Anti-matter which powered the craft's reactor. Lazar also mentioned that it was not naturally found in our solar system but was created in a binary star system.

Interceptor Using Pulse detonation engines. Many believe a real craft is operated out of area51 which uses a advanced pulse detonation engines to achieve hyper sonic speeds. Some call it the Aurora, There is actually photo evidence to back up this claim

Sectoid Clearly based on the classic Grey Aliens, The tendancy of human abductions/ cattle mutilations, extarcting genetic material for cross breeding etc.. is all popular Ufology.

Theres many more examples and Im sure I will run into more as I get further into the game.

Man what a great game k:

[Japo]

This brings me too a interesting point concerning XCOM anyone eles notice the makers of the game knew a impressive amount of reak Ufology and conspiracy theories?

Indeed. That makes the game better, of course. :Tom:

Elerium - 115 Is clearly taken from Bob Lazars story of working at AREA-51 and S-4, where he claimed to work on UFO tech. He talked about Element-115 which was used in the power source for the alien crafts to create Anti-matter which powered the craft's reactor. Lazar also mentioned that it was not naturally found in our solar system but was created in a binary star system.

I don't know whether that Bob Lazar meant to be believed, but anyone with rudimentary knowledge of Chemistry knows that the element with an atomic number of 115, or any element with an atomic weight of 115 g/mol have nothing misterious about them: they can be found on Earth.

And "pulse detonation" are just two words, they should make clear what phisical principle they're supposed to describe.

Sectoid Clearly based on the classic Grey Aliens, The tendancy of human abductions/ cattle mutilations, extarcting genetic material for cross breeding etc.. is all popular Ufology.

Research "sectoid autopsy", and watch the photo. Cool, just like it was supposed to be in Roswell or Area 51 or whatever.

Man what a great game

Indeed.

EDIT: No, wait, silly me. :tai: No element with atomic number 115 occurs naturaly. But it will be synthesized some day and will have nothing in particular, except for being extremely unstable just like all those heavy elements. No element with an atomic weight of 115 g/mol would be special though, they are found on Earth. And this time I mean it.