lensmanx

Wasn't Entebbe 1978 or 1979?

Cool, thanks!

Okay, now I loaded a Chinook with laser weapons, headed out, and every time I try to start ground combat, it crashes. I should add that I DID save between the invention of the lasers and the launch to the crash site. Seems the save process doesn't like lasers ...

Just played straight thru to July 15 without hitting save. I was able to research lasers and Wolf armor, no problem. Several times before, I had saved, but not exited. That action alone seems to suppress laser/wolf research.

I should also add that Alien Navigation has not been offered as a research choice yet. Do i have to shoot down a Corvette to get an Alien Navigation system to analyze?

I haven't researched UFO Navigation yet, and I've shot down a lot of fighters but very few of anything else. Otherwise normal. Do I need UFO Navigation for Laser Weapons?

Okay, I started a new game after downloading 8.9. I researched Alien Alloys, Alenium, Alien Power Source, Plasma Pistol, Plasma Rifle and Alien Plasma Technology. Shouldn't I be able to research laser weapons now? Or is there some other project I'm missing? Right now there are NO remaining projects to research, which is weird.

Not every time, but most of the time, when one of my Xenonauts is killed by an alien, the game crashes.

Apologies for being a noob, but I can't find any button or pulldown to save a game in build 8.5. Not on Geoscape, not on ground combat. Am I looking right past it?

I would buy this game in a heartbeat.

How old are these guys? Cuz a 15-year vet of the US forces could have been in Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, Lebanon (the first time) and still be only 33. On the Soviet side, yes, you're pretty much out of luck. Even the 1968 Czech intervention isn't so much "combat" as "target practice." But wasn't there a Sino-Soviet clash on the Ussuri River in '68 or '69? That, if I remember rightly, was real serious tank combat, which should count. If only the aliens would land somewhere that we already had tanks sitting around ... we'd show 'em!

So here I'm getting ready to post a note about a German soldier from the "5th Shock Army". Only the Soviets ever used the "Shock Army" designation (and maybe the Chinese, but I digress) so how could a German have served in that unit? Duh, says I to myself, it's 1979 ... the guy's obviously EAST German. Soviet practice was to incorporate Warsaw Pact divisions within Soviet Armies ... which would be like the US putting a British division in V Corps. They figured letting their satellites have all-East German or all-Polish corps and armies would be a bad, bad thing. You guys are on TOP of this! So, any chance of a Czech? With their consonant-rich names? (Heh.)

Identical issue with WinXP SP2 and Win7.

Yep. And I checked -- it does the same on Windows 7. This isn't a "sometimes" error -- it's after every ground combat.

Trying various things to avoid the game hanging on what would have been the last "hidden movement" screen before winning a ground combat. Could it be because I'm using Windows XP SP2? SP3 doesn't get along with my video card, but maybe I should upgrade to keep testing.