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Tips/Tricks for geting the UFO

by · in ThinkTanks · 03/11/2004 (6:02 pm) · 20 replies

Can any one that has gotten the UFO before give me so tips on how to get it. My best score is around 100,000 and you have to get 500,000. So im thinking its impossible. Iv been playing this game for over a mounth. So any help for the new b whould be great. Thanks.

#1
03/12/2004 (4:51 am)
Get a LOT of quick shot bonuses and have a lot of time on your hands. Of course, I only got it when the master server was down, which probably won't happen again. If it does, however, you should definetely go for it.
Just a reminder, the UFO is really crappy. It takes 7 or so shots to kill. But, if you want bragging rights, go for it!
#2
03/12/2004 (12:31 pm)
How do you save you hi score to get the ufo?

anyway if you want it easy just delete the tank AI
#3
03/12/2004 (4:55 pm)
Lol! But isn't that cheating?
"No no no, not 'cheating'! Just...modifying!"
Is that how you got your UFO bak? I'm disgusted! lol
#4
03/12/2004 (5:39 pm)
I got the points i just didnt get the ufo!

i dont know how to save my score!

which is why i asked!

and yes its just modifying...
#5
03/12/2004 (5:42 pm)
Im gonna need an answer quick
#6
03/12/2004 (7:46 pm)
Bak, you've got to die and get a game over. If you've done what I think you've done.. you've got a whoooole lotta dieing to do. It's almost faster to get it the legit way... :P
#7
03/13/2004 (4:59 am)
This is how i did it.

two words: cliff hanging

Devestator
#8
03/13/2004 (7:04 am)
Well i only had 43 lives at the time
#9
03/13/2004 (8:08 am)
Thanks guys for all the help!

Spunky,

How does the server being down have to do whith geting the UFO easier. I figure you were just board :-). For me geting quick shot bounuses can only be done in the first set of leves (islands).

Debbie Brazzle,

I tryed cliff hanging but i think i need to use the light tank for that. I usly use the havy and you just get bumbed off. What tank did you use for cliff hanging Debbie Brazzle?
#10
03/13/2004 (9:49 am)
Yes Exploder. I had a ton of free time that day. :-)
Only three things I can say about quick shots: practice, practice, practice.
#11
03/13/2004 (10:39 am)
Light
#12
10/02/2005 (12:51 pm)
^ONLY 43 lives
#13
12/20/2006 (9:34 pm)
It only take 7 hits to kill the ufo on level 4? (freidian flats) on the solo game? it seems to take a lot more. I swear I have shot it 20 times before it starts to even smoke. never have killed it!

do the special weapons have any more effect on it that regular bullets?
#14
12/20/2006 (9:49 pm)
^ No, 7 shots takes out a light UFO, the BOSS takes forever.
#15
12/20/2006 (9:51 pm)
Is it the BOSS in level 4? I have never seen the difference between a light ufo and the boss... I have never made it past level 4
#16
12/21/2006 (9:41 am)
Don't know if this will help, but here's a few numbers.

A light can take 11.8 units of damage. A light shoots bursts of 8 rounds(bullets). Each light bullet does 0.87 units of damage so 11.8/0.87 = 13.6. Since we all shoot bullets in integer quantities that means a light can kill a light with 14 bullets.

It takes 51.72 bullets to kill a Boss, or 6.5 clips.

LightTank
damageAmount = 11.8; // total amount of damage tank can withstand
maxSpeed = 15.9; // meters per second (in forward direction)

Boss UFO
damageAmount = 45.0;
maxSpeed = 8;

BabyBoss
damageAmount = 10.0
maxSpeed = 16.0;
#17
12/23/2006 (12:36 pm)
Just type in the chat box /ufo there u go u now have a ufo.
#18
03/05/2007 (9:52 pm)
I have mad it so far I unloked the boss, and I now a cheat on some levels you can go /codes
and maby all the codes you can do in the level apears on the screem,if one of the codes is /boss us it.
#19
04/18/2007 (8:09 pm)
Kick the ufo out when u try to use it it just uses a medium tank :P
#20
04/20/2007 (5:41 pm)
Quote: I have mad it so far I unloked the boss, and I now a cheat on some levels you can go /codes
and maby all the codes you can do in the level apears on the screem,if one of the codes is /boss use it.

You owe dash your thanks, he created (or rather, he was the first one to distribute) the admin codes, which contain those.

For obvious reasons, its simple to turn those codes off, and most people have.

Personally, on my servers, i erased the tank changer codes, but left the codes that let the admin change other people.

Personally, I'm against hacking the ufo. I've unlocked it several times (legitimetely), if you hack it, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Quote:Kick the ufo out when u try to use it it just uses a medium tank :P

Originally there was a server called "Heavy Testing" where the ufo would work. Later, the Homelan servers would run it. But they've since been taken down. :(

EDIT: Oh, and spelling is your friend. ;)