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[Dis]

beats me

and you'd have to build base facilities like alien containment. Using standard interceptors with stinger missiles seems impossible. And you have to use the Avenger to get to mars.

I see no reason to penalize yourself like that. Rifles just suck. autocannons are alright. I don't like the other weapon (heavy cannon I think it is). But I do like rocket launchers for my strong guys.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by child of Thor
Ah yes the cheats.......well watch out for the brain suckers, especially on night missions

Wrong game

Originally posted by Dissident
you don't actually have to shoot them down. just intercept them with the skyranger when it's on the ground. they will have a full compliment of soldiers, but they can be taken out.

You could do that (even though I much rather use a Lightning for this ).

What if it doesn't feel like landing?

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
How about capturing aliens? Smoke grenades and stun rods?

These are okay, though I think stun bombs will be available.

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger

These are okay, though I think stun bombs will be available.

Yes, I know, but I was referring to this insane challenge Diss was talking about, whether or not stun bombs are considered basic weapons. Edit: Err, Kropotkin was talking about.

[Kropotkin]

To clarify, the fellow I mentioned only followed the selfimposed handicap when he was on a mission. he did build alien containements and such. I can't really remember how he captured aliens, but if i remember correctly, you sometimes could get them without really trying. If it for example was unconscious when the mission ended. otherwise, he just used autocannons and such. He didn't really use rifles at all.

But perhaps, winning with just pistols and stunrods would be a real challange. Maybe even go Red Army-style and only have pistols and rifles for the first half of the soldiers in the avenger.

[Skanky Burns]

Yeah autocannons are really nifty weapons before alien tech.

/me adds Kropotkin to his ignore list
I don't have time for these types of challenges, and don't know if I can resist trying.

[DRoseDARs]

I'm gonna have to head to bed, but before I do I want to ask something. I've tried to get the "fanmade patch" for this game that allows it to work with XP, but for the life of me Site-Which-We-Do-Not-Name doesn't want to let me download. It just loads a useless page that mentions ufogold.zip and nothing more. I've tried both the regular option and the restrictive firewall option, yet neither bears fruit. Help me please.

[MrWhereItsAt]

Help in a PM to you.

[The Viceroy]

Ohh this thread brings back many good (and frustrating) memories .. Especially loved the way the story came together as you went along.

Not sure if its already been said, but I got around the funding issue by manufacturing laser guns, and selling them .. I think it was laser pistols which were brought the most income ??? not sure now .. but you could make a fair bonus on it

[Kropotkin]

Overall, selling stuff is a good way of earning money that's easily missed by a newbie. As times go by your stock will fill up with the corpses of dead aliens and obsolete weapons. Sell those that you don't need (no need to have more than one, not 60, sectoid corpse afterall) for a good profit, and love a free market system that can't get enough.

[Kropotkin]

Damn it, i just gave the old game a try again. You bastards!!!

* Adds Skanky Burns to ignore list*

[Kassiopeia]

Selling crap is the foremost way to make money. You start to rake in ridiculous amounts of corpses and above all heavy plasmas. You only need about 30 to equip two Skyranger or one Avenger team, the rest can be sold for over 100k bucks. Never needed to resort to the travelling scientists exploit.

[Urban Ranger]

Not after awhile, when you have engineers cranking them weapons by the boatload. Though, initially, the swapping personnel trick really helps.

[Kropotkin]

Just finished my first Terror mission (yeah Bush, there were such a thing as terror before 11/9!), and came to think of another tip. Don't take cover behind Gas-pumps...

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by The Viceroy
Ohh this thread brings back many good (and frustrating) memories .. Especially loved the way the story came together as you went along.

Not sure if its already been said, but I got around the funding issue by manufacturing laser guns, and selling them .. I think it was laser pistols which were brought the most income ??? not sure now .. but you could make a fair bonus on it

I believe it was the Laser cannons that offered the most economical production/profit tradeoff. I made a fortune by cornering the market on large volume discount laser cannons.

And another tip, don't go for grenades. Go for heavy duty explosives! They take down buildings AND any aliens in them.

[Urban Ranger]

Explosive packs have their uses. You probably can't throw them like grenades, though.