How do I close the stats screen in XCOM UFO: Enemy Unknown?

Question

I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong or it is a glitch. In the game XCOM UFO: Enemy Unknown, I was playing normally. I shot down a UFO, went to go kill the survivors, went into battlescape, then for some reason I decided to click on the little gold icon that brought up the stats screen.

You can see this icon here, it is labeled as [16].

Now I have this stats screen open. I cannot close it. The music is still playing, the mouse still moves around the screen, but no amount of clicking or mashing buttons has made it go away. Am I doing something wrong or is this just a glitch?

Asked by Steven Rogers

Answer

Click with the right mouse button anywhere on the screen.

Answered by hansboit

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X-Com 1 : Is it possible to destroy UFO walls using only Heavy Cannon and grenades?

Question

I shot down a large scout, eliminated aliens outside, and came inside to see this: crash damage has destroyed a portion of 1st floor floor, so when I use the elevator to go up a level and pass through the door I just fall back down.

What are my options? Can I destroy the UFO walls to get at the remaining aliens?

Answer

Regular UFO Walls (and floors) have a damage rating of 80. According to UFOPaedia, Heavy Cannon(AP) can only deal up to 42 damage (which is unlikely, since the range is 25-75% normal damage) to terrain, and grenades deal 25 damage (and only to the center space).

The way terrain destruciton works, is that if a weapon deals more damage than the terrain's damage rating, it will become damaged / destroyed. This is a hard threshold, and it must be breached for each attack if you want to inflict terrain damage at all.

So unfortunately, the UFO appears unassailable, at least with your current equipment.

Fortunately, there is no penalty for leaving a UFO recovery mission. If you can't coax the aliens to come out to die, just load up all the corpses, weapons, and artifacts lying around the mission site back into your strikecraft... and leave. You'll miss out on recovered UFO parts, but that's it.

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