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Re: UFO Aftermath (Minor Spoilers)

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From: Mark Morrison
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 06:36
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 05:07:04 GMT, unitedw9fake@bellatlantic.net wrote:

>On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:56:41 +0100, Mark Morrison <drdpikeuk@aol.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:37:28 +0100, "Sloth" <dave@sloth.plus.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"malc" <malc@NOSPAM.gothcorp.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>news:Pine.LNX.4.50.0310082111330.2103-100000@localhost...
>>>> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Mark Morrison wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:01:02 +0100, malc <malc@NOSPAM.gothcorp.co.uk>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > >
>>>> > >Impressive :o)
>>>> > >I do find it odd that the human weaponry (so far) seems more powerful
>>>that
>>>> > >the Alien stuff... however I'm sure that'll change soon - afterall, I'm
>>>> > >only (stuck) on the second plot-mission.
>>>> > >
>>>
>>>Hmm, same here, I have several alien weapons, laser guns, plasma rifles etc,
>>>and the human weapons I have seem far better...
>>>
>>>Used the first stuff that came to hand, Colt M4 - ?, and moved on through
>>>HK636, HK611K5 etc
>>>
>>>The Neostead has to be the best short range weapon available.... I tried
>>>clearing a big alien ship using LMG's and got gutted. retried with entire
>>>squad using Neostead's on entry... and got shot up... but shot them up far
>>>better..
>>>
>>>No deaths. 3 out of 7 of the squad were wounded though.. but at least they
>>>weren't dead!
>>>
>>>Anybody tried using those alien plasma guns? the very heavy ones? Seem
>>>useless to me.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
>>Didn't bother - the range is far too short.  You're better off with
>>any number of short-range human weapons.
>
>it's good to use alien laser rifles or advanced alien laser rifles.
>becuz on aimed the advanced ones have 50 m range and 100 dmg
>and on burst its 36 range and 300 dmg good enough for  in base or in
>alien ship battles. so far it has served me very well

I've just stared finding those - the only problem is killing the
bastards in order to get their weapons.                 :)

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From: Mark Morrison <drdpikeuk@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: UFO Aftermath (Minor Spoilers)
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