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**Vince278** · November 7, 2004, 04:24

**DrSpike** · November 7, 2004, 07:08

I never got around to Aftermath because of that video card problem I had. I have a better system now, but Aftermath is not high on my list.

**Raion** · November 7, 2004, 15:31

There are a few stragglers still to the game, and well, it can be a break between some other games, I guess.

Some girls (ladies) are playing it now, well, a couple at least, perhaps, more. Who knows?

**Raion** · November 7, 2004, 15:48

And now the player also has the 'chainsaw' weapon, and also the Human Raiders to combat, and the SpecOps, and the Mutants, and the Hybrids, and with different mods, even a more enhanced geosphere, but I have not used that one, as some mods lower on the mod page are probably just about too old to use with the version 1.3 or 1.4 patch of the game. But combining some mods can be done, as I guess they have indicated, on that fan site of the game UFO:Aftermath.

At least it came out, and the next game will be better, XCOM did not!
But elements of XCOM were added by the modding community!

And start a new game profile for the Mods game!

Some crashes are/still given ways around those -- like turn off Shadows for the video card, and others all handled mainly by Altar and the threads on the game forum site: http://forum.ufo-aftermath.com/

I never really had much of a problem with the game, and now with 512mB of memory, it does help to have memory for the game!
Next game will be better as it won't be handled on a shoestring budget -- well, a little more money will be spent on it!
UFO:Aftershock!

Let's not get into the XCOM debate here. XCOM is, I guess, done!

**Skanky Burns** · November 7, 2004, 21:27

Interesting, I reinstalled the game not more than two weeks ago and am playing it again. What a coincidence.

**Raion** · November 8, 2004, 02:03

I think these guys got bored with Hard Difficulty, but I really did not have any time to help out, so, I lost my Squaddies in the first mission -- I tell you how, but then where would be the fun.

Anyway, it may take some time to get use to it.
I am not really sure all that they did, so it may take some getting use to -- to play the ComboMod -- which is a combination of some of the other mods on that Mods' page.

But First Person Camera view is nice, except one time there was something in the hallway of a base, but I could not see anything, so I just put it back in the other folder where all the Mods and Patches are for the game.

But it sure is nice for the scenary missions, and the cities, and such!

Even the Base looked cool with the fans in the walls, but maybe it just some typo or something -- hard to say, since unzipping that gamedata.vfs file I only did once, and then I did not have any time to figure it out or do anything with it.
At least some Modding Tools came out, but then the person had to use Milkshape, or something to do the images, since they can not include anything for that -- due to licenses of the software -- like probably 3D something or other program whatever that expensive program is used to make the graphics in the game.

So..........................
I lost my Squaddies, first mission, went back to the regular game by just deleting that ComboMod *.vfs file, so I put it in, and start a new profile for a game, or take it out of the UFO:Aftermath main folder, so it depends on which game I want to play. But it is just switching it out or into the game by putting it in the game folder.

**Vince278** · November 8, 2004, 22:59

All I had to do to win my first game was to equip everyone with sniper rifles. They ruled with their range and damage. You didn't want to get close to some of those creatures anyway.

**Skanky Burns** · November 10, 2004, 01:54

Not the best weapon inside bases or ufo's though.
Actually, you would be dead with an all-sniper force in those situations. That being said, my current force has sniper rifles (and neostad shotguns in their backpack).

Tis a shame that the "more fair awarding of experience" of 1.4 still gives experience points to soldiers shooting the ground with a shotgun. Seems a stupid activity to award experience points to - especially given the overwhelming amount of experience someone can earn with a backpack full of shotgun shells.

I had one soldier equipped with grenades. He went through the entire map and killed every transgenant. He got enough experience to get to level 2.
I had the other soldier with a shotgun and many spare clips. He shot the ground continuously and didn't help the "team" reach any objectives at all, really. He got enough experience to get to level 4.

**Vince278** · November 10, 2004, 02:22

I did alright in bases except for the time a fire beetle was hiding behind a door and flamed my whole group. After that I made adjustments. My X-Com strategies usually worked.

I never tried the shotgun trick. I'll have to give it a shot (

).

**Raion** · November 10, 2004, 03:55

Well, Skanky Burns, I guess I forgot all about that kind of stuff. But, then, these other mods are harder to play against, maybe even with raising the experience level of the squaddie.
I know whoever goes into the pilot's square gets awarded points.
??

**child of Thor** · November 10, 2004, 07:28

I saw this for £10 in my local store a few days ago, an each time i do see it i wonder if it can be as good fun as xcom........then i look at the 3d type graphics and i think 'probably not'........am i wrong? as i might pick it up if it adds anything to the xcom experience other than a fancy graphic update?

**Skanky Burns** · November 10, 2004, 08:37

I don't actually play the game with my super-soldiers shooting shotguns - I have started a new game and the only time they shoot is when an alien is in range. Still, I wonder what exactly my people get experience for.

The game is not XCom. It has no economic management at all, for instance. The combat is certainly in the spirit of XCom though, and well worth playing the game for.

**DrSpike** · November 10, 2004, 15:16

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Not the best weapon inside bases or ufo's though.
Actually, you would be dead with an all-sniper force in those situations. That being said, my current force has sniper rifles (and neostad shotguns in their backpack).

Tis a shame that the "more fair awarding of experience" of 1.4 still gives experience points to soldiers shooting the ground with a shotgun. Seems a stupid activity to award experience points to - especially given the overwhelming amount of experience someone can earn with a backpack full of shotgun shells.

I had one soldier equipped with grenades. He went through the entire map and killed every transgenant. He got enough experience to get to level 2.
I had the other soldier with a shotgun and many spare clips. He shot the ground continuously and didn't help the "team" reach any objectives at all, really. He got enough experience to get to level 4.

That sounds lame. I guess you'll have to ignore your tendency to abuse in any way possible and just play fairly.

**DrSpike** · November 10, 2004, 15:25

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
The game is not XCom. It has no economic management at all, for instance. The combat is certainly in the spirit of XCom though, and well worth playing the game for.

I am pretty tempted to take a look. It's just I always have so many games I want to play these days, due to diminished gaming time.

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