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WARNING: Some of the exploits found on the following pages (particularly those that involve editing game files) can corrupt your game installation or savegames. Make a copy of your entire XCOM directory beforehand to be safe.

X-COM Exploits

This page lists the exploits currently found within X-COM:Enemy Unknown and X-COM:Terror From The Deep.

The following categories primarily concern the first game in the series, Enemy Unknown, but can also be used with Terror From The Deep, unless noted.

Exploit: For Free

Underhandedly get out of paying wages, how to raid for items, and how to abuse the rules of combat.

Exploit: Mind Control

Methods on how to psychologically break your enemy for your own devious gains.

Exploit: Collision Detection

The mystical art of moving through solid objects.

Exploit: Geoscape Only

Break some rules of global proportions.

Exploit: Tactical Only

Break some rules of the battlefield.

Exploit: Modifying Game Files

Arguably not "Exploits" but "Lite Modding"

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-'''Throw it through the ceiling.'''
+'''WARNING: Some of the exploits found on the following pages (particularly those that involve editing game files) can corrupt your game installation or savegames.  Make a copy of your entire XCOM directory beforehand to be safe.
-Most explosives can be chucked up through ceilings. This is useful if you don't know where enemies are exactly, but you know where they are roughly. Use a big enough boomstick and you'll probably kill any in the vicinity of the blast.
+==X-COM Exploits==
+This page lists the exploits currently found within X-COM:Enemy Unknown and X-COM:Terror From The Deep.
-'''Infinite Fuel.'''
+The following categories primarily concern the first game in the series, [[X-COM|Enemy Unknown]], but can also be used with [[TFTD|Terror From The Deep]], unless noted.
-This trick is great for saving Elerium-115.  When you finish building a new ship, load it out with weapons (dual Plasma Cannons are recommended) and wait for it to have the "Ready" status.  Then, transfer it to another base.  Immediately after it arrives, tell it to go to a random point on the globe (preferably where you have no bases) and have it patrol in the area.  Clicking on it will show that its fuel tank is 0% full.  This ship will now have unlimited fuel until it returns to base.  This works best on Firestorms, as they have the same number of guns as the Avengers yet cost less.
+[[ExploitsA|Exploit: For Free]]
+* Underhandedly get out of paying wages, how to raid for items, and how to abuse the rules of combat.
-Note: After downing a UFO, this ship will automatically head back to base.  Be sure to send it on patrol again before reaching base, or you will lose the unlimited fuel feature.  Because of this, it helps to keep it patrolling as far away from its base as possible.
+[[Exploiting Mind Control|Exploit: Mind Control]]
+* Methods on how to psychologically break your enemy for your own devious gains.
+[[Exploiting Collision Detection|Exploit: Collision Detection]]
+* The mystical art of moving through solid objects.
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+[[Other Geoscape Exploits|Exploit: Geoscape Only]]
-[[Gaining permanent control of a Chryssalid/Tentaculat]]
+* Break some rules of global proportions.
+[[Tactical Exploits|Exploit: Tactical Only]]
+* Break some rules of the battlefield.
+[[Game File Exploits|Exploit: Modifying Game Files]]
+* Arguably not "Exploits" but "Lite Modding"
+== See Also ==
+[[Known_Bugs_(TFTD)#TFTD-Specific_Exploits|TFTD Exploits]]
+[[Category: Oddities and bugs]]
+[[Category:Enemy Unknown/UFO Defense]]