Note: This
game is also titled X-Com: UFO Defense/Enemy Unknown.
Level
skip While in the battlescape screen press
[Ctrl] +
C or
[Ctrl] +
G to finish
the level your on with the results of the previous level.
Extra
money Begin a new game and build a base. Save it, and quit the
game. Open the game folder and you should see folders named
"GAME_1" to "GAME_10". These are the saved game folders. Enter
the saved game folder that represents the game that you saved.
The order of the saves is the same as in the game. After you
open the folder with your save in it, make a back up of the
"LIGLOB.DAT" file. Then, open the original "LIGLOB.DAT" file
with a text editor. You will see some encrypted data. Press
[Enter] so
that text jumps to line two and line one is clean. Then, insert
FF FF 7f in
the line one over the encrypted data and save the file. Then,
start the game, load the saved game, and enter your base. You
should now have $1,713,399,398.
Hints & Tips
Save Elerium When you finish building a new ship, load it with the
weapons. When it is totally charged and ready for flight,
transfer it to another base. When it reachs the base,
immediately send it out on patrol. Click on the ship and you
will see that its fuel is 0%. That means it will not run out of
fuel. Make sure that when you send the ship out on patrol, send
it to the opposite side of the planet or a long way from your
base. This will allow you to catch the ship after it attacks the
enemy before it can return home. This is best done with the
FireStorm craft. They are cheap and fast to build. The firepower
is just as good as the Avenger, which cost more and takes a lot
longer to build.
Always do
terror sites during the day When you happen to target a terror site or crashed UFO with
a ship, it will not disappear, giving you time to get to it. If
a terror site is in the darkness, send Interceptors one after
the other to it. Hopefully, enough time will have gone by to get
the terror or crash site in the daylight.
A easier way to
avoid night time terror missions is knowing that as long as the
terror site is targeted, and whatever has it targeted is moving
towards it when the hour changes, it will stay there always. For
example, if you need to buy yourself a few hours before it is
light out at the site, put your Skyranger on patrol. A few
minutes prior to the hour ending, target the terror site again.
Then as soon as the hour changes go back on patrol.
Free
manufacturing First select the item to be manufactured, but assign no
engineers and leave the number to produce at zero. Then, assign
as many engineers as you like but only manufacture one item. You
can use tanks with this trick to make a lot of money.