The Veteran Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I found this in a review of UFO:Unknown Terror. I've never heard of any of the games called that before so I took a peek. Turns out it was a UFO/TFTD compilation with the original manuals and two walkthroughs by Dave Ellis (Which was a suprise to me at least!) This picture confused me as I've never seen anything like it before and I've completed tftd over and over again... Maybe it IS just the normal explosion, made to look strange by taking a still image. It certainly looks strange to me though. https://www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/zones/reviews/pc/dec96/xcom53.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 It is the explosion image as a still. It's normal. I once took a screenshot of the UFO Defense explosions, because I thought they looked like skulls. Turns out they were little like, mushroom cloud thingies. I left the screenie on my old comp, but even if I did have it I wouldn't be able to post it, I don't know how to do websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Taking a screenshot of explosions always turns out strange... I once took a screenshot for the same reason Fox did, they look like little skulls when exploding but a screenshot tells differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Or, perhaps the skull is there, but only parts of it are in each explosion frame. So when the animation is running, our brain registers each part of the skull and this leaves us thinking that we saw a skull. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman4117 Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 I believe that I have seen the sprites for the explosions in one of the graphics directories. I think that there were three or four of them that cycled. I'll post them if I find them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Same here. I think I saw the skulls once... i'm sure it was a link posted by a guy from this site... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Demi-Godly One Posted July 10, 2003 Share Posted July 10, 2003 I think that origionaly the designers wanted to make the explosions look like "mushroom" cloud explosions. I saw a screenshot of it somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daishiva Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 If you can find the files that contain the sprites, ill look into decoding them =) havent seen em yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strong Bob Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 My question is... Where, exactly, did you find this review? :dontgetit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted July 11, 2003 Share Posted July 11, 2003 XCOM: Unknown Terror - Review It looks like XCOM: Unknown Terror (notice the lack of dash in X-COM... hmm) was a two-pack with UFO and TFTD. Sort of like a precursor to the CE. The review is pretty cool, and if you look at our infamous screenshot posted by Vet, you can see the caption: Scuba-diving, XCOM2-style. Beware the HE autofire ... So after some closer analysis, you can see the bubble trail near the lower left corner of the picture, looks like it came from a hydro-jet cannon. I think gas cannons produce a larger explosion and bubble trail. Edit: Umm, I guess you can see the hydro-jet cannon in the picture... I just umm, didn't notice that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTNS Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 wait a second. in both TFTD and UFO, explosions were displayed by SKULLS for the explosion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 I don't remember about land missions, but underwater explosions were big bubble thingies like in vet's picture. And they aren't skulls at all, they are like mushroom clouds. They just kind of look like skulls when you see them going fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metalangel Posted October 8, 2003 Share Posted October 8, 2003 In the original game, the explosions do indeed have skull shapes in them. I'm positive. The TFTD explosions are just bubbly. Just a nice cream soda. :angel: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted October 21, 2003 Share Posted October 21, 2003 maybe its a hybrid game done with xcomutil... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 ... Skulls? https://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/eh.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted November 12, 2003 Share Posted November 12, 2003 yeah, now i remember! the explosions do look like skulls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted November 12, 2003 Author Share Posted November 12, 2003 I've no idea what the underwater explosions look like at all as I run it on an XP computer No sooner do you fire a weapon than a nice charred patch appears obn screen. It's so unbelievably fast I can sometimes tell a man to move, wonder where he is and find him dead about three screens away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ki-tat Chung Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 ahh yes, in ufo and tftd, while your man moves, you are rendered helpless as you do nothing but look at him move. which is why i try to to that thing where it skips straight to the position. hard to explain... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted November 19, 2003 Share Posted November 19, 2003 If you set the movement speed really high... https://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/sarcastic.gif Or better. You don't have to wait for units to move if they aren't on the screen. So, when you want troops to move fast, you trail the view around so that the whole route, with the exception of about the last step, is off the screen. Handy, but it can be a bit reckless at times (cause you'd only really use it for long trips, and you shouldn't really order those anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F.I.A Posted November 22, 2003 Share Posted November 22, 2003 Agreed. I do remembered seeing a skull in an explosion. But that's in UFO Defense, not TFTD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus Posted December 11, 2003 Share Posted December 11, 2003 As for the explosions. Yes, they look like skulls, but in Enemy Unknown (or UFO Defense). Amasingly, I haven't noticed that until I saw a following screenshot on the Byron's XCommand site https://dynamic.gamespy.com/~xcom/images/x1x5x59.jpg Don't sure, whether every type of HE ammunition causes such explosions or only Blaster Launcher (as you can see on the shot) cause game runs pretty fast on my machine (and it is not being XP) even with Moslo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 12, 2003 Share Posted December 12, 2003 Oh. Yep. Those are skulls all right. Cool. https://www.angelfire.com/games3/jeffy90/images/smilies/laugh.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usmarox Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Nah. In UFO, at least, all the explosions look like skulls. There's a screenshot from the 1994 coverdisk demo that came with PC Gamer which shows an explosion very much like that one. But the only explosives in the demo were grenades and HC-HE rounds. If I can get to my back issues of PCG, I'll scan it. If I can't, you'll just have to take my word for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrus Posted December 16, 2003 Share Posted December 16, 2003 Nah. In UFO, at least, all the explosions look like skulls. Well, then I guess they do. Frankly speaking, I think the artists wasn't going to draw an additional set of explosition pictures without the apparent reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted December 16, 2003 Author Share Posted December 16, 2003 I'm amazed to see this thread still being used I love that pic though. Do you see that muton still standing in the middle of the explosion? Cheeky bugger lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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