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oh ahahah i had my strength at 100. thanks ill change that. but yeh thanks i get it now, they recover TU fast, but hes pretty much not even able to get out the ship. but i got like a Gundam Wing thing goin on now. my 4 player characters are all super soldiers with 200 TU and power armor that is 200 defense all around .a friggin blaster bomb hit my guys on a battleship raid and killed all my regular personal armour sergeants and squaddies. but my super soldiers were untouched. my commander is wounded for a bit. but damn,.. blaster launcher? and 3 of the guys were able to go on the next mission. crazy! im loving this game without psi. just pure gunfights, +super soldier.

wow thanks nkf and everybody but seriously jenny ur program got it for me!!!! thanks so much, i just opened it in bootcamp, turned off psi, even made myself a super solider. its cool. but curiously my guy has 200 tu and 200 stamina,... but for some reason he is always out of energy in the beginning of each game. hes got personal armor and a regular rifle so far so i have no idea but thanks so much, finally i can play my game without the absurd lop sided ness of psi attacks thanks

yeh, but i dont know which file i would edit,... argh. oh well. id like to play w/o psi but theres no ufo.exe or ufodefense.exe files... so its like a shot in the dark with like 100 different files to look through

awwww just a ufoexe directory,.... yeh on mac i only have the one that is pre packaged to run... so sad.... oh well, thanks anways

wow, thanks so much but yeah, im one of those people playing on a mac with that compiled in one icon version so i cant really use anybody elses loader, xcomutil, or anything of that sort :'( but i can look in all the package contents, so i can see the Game_1 Game_2 Game_3 etc folders the install.exe and intro.exe and the xcom.bat foldersssssss,... but i dont know which one to open up with my text edit to edit... would anybody by chance have any idea which file i need to edit, or is this way too complicated now

cool, im guessing i could find that in the wiki? or should i search for a certain post in this forum?

i know this must have been asked and answered before, but i cant seem to find it but is there anyway to just disable it completely ? like i wont use it, and dont let the aliens use it either? thanks

oh sorry? was i doing something i wasnt supposed to?

yeah so i attacked a landed battleship of snakemen and something oddd happened.... so a chryssalid attacked my prized commander (which is named sy) and turned him into a zombie. so i was pretty much done, wasnt gonna play anymore so i mind controlled him, and then killed the zombie sy.. and like what many have u discovered i actually controlled the hatched chrysallid and was able to arm him with my old gun and actually killed the chrysallid that made me, and another snakeman... heres were it gets weird after the mission ended i actually got commander sy back, unharmed..... so in other words, i was zombified, turned into a high TU chrysallid killing machine and then when the mission is over, the xcom operatives were actually able to bring me back? =D i was glad, cuhz i got 200 e-115 and it wasnt for nothing... but so bizarre, how can we trust commander sy now? he was once one of them------

ahahahah i love it. yeah, i was raiding a muton base and mind controlled one guy, found SEVEN of them, sitting all together, let them all have it with one blaster bomb, it was nice revenge for earlier deaths. i got the save game state if anyone wants it, so gratifying =D

i dont know if anyone has had a guy that took a beating like my buddy here. he took a reaction plasma shot to the face. and then next turn a muton turned a corner and blasted him point blank to the chest SIX times with a plasma gun. he had 3 fatal wounds with like 4 hp left. and that was the end of the mission thankfully but yeah, anyone ever had a soldier down for longer than me?

oic,... i have UFO2000..... that game is buggy and ugly. or maybe just the version i have , its set on the moon and stuff? i dunnno, i dont like it what i saw was someone playing regular xcom missions multiplayer on youtube, i wonder what that was...

with the dos emulator? it would never identify my game excecutable. it just wouldnt open the director, or wouldnt run the game. i used to operate out of dos when i was young so i know how to use it, and i did exactly what an xcom/dosbox tutorial showed me to do. i then tried to run it on windows xp/parallels,.. but with turbo it would either run wayy to fast or too slow, and if i got it right the scrolling was wayyyyyyyy too fast. i wish i could use xcomutil, i heard theres multiplayer on that. oh well,... at least i got to play glitch free. someone nice decided to bundle it into one easy to excecute file. =D

see i would, but im running a mac, and since all the dos emulators always screwed things up i found a prepackaged version of xcom, so i just have one file, no folders =/ but good =D

i woulda, but honestly i had only killed about 4 aliens, and then i was able to finish the game. seemed cheap

blank redge? dont know what that is but yeah! thanks guys, i just beat my first game. no money cheats or nothing. the only sad part is i was using a launcher to fire into an area of dark that i THOUGHT the brain was, and i heard like 4 explosions, sent another one in there, and heard like five more explosions and the game was over. never even saw the brain. but still! from going bankrupt each time to finally beating my childhood game! thanks for all the advice

true their reactions arre quite sluggish, but wow, ive never done this well before, thanks guys i have everything researched to fight cydonia, im just training my guys in the psi labs, making flying suits, and raiding supply ships (perferably muton, im farming a what i think is a muton base right now) collecting elerium, waiting to attack cydonia, AND i have an extra 12 million in cash on hand from my laser cannon production. so yeah, ur advice really helped. one thing is, i shoot down everything i can in the sky, but i dont attack the crash site, its usually more ofa risk to my troops, and i didn't attack anything for a month to see what happened, and i still scored Excellent from the countries increasing my funding from just shoooting down ships, even with 4 alien bases throughout the map. i have one main base in europe, and 2 listening posts in asia and the us. so yeah, with some more manufacturing and psi training on the mutons, i feel like ill finish the game soon. good stuff

grrr, i hate to keep posting, but the best advice u guys had given me to save soldiers lives is the spotter/sniper method... i use tanks with their high TU count to find them, and my guys will shoot them. only time i use the rocket launchers on the tanks is to break through things, or if i absolutely have no other choice

oh yeah, to add ive been using small elite groups of only soliders with bravery over 60, (i only have 5-6 soldiers on hand) with my two rocket tanks and i think that has been helping me alot too. and i havent lost a single soldier (no saving and loading either,... except one time where i got slaughtered on a night terror mission, i came back to just abort it immediately. ) but i think things have been going pretty well now.

thanks alot, yeh ive been building ALOT slower, and i have three bases, two of them just radar/hangar but its been good. the laser cannon production has been helping me SO much. although i dont have plasma fully researched (missing p-rifle/clip) but my money and funds have been pretty well.. i constantly have 2-4 million on hand, and im trying to keep that, but im slowly expanding and i think everything it working out thanks alot guys

wow guys thanks so much for all the info. zombie- yeah i think i might learn to just take the hit and let the large ships go by when im not strong enough physically and scientifically yet,... it'll b worth taking the hit as opposed to losing all my equipment and men nkf- wow thanks for the reply but yeh i think between u and zombie i am really gonna try to slow down production. at the start of every month i'd spend all my money trying to advance/expand too fast thanks,... i'll try everything,.. andthen let you guys know how well im doing

oh the shame, im playing on beginner! i have no idea, i can make it out of almost any mission (except those pesky battleship assaults) with only losing one or two guys max,... but i just dont know how to research/build/spend correctly D=

thanks for the advice,.. but i have a question so if i cut down spending, i feel like im still not able to keep the countries in on my side? i tried something new, making the satellite bases in the US and China,.. and i was making more when i was able to intercept more ships, but then eventually there were too many in the US and they signed a pact, killing my monthly income,... hmmm how do i make ends meet? also i had a hunch and heard this somewhere here, does researching things (like heavy plasma) trigger more aggresive aliens.... ie i have lasers,.. only small ships appear,... and if i have heavy plasma, they will start sending battleships =/

wow, im glad this website has such a large following. when i was a kid i used to play the demo, one level with two guys with power armor and 6 with personal armour. i used to name the two armor guys me and my best friend and weight us down with as many guns as possible ahahahah, we had no idea what we were doing. i never won once, so yeah, ive been readin and my strategy is pretty much this, but i still keep losing lots of countries and eventually lose too many countries and i just have to start over first i make a base in italy (like most strategies say) so i sell everything but rifles and buy some stun rods, and im pretty good with that. i'd have 6 troops and 2 rocket launcher tanks in the ship. then i follow the first ship till it lands and i breeze through it. i research the heavy plasma and just skip the laser weapons. then i get plasma cannons for my ships. the problem comes later on when im trying to find a sectoid leader, but i end trying to research personal armor and expanding small satellite bases, but the problem is i run into two landed battleships and two downed large ships in the USA and i actually managed to take one down, but then,..... the US signs a secret pact, and now theres a grip of huge ships flying around now my interceptors cant catch up to their ships and im losing money every month because my funding slowly creeps down (like 300,000 a month) and my personell is also more than my income,... so i dont know how to do this? i feel like im hitting a block, you guys have any advice? i just cant keep attacking these battleships in pretty much massacres on my troops, i have no idea. i have the research, but not the money to build a hyperwave decoder, and ehhhh, im stuck sorry its so long, but i need help =/ i have no money, and i saw a youtube video of a guy who was playing and had 270 million like whatt?