I feel amongst friends. With that being said, I beat the original game last night.
Great. You mean the original DOS version? Nowdays I almost can't play it, due to poor GUI (esp mouse is bad) and also the glitches are kinda annoying.
I'm getting ready to install the open x com patch.
but a few questions first.
Do i apply the patch first, then install open x com ?
I'm using this on dos box so everything is located in C:\GOG Games\XCOM UFO Defense.
Thank you so much for all your help.
OpenXCOM is not "a patch" for the DOS game, it is complete rewrite. Actually it seems there are two versions of the complete rewrite:
- OpenXCOM
- OXCE - adds far more things
Anyway, you install them as a new program, they will prompt about location of the original game so they can copy the datafiles (resources graphics maps etc) of the game.
There are also big mods here, one was The Final Mod modpack (but now discontinued?) which seems to be kinda replaced by the XCom Files megamod. There are also complete rewrites that change it to other game (but same mechanics) like the X-Pirates thing.