Download UFO: Alien Invasion 2.2

Anyone who has been around the sci-fi world for a while and loves strategy games has undoubtedly played one of the installments of the X-com series. In this game series you control an organization that wants to prevent aliens from taking over the earth. The underlying story relies heavily on the 1970s TV series UFO. For several years now, an open source game has been developed under the name UFO: Alien Invasion, which is strongly based on the first two parts of the X-com series, namely UFO: Enemy Unknown and X-com: Terror from the Deep. For more information, we refer you to this page. The developers released version 2.2 of UFO: Alien Invasion early this year with the following announcement:

Version 2.2 has been released

The long wait is over – we finally did it and released the next version of UFO: Alien Invasion. There are a lot of new and stunning features included in this version.

• Air interceptions
• UFO recovery
• UFO Crash Sites
• New technologies and new game content
• Solaris and MacOSX port (ppc and intel)
• Random map assemblies
• email system
• New network and renderer code (SDL only)

Many thanks goes to Willem Sitters and Destructavator for creating this promo trailer for us: Promotion video

New Features:

• 3D Geoscape – possible to select in options.
• Target to different height levels for shooting using the shift key.
• Tip of the Day.
• Implemented capacities for base facilities.
• Implemented dependencies for base facilities.
• Aircraft slots to get several aircraft items per aircraft.
• Air interceptions.
• Base defense against UFO raid.
• Personnel and aircraft transfer between bases.
• Actor sounds.
• UFO crash.
• UFO Recoveries.
• Shoot-through walls.
• Footstep sounds.
• Added emails.
• Ambient sounds via misc_sound entity

Bug fixes and code cleanup or improvement:

• Solaris port (thanks McMurlock)
• Mac PowerPC (and maybe also PS3) port
• Reimplemented the transfer code.
• RoQ support (cut scenes).
• OGG Vorbis support for sound effects.
• New memory subsystem which fixes most of the memleaks we had in our old code.
• Better item descriptions in UFOpedia and other menus.
• Fixed Intel graphics card support.
• New network code.
• Merged client and renderer code
• Video subsystem now uses SDL on every platform
• Merged client and sound driver code
• Sound subsystem now uses SDL on every platform
• Improved sound system (no more sound stuttering)
• Faster map loading
• Bug fixes for random map assembly code
• Bug fixes for overlapping texts

Artwork:

• New rank images that reflect the list of ranks written by Winter. You can see them in Manual/Single player/Ranks.

models:

• Bloodspider model with animations & texture has been added:
  • The texture has been created by Protoarmor.
  • Full integration into the game is still open though.
• IR Goggles model.
• SHIVA Rotary Cannon model&texture added. 4-barreled version of the “chaingun” model that is usable in an aircraft.
• Particle Beam Weapon model&texture added.
• Fixed broken Shevaar death animation #1741771
• A lot of new static map models – see the Gallery for render images.
• Power armor (currently multiplayer only)

sounds:

• Some new geoscape event sounds

Other:

• Improved in-game IRC client (hit F10 to get it from everywhere in the game once you are connected)
• Improved server browser
• New Armor system
• Soldier turning via RMB (Right mouse button)
• Redone the credits sequence
• Language selection via menu
• Implemented head gear slot
• Polish for mail client, hospital and some other menus
• Cleaned up textures – replaced a lot of textures with GPled ones and removed a lot of unused textures
• Better popup messages when and why buildings are inactive
• Updated PDF manual

maps:

• New maps pipes_const01, terrain02, convoy01
• Fixed a lot of map bugs (like actors inside of solid objects, unusable stairs, shoot through objects and so on)
• New base facilities:
  • Antimatter Storage facility map
  • Missile facility for base defense