I just reciently found out some great news. appariently a company known as nightbird games are in the process of remaking UFO enemy unknown under the new name ufo cydonia's fall. from what i've seen it's the first true successor to the X-com name. with all the aliens, weapons and images from the original game recreated with better graphics.
if you're intrested look here
I can't wait until it's out. *jumps about like a sugar hyped kid on christmas morning* it even has the choice of isometric and first person modes so you can realy feel like you're an x-com trooper sneaking amoung farm buildings while trying to advoid being shot by a floater sniper on the roof of a building accross the map. I'm just hoping it lives up to the original as from what I've seen it has some great potential

is there any way to destroy ufo hull?i die waiting for them to come out

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Guest @ Oct 14 2007, 03:02 PM) [snapback]316044[/snapback]</div>Try to destroy it with Blaster Bomb. Other Weapon are to weak to penetrate UFO Wall/Hull. Even with Blaster it is no guarantee for working...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Paco @ Oct 14 2007, 01:22 PM) [snapback]316045[/snapback]</div>Try to destroy it with Blaster Bomb. Other Weapon are to weak to penetrate UFO Wall/Hull. Even with Blaster it is no guarantee for working...
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I think that a heavy plasma might be able to break it too, but the chances for that happening are quite small.

Edit: The link crwydryny posted is very interesting indeed, I just registered at their forums.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Tervez @ Oct 14 2007, 04:21 PM) [snapback]316058[/snapback]</div>Yes, but changes are very small.
Only few particular section of the ufo's can be targeted with plasma and be broken down successfully... and not always :angry:
If i remember well, some of the corner section of some ufo's type (not all the ufo) and some "special" section (special because are so strange that you need to fire at random millions time to found it :tai: ).
All of this only if sections are already weakened by the ufo's crash itself or nearest explosions (blaster or alien grenades only)... and finally, even if all of this succedes, sometimes you can broke down the section with a single shot or with dozen and dozen of shots, if you are lucky :ph34r:

It is not worth blowing up the UFO walls to try to surprise aliens anyways. The best way to get the aliens by surprise is to catch them out of TU at end of turn so they can't react fire at you when you move in your own turn.

This is way easier to do if you act fact and swift in an intact UFO. In doubt, use grenades. The range is lower indoor, but it's still effective when you throw them around corners. :)

Best, safer way to deal with all the aliens swiftly is to fire blaster rockets in the command areas. It depend which kind of UFO you gunned down, but the smaller one often have small holes at the roof where the engine(s) exploded. If you don't care about salvaging anything and don't mind blowing things up, you can always send a missile thru the opening in the command center. Grenades can work out too if the hole is big enough, but sometimes it's only one tile wide.

does it really matter if you destroy alien stuff on the map? i somehow remember demolishing the whole sub with guided torpedoes and still getting stuff in the end of mission...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gregor @ Oct 15 2007, 08:36 AM) [snapback]316212[/snapback]</div>I'd say so, if you blast their engine for example, you wont get that thing salvaged.

It does make a considerable difference.
- If the UFO doesn't have a hole in the roof (e.g. a landed UFO as opposed to one you shot down), the engines should be intact which will give you precious elerium at the end of the mission. Destroying the engine will deprive you of that elerium.
- Alien weapons and equipment lying around in the UFO can get blown up by your grenades / blaster launcher, as well as alien corpses (I don't care much about corpses except early in the game to boost my income, but weapons always come in handy).

You can still chuck grenades through the hole in the roof if it's 1 tile wide - you just have to experiment until you choose the appropriate tile on the ground level that will allow your soldier to throw the grenade.

Some engines leave Elerium crystals when destroyed.