Alien Craft (Apocalypse)
The alien craft in X-Com Apocalypse are airbourne biological constructs grown in a hostile otherworld. Ugly Fungus Organisms.
UFOs: Unidentified Flying Objects=
The alien menace has ten UFO craft in which to invade Mega-Primus, each equipped with a strange beam or missile weapon.
UFOs should be all shot down (disabled) or destroyed if possible to slow the incessant invasion of the city. Crashed UFOs must be recovered to learn more about these strange flying ships, the aliens they contain, and the exotic technology within.
UFO Disabled & Recovery
If a UFO is critically damaged, the craft will be disabled (the image of the UFO changes to a distorted and cracked appearance) and will fall out of the sky and impact the ground in a clear area and start smoking.
- Any disabled and crash landed UFO can be recovered by any airbourne X-Com vehicle which has an agent onboard via either button: "Attack Hostile Unit" or "Go To Map Point". If no agents are present, the X-Com vehicle will land on the UFO's roof then immediately take off and return to base.
- Any manned UFOs (medium and large types) will start a crash-recovery battlescape mission as soon as the X-Com vehicle, manned with a large extermination force of heavily armed X-Com agentsm, touches the UFO's roof.
- Road vehicles cannot reach a downed UFO, even if it crash landed on the road.
- Other organisations and their vehicles, eg: Rescue Transport, do not interact with any crashed UFO in any fashion.
- Any damaged or destroyed UFO components will be recovered after successful UFO recovery. Only one weapon or device of each type.
- The aliens must first use the device (eg: shields used in the cityscape) before one can be recovered by X-Com. Device appearance and use depends only on "UFOs Shot Down" score whereas equipment used by the aliens depends on "Total Tactical Battlescape Missions" score.
- Any crash-landed UFO ignored by X-Com will eventually disappear from the cityscape with no other effect.
- eg: aliens do not travel to the nearest building to
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- Any alien on the crash-recovery battlescape which managed to escape via blue-exit-tiles is declared dead, irrelevant of misison outcome. They do not survive and score is not adjusted.
- If X-Com attempts to recover the alien craft via ground assault and fails (escape, abort, or all agents dead), the remaining aliens will immediately destroy all traces of the craft and themselves.
When knowledge of reverse-engineering is understood, advanced craft of X-Com's own design can be built, and when ready, able to match any UFO in aerial combat.
Overhead UFO Battlescapes
Each UFO page has an overhead view of the local area which shows the doors as bright white small rectangles and blue-exit-tiles for scale. Any door is always two-wide (shown as two rectangles side-by-side) but some doors vary in height (not shown). Every single door style on any UFO is normally accessible by ground-based agents and aliens.
| UFO | Armor1 | Constitution2 | Top Speed | Acceleration | Weapons | Equipment3 | Primary Role | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Probe | 2/2/2/2/2/2 | 80/15 | 14 | 8 | Light Disruptor Beam | - | Escort | 50 |
 Scout Ship | 5/2/5/5/5/5 | 120/35 | 12 | 2 | Light Disruptor Beam | Small Disruption Shield | Infiltration | 100 |
 Transporter | 6/4/6/6/6/8 | 400/150 | 8 | 2 | Light Disruptor Beam | Small Disruption Shield | Infiltration | 150 |
 Fast-Attack Ship | 10/5/10/10/10/12 | 500/150 | 20 | 5 | Medium Disruptor Beam | Small Disruption Shield | Escort | 200 |
 Destroyer | 14/16/14/14/14/12 | 600/200 | 12 | 3 | Disruptor Bomb Launcher | Small Disruption Shield Teleporter | Search+BaseAttack | 250 |
 Assault Ship | 8/12/8/8/8/4 | 850/200 | 8 | 2 | Medium Disruptor Beam | Small Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter | Infiltration | 300 |
 Bomber | 15/15/15/15/15/8 | 700/100 | 14 | 3 | Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Light Disruptor Beam | Large Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter | Bombing | 300 |
 Escort Ship | 20/20/20/20/20/20 | 500/80 | 16 | 4 | Stasis Bomb Launcher | Large Disruption Shield Cloaking Field • Teleporter | Escort | 250 |
 Battleship | 17/17/17/17/17/17 | 1800/300 | 12 | 1 | Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Bomb Launcher | Large Disruption Shield Teleporter | Bombing | 500 |
 Mothership | 15/10/15/15/15/15 | 2800/350 | 8 | 1 | Heavy Disruptor Beam Disruptor Multi-Bomb Launcher Stasis Bomb Launcher | Large Disruption Shield Teleporter | Overspawn Terror | 700 |
 Overspawn | 17/17/17/17/17/17 | 1800/0 | 4 | 1 | Claws | - | City Destruction | 400 |
1 Armor values are read as: Top (above), Front, Left, Right, Rear and Bottom (below). The "Armor" value reported in the in-game UFOpedia is the sum of these values.
2 Total HP / Remaining (or less) HP to go down. Destroy shield first, if present.
3 Appearance of equipment depends on X-COM's score.
Also listed is the Overspawn. A huge unmanned ground vehicle that is deployed to cause terror and destruction within Mega-Primus.
Important: One particular UFO must be shot down and successfully recovered for the game to proceed to completion. If this one craft is always destroyed or allowed to escape, it is possible it will never appear again in Mega-Primus. To possibly have this craft appear again, a tedious method of alien dimension combat is used to eliminate other UFOs, but not the one needed. (or an editor can be used to force this craft to appear if restarting the game is not an option)
Alien Craft Components
Any successful UFO crash recovery mission will enable X-Com to research their craft technologies:
Recovery of these three components is automatic after any successful recovery of any manned UFO and is only necessary once. Research of these craft sub-systems will enable development of a basic X-Com hybrid craft.
Crash Recovery Battlescape Mismatch
- Alien craft devices appearing on a crash recovery battlescape do not match up with what the UFO uses in cityscape combat.
eg: A Destroyer does not have any shield modules anywhere on the battlescape map but will use them when flying about the cityscape.
- A UFO must first use the device before X-Com may recover it. Appearance of more advanced devices is dependant on X-Com's "UFOs Shot Down" score.
Chart
- ## amount of this particular device on the battlescape.
- ♥ Present on the craft when cityscape fighting, and one will be recovered (irrelevant of damage) if crash recovery is successful, dependant on score.
- ∇ Present on battlescape only and not used in cityscape fighting.
| Craft | Small Shield | Large Shield | Cloak | Teleporter | Dimension Shifter ♠ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transporter | 6♥ | - | - | - | - |
| Fast Attack | 4♥ | - | - | - | - |
| Destroyer | ♥ | - | - | 4♥ | - |
| Assault | ♥ | - | 8♥ | 2♥ | - |
| Bomber | - | 4♥ | 6♥ | ♥ | - |
| Escort | - | 4♥ | 6♥ | ♥ | - |
| Battleship | - | 12♥ | - | 4♥ | 8∇ |
| Mothership | - | 8♥ | 16∇ | ♥ | 6∇ |
♠ This device has been cut from the final version and is not recoverable or researchable.
See Also
- Score And Technology Progress
- UFO Appearance And Incursions
- Vehicle Equipment
- Vehicle Weapons
- Research
- Cut And Removed Items
