Let's play UFO: Enemy Unknown - Update #25: It's on!

Overweight Manatee said:

No, what I mean is that you don't need to do the thing that randomizes landscape to have randomized UFO terrain every battle. If you say yes to that option, you are asked a further question whether to randomize landscape. Say no to that, then you can still have randomized ship layouts every map. It's kind of misleading.

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Oh, great! we going to have random UFOs then.

Time to drink some coffee and kill aliens invading Australia in Colonel Quaritch style.




For a good start Lazor Tank spots three Cyberdisc. Psi


Lazor Tank shots middle one Cyberdisc. Respond is very brutal, about six shots from two of them. Lazor Tank scores one, but also dies from another reaction fire chain.


Before Lazor Tank was destroyed, our brave Luzur is the first to leave Skyraynger and scoring an Sectoid.


It reminds me first Codexia Terror Mission.


Ashery nicely misses Cyberdisc and retreats to the Skyraynger.


End of turn, about 5-6 civilians died already. Ashery was Psi-touched and became berserk. Surprise, he didn't shot anyone inside Skyranger.


Luzur kills one Cyberdisc! :highfive: and spots another one.


Darth Roxor disappointed me completely. His rocket hit the ground in the middle of the way, instead the Cyberdisc.



SV rushes toward the flat and oh. You are one lucky bastard, SV!


Even seriously wounded, SV shows the Sectoid scum how thought Codexia soldiers are!


spiekko goes on the Skyranger bridge, and tries to take care of Cyberdisc, yet all his shots fly around it. Silellak too a good damn care of it.



Poor terrain. End of turn, two civilians go to heaven. One Sectoid blow himself up (screenshot made after Aliens turn), probably tried to throw Grenade somewhere close to SV.


So far so good, we lost only Lazor Tank and I have some high hope we won't have casualties, if we stick to some cover. Also it seems the Psi Sectoid is dead.


Despite of Civilian standing there, Darth Roxor loads his Large Rocket and this time in perfect way hitting Cyberdisc! sadly, Darth Roxor gets killed by second Cyberdisc, from south.


Luzur again exchanges furiously shots with Cyberdisc, like in a good war movie. Motherfucker is thought.


Ashery takes down another Sectoid.


SV throws flare and retreats to the house.


Poocolator tried to kill this butt-ugly Cyberdisc with Auto-Cannon, instead he died from one shot


spiekko goes north.


Luzur with his last shot kills Cyberdisc. FUCK YEAH, AT LAST, it felt like eternity. Time to end this horrible turn. Some civilian dies, but honestly I don't give a fuck today.


We have serious PLOTWIZT here, this Sectoid is alive and ITZ (maybe) THE PSI-LEADOR. He tries to overtake SV, but fails. spiekko will leave him alone and we send Ashery with stun-rod to catch him. Before end of turn SV throw his weapon on ground and hide somewhere in corner, for our own sake. It was proper choice since Psi-Sectoid succeed in mind controlling SV. He did also scare shit out from Ashery.


spiekko moves forward and spots another Sectoid. BANG, BANG he's dead.


This is the moment when my inner, most primitive greed takes over. Overweight Manatee will go instead of Ashery to catch Psi-Leader, Silellak takes another Stun-rod to make some simple pleasures to Ashery. WRONG decission, I forgot that we cannot use Stun-rods on soldiers. So if Ashery will be mind controlled, we will loose about two of Codexers. End of turn and let's all pray together.


spiekko under fire!


Overweight Manatee under fire!


No one died sigh. Overweight Manatee makes a step forward and spots three Sectoids. HOW MANY OF THEM IS LEFT? I ask. Sectoid with Small Launcher made reaction fire, and stunt our target


spiekko finds & terminates Sectoid and moves to the Warehouse.


Ashery first shot takes down the lantern. Second one hits Sectoid with Small Launcher. Nice shot sir! Silellak took care of rest with well aimed shots.


it was god damn soldier probably spiekko killed the Psi-Leader, oh well life goes on. During Aliens turn spiekko position was uncovered, but Sectoid instead of shooting just run out from Warehouse.


SV has panic attack. spiekko took care of that visitor he had.


Luzur during his scouting south-west part of city, founds new target. Pif-paf and another Alien is dead.


After leaving the Warehouse, spiekko spots Sectoid in middle of crossroad. Overweight Manatee snipes him down


Time to end this turn, I really hope it was the last one.


NOT. Nothing happens during Alien turn. Probably we got last one somewhere around.


Silellak took care of fatally wounded SV.


Ashery spots some Sectoid in garden. Two shots and BOOM itz dead. I press the end turn button and it seems THERE IS MOAR.


Sleeping beauties woke up. Time to put them to sleep again, but they try to run away. AIN'T THAT CUTE?


One Soldier and Medic, not bad. Nice boobies you have there, Overweight Manatee.


It seems that we won't get any consequences for loosing HWP during Terror Missions.

Now I'm going to update Xcomutil since the one I'm using has some serious Research bug, mentioned by Overweight Manatee. Maybe there will be another update today.

The newest beta built of Xcomutil 9.7 (317) has broken runxcom.bat, it loops all the time "Illegal command: start".

It seems there is no end to my awesomeness.

PROTIP: Make a backup, in case new Xcomutil FUBARS old saves.

So how many days in the med bay did I managed to acquire this time around?

spekkio said:

PROTIP: Make a backup, in case new Xcomutil FUBARS old saves.

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Yeah I know. Currently when I'm updating Xcomutil, I do it on a clean UFO 1.4 and copy saved game, before running xcusetup. Works fine so far.

Stereotypical Villain said:

So how many days in the med bay did I managed to acquire this time around?

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14 days soldier.

Btw. I just switched to previous build (305) of Xcomutil and it works fine. From now on we will have UFO randomised interiors but not shapes. Somehow I don't feel to run around in Battleship size UFO after 2-3 aliens, heh.

Darth Roxor disappointed me completely. His rocket hit the ground in the middle of the way, instead the Cyberdisc

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Don't blame me, I'm a grenadier, and you give me some silly rocket launchers

Darth Roxor loads his Large Rocket and this time in perfect way hitting Cyberdisc!

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:D !

sadly, Darth Roxor gets killed by second Cyberdisc, from south.

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Your sacrifice will be remembered Darth Roxor... for 5 minutes.

So no-one got a rank increase? Did my soldier managed to accomplish something, or did you completed that mission with only the handful of redshirts you mention?

Poocolator tried to kill this butt-ugly Cyberdisc with Auto-Cannon, instead he died from one shot

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Fuuuu

I'll sign up to replace one of the heroes that died. :D

i think an promotion is in order.

Good fight! You were lucky with only 2 deaths there

Reporting for DUTY, Sir!

Depressed Codexia soldiers after loosing two comrades, (nevar forget) are going back to base. We already have one UFO shot-down, waiting for recover but times shows if we are going be able to get there on time.



Skyranger-1 was not even in half way to base and we have monthly report already. Not bad I guess.


This is current Skyranger-1 squad. Big Nose George will be ready to kick ass in 1 day, Krraloth in 3 days and our regular nersury occupant, SV after lucky 13 days.


One day more and we get one Interceptor and Skyranger. From that whole excitment I forgot to build Living Quarters. Oh well, 16 days more to go.


Small UFO, let's send one Interceptor to take care of it, while we wait for Skyranger.


Fuck yeah, Skyranger was refuelled fast enough so we could go kick some serious alien asses. After that we are going to rush for another one already crashed.


Ashery spots the first Floater inside building. Ashery hit the Floater perfectly but somehow bastard survived and manage to kill Ash inside Skyranger!


Farewell buddy, we are going to avenge you!


Silellak took care of Ashery murder and of second Floater.


After leaving Skyranger-1, Silellak spots another two Floaters, and scores another kill. After that he slowly goes towards the hedge to take cover.


It seems Luzur is pretty bad ass at using Heavy Lazor.


End of first turn.


lightbane gets hit, but didn't get serious damage. I send him towards UFO to take cover.


Overweight Manatee took care of camper. End of turn.


Not much happens, I placed Satori by the brick parapet to cover UFO entrance, Overweight Manatee by the corner and lightbane on right side of the door with set up reaction fire, if something will crawl out. Luzur make a hole in parapet so BUMFACE could stand fron to the UFO door.It takes few turns during which again, nothing happens.


I don't know if I should laugh or cry. It seems the rest of UFO crew decided to make a welcoming committee for lightbane!


lightbane is a lucky bastard and survives plus manages to kill two aliens with auto-shots. Only two Floaters had reaction fire, but missed all the time. When lightbane was going out he got shot in the back once, but as we can see lives!


Since we been moved to tears by welcoming committee, BUMFACE sends a present from X-Com, a large rocket. Floaters were dying from happiness.


taplonaplo did replace Ashery and Big Nose George took place of lightbane, which together with SV will spend few nice days in nursery.


Nothing interesting happens on Geoscape so let's go straight to the second mission. taplonaplo didn't get Personal Armour, because in my squad any rookie will have to prove is worthy wearing Codexia armor. Btw. it's a night mission.


It's so cold.


Since we get a bit crappy troop placement, BUMFACE is the first one to get out, after throwing a flare we can see first Snakeman.


BUMFACE horrible misses and destroys our Electro-Flare. Good job!


Big Nose George tried to kill Snakemen but also missed. Silellak had to take care of that.


Let's threw few flares around.


On south we have crashed UFO. taplonaplo to prove himself, will assault the UFO, with cover provided by Luzur. Time to finish this turn.


BUMFACE IS DEAD


Big Nose George got this bastard hiding in shadow.


Satori has find some nice sniping place if something gone wrong. Because taplonaplo throw a flare inside UFO, Satori could see what is inside.


Third turn. taplonaplo spots last remaining Snakemen. Six shots, two hits, one Snakemen still alive. Time to retreat.


It seems that Snakeman was not really bothered about getting shot, he just wander around. Maybe its from shock? anyway this time taplonaplo killed him.


Another battle, another brave soul lost.

Stats of our wounded comrades:

To our fallen brethren Ashery & BUMFACE.
We're going to join you soon.

I don't if I should laugh or cry. It seems the rest of UFO crew decided to make a welcoming committee for lightbane!

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Definetely laugh :D

on a sidenote, you misspelled my name (not ingame), not that i tend to read past the first few letters myself

Reporting for duty.

I have to try this game, but I got the windows version and the mouse pointer stutters really bad sometimes. How does the strategic element works? In most games I tend to focus on troops -> research -> equipment buildings.

taplonaplo said:

on a sidenote, you misspelled my name (not ingame), not that i tend to read past the first few letters myself

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Damn you newbies and your weird names! sorry about that

Cassidy said:

I have to try this game, but I got the windows version and the mouse pointer stutters really bad sometimes. How does the strategic element works? In most games I tend to focus on troops -> research -> equipment buildings.

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If you want to use Win version badly, try outUFO Extender or the DOS version. Most of the time you focus on combat, since research basically goes on it's own.

11 days to go!

Also: Keep up the good work.

Here's one reason why TFTD tends to be a little wee bit less racist sometimes

All this bum
up in my face

Darth Roxor said:

Here's one reason why TFTD tends to be a little wee bit less racist sometimes

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In TFTD, it's almost guaranteed when assaulting bases that you can see up to 6 hostiles at once in the main building. But they never line up so nicely like this.

Ah, maybe I'll have my chance soon!

Nice LP, keep it up.

TFTD is designed to rape you. Oh the time I got six guys turned into zombies when 3 tentaculats bum rushed me at once.