Landing the plane in UFO Assault

[El Martillo]

What plane are they talking about? I have played UFO assault alot but i have never seen any plane, let alone land it.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Daddy Dino]

My guess is completing a round. I feel like one of the dailies referred to the ufo as a plane. Not sure why it's referred that way. I've never seen anything on the screen other than the ufo and the buildings.

[HansBerg]

I feel like this must have been a situation where the UFO started as a plane in early development. A change was made, but the verbiage related to the plane was not.

Regardless of whether this is the case or not, this is another quirk that leads to confusion that really ought to be fixed, even if it isn't a top priority.

I'd toss the Undo button in the instructions to Stack Overflow on this list, too, since the button prompt in the instructions looks like a backspace key and not E.

There are probably more still that I've not noticed.

[El Martillo]

I can understand switching from a plane to a UFO, but what does the “landing” part mean? People have this achievement so im just wondering what it entails: finishing X amount of levels total? X amount of levels in one game?

[HansBerg]

I apparently got the achievement. I never pay attention to achievements, but I do know that I've never finished nine levels in a single run, so it must be cumulative.

[Zalym]

Originally posted by El Martillo:

I can understand switching from a plane to a UFO, but what does the “landing” part mean? People have this achievement so im just wondering what it entails: finishing X amount of levels total? X amount of levels in one game?

I just got this last night immediately after completing a level during an extended play through but only after winning 4 rounds that time, during which I was going nuts looking for an actual plane.

The best I can figure is that landing the plane means beating a level--In a sense making the ground level enough to land a plane. So you just need to complete 9 waves at some point.

Why not the word ship or include a tiny animation of the ship landing each time, I have no idea :) Maybe the game was based on a real life game that had a plane rather than a UFO and they forgot to change the wording?

[Joe Coffee]

I can't help but think the use of the airplane would have made sense as an homage to Missile Command back in the day when enemy bombers would spawn a number of nukes at you and there was an amalgamation with Space Invaders on how buildings get rekt in the same manner alien shots destroy portions of your bunkers.

https://youtu.be/nokIGklnBGY

https://youtu.be/MU4psw3ccUI

But maybe as someone said they changed track and now it became more like Space Invaders (with a hint of Missile Command as its secondary) only your UFO acts like a Missile Command enemy satellite unit that spawned nukes.

Either way, it's Missile Command and Space Invaders combined, I think.