Build V18.3 Released!

What is Desura doing? Taking breakfast until lunch?

Unlikely. They're in Australia. It's early evening.

Unless they work late - we may have a bit of a wait on our hands now!

Finaly. Is hotfix included? It says ( V18.3.1.rar (V18.3) )

Dunno. It can't hurt to overwrite it I suppose.

It's been authorised now.

Enjoying the new prop variation and looks!

Hey guys,

how do i download the v18.3? i am playing this on desura (premium preorder), but only the old v18.0 version is active? Do i have to wait till desura will do the update or what should i do?

Btw the game is awesome!!! Nice work!!!

http://www.desura.com/games/xenonauts/download

beta candidate 2

Thx Squibie

Thanks, today I can download (standard preorder) standalone. At last!

First play through and only found 3 small bugs. No crashes or hangs. Fantastic.

1-Footsteps sound intermittent.

2-No throw animation when knelt.

3-Research on artifacts starts BEFORE your Chinnie returns home.

Game is very playable and enjoyable. Great work.

First play through and only found 3 small bugs. No crashes or hangs. Fantastic.

1-Footsteps sound intermittent.

2-No throw animation when knelt.

3-Research on artifacts starts BEFORE your Chinnie returns home.

Game is very playable and enjoyable. Great work.

I have noticed the same things. However the intermittent sound bug is... well... intermittent.

I am now getting quite exited! This game is almost done ppl!!

18 minutes to go till dload finished

RIP C17 It was a lovely new feature in the genre and I enjoyed having to maintain escorts from one base to another.

Anyway, I'm excited for the new build and can't wait to try it out!

Research on artifacts starts BEFORE your Chinnie returns home.

Was this not to be kept as a feature? Justified by information being sent to your base from the retrieval team at the crash site (see End of Mission screen for a look at them). After all, it's not as though your chinook is lugging a power core and a UFO hull home.

Was this not to be kept as a feature? Justified by information being sent to your base from the retrieval team at the crash site (see End of Mission screen for a look at them). After all, it's not as though your chinook is lugging a power core and a UFO hull home.

Whatever, it is to quick, to quick. They would have hardly had time to wipe the green blood from their hands, never mind retrieved a 100 ton of artifact. You have to keep with the immersion.

They probably have big satellite phones. The labs and workshops have to be set up for the jobs at hand, so part of the retrieval team's tasks are to prep the base to get the right plant in place for the job. That sort of thing.

I do take your point. It was realising that I had no idea how the stuff captured actually got to the base and where it was stored that got me to think about it some more.

A bit torrent sync folder of the whole of the unpacked binary tree of Xenonauts could be shared between us and we'd only have to pull the differences each time there was a new release. Plus it'd auto-magically share the download bandwidth between us. And if Chris did it he could also just share the read-only key so people couldn't mess with it. Installing would just be pointing the sync folder at an existing directory.

He mused whilst watching his download go at 180 Kb/s

Moonie, here's Chris's considered opinion on your point with researchable items.

Moonie, here's Chris's considered opinion on your point with researchable items.

Personally I think it's a pretty large thing posing as a small thing. It kills the immersion stone dead. At least wait until the chinny has landed.

It's like we are going out on snatch and grab missions.

Did it break the immersion in the OG? Because it did the exact same thing, just without the pop-ups.

Did it break the immersion in the OG? Because it did the exact same thing, just without the pop-ups.

Trickery, darn trickery. Just kill the pop-up.

Its a minor issue really, that could be addressed later on in development. The 'fix' would be to delay the popup till after the dropship returned to base, though there might be bugs at first.

As an explanation it could just them setting up for the thing to arrive. Its a few hours usually, and they know the basics of what is coming e.g. power source, gun, body.

No need for the pop-up really. I always check my labs, workshop and soldiers when back at base.

It should be a simple fix for this rough edge.

Its a minor issue really, that could be addressed later on in development. The 'fix' would be to delay the popup till after the dropship returned to base, though there might be bugs at first.

As an explanation it could just them setting up for the thing to arrive. Its a few hours usually, and they know the basics of what is coming e.g. power source, gun, body.

As a variant, trophies arrival to base can be handled as regular items transfer, lasting few hours.

So it'll be popup "Items from Crashsite-XX arrived" followed by popup that new research now available (we already have such double popup for "research completed" / "new manufacture available").

I agree that such small change would add much to immersion.

That sounds good to me, I like it. Just have them arrive X hours after the battle ends. It could be linked to distance from the base, but that'd be more complicated, although it too would add much to the immersion, in a subtle but significant way.