Tech Levels (Apocalypse)

Also known as Score Levels

Technology Levels

Score

• Total Score influences X-Com's funding from the Government, checked after each week.
• Tactical Missions score influences what the aliens carry on the battlescape, checked after each mission.
• UFO Craft Shot Down score influences what devices the UFOs will use, checked at the start of a new day.

however, X-Com's score does not determine:

• Aliens: UFO type, mission style, schedule, or craft quantity that appear in Mega-Primus.
• Alien life-forms or quantity present on the battlescape (check Infiltration Force for each craft).
• Alien technology given to organisations or quantity of security guards that are present.

Progress: Aliens

The tables below show progression points required for each item to appear, for the five difficulty levels.

Tactical Equipment (Anthropods and Skeletoids)

Tech Level	Novice	Easy	Medium	Hard	Superhuman	Weapon (clip quantity)	Grenade (quantity)	Other Devices
1	0	0	0	0	0	100% Brainsucker Launcher (1,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3)	100% None	100% None
2	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	1,000	70% Disruptor Gun (--) 30% Brainsucker Launcher (2,3,4)	30% Smoke Grenade (1,1,2) 70% None	100% None
3	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	2,200	80% Disruptor Gun (--) 20% Brainsucker Launcher (2,3)	30% Boomeroid (1,1,2) 30% Smoke Grenade (1,1,2) 40% None	100% None
4	4,000	4,000	4,000	4,000	4,000	50% Devastator Cannon (--) 40% Disruptor Gun (--) 10% Brainsucker Launcher (4)	50% Boomeroid (1,1,1,1,2) 30% Smoke Grenade (1,1,2) 20% None	100% None
5	7,000	6,900	6,800	6,700	6,600	60% Devastator Cannon (--) 30% Disruptor Gun (--) 10% Brainsucker Launcher (4)	30% Vortex Mine (1,1,2) 50% Boomeroid (1,1,2,3,3) 20% Smoke Grenade (1,2)	70% Personal Disruptor ShieldPDS 30% None
6	12,000	11,500	11,000	10,500	10,000	20% Entropy Launcher (3,5) 70% Devastator Cannon (--) 10% Brainsucker Launcher (4)	40% Vortex Mine (1,1,2,3) 40% Boomeroid (1,2,2,3) 20% Smoke Grenade (2,3)	30% Personal Cloaking FieldPCS 40% Personal Disruptor Shield 30% PCF & PDS
7	22,000	21,000	20,000	19,000	18,000	20% Dimension Missile Launcher (3,4) 20% Entropy Launcher (3,5) 50% Devastator Cannon (--) 10% Brainsucker Launcher (4)	40% Vortex Mine (1,2,3,4) 50% Boomeroid (1,2,2,3,4) 10% Smoke Grenade (3)	30% Personal Cloaking Field 30% Personal Disruptor Shield 40% PCF & PDS
8	42,000	39,000	36,000	33,000	28,000	20% Dimension Missile Launcher (4,5) 30% Entropy Launcher (3,4,5) 40% Devastator Cannon (--) 10% Brainsucker Launcher (4)	50% Vortex Mine (1,2,3,3,4) 50% Boomeroid (2,2,3,3,4)	30% PCF & Personal TeleporterPT 40% PDS & PT 30% PCF & PDS

Vehicle Equipment

Item	Novice	Easy	Medium	Hard	Superhuman
Small Disruption Shield	2,000	1,750	1,500	1,250	1,000
Large Disruption Shield	4,000	3,500	3,000	2,500	2,000
Cloaking Field	8,000	7,000	6,000	5,000	4,000
Teleporter	16,000	14,000	12,000	10,000	8,000

Progress: Humans

All Organizations will upgrade their "Tech Level" by +1 at the beginning of each week, however, any 100% infiltrated organisation is granted an immediate +3 over their current level. The maximum level is +12.

Organizations' Starting Tech Levels

• Level 1: Energen, Evonet, Extropians, Grav Ball League, Lifetree, Nutrivend, Sanctuary Clinic, Synthemesh, Technocrats
• Level 2: Cult of Sirius, General Metro, Nanotech, Sensovision, Superdynamics, Transtellar
• Level 3: Cyberweb, Government, Megapol, Mutant Alliance, S.E.L.F.
• Level 4: Diablo, Marsec, Osiron, Psyke, Solmine

Tactical Equipment (Humans)

Tech Level	Weapon (clip quantity)	Grenade (quantity)	Other Devices
1	40% Lawpistol (2,2,3,4) 30% M4000 Machine Gun (2,3,4) 20% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 10% Auto Cannon (3AP)	20% AP Grenade (1,2) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 70% None	100% None
2	20% Lawpistol (3) 30% M4000 Machine Gun (3,3,4) 20% Laser Sniper Gun (2,3) 10% Auto Cannon (3AP) 10% Plasma Gun (2) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE)	20% AP Grenade (2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 10% Stun Grenade (1)Δ 60% None	100% None
3	10% Lawpistol (3) 30% M4000 Machine Gun (3) 20% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 20% Auto Cannon (3AP,2HE) 10% Plasma Gun (2) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE)	10% Proximity Mine (1) 30% AP Grenade (1,2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 50% None	100% None
4	20% M4000 Machine Gun (3) 20% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 20% Auto Cannon (3AP,2HE) 20% Plasma Gun (2) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 10% MiniLauncher (3HE)	10% Proximity Mine (1) 30% AP Grenade (2,2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 50% None	100% None
5	10% M4000 Machine Gun (4) 20% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 20% Auto Cannon (3AP,3HE) 30% Plasma Gun (0∇,2,2) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 10% MiniLauncher (3HE)	10% Proximity Mine (1) 40% AP Grenade (1,2,2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 40% None	100% None
6	20% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 20% Auto Cannon (3AP,3HE) 20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 10% MiniLauncher (3HE) 20% Disruptor Gun (--)	20% Proximity Mine (1,2) 40% AP Grenade (1,2,2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 30% None	100% None
7	10% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 20% Auto Cannon (3AP,3HE) 20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 10% MiniLauncher (3HE) 30% Disruptor Gun (--)	10% Boomeroid (1) 10% Proximity Mine (1) 40% AP Grenade (2,2,2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 30% None	100% None
8	10% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 10% Auto Cannon (3AP) 20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 10% MiniLauncher (3HE) 30% Disruptor Gun (--) 10% Devastator Cannon (--)	20% Boomeroid (1) 10% Proximity Mine (2) 30% AP Grenade (2,2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 30% None	100% None
9	10% Laser Sniper Gun (2) 10% Auto Cannon (3AP) 20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (4HE) 40% Disruptor Gun (--) 10% Devastator Cannon (--)	10% Vortex Mine (1) 20% Boomeroid (1) 10% Proximity Mine (2) 30% AP Grenade (2,3,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 20% None	20% Personal Disruptor Shield PDS 80% None
10	10% Auto Cannon (3AP) 20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (4HE) 40% Disruptor Gun (--) 20% Devastator Cannon (--)	20% Vortex Mine (1) 20% Boomeroid (1) 20% Proximity Mine (1,2) 10% AP Grenade (3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 20% None	10% Personal Cloaking Field PCS 20% Personal Disruptor Shield 70% None
11	20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 40% Disruptor Gun (--) 30% Devastator Cannon (--)	30% Vortex Mine (1) 20% Boomeroid (1) 10% Proximity Mine (2) 20% AP Grenade (2,3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 10% None	10% PDS & PCF 10% Personal Cloaking Field 30% Personal Disruptor Shield 50% None
12	10% Plasma Gun (3) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 40% Disruptor Gun (--) 40% Devastator Cannon (--)	40% Vortex Mine (1) 20% Boomeroid (1) 10% Proximity Mine (2) 10% AP Grenade (3) 10% Smoke Grenade (1) 10% None	20% PDS & PCF 20% Personal Cloaking Field 40% Personal Disruptor Shield 20% None

Δ Stun Grenades are used exclusively by enemies at Tech Level 2. This is probably a design oversight.

∇ This is likely a mistake. Note that the enemy may still pick up another weapon during the mission.

Un-Progress

It is possible to reduce/reverse the (Total) Tactical Missions score by destroying/leaving behind equipment brought to a battlescape mission to force the current technology level of the aliens to be also reduced. Purposely limit the tactical score by:

• Escape a UFO crash recovery battlescape after finding new agent technology, abandoning alien corpses, and recoverable craft devices (only if they are known or are awaiting research - any new technology should be recovered if only once).
• Escape from a cleanup of alien infestation (kill as many aliens (including eggs, chrysalids, unhatched brainsucker pods) as possible but prevent successful completion of the mission). Infiltration may progress but will be slowed significantly.
• Escape from a raid with only what is absolutely needed, ammo does not contribute to score.
• Start a raid with hostiles and only use agents that you were going to sack (reactions too low) and get them all killed (bonus if you equipped them with obsolete unloaded weapons or excess junk).
• If neutrals are about and not wanting to damage the building when playing with an armed High Explosive, jump off a very tall structure instead! ...is the easiest method since all can jump in unison and no one will panic. (J+LMB each agent when game is paused)
• If score limiting is used, technology used by security and thugs (level +1 each week) will surpass the alien's technology level (score based). X-Com may then rely on 'others' to provide an endless stream of exotic equipment.