KickStarter Xenonauts - XCOM-like set during the Cold War

[varangos]

I'm using a torrented 1.09 with xenophobia and works fine,you are probably not following install instructions

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

fuck off, i went to check the fine print and found out the beta patch steam downloads is not 1.09 or 1.08 but 1.07 =_= which of course doesn't work. i'm willing to wait for a solution to be posted in my private mailbox.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

so i had to resort to illegal means to make something i legally own work.

damn, xenophobia is teh hard. lots of aliens, angry and violent aliens, and probably too much micromanagement
suggestions? is there something i should avoid in order to not waste time and the very few resources?

 

[Endlösung]

Wanted to walk down the beamer, got reaction fired at just as I stepped on it. Game is fucking stuck. Last save is like 3 missions ago. Kill me.

EIDT

Oh thank god for autosaves!

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

i need console commands, some cheats or i don't know what: all is left is clearing this crashed ufo but as soon as i set foot in front of its doors the game freezes on "alien turn".

 

[Ulminati]

Wanted to walk down the beamer, got reaction fired at just as I stepped on it. Game is fucking stuck. Last save is like 3 missions ago. Kill me.

EIDT

Oh thank god for autosaves!

Ironman or gtfo

 

[Norfleet]

Hardly a good plan when the number one cause of game failure is bugs.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

well, vanilla works just fine, i finished it already. i'm trying to spice things up because i can never get enough but mods keep not working for me.

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Should I go for Community edition or vanilla?

 

[Ulminati]

Community

 

[Endlösung]

Never ever was I so grateful for CTD...

Bugged garbage: My First Battleship Edition

So, there are those flying aliens, and you cant seen them on the battleships outer side!
They spot me approaching, reaction fire, hit. I cant see them. The game shows me the red skull as if I see them, but I cant target them. Neither from a level below, nor above, nor even. Shit like that is unforgivable.

But I said fuck it and sacrificed a new soldier to finally spot them.
Shot myself through the battleship while being mind controlled.
Experimented around while being mind controlled. It seems that there is no defense. Bravery doesnt seem to matter. Rank doesnt seem to matter. But the AI prefers certain soldiers. So I disarmed them. But not before losing a few soldiers and stunning my own controlled ones with sleepy sticks. With 3 soldiers left, still was trying to clear the final level. Beam up. Unload MG. Beam down. Unlucky misses and reaction fire brought me down to 3 soldiers. All weakly mind ones that the AI targets. So I grabbed my own soldiers that I stunned and dragged them to our dropship. Managed to carry one inside and drop them, as well as some equipment.

And the fucking game crashed. Ahahahah. Thankfully I play ironman so that 5 dead veteran soldiers get resurrected.
Thanks shitty coding!

 

[ArchAngel]

MC works that closer you are to enemy commander greater is his chance to take one of your guys. One way to fix it is I think to waste all their AP every round. Another is to drop weapons at end of each round. Very irritating I know. Later I just didn't go on missions with Psi enemies, I would just bomb them from the sky and only do other missions.

 

[Endlösung]

I dont think wasting TU helps. They seem to get 2 rounds of control anyway.
Disarming works but whats unfair is that when the aliens lose control, the enemy gets free shots still in their turn at my now friendly soldiers and you cant do shit about it. So if by chance, the soldier that stood on the beamer lift, blocking it for enemies, gets controlled, he'll just wander upstairs and get slaughtered when the praetor loses control...

After I get that praetor, I wont do any battleships even, fuck that LOS garbage. Shit, I even only did 2 carriers because the economy of just airstriking starts to work at a certain point.

 

[Jacob]

i just played xenonauts, never played ufo defense, looking for some little tip, and instead i found this bullshit

a wife who thinks that I shouldn't be wasting it on childish pursuits

Why are you married to such a cunt, again?

Sometimes I wonder myself...Sigh...Eh, there are other interests we share. Didn't know that she'd be such a pain regarding this though. Irony is that my ex was a fanatical convert to gaming back in the day when I introduced her to the glory of the PC in the mid 90's. Guess I kept the wrong one eh?

Yeah, that's the hard part there. Just try finding someone who is:

a) pretty
b) not frigid
c) not mindless leftist drone
d) O.K. with nerdy habits
e) shares your taste in music
f) shares your taste in books
g) shares your taste in movies
h) likes gaming
i) can take care of the housework
j) is not a tranny​

So far my best is 7/10

i'm pretty sure i'm a 10/10 yet he leaves me anyway

p.s. i'm virgin no more

 

[anus_pounder]

 

[Jacob]

o... kay, finally got to march, but after losing 4 regions, is my game beyond salvation and i should restart or i still be able to win?

(in my first game i lost all regions at the end of jan)

 

[Emily]

This game is brutally hard unless you abuse the intercept mini game which I hate.

Just lost an insane/ironman,didnt even have a chance.

So I fired up veteran ironman,went so so first three months. Then the aliens built an outpost. How hard could it be?

Well fuuuuck they had those robots there,takes like 4-5 hits to kill them,I had no chance,got entire team wiped out. I presume you can take out a base only later on. Fair enough,but now that base is draining funding on a constant rate,and just my luck it is in USA,biggest contributor. I dont think I will make it.


Didnt expect this amount of brutality tbh.

 

[Emily]

But it is not what original X-COM pretended to be: a game for adults who can imagine the brutality of an alien assault on earth.

As an adult I imagine that Alien assault on Earth would be more about levelling cities with space lasers and shit and less about sending in UFO's.

Also, why the heck is the game called Enemy Unknown? It's obvious that aliens are the enemy.

The Aliens cannot sustain themselves in our atmosphere and they probably are very limited in force. Which is why they run abductions and I harvesting for genes and supstinance. It is implied that X-com is not a public action and that there is sort of an cold war going on. In fact the setting is genious when you think about it more. And obviously if Aliens could storm the planet they would do it right away and no defense would be possible.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

But it is not what original X-COM pretended to be: a game for adults who can imagine the brutality of an alien assault on earth.

As an adult I imagine that Alien assault on Earth would be more about levelling cities with space lasers and shit and less about sending in UFO's.

Also, why the heck is the game called Enemy Unknown? It's obvious that aliens are the enemy.

The Aliens cannot sustain themselves in our atmosphere and they probably are very limited in force. Which is why they run abductions and I harvesting for genes and supstinance. It is implied that X-com is not a public action and that there is sort of an cold war going on. In fact the setting is genious when you think about it more. And obviously if Aliens could storm the planet they would do it right away and no defense would be possible.

Thanks, it was worth waiting almost 3 years to get the answer to that question.

 

[Anthedon]

It's currently free on GOG: https://af.gog.com/game/xenonauts?as=1649904300

Are there any must have mods (for a first playthrough)?

 

[agris]

It's currently free on GOG: https://af.gog.com/game/xenonauts?as=1649904300

Are there any must have mods (for a first playthrough)?

The random map pack iirc, but not the CE - too many changes.

edit: maps https://www.goldhawkinteractive.com...4-v109skitsos-ultimate-megamix-map-pack-2000/

 

[Saduj]

In 3rd month of my first game and it looks like I'm at the start of a downward spiral. Problem is air superiority, which is much more difficult to achieve in this game than in X-Com. I only have two Foxtrots each of two existing bases with a Corsair on the way at one of them. The radar on my 3rd base is about to go online but there are only two Condors there. Aliens are sending out squadrons of fighters or two fighters and a corvette and I can't do anything but avoid them. About half the regions on the map have Poor relations, including some countries with full radar coverage. Unless the Corsair turns out to be a game changing beast for a while, things are looking pretty bad. Is this what the beginning of the end looks like?

 

[Haba]

Three bases and still no air superiority? Foxtrots should be able to tackle anything besides escorted craft. Are they outgunned?

Condors for fighter patrols and foxtrot support for escorted craft.



Disclaimer: any recent-ish nerfs/buffs are out of my expertise.

 

[Saduj]

Foxtrot + Condor or another Foxtrot can take down any single alien ship so far, but the formations of three can wreck anything I can put together at the moment. At one point three fighters were protecting a downed corvette and I had no choice but to airstrike it. I have been able to engage crash sites since then but the aliens could easily shut me down any time they want by sending a squadron.

I really had no interest in the air combat mini game but maybe I'll have to give it a shot. I'll check out the video.

 

[Darth Canoli]

I really had no interest in the air combat mini game but maybe I'll have to give it a shot. I'll check out the video.

I tried it 2/3 times and found it terrible, went for auto only, which works fairly well, tell me if you get a way to make it work manually and if it's worth it and interesting.