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Article #234Re: Some Questions on X-Com Apoc from a newbie!
From: Shaun Green Greenish9
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00
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> In the early stages, hoverbikes do make the best attack vehicles, buy up all > the hoverbikes and Rendor plasma gun you can, and fit your vehicles out with > SD Sports engines. Upgrade the missile systems in your Valkyrie and > hovercars (which I never use) to Prophets and Janitors and upgrade the > engines to the best you can afford. > When a UFO appears, switch to overhead mode. Pause the game, hold down > the CTRL key and click on all the vehicles to make a large attack group. > Swat the UFOs with your bike swarms and they will fall out of the skies like > litle extraterrestrial flies! > Prevent your vehicles from accidentally shooting one another by > assigning different altitudes to them. This, along with keeping your > vehicles on catious attack, will reduce the number of friendly-fire > incidents. Um...I don't know if it's just me, but this seems to be the almost-exact same wording as the XCOM Apoc guide I read in the UK version of PC Gamer...just curious. Greenish_9 PS. If you have no idea who I am, please see my other message!
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