I stopped playing this game about 6 months ago because of crashes on my windows 7 desktop.
Couple days ago, I decided to give this game ago once more, thinking the bugs would be fixed. Right after the first UFO crashsite battle, my game crashes. Well good thing the game autosaves after the battle too. So I load the game from after the battle and start playing again. Second UFO crash site...game crashes again after I win the battle. This is on my windows 8 desktop.
Game is unplayable at this point. Unless I am doing something completely wrong, I dont know how anyone can be playing this game right now.
Since I downloaded this game a couple days ago, I'm assuming its 17.6 with the hotfix.