i never saw any engine on roof.... i always blast the roof to get in. and i have loads of elerium...

i know about weapons that dissaper as well as corpses.

once i remember (although this was on TFTD) i managed to demolish the whole lower floor of downed dreadnaught and still got considerable zrbite and other stuff (alien tech, ion accelerators...). ofcourse the roof got blasted away too so i can get in (i always do it).

but where do you see any engine? or how?

although it would all make sense i never noticed that. especially later when you use the heavy explosive stuff (blaster launcher) you shouldn't be getting much stuff. yet i do. so it always seemed like more of a random thing to me.

Ah, but the engines are not on the roof. However blasting open the roof or side of a ufo can damage the engines inside the ufo. You can recognize them as orange cylinders.

Though I didn't know you can still get elerium from some destroyed engines... Or maybe it is because not all the engines of the ufo were destroyed?

Indeed there is a random factor of items disappearing after an explosion (whether it's a grenade or blaster bomb)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(another_guest @ Oct 15 2007, 03:56 PM) [snapback]316246[/snapback]</div>Elerium crystals.
Actual pickuppable items.
Laying on the floor.
You can actually see them laying "inside" the device on the overhead map.

Doesn't seem so random to me.
I think the items all have some sort of HP and are destroyed after it's depleted.
Point in evidence: fire a Blaster Bomb at some alien to kill it without destroying its weapons. Drop a second set of guns on the same square or MC a second alien to move into it and fire another Blaster bomb. One set will remain - the newer one.

There is no engine on the roof of UFOs, but when you down them you sometime have a hole in the roof of the UFO where the engine exploded when you gunned it down.

How do you guys think, "Smash & Grab" missions work? ;)

Hmm....i played this game when i was young and loved it. dunno where my version of UFO is nowadays :\ anyone know where i could download it? maybe for dosbox or windows? :sos: :sos: :sos:

Did you try on Abandonia main site?
UFO: Enemy Unknown

There is of course a semi cheap way to do this. On the hardest level towards the end game it was almost all muton/etherial battleships that appeared. I would follow them and land my ship when they did. I had 8 guys supertrained for psy attack and a few plasma tanks. Send out the tanks, mind control everybody, have them drop their weapons. and Be sure to send them to find their friends. Using this tactic none of my men ever leftthe craft. On a few occasions I got shot at right away but the tanks were always located at the exit so they took the attack. This was the only way I could ever compete on the toughest levels. Eventually I got to the point where even etherial commanders would fall to my psy attack and my men were virtually immune.

Hi there!

First of all: :brain: UFO, UFO, UFO! I was feeling like falling back to 12 year-old time, this is so frickin cewl, highest thanks from my side!!! This site (I just know it since 2 days now) is ... *no words* just like -> :kosta: Thanks a lot!

Anyhow I got some *big* problem with running UFO: Everything started out very smooth (no graphic issues, some minor bugs & crashes, normal stuff, no need to worry at all - mostly stuff that´s known). But now I got some reeeeaally weird bug in-game: As soon as I try to transfer something between bases (which is more or less crucial in this game) and hit the done-button the game crashes with some Windows-screen. Anybody knows this problem?

btw: Abandonia Windows version of UFO, Win XP, nothing fancy.

THANKS A LOT (for possible answers *and* that sweet piece of gaming) !!!

Common bug, not much that can be done if it hapens to you. The only real option is to download the DOS version of UFO (its in the Extras) and run it through VDMSound or DOSBox.