Tech Levels (Apocalypse)

Alien Tech Levels

As X-COM's score advances the aliens will bring more advanced weapons/equipment to arm both their soldiers and craft. Below is a table that shows the progression of alien technology, indicating the points required for each item on the different difficulty levels. For tactical equipment, the score checked is your Tactical Missions score (counted at the beginning of each mission). For vehicle equipment, the score checked is your UFO Shot Down score (counted each new day).

Tactical Equipment (Anthropods and Skeletoids)

Tech Level	Novice	Easy	Medium	Hard	Superhuman	Weapon (clips)	Grenade type (number)	Other
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 (n/a) 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 (n/a) 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 (n/a) 40% Disruptor Gun (n/a) 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 (n/a) 30% Disruptor Gun (n/a) 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 Shield 30% None
6	12,000	11,500	11,000	10,500	10,000	20% Entropy Launcher (3,5) 70% Devastator Cannon (n/a) 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 Field 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 (n/a) 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 (n/a) 10% Brainsucker Launcher (4)	50% Vortex Mine (1,2,3,3,4) 50% Boomeroid (2,2,3,3,4)	30% PCF + Personal Teleporter 40% PDS + Personal Teleporter 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

Human Tech Levels

Human Organizations will also upgrade their technology as the game progresses. However, this is not tied to X-com's score. Instead, all organizations will upgrade their "Tech Level" by 1 at the beginning of each week after the first, up to a maximum of 12. In addition, an organization that gets infiltrated by the Aliens will get +3 Tech Level. Each member will be armed with one Gun, and may also have one item from both the "Grenades" and "Other" lists.

Tactical Equipment (Humans)

Tech Level	Weapon (clips)	Grenade type (number)	Other
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)1 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 (02,2,2) 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 (n/a)	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 (n/a)	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 (n/a) 10% Devastator Cannon (n/a)	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 (n/a) 10% Devastator Cannon (n/a)	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 80% None
10	10% Auto Cannon (3AP) 20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (4HE) 40% Disruptor Gun (n/a) 20% Devastator Cannon (n/a)	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 20% Personal Disruptor Shield 70% None
11	20% Plasma Gun (2,3) 10% Heavy Launcher (3HE) 40% Disruptor Gun (n/a) 30% Devastator Cannon (n/a)	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 (n/a) 40% Devastator Cannon (n/a)	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

¹ Stun Grenades are used exclusively by enemies at Tech Level 2. This is probably a design oversight.

² This is likely a mistake. Note that the enemy may still pick up another weapon during the mission.

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