Xenonauts 2 - Alien Planetary Invasion Tactical Strategy 

Makes sense. In the original game it was based on the characters' reactions stat. Loved it when an alien bolted and multiple guys just opened up on it at the same time. Also used to farm stat increases by taking pistols on missions with a Muton presence, mind-control disarming them and then letting my team go ham with their popguns :D

This game also gives a bonus to react the fuller the TU bar is.

I always made sure to ONLY hire soldiers with a decent Reaction stat. If, for some reason I had to take a guy with a lower stat, they were always in a canon-fodder role. ☠

@@kythian accuracy is way more important though

@John Alpha im not too sure, but I dont think so. Maybe with snipers

+1 to this. It was too easy to be outflanked without having the mobile cover of the shield troops. Or shot dead as soon as you opened a door on the alien craft. I used to overburden my snipers with shields on the side doors of the Chinook as well as having actual shield troops in front. This served to provide cover in case of aliens flanking the Chinook and extra shields to pick up later after I could let the snipers drop them and use their main weapon.

I used them all the time in first xenonauts. 2 squads with 2 shield guys at the front was my strategy

Shields and shotguns - they do work!

@@ARescueToaster, the bad thing about the shieldbeares, they are a magnet for grenades. But defineltly really useful until you can get a better protective suit so your guys are no in danger of dying in one shot

@@Stefannice Even then, the shields are a massive advantage. I usually have them armed with shotguns in addition to the pistol once their strength is high enough, so that they can open a door to the ship, have their shield shredded by overwatch, and then run in and gun down the alien. They are also my go-to troops for taking prisoners.

Was gonna kick it in the head when he was 25 Sweet child don’t wanna stay alive, when your 25 (David Bowie. All The Young Dudes)

once you blow out 30 candles you feel like you got hit by a car every time you crawl outa bed

Same, I am looking forward for this

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Same here. I got it there for like 4 years... Development speed is so slow that many players believe it's a scam. And I don't blame them.

Well, without the delay, the game would probably has exactly the same mechanics with its prequel - or worse: becoming a blatant copy of 2012 XCOM reboot. First sequel build was happening on 2016, right around when XCOM2 released. That build was basically an isometric 2012 XCOM with Xenonauts skin, which attracts negative critics. That plus XCOM2 experiences, were causing overwhelming feedbacks. This finally pushed the devs to take some time to tweak a mundane amount of QoL features, story, mechanics, even assets standards.. hence the very slow progress.

It's based on original X-com as far as I know, and a great improvement on the modern installments of that franchise.

@@Ilamarea Yes, Xenonauts is an homage to X-com made by Julian Gallop in the early 90's.

That is what I was going to say, and I totally enjoyed aftermath.

I dont know. It looks like they arent fixing or improving anything. Same clunky load out menu. Original Xcom had better loadouts since you could see more items. No improvements for ingame map... I think there are minor changes to the menu in the overworld.... this does not look promising.

@@TherealTenmanI i don't know what you mean, the menus work fine, what is clunky about them?

would be interesting if your beginning weapons were sourced from the location of your starting base.

I wish the cold war theme was more heavily used in the first xenonauts. I can only hope they have a good narrative reason for moving the cold war into 2009.

@@Rusty126 From what I remember from reading a year ago the aliens have been maintaining it as it benefits them which is how your organisation realised something was going on and discovered the aliens

pretty sure you can bring anything on field if you use mi-6

The newer XCOM games have region bonuses for resources, research, production, etc. Maybe the Xenonauts devs will add something like that in the release?

The zones are worth different values. USA is rich. Eurozone is the same value, just separated. At least that was the go in xeno1

Might like Phoenix Point

The original Xcom will take some beating I spent many sleepless a night playing it - I hope this one will be good - I bought the new one in a cheap sale to try it out but looks like might be too much Hollywood

Here are the things I was able to find: * Only one thing can be researched at a time now, like in the new X-Com games. This for me is a huge step down from the freedom you had in the first game. * The tech tree is different. You get tasers immediately, and have extra equipment, like the scanner. * The grenade launcher replaces the RPG. * You can customize your armor with plating. * Planes can be customized with armor. Weapon hardpoints are universal, so you can take all guns, all missiles, or a combination of both. * Missiles need to be bought, you don't just get them for free. * Buildings have adjacency bonuses. * All buildings, except the hangar, are 1x1. There is no command center, but an elevator instead. * You need to build generators to supply the base with power. * You have a training room you can use to train soldiers while they wait to be deployed. * Human alien sympathizers are present. The Cleaner mission map seems to be fairly static around the LZ, with the same clump of trees in the middle, a building to the south, and a building to the north. * You get one more soldier in the default chopper. * Tanks are more like the ones in the new X-Com, taking up less space in the transport and being basically autonomous drones rather than piloted vehicles. You can still have only one per craft. * Tanks can now have up to 2 weapons. * Autopsies now give you a detailed breakdown of enemy stats. This removes a lot of the mystique and ex * Air combat AI is improved. It's no longer trivial to use one plane as bait, because the enemy will re-target based on the biggest threat (closest?). * The enemy craft have changed abilities and weapon fire arcs. * You get line of sight indicators when you plan your soldier's movement, making it easy to see if a shot would be blocked. * You can jump through windows. (this was previously modded in) * Soldiers have a Stress value, meaning you can't just constantly use the same squad, but have to rotate them. * There are new mission types, with different objectives. They also seem to have timers.

same, if theres not enough differences, I might not get this game tbh

What does the shield actually do though?

@@gabrielandradeferraz386 When you take a hit from the front it's first applied to the Shields armour and HP before the guy behind it. They have to completely take your shield down before they can damage you.

@@Cuthawolf are there better shields than the base one? I found it to be pretty meh

@@gabrielandradeferraz386 Yeah but I think there's only one nearish the end? Lemme load my save and I'll get back to you.

@@gabrielandradeferraz386 Yeah it looks like there's the Combat Shield and the Assault Shield and that's it. I find the Combat shield to be pretty worthwhile in the beginning and early mid, then usually discard shields until the Assault Shield comes along at the end.

He just wants his soldier to get the true russian conscript experience.

The official remake is great, but it is a different beast from the original. Xenonauts is more of a spiritual successor to the original than the modern version.

How long HAS it been? like 8 years?