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Many mistakes can be made while playing X-COM: UFO Defense. This guide may help you to avoid some of the many "rookie" mistakes.

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    Avoid accidentally overwriting save files. If you accidentally click a save file when saving that you didn't want to overwrite, tab out of the game and back into the operating system. Find the directory that X-COM is in and copy the contents of the victim save file into another folder on your computer. Then finish saving the file, and save the file into the slot you wanted to save it to, and paste the other save file back into the X-COM directory.
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    Don't select soldiers by bravery. Some guides will tell you to sack any soldiers that have low bravery; this is invalid. Simply having a high ranking soldier will quench the rookie's fears. As an added bonus to this, after harrowing combat bravery tends to increase.
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    Build only one radar of each type. No matter what the base information screen says, having more than one radar of each type does not increase the range of the radar or the efficacy.
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    Avoid making your soldiers act like lemmings. If a soldier goes into a UFO, and then is immediately shot by an alien camping right next to the door, do not send any more soldiers in until you either know the alien is gone, or it comes out and gets shot by your soldiers.
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    Send scouts in pairs. One scout moves forward, and the other one watches their back. Sending lone scouts means that an alien can come up behind your scout and kill them without their knowing.
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    Save often. Your soldier saw an alien, and you tried to click the flashing box in the corner to center on the alien, but accidentally clicked outside of it and got your soldier killed by reaction fire? Reload the file. Tried to use a stun rod on a Chryssalid, but failed? Reload the file.
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EditTips

  • Proximity grenades are almost always a bad idea. Misclicks can happen, and if your soldier's path just happens to go over the proximity grenade, they're doomed.
  • Save every turn so you always have a recent file to go to in case something goes wrong.
  • These steps can also be used in the sequel, Terror From The Deep, since it is so similar to the original.

EditWarnings

  • Be careful when you are copying and restoring the save files. You might end up corrupting the data in the file, or worse, end up messing up the entire installation.

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