For the New players of Afterlight..

[nazgull2k1]

Bottom line - You got screwed out of your money if you've purchased this already.. but just in case you haven't, and are looking for some help... allow me!

Pro Tip to easy victory = Use the Shotgun for everyone. That's all. (literally.. its THAT easy) dont bother upgrading weapons, dont bother switching weapons, dont bother researching weapons.. dont bother building weapons. Shotgun. PERIOD. It does MORE damage then the highest researched weapon per rate of fire, and w/ 6 of them, every alien in the game is a 1 second kill.

Everthing else is pretty much a joke after you realize none of the aliens in the game can take more then 1 shot from your team, and since it seems like almost every alien in the game wants to run STRAIGHT at you and shoot... yeah.. Shotgun to the Face = Instant Win button.

Get the better armor, just for closing the gap so you can shotgun them to death, but even the armor is pretty much irrelevant once you have a shotgun in your hand. lol

[Gavener]

who really cares what mode it is in the only time that really matters is if they offer more than normal and easy, i "used" to play in normal or hard mode, but now i do not have the time to reload a map 3 times over some issue, so sadly i have to go easy/normal i play for fun not bragging rights down at the local Game store with the other onion smelling folks

[PipBull]

Originally posted by nazgull2k1:

Uhh are we playing the same game here? Cause even the official strategy guides online say SHOTGUNS. I JUST beat the game again not 1 week ago, On normal difficulty.. Shotguns. There is NO need for the rifle. Its the EXACT same tier as the Shotgun. There is NO need for Sniper Rifles.. Shotguns are better. You take some damage sure from SOME enemy fire, but as has been stated many many times by thousands of other people, the AI runs straight at you. Even in the late game with pscionics and missles and god knows whatever else.. Shotguns are all you need.

Indoor missions are even easier... find a fast team member.. run him around, picking up the aliens threat... run him back to your team..inside a room or behind a doorway.. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM. Dead. Everything and everyone is dead.


Stop your pointless argument. Shotguns get you through 99.99% of the entire game on easy mode, and they are practically the first weapon you get. lol

play it on hard mode. bearing in mind i have beat it on hard mode and find what you are saying about hard mode to be crap falling out off ur mouth

[nazgull2k1]

way to ressurect a dead thread with no point and purpose other then to troll. The game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke. Equip Shotguns = Win. EVERY strategy guide, EVERY online forum with INTELLIGENT players.. EVERYONE says the same thing. Shotguns. But keep arguing the point till you are blue in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face.. I dont give a ♥♥♥♥. Seriously. DO NOT CARE.

[Gavener]

Boom !

[PipBull]

Originally posted by nazgull2k1:

way to ressurect a dead thread with no point and purpose other then to troll. The game is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke. Equip Shotguns = Win. EVERY strategy guide, EVERY online forum with INTELLIGENT players.. EVERYONE says the same thing. Shotguns. But keep arguing the point till you are blue in the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ face.. I dont give a ♥♥♥♥. Seriously. DO NOT CARE.

not arguing but i can see that your the kind of person will see it like that so no pointing commenting anymore

hard mode ftw

[Bob the Boomer]

it is because you are a nazgul you are so angry?

[8015]

Anyone really playing this without shadowarriors mod? I really consider that a bugfix patch just to make the game playable ...

[Gavener]

Where is this mod on steam or do i have to hunt it down on google?

[8015]

In hindsight just giving the modauthors name seems a bit of a teaser ...

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/total-rebalance-modification-v2.03.1-ufo-al/

Is where its at, it adds many weapons with a focus on realism and changes resistances on enemies among a ton of other things. Makes the game much more tactical.

Other good mods are:

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/tornado-mod-ufo-al/

Which changes tornados to attack everything instead of teaming up against you with whoever is on the map.

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/afterlight-vision-rebalance-mod/

Doubles view distance so your people can actually see things in BROAD DAYLIGHT on an empty plain that are further than 20m away(So your not fighting dancing yellow ? all the time).

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/less-aggressive-factions-ufo-afterlight/

Later on the constant attacks can become annoying, you can drop this mod into a running game any time they start bothering you.

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/files/recolour-mod-mars-v1.2-ufo-al/

The last one isn't a mod so much as a skin, it removes the cartoony colors from your equipment and makes them look like actual military equipment, there is a brushed metal and urban look, pick whichever you like.

The first one comes with a couple other mods bundled that you have to install seperately if you want, i recommend them all. Installation is a piece of cake, basicly drop the files into the games main directory and copy the localization file(only the first one has it) into the same subfolder in the main directory.

[Gavener]

Thank you very much!

[Segovax]

OP you convinced me, just bought it and installing now.

[Articulate Llama]

I play gaes to have, not be the best, perhaps COD or WoW is more your style?

Elitism isnt cool, it just shows you put value on things that literally have no value in reality.

[Sandermatt]

Is the rebalance mod stable?

I see this comment on the mod page:

Used to be awesome, but doesn't work properly now. I get some weird number and a internal name (like: 2014::FireExtinguisher) instead of the real name. This also happens with the descriptions, so I don't know what half the stuff is. Also, I think it breaks functionality of some items.

Forum is offline too, so there's no place to get help.




Another Question:

What do you think about the advanced mission mod? Is it stable and good? And compatible with the rebalance mod`?

[s1lkwrm]

I basically do 2 snipers, 1 shotgun/riffle sneaky bomb planter flanker, 1 heavy (warp , rockets) my medic and tech with riffles. Ill swap lasers depending on enemy. Martians usually get nocked out fast before they have a chance i go for the jugular asap and kill thier main base with my covert ops guy usually harald.

[Hecter94]

Dunno, I played this game on Normal and literally never used Shotguns.
Traded my only shotgun for a couple of laser rifles and never looked back.

However, with that said...I would frequently take only a single sniper on missions.
With a Sniper Rifle, Dual Pistols and a sword.

If anything makes this game easy, I'd probably say it's the dual pistols, this soldier was able to hit with 99% accuraccy up to about 5m away, and did an incredible amount of damage with a single hit, knocking out half the health of a "normal" enemy soldier instantly and firing 3-4 times a second.

It was pretty insane, to be honest with you.


As soon as I finish this run-through, I'm going to try again on impossible/hard.