Amiga · Amiga CD32 · DOS · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation
4.12 from 259 ratings
2354 members have it in their collection · 8 playing now · 1571 backlogged · 64 wish listed
How long? Main story 225h · with extras 60h · 100% 16h (from 9 logged playthroughs)
Status GigaDeathNullGolem May 28, 2025
Since my last update on PirateZ, i did a looksy and came across the new heavy weight Mod everyone is playing in OpenXCom 40K Mod Highly recomend adding to it the submod ROSIGMA to include... If not everything far more stuff than i even knew to exist for true chaos
Status Mixplit Apr 7, 2022
Disc version is from PC Gamer Classic Games Collection disk volume 1 July 2,000. Full games not just demos. Full disc contents: X-COM: UFO Defense , Wing Commander, Alone in the Dark, Terminal Velocity, Duke Nukem 2, King's Quest, Descent, Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, Ultima Underworld, Links, The Secret of Money Island.
Status plasmasnake Dec 30, 2021
Played through this with openxcom and the gog game files.
Very brutal at the beginning even with lots of mid-battlescape reloading (I did that a ton, luckily my x-com invented limited time travel first before taking on aliens).
A little repetitive later on, tedious to completely clear out larger sized UFOs over and over again, and to adequately train everyone …
Played through this with openxcom and the gog game files.
Very brutal at the beginning even with lots of mid-battlescape reloading (I did that a ton, luckily my x-com invented limited time travel first before taking on aliens).
A little repetitive later on, tedious to completely clear out larger sized UFOs over and over again, and to adequately train everyone (how about dedicated training facility mods? Probably already a mod for that). Eventually once I had what I needed to get to the end I stopped doing ground missions and fast forwarded to having done the research, maybe finished the game within 11 months in-game.
I think I was slow to get psionics, also slow in other early research options before I consulted the ufopeadia. Had the in-mission psionic training mod turned on, eventually had a fun squad so powerful that they could relay mind control every sectoid in a single turn- that was useful for the the final missions, I used a mind controlled Ethereal to finish the game.
It would be interesting (and either already done or possible to do with openxcom mods) if some types of aliens had coordination AI to attack you on multiple sides in the same turn.
Tons of fun to shoot out half the walls on a farmhouse to get through to targets hiding inside from half the map away- leveling it with a rocket is a little too easy and too destructive on the other hand.
Near misses ought to increase likelihood of panic on both sides (or is that already true?).
A graphical scenario/battlescape-save editor for openxcom would be nice, I'd like to set up a base entrance defense level with my squad in an armored bunker and tons of sectoids and others on all sides- but they would need the AI to want to converge on the base rather than wandering.
