Actually, the game adapts to your score. If you play a lot of Raids and get a high score before the first UFO appears, you can encounter Personal Shields and Devastator Cannons in your first mission.

the funniest and my most favourite thing to do is attack the cult of cyrius and bring many high explosives, and do as much damage as possible :D

how do you get sound working?

I have WinME and I know it sucks, but it has one advantage - X-com works on it without any magic or special software... I just click on the .exe button and there it is, with sounds and music ! Thats why I still use ME. :kosta:

i think you can use Vdm to have sound. :cheers:

I cannot download the game from this link:
http://206.51.238.2/gamesyms/f2a7c5e2b9d51...0Apocalypse.zip
How come everyone else doesn't have this problem? I keep getting a 504 gateway timeout message.

Try This one.

hey my x-com doesn't seem to work. I can get through the first video sequence but then it screws up and has random lines across the screen. Any ideas of how to fix this?

Check the previous posts in this thread and in Troubleshooting. I remember this has been discussed before.

Alright, I finally forced myself to try this game and i found it's not nearly as bad as I thought. Sure, it may not be as good as x-com 1 but I sure enjoy playing it.

However, seeing this game is quite different in many respects to the first two, I'd apprecite it if someone could help me with any of these questions:

1. How many soldiers do I need in each base? I've found that six soldiers is the optimum for most missions, but I often suffer injuries.

2. Research is way different. How many scientists/engineers do you suggest I should hire?

3. Do androids gain experience? It says they improve "very slowly". However, my most senior officer is an android and hasn't improved even 1 point in any skill!

4. Are mutants and psychic powers worth it? It seems almost all aliens have very high resistance or immunity to psionics.

5. How do I IMPROVE relations with organizations without bribery? Is there any benefit to being allied with an organization?