I played your mod after Xenaphobia by And_Great. I play hardcore mode with no saves and almost won the game.
And i am very looking for the alpha 0.99 became functional beta with researches and so on.
Here some impressions.
Almost 70% of aliens are around or in UFO's. AI is overall passive. No it's not bad just a little bit passive/defensive. I guess this is not a cheating AI that see through walls and this is good.
Weapon ranges: Again i used to play gamestile where first tier ballistic weapon range is around 16 titles or more. On my opinion weapon ranges should be increased a little bit.
Alien spicies and they unique weapons look very great. Also i like new planes u added especially bombers and mig 25 ) Please add more realistic airplanes of all kinds range from early migs up to F-22 Su-30 Su-34 Su-35 and Pak FA . More Russian planes ))
Conserning weapons for humans . Why would not u add all ballistic weapons from Xenaphobia ? There is a lot of cool stuff there like
G11, Magnum Heavy assault rifle, Zephyr ,Enforcer , Korhand HMG and so on. That mod seems to be dead and i think no one would be angry if u borrow all ballisic weapons from there.
Anyway i am almost closed in accomplishing Xenaphobia on Iron man (no saves ) and will be playing your mod heavily.
Keep it up on develepment.
Sorry for my English , im Russian.