UFO: Afterlight
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| Developers | |
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| Altar Games | |
| Publishers | |
| 2007-2014 | 1C Company |
| 2014-current | Bohemia Interactive |
| Release dates | |
| Windows | February 9, 2007 |
| Reception | |
| Metacritic | 71 |
| Taxonomy | |
| Monetization | One-time game purchase |
| Microtransactions | None |
| Modes | Singleplayer |
| Pacing | Real-time |
| Perspectives | Bird's-eye view |
| Controls | Point and select |
| Genres | RTS |
| Themes | Sci-fi |
| Series | UFO |
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| UFO | |
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| UFO: Aftermath | 2003 |
| UFO: Aftershock | 2005 |
| UFO: Afterlight | 2007 |
UFO: Afterlight is a singleplayer bird's-eye view RTS game in the UFO series.
General information
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
- Steam Community Discussions (Old Version)
Availability
| Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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| Retail | |
Simple disc check in Simplified Chinese release SecuROM 7 DRM in English release StarForce 5 DRM in Russian and Polish releases. |
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| GOG.com | |
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| Steam | |
UFO.exe, UFOApp.exe launch without needing Steam. | |
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| ZOOM Platform | |
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| Amazon.com (unavailable) | |
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Essential improvements
Patches
The latest patch for the game can be found on the Official Support site.
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
| System | Location |
|---|---|
| Windows | <path-to-game>\Profiles\Options.cfg[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/237950/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
| System | Location |
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| Windows | <path-to-game>\Profiles\<user-id>[Note 1] |
| Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/237950/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
| System | Native | Notes |
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| GOG Galaxy | ||
| Steam Cloud |
Video
| Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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| Widescreen resolution | |||
| Multi-monitor | |||
| Ultra-widescreen | |||
| 4K Ultra HD | Deadly freeze after trying to switch the language with the key combination Alt+⇧ Shift. | ||
| Field of view (FOV) | |||
| Windowed | In game option | ||
| Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
| Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Range 0 - 100 % | ||
| Anti-aliasing (AA) | In game option | ||
| Vertical sync (Vsync) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
| 60 FPS | Fps locked to monitor refresh rate (windowed mode allows to run above 60 Hz) | ||
| 120+ FPS | |||
| High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the glossary page for potential alternatives. | ||
Input
| Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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| Remapping | ||
| Mouse acceleration | ||
| Mouse sensitivity | ||
| Mouse input in menus | Menu can only be operated by mouse, not keyboard | |
| Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
| Controller | ||
| Controller support |
| Controller types |
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Audio
| Audio feature | State | Notes |
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| Separate volume controls | Main (Master), Music, Speech, SFX, Interface | |
| Surround sound | ||
| Subtitles | Some game events are logged rather than subtitled | |
| Closed captions | ||
| Mute on focus lost | ||
| Royalty free audio |
Localizations
| Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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| English | ||||
| Czech | ||||
| French | ||||
| German | ||||
| Italian | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Spanish |
Issues unresolved
Incompatibility with Intel HD Graphics
The game is incompatible with Intel HD Graphics. New Steam version should run on Intel HD Graphics cards through executable UFOApp.exe
VR support
| 3D modes | State | Notes | |
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| vorpX | G3D User created game profile, see vorpx forum profile introduction. |
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Other information
API
| Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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| Direct3D | 9.0c |
| Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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| Windows |
System requirements
| Windows | ||
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| Minimum | Recommended | |
| Operating system (OS) | XP | Vista, 7, 8 |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel Pentium III 1 GHz AMD Athlon 1 GHz |
1.4 GHz |
| System memory (RAM) | 512 MB | 768 MB |
| Hard disk drive (HDD) | 2550 MB | |
| Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 ATI Radeon 9500 DirectX 9.0c compatible | Nvidia GeForce 6600 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro |
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%,%PROGRAMDATA%, or%WINDIR%might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStoreon Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (237950) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.