franconbean

I guess it wouldn't make a lot of flavour sense, but it would be nice if some medals did something other than increase bravery. I think the +1 increase is still fine: once you get a highly decorated soldier, those small incremental bonuses really stack up

I'd love to be in your LP. Looks pretty fun so far

Hmm... I don't think I will bother with the FPS one. It looks like 2K are just slapping the title "X-Com" onto it for marketing purposes alone. Looking at the game, it is X-Com in nothing but name. Depends if it stands up on its own merits.

I Await the implementation of terror missions with baited breath (base defence also, to see how the "Key prop" thing works out). This project has me super-excited and I can't wait for the finished product.

I don't think Xenonauts will be outright in competition with Firaxis' game. Having read the forums over yonder, and in various places on the net, there is an awful lot of whining about how Firaxis are "ruining everything". Given that Xenonauts seems to have stuck a lot closer to the vein of the original, I reckon that those dissatisfied with X-Com:UE, or those who just don't like the look of it will turn to Xenonauts. Likewise, people who are impatient for a taste of X-Com style action might end up pre-ordering this to get to the Alpha build (which is a pretty sizeable advantage over the Firaxis project). Then again there are also people, like myself, who will buy (and probably enjoy) both games. Rushing the game to release before its mega-budget "rival" will hurt more than it helps most likely.

From the geoscape, after some time (almost instantly on the fastest speed), the game randomly goes into ground combat against a light scout with "minor damage" and two aliens on the same map each time (alien races vary). I have yet to see an actual UFO on the Geoscape. I spent a few minutes searching on the forums to see if anyone else has posted about this, and I can't seem to find a thread concerning it. Apologies if it has already been highlighted on the forums before. edit: Ok, after searching for answers to another issue i am having, found a thread concerning this. Sorry about that and feel free to ignore this thread. Feeling like a bit of a muppet now (was in debug mode because normal mode would not launch. Problems all solved now).