Xcom Ending Text

[Guest Kaeroll]

Erm, howdy, I've been lurking around the XComUFO and XCom 2000 site and, to a limited extent, the forum for a while now.. nice to meet you all. Really cool site, and XCom 2000 is great (I especially like the farms-with-UFOs map by Hobbes... your site is great too, by the way)

 

Anyway, there is actually a purpose to this topic other than to say hi! I'm in the process of writing a fan fic of sorts based on X-COM 1 or UFO: Enemy Unknown, or whatever you want to call it. It's not very well written, as I've never been very good at this stuff, but hey it's worth a go.

 

I've used the UFOpaedia resources on the site for a lot of it, for example there are a few alien autopsies in the story, and they were invaluable to me (saved me running X-COM /and/ Word at the same time, plus I've not got half the alien species captive yet...). So I figure someone out there can give me a hand now...

 

I finally completed the game last week but couldn't figure out how to take screen shots of the end cutscene. The text from it regarding the destruction of the brain and the aliens' influence on mankind's evolution would have been really handy. So, to finally get to the point of this incredibly rambly post, does anyone have either a transcript or a series of screen shots of the text from the finale? I'd be eternally grateful to anyone who provided it, or a way to get screenshots.

 

As it's ever so slightly spoilerish I'm not sure whether you'd be allowed to post it here, so umm... well, let's see if anyone actually has it before I post an email address or whatever.

 

Thanks a lot for just reading that, even if you can't help.

 

-Kaeroll

[Hobbes]

As you enter the chamber you see the alien brain

- the object of your quest. Before you can fire it

communicates to you via a screen at its base.

It implores you to listen to its arguments for

survival before you make the decision to pull the

trigger...

 

The brain speaks: 'Many millions of years

ago the planet you call Mars was alive. This life

was brought to a barren planet by our civilisation

as it was to yours. For millions of years we have

visited your planet and genetically developed your

species. You cannot kill us, you are part of us...

Here is the centre of Martian civilisation -

the pyramids built millions of years before yours -

by a species which is your ancestor. No planet

is beyond our reach. This power could be yours

before long. All we ask is your co-operation...'

 

The alien brain

is interrupted by a burst of hot plasma, and the

entire alien force is defeated. Once the aliens

have lost Mars they have lost the earth.

Before long the X-COM research allows humanity to

flourish once more, and claim Mars for itself.

The alien menace has gone, but for how long, no

one knows...

[Guest Kaeroll]

Thanks a lot! And for the quick reply, too, I really appreciate it.

 

I'll spare you the ramblings this time. Thanks again

[Zombie]

If you are quick with your fingers, and want an actual screenshot for posterity reasons/inspiration, simply press F12 at each of the separate screens. Now exit the game and look in your UFO directory. There should be some files with a .tga extension listed there like "shot0000", "shot0001", "shot0002", etc. Those are your screenies. To view them, open the shots with a photo editing program. Viola! That's all there is to that.

[Hobbes]

Or you can download the UFOPedia program and look at the files for each game

[Guest Kaeroll]

Zombie, thanks for that, I didn't realise. I'll probably do that for inspiration, as you say, although I have to say my idea of what the brain looks like is quite different to the one in the cutscene. For one thing, it's an ancient Ethereal general

 

Hobbes, I assume you mean the program under the XcomUFO.com downloads page? If so, and it's the same as the online version, I'm not sure there's much point... it won't have the cutscene images, surely? I'll have a look though.

 

Thanks a lot for your help, both of you... I really should go and register right about now.

 

(and, might I add, . I've always loved that one.)

[Danial]

If you're interested, the Outro images are kept in the UFOINTRO directory as .LBM files, so if you wanted those as well (for inspiration or otherwise), you could just find a program that opens those images. There's 2 I've found called XnView and IrfanView. You can choose which you'd rather. Edited March 9, 2005 by Danial

[Danial]

... or you can just steal mine:

 

http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT1.gif http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT2.gif

 

http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT3.gif http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT4.gif

 

http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT5.gif http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT6.gif

 

http://ufopaedia.xcomufo.com/pics/outro/PICT7.gif

Edited March 9, 2005 by Danial

[Zombie]

Very nice Danial! (You know me with pretty pics and all)! :wink1:

 

I'm just wondering something. Are there pics that show both the pic and the commentary? Or are both separate?

[Danial]

All the text in UFO is stored as text in the english.dat file and is therefore separate from the backgrounds. I'm personally glad they did it that way because it means we can export the UFOpaedia backgrounds text-free!!

[Kaeroll]

Wow, they're great, Danial. Thanks I'm downloading the image viewers as I type this, thanks for the link also. Should come in handy for when I write the Cydonia landing (when I get to that point... currently my protagonist is lying in the hospital wing with a severed leg).

[Exo2000]

A severed leg? Owch. Plasma burns?

[Hobbes]

Plasma burns?

 

You can't outrun plasma fire

[Exo2000]

Literally.