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Having a problem running the game, the game actually runs just fine but the screen is really bloated.. Can you somehow smallen the screensize?

[The Fifth Horseman]

Yes, by using a set resolution in DosBox.

[Potatoe]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(the_fifth_horseman @ Sep 29 2006, 06:41 PM) [snapback]258182[/snapback]</div>

Yes, by using a set resolution in DosBox.
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Yeah.. I'm having troubles running the Dos version of the game...

[Maven]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(another_guest @ Sep 26 2006, 03:52 AM) [snapback]257450[/snapback]</div>

Exactly, especially when the terrain is a farm I always stripped entire buildings using laser weapons. Besides, there are typical spots where the aliens tend to lurk (1st floor just at the end of the stairs, ......)

Even at terror sites I tended to strip buildings especially when I was up against Chrysalids. Of course I was slightly more careful because of the civilians around...

As for UFO doors, just advance towards the door in enough stages so that one opens the door and walks in (preferably a disposable unit) then others enter the UFO and have time units left to shoot and for reaction fire.
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I also use this this method a lot. I try to get Laser pistols manufactured ASAP and use them as side arms when a soldier is equiped with another weapon. Laser pistols fire so many times, even though they are weak it seems like a good use for them.

[another_guest]

I did it slightly differently, using laser rifles because of their superior fire power compared to pistols. But not as a side arm: I just sent out my troops in groups of 2-3, some with laser rifles, the others with plasma weapons (or auto cannon in the early stages).

Hi

I recently dowloaded this, for some reason won't work in DosBox but works in Windows XP fine, barring one bug that crashes the game to the desktop if I'm in the battlescape and try to move a HWP. It only happens every now and again, but enough to annoy me. Does anyone know of a patch/remedy for this.

Cheers

You can download a patch at xcomufo.com, but this site seems to be down. Dunno why. Who has a working link for the XP Patch?

I remember playing this game as a kid on my daddy's pentium 3. Now that I'm grown up it takes a diffrent light. All in All a good game but a few things about it really bug me, 1st of all is the fact that your rookie and squaddie grade troops have on average a 30% accuracy which wouldnt even pass for a basic firearms test in the army and these are supposed to be the best of the best..., Secondly the electro flares? WTF nobody has ever heard of night vision goggles. I think the troops should of been experience based instead of there level being based on how many troops are under your employ. Other then a few grief's still a classic game and I wish that good TBS games were still being made today because they are my favorite type, modern games are all fluff and no stuff

Theres so many posts here, I'll have given up on trying to play it by the time I've finished reading all of the posts for an answer to my question. :wallbash:

Using the Window version of the game, I've tried both startups: Ufo Defense.exe and UFO.exe. I've even downloaded a patch from...somewhere and tried that to load the game. Everything works famously until I make it to my first battle scenario. I accept the challenge and the game looks like its going to the battle, but it quits on me...Just as the fun is about to start.

Everything else works: Base, Research, Geoscape, Intercept, etc... But I can't find a reason that the game is crapping out on me and it isn't nice enough to tell me either.

Again I'm running the CD version of the game on Windows XP. If anyone has any ideas on how I fix this little problem please let me know. At the very least point me to the pages in this forum where this exact question was answered a dozen times before.

Thanks

[Cockroach]

From the way it sounds you are running the game straight from the CD without actually installing it. That's the only way I have EVER seen it play fine in the geoscape but never run in battlescape.