UFO: Extraterrestrials is a 3D tactical/strategy title with a rich and compelling sci-fi story. The title combines global strategy with small squad based tactical combat against an alien invasion. To repel the alien invasion the player must take full advantage of the terrain and his surrounding environments.Get the UFO: Extraterrestrials English Patch #2 off WP (3mb)
Patch #2
Fixed issues
- Fixed sound releated crash when loading tactical mission.
- Fixed random crash when game starts.
- Fixed transfer of damaged/not fueled ships on globe.
- Soldier can gain more than 1 level in 1 mission.
- Reduced probability of destruction of base defences.
- Fixed game over screen in some situations.
- Fixed duplicate names of ships when production and transfer are finished at the same time.
- Fixed crash after quick load in mission.
Game improvements
- Added support for graphics cards without hardware vertex shaders (e.g. Intel 915/945)
Contains also all fixes from previous patch.
Patch #1
Fixed issues
- Inventory crash caused by overlapping items
- Inventory crash in non default resolutions
- Inventory crash when adding units to transport
- Crash on globe when ship starts from base
- Crash in mission after game restart from settings menu
- Corrupted save caused by supply ship flying to alien base
- Corrupted save with in mission items on the ground
- Production finance calculations, which caused waste of all moneys in some situations
- Corrupted save after ship was sold
- Unfinished mission loading in some special cases
- Indestructible alien units after destruction of near doors
- Empty hangar calculations during ship transfer
Game improvements
- extended settings
- multiple resolution support, 1024*768 and higher, windowed mode
- controls for speed of in mission units
- controls for in mission bullets and scrolling speed
- control for camera behavior
- autosave support
- game is saved into special slot before and after each mission and at the start of each game month
- increased selling price of most items
- extended damage of base defenses
- units move faster and smoother in missions
- added hotkeys
Hotkeys on globe:
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1, SPACE - Set time control to Real
2 - Set time control to 20 min
3 - Set time control to 1 hour
4 - Set time control to 1 Day
F1 - Ufopedia
F2 - Build new base
F3 - Go to base
F4 - Intercept
F5 - Monthly report
F6, ESCAPE - Options
R - Research
P - Production
C - Centaurus
S - Soldiers
LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN ARROWS - Rotate globe
Mouse wheel - Zoom globe
Hotkeys in mission:
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SPACE - Stop current unit's action
ENTER - End turn
LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN ARROWS - Scroll tactical map
ADD (NUMKEY) - Zoom in
SUBTRACT (NUMKEY) - Zoom out
MULTIPLY (NUMKEY) - Reset zoom
Mouse wheel - Increase/decrease current map level
N, [ - Select previous unit
M, ] - Select next unit
A, DELETE - Kneel/stand
Z, INSERT - Activate item in left hand
X, HOME - Activate item in right hand
W, PAGE UP - Move unit up on the elevator
S, PAGE DOWN - Move unit down on the elevator
I - Inventory screen
H - Health screen
ESCAPE - Context dependent: enter main menu, close inventory/health screen, end shooting mode
Global hotkeys:
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F8 - Quicksave (uses save slot 10)
F12 - Quickload (uses save slot 10)
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