Slippery Jim
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I haven't played Xenonauts for a long time since I wanted to wait until it was more complete. It is amazing how far it has come! It looks very polished now!
I started a new game and encountered 2 small scout UFOs. Both times my condors has to break off from the attack while in the combat screen just before they could fire on the UFO. I got the message that I had to break off the attack or else I wouldn't have enough fuel to fly back to base. I said yes to break off the attack. The condors then turn around and fly off the screen in slow motion. It takes a minute or two for them to leave the screen and for the screen to go back to the Geoscape. Is this normal behavior? Is there a way to speed it up?
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Congrats to Chris and the Xenonauts team for reaching this milestone! I know the game isn't finished yet, but you guys have done an amazing job for your first Indie game. Home you guys get all the success you deserve.
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There are 3 things that I disliked in the demo:
1) The opening movie was a blatant ripoff of the aliens landing in the "War of the Worlds" remake. I expected more originality from Firaxis.
2) The camera movement was almost a waste of time. Give us full mouse control of the camera like Company of Heroes!
3) If you look at the movie folder you can see videos that are shown after you research new hardware. A lot of the guns are the exact same video but they just changed the gun model in the characters hand. Same camera move. Same scientist in the video. How cheap is that? Really lame not to have more variety ie different scientist, camera moves, etc.
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wow there are some very sad people on this forum...for the immature among you, if I had seen that it had already previously been posted. Guess what? I would not have posted. I am just a simple soul trying to be nice to people, but this forum seems to have several jerks. Too bad
p.s. anyone able to point me to the ignore button? I have a very special needs person I want to ignore
Wow, your personal attack was grossly unwarranted.
However since you want to go down that road there is a wonderful thing in forums called a search feature
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Ya already reported a few hours ago in the Xcom thread in this section of the forum.
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What is retarded is the fact that they seem to have included all of the game's videos. That is almost 3.7gb of videos of wasted bandwidth since most of those videos can't be seen in the demo I suspect.
Oh well, we can watch them with a .bik player if you want spoilers. Get the Radtools.exe from http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm if you want a Bink video player.
The sectoid autopsy video is mildy gory yet rather enjoyable at the same time
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Finished demo. It is extremely short and leaves you wanting more BADLY. Basically you get a few cut scenes, the "tutorial" mission on how to do basic movement, and 1 mission with full control.
That "full control" mission can be a choice between 2 different missions. You have to restart demo to choose the other mission.
UPDATE: Both missions are identical. Doesn't matter if you choose the North American mission or China mission. Same result.
I wasn't impressed by the opening video that was blatantly stolen from War Of The Worlds (remake). I expected more originality from Firaxis.
It looks good but not enough to decide if all the original X-com goodness is there. My guess is that they dumbed it down a little.
I am going to have to play the demo again and see if the camera can be controlled at all.
Update: ya slight camera changes by (q) and (e) key. Missed it first time I played it
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Not sure if it has been posted already (sorry if so) but the demo is available on Steam now. Downloading it myself (almost 6GB).
If you pre-order the game on Steam they have rewards that increase as more people pre-order. Very close to the reward of them throwing in Civ 5 for free if you pre-order.
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ya, "fog of war" doesn't seem to work on alien corpses.
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Minor bug...got a lot of the same soldier first name.
In the attached screenshot you will see how many Katrina soldiers were generated on starting a new game. Apparently the name Katrina was very popular.
Click on to enlarge image
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I am only going to recruit fat soldiers. I want to blow the monthly budget on food and toilet paper.
errr, maybe that won't be a winning strategy against aliens.
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Damn, finally got around to installing Desura and collecting my kickstarter "gift" but don't have enough time to play it.
I need more free time to satisfy my need to execute aliens!
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Ya I am tempted to stay awake to check on the numbers. Would like to see the $50,000 happen (almost) live.
Thanks Chris for ruining my night
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I made my modest backing of the Xenonauts kickstarter. Wish I had more to spend right now but money is still pretty tight.
$50,000 was way too modest!
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Awesome news.
Very well done Kickstarter page. Nice and professional.
I got home late from work but once I wake up in the morning I will be donating.
Xenonauts!
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Only looking for $50,000? That may set some people's alarm bells ringing and actually backfire worse than asking too much.
I think people are starting to get more paranoid:
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That Christian Allen game? what was it, Project Takedown?
Argggggh!
lol.
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Slippery Jim if you want to check out someone that has truely failed at makeing a kickstarter page search for "free will".
Yikes! I almost feel sorry for that guy (or perhaps embarrassment). 0 backers. Harsh
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Although I have never bought from GoG.com it always seemed like a brilliant idea.
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You mean kinda like Goldhawk which also isn't famous and therefore...? Maybe we should just let Firaxis handle this, eh?
All I am pointing out is human nature. Nothing you or I believe will sway public perception. Kickstarter is the most famous and most successful. Most people are sheep who stick to brands they know.
I think that the public's perception might be, if you don't use Kickstarter, is that the game is of lesser quality or that the dev's couldn't get their act together.
All of us here are fans of Chris, his team, and this game. Now you have to convince the masses who aren't absolutely obsessed with X-com (and who may already be planning to buy the Firaxis version).
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lol, no I didn't back the project. I am just very interested in the sort of "old school tactical" game this fellow is trying to make. I really hate to see a Kickstarter done so badly and not just for this genre of game. I hate to see people who might abuse the Kickstarter process and possibly lower the confidence that people have in it now.
I know I am taking it too personally. Christian Allen may turn out to be completely 100% a good, honest guy. Crazier things have happened, lol.
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Sounds like you're already wrong Jim.
Time will tell on just how good of a game comes out of this though.Not yet I am not. Anyone can say "I have meetings with private investors" and it doesn't make it so. Christian Allen only raised $200,000 in the hopes of getting some investors and hasn't promised to make a game with that. He can blow the seed money any way he wants.
I especially need to spend some time with my family, who have rarely seen me in the last few weeks, so I am going to take them on vacation (with a few days broken up to fly out and meet with investors)....and so it begins. He barely did anything for the first 3 weeks of his Kickstarter. Claiming his family didn't see much of him is a joke unless he spent all that time at the bar
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I agree that getting Kickstarter would be the best choice. Any other fundraising system isn't as famous and therefore comes across as less professional or trust-worthy.
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Incompetence - I dunno. He sucks at marketing. Doesn't mean he can't create a game. =P
Perhaps, but I think they are connected skills. It shows a lack of creative thinking on his part. It shows a lack of effort.
Below are a few interesting quotes from people on other forums:
Roshin says:As an old fan of tactical shooters, I should be all over this, but I’m not. I’m just not convinced that they can deliver a decent tactical game. It was handled badly from the start and it’s still not certain thing, as they apparently have to court investors now.
Drake Sigar says:I think anyone who paid for this is even more insane than those people who blow a hundred quid on a special edition boxset. This guy doesn’t have a massive reputation like Schafer or Fargo, he uses images without permission, and asks for large sums of money with the end goal of enticing his mysterious ‘financial investors’.
Khemm says:A few people I talked to were reluctant to support this project because of the whole “we need to go to publishers anyway”, the fact they had no assets/concept art to show and that what little they showed were photoshopped pictures. It really was a kickstarter done in a very unprofessional way from the start.
Personally I think this guy will take the $200,000 and use it for living expenses. He will fly around the country first class trying to court investors and will produce nothing. I hope I am completely wrong since I love tactical shooters like Swat 3. I hope he gets his act together.
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Is there a bug that causes Jackal armour to disappear? I seem to have to constantly make new armour beyond the 3 soldiers that I have lost. I had a full set of armour for each soldier but even after making 3 new armour for the replacement soldiers only half of my team has it now.