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Got a tip from a friend to watch a couple flicks at YT about aerial combat (By Dranek) and now I am confident I will be able to progress in the game if I manage to master the aerial combat. The guy in the video was very good at aerial combat. Now I know I suck at it, badly. Willing to improve. So far, my opinion is that the game on difficulty medium and up offers very little forgiveness. Probably working as intended. Still, the learning curve is very steep for someone that never played games like X-com/UFO or jagged alliance. If you fail to put your first bases on the right spot, you are done. If you don't research the techtree in a certain manner, you are done. Hmph, the base positions shuld be just fixed ones then, and you build them when you have the money. Of all the base coverage maps I found on the net, 9 of 10 (or more) had the same pattern, like Cuba-Yucatan and Cairo-Jerusalem etc. Not moaning here, in X-com it was the same thing. There, with the laser cannon exploit you could indulge in alternative base positions. In Xeno, the pattern is set in stone.

OP, thank you for this topic. I too am struggling with UFO break-ins. Gone are the days when in X-com you could punch a downed UFO with the blaster bomb anywhere you wanted and wreak havoc inside. The most 'clever' little trick I was able to uh..apply was to use the C4 pack to blow the door open. But now my guys are staring into a dark and menacing corridor with more doors. Like you said, I manage to get in with my most-Tu guy, open a door and maybe kill a bad guy, only to get killed from behind from another bad guy that popped one of the other doors open. I did watch quite a bit of UFO-break in flicks on YT, but those aliens seemed kinda high on grass, barely reacting to that person's actions, meek and passive. Mine are tough, clever and deadly er..mofo's. OP, Sorry for the little thread hijacking but: how does the reaction formula work? Why my guys cannot get the drop on the bad guys? low reflexes or something more than that? Thanks.

Wow, Chris England in my topic! Yes Chris, I do add accuracy to my guy's shots. I did play the X-com series and Jagged Alliance series games.Thanks for answering though. And thanks for the game. Tinkering with ModBox in order to play the old X-com series was getting old. Actually my 'guys' are firing mostly aimed shots. Their misses are not useful very much.On the other hand, my machinegun's misses are useful After 10 or so first missions, I am still dealing with guys with very low marksmanship skill, like in the 40-ies. Yes they are improving slowly.From time to time I hire new soldiers, but their starting stats are a lottery. If one has high MRK, he usually has 30TU or 35 reflexes etc. Anyway, need to bite the bullet and endure this cr@ppy 'beginner's firearms-era'. What really concerns me is the ramp-up of enemy flying circus quality/quantity. How many MIG's am I supposed to keep in a squadron that is capable of consistently bring down alien corvettes? A pair is not enough. With much luck, patience and prayers I am able to shoot down a corvette every now and then but it is still a bit frightening. Rant over. Anyone that made it so far in my reply, here: a cookie.

Thanks for your answers. No offense taken. There are the polite people and the...other ones. I understand now that the plasma weapons for xenonauts are actually a terran research (based on alien weapons). Not like in the first x-com, where they were the same thing, be it looted from dead aliens or produced by the engineers. Makes more sense this way, even if most of the alien forms encountered so far were mostly Hominids.So, ergonomy shouldn't be really a big issue. Another thing: my first game-month ended, and suddenly alien corvettes (with escorts) replaced the small scout UFO's. I mean, droves of corvettes. I managed to outmanouver and down a few (with a pair of MIG31's) but the starter Falcons are suddenly useless!! I choose the medium difficulty (like in most games) for my first playthrough. Maybe I should restart on easy. My guys can't hit a barn and the bad guys are sniping them from across the map. Had my first base invasion/attack, barely survived. Those lizzards are hard to kill with bullets. Hopefully it gets better later..

Hi there, community! Got the game just yesterday,and as an old Ufo: Enemy unknown fan, I am very pleased with this new er.. incarnation So far I like almost everything about the game, the things I don't..well, modz-R-us. Most modern games are open to user modification/tweaking, .xml is ubiquitous enough. It is possible that my question(s) was already answered (maybe many times) but the game support/community (boards) is already awesome and I AM reading the boards, but still have some questions. In the old UFO/XCOM you had to capture an alien weapon, like the plasma pistol/rifle/heavy plasma, grenades etc and bring at least one home. Then you research it and you can tell your engineer team to start producing them if you had the required materilas, like alien alloys, Elerium-115 etc. In Xenonauts, I did 'bring home' (it is automatic) one plasma pistol and one pl. rifle, my scientists completed the research on the pl. rifle, but I cannot produce it. Now, I am not sure, it seems that you, the player are NOT supposed to make/use alien weapons. Ever. Maybe just when you run out of ammo and pick one up mid-misison with all the malusses etc. I've watched quite a few Xenonauts videos on YT, some during as we say 'end-game' and I saw some mysterius weapons like lasers and other, but NO plasma weapons. Are they really off-limits to the player? Plasma weapons were really powerful and fun to use in the original UFO/X-com. I don't mind if they are off-limits for game balancing purpose, just would like a few explanations about the matter. Thanks.

Sadly, it doesn't work on my system (XPPro). After launching, the screen goes totally black, and the game doesn't load. EDIT: The modification did not work for me. The reason seems to be because I am apparently an ass. And a lazy one to boot. What I did was to REPLACE the original 3 folders with mr. Skitso's ones. Not unpack in the assets folder, but replace the folders with tons of files with folders with just those few ones. How clever. I've learned the lesson, did it properly and the little tweak works wonders. I really, really like it. The constant popup-screen made my stomach queasy. Thanks a ton Skitso! P.S. Just started the game, played a couple missions, installed the MapPack. It takes a bit to load (old PC) but the maps are gorgeous. The aliens are not. They snuff my guys from across the map. meh. need...better..tactics..