New Patch

[[BHA] Parazac]

So, what is in the patch i just got?

[Jack_Spade]

The publisher added a launcher. -_-

[[BHA] Parazac]

oh god! not another game adding a launcher.

at a guess i am assuming the are going to use it to try and advertise other games, this game did not need a damn launcher!

[Jack_Spade]

I would tolerate it if it came with some fixes, but nothing else was changed.

[Jeran Tek]

The "patch" added 3 files. One of them is called "launcher-x64.exe"
If you rename that and make a copy of UFO.exe called "launcher-x64.exe" then the launcher calls your renamed file and not their full-page ad.
You're welcome.

[Jack_Spade]

Originally posted by Jeran Tek:

The "patch" added 3 files. One of them is called "launcher-x64.exe"
If you rename that and make a copy of UFO.exe called "launcher-x64.exe" then the launcher calls your renamed file and not their full-page ad.
You're welcome.

You da man

[Ardor]

widescreen issues still persist,please fix that

[✠]

i was hoping for a proper native window mode. Or is it there already in the meantime?

[Jack_Spade]

Originally posted by Jiggy:

i was hoping for a proper native window mode. Or is it there already in the meantime?

It is not. But yeah, it's a bit insulting that they updated a finished, twenty year old game, not to fix the glaring flaw, but to ad an advertisement I have to click through before I can start the game that didn't have an ad when I paid for it.

[moRuk | OsManiaC]

wow so all of us still this 20 year old game installed? it has been lurking installed on mine for soo long as I wanted to play :D but always delay it

[[BHA] Parazac]

been playing it on and off for many many years, lol

[Jack_Spade]

It's aged surprisingly well. I didn't even discover it until two or three years ago, I want to say. The real-time with pause system is basically a simultaneous turns system except you don't have to mash the turn key and you can give orders in advance. And it works well with the real-time geoscape. It comes across as a knock-off on the store page, but it was originally created by Gollop. I would argue that it's the XCOM we would have gotten in an alternate universe where he had the money to finish the game. Overall, a neat piece of gaming history.

[Hasefrexx]

I played a lot more the other 2 games in the serie but I still intend to finish this one day. It's pretty fun although I find that the system has issues, namely moving around while keeping a coherent strategy can get tedious when enemies aren't found. So it's tempting to randomly click around but it makes it painful when getting caught off guard by the enemy.

[レミにゃん]

I could scream. I played this thing a fair bit when I was a child and had a physical copy, and I just recently got into replaying this after so many years, and just as I do it they start changing this too, and I am not seeing fixes, I'm seeing LAUNCHERS.

[Jack_Spade]

You can get the whole series on GOG without any kind of DRM for $3.39 right now. That's what I did, and then I compressed everything in a folder so it couldn't get updated later.

[Niemand]

Originally posted by Jeran Tek:

The "patch" added 3 files. One of them is called "launcher-x64.exe"
If you rename that and make a copy of UFO.exe called "launcher-x64.exe" then the launcher calls your renamed file and not their full-page ad.
You're welcome.

works perfectly