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So where is it? It's the 31th now and I haven't downloaded anything new on steam

Disgusting. I waited long enough for this game to wait any longer

Nothing. I'm always surprised about threads like this. It's almost always the same games being discounted and for the same amounts also it's almost always possible to pick up the games at other places for less.

Confederate Express sounds very interesting to me. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/829559023/confederate-express/ A short tech demo is also available

Just found out about this new cool game on kickstarter that does seem to need some more attention. It seems like it's going to be an open world game with a lot of focus on survival against all kinds of horrors. Personally I think it looks good from what they have shown so far and I totally low the concept art. Also the goal is fairly low so with some more exposure they should have a fair shot of hitting it. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1683973133/frozen-state

The huge drassen mine counter attack is a 1.13 thing and was not in the original. I would tick it off for a first timer since it's without doubt the toughest fight you will ever fight. Also as soon as you capture the airport in drassen you should be able to access the gun store using the laptop. Remember it takes a while for your stuff to be delivered and there is even a risk of stuff being stolen Sadly when it comes to see if your soldiers are in cover or not I personally can't help you as the game is kinda bad in that aspect.

Yes air combat hits a huge spike because the enemy upgrades their aircraft way faster than you can upgrade yours. Unless you get the tech you need fast enough ( need to encounter a specific enemy or clear a landing craft) before the enemy starts sending bigger ships you might as well start over since it will just snowball till you can't even play on.

I'm kinda on the fence on this one. The problem right now is that something that is supposed to be a minor part of the game is currently the most crucial one. The air combat is brutal and unforgiving compared to the ground combat. Although i don't see losing a plane early one to be that bad since you can buy the basic ones very cheap and as long as you don't stay really low on planes by default losing one and waiting for the new one to arrive shouldn't be that much of a problem. However later on in the game when you start seeing tougher ships and you have built your own better interceptors things can quickly escalate if just a single one dies. I mean with the long time to rebuild and the uselessness of the basic planes it's pretty much impossible to recover without ending up just doing nothing at all till you have been able to rebuild. Personally I would rather see a change in the difficulty curve. Maybe give us an extra hangar from the start to signal that you need a lot of planes and then make the curve for new alien ships a lot smoother instead of the spike we see now. It doesn't make sense that you encounter corsairs with escorts at a point where it's only slightly likely that you have even gotten the research needed for the corsair.

Thats a shame Then again I guess I got enough to play so that I can wait a couple extra days

Any idea when we will receive the steamkeys?

Although this is what they said about the diorama "Another question is, if this is final art and final models etc. It is not - a LOT can change during initial production and design phases. But Jesper and Javier have tried to hit the mood and visual style that is in their heads as close a possible. Remember this is 2 week effort - and its kick ass. So the game might in the end be a little more gritty, less color saturations etc - or it might stick to this initial take. But we don’t want the game to turn into a comic book - and we don’t want to run a bland photo realistic brown shader boring look either." It seems pretty clear that the diorama more or less represents the visual style they are going for. Yes it might be a little less cartoony or stay the less but either way i'm almost certain it's gonna look horrible. And as I also said they are asking too much for the game especially considering their poor track record. When guys like brian fargo asks for $15 minimum for wasteland 2 I don't wanna pay a minimum of $25 for a jagged alliance 2 made from guys whos most recent venture is a free to play tactical shooter that is awful. And don't take it the wrong way, im a huge JA2 fan and replays the game like once a year and I would love a new JA game that isn't total garbage like JA:BIA but this game will hardly be it

Looks absolutely awful from the diorama. The whole cartoony style ruins the whole game. Also these guys barely have a good track record and haven't worked on any really good game so dishing out a minimum of 25$ (FYI games like wasteland 2 and Project eternity had games for 15$) makes this "game" really unattractive. It's a shame though because I would love a new good Jagged Alliance

Actually i encountered the light drones way earlier than the androns ( like a month at least) and I'm pretty sure the drones didn't give me the electronic research Either way something has to change, it goes from a fair difficulty to having your ships torn up in less than a second if you get too close and the whole "fire missiles, retreat, rearm, repeat" is hardly any fun tactic either

I've noticed the exact same thing. The only shots fired are on local forces / Civilians or reaction shots.

After playing around a bit with the latest build ( V18.5) and about closer to 3 months in game I feel that I have to comment on the geoscape. Personally I find the gap between Foxtrot -> Corsair to be too long considering how fast the aliens tech up. Getting the alinum missiles is nice but the laser cannon hardly makes much of a difference since at close range your condors die immediately. Also when you do actually get the corsair it takes a long time to build even with 2 workshops and that grace period where you are down one potential airplane just to build the first corsair is very painful. Maybe change it so that you can actually research the corsair earlier, I can't remember what tech I needed off my head but I believe i needed the corpse of one of the android soldiers and they didn't show up for me until 2 months into the game, a point where the enemy already had a lot of corsairs and heavy fighters

So after not having tried this game since like 8 months ago or so I decided to download the latest stand alone from desura and I just have to say what the fuck did I just download? tens of thousands of files having to be unpacked in this day and age just reeks of amateurism. Heck my winrar nearly collapsed from trying to unrar it and while most games at most have a few hundred files and are quick to install this took almost an hour. I can't see this kind of file structure ever working in the long run and i'm sure steam don't want it like this either.

Finally time for beta? This game is moving so slowly Was hoping the kickstarter would speed up things a bit more.

And still no 16.1 stand alone for windows? I must say once again I'm disappointed...

Still no stand alone installera for V13? This is pretty bad if you ask me, I don't want another client on my system but this is starting to get ridiculous...

Have to agree it. 100k is 200% funded and 200k is 400% funded that is a lot! Extra goals should be at 85, 125, 160 and 200k maybe. Also the announced goals today did not really make me wanna put in more money than i already did when I pre ordered. I think it's important to feel excited about the stretch goals so most people will thing "Man that sounds really sweet, I guess I can afford another 5$" and not "Meh I don't use a mac and I don't care about females so i'm fine with this"

I hope the 100k/200k gets more than just female/mac/linux additions. Don't really feel that those two would add much excitement to the game compared to additional alien races, gear, aircraft and so on. Maybe it's just me and my friends though

Was pretty disappointed by the game. Bought it after having played the demo and the game quickly got a lot worse after the demo since it essentially forced you to shoot everything like crazy. Also the game is short and ends in about 30 minutes after leaving the apartment. I personally expected more even if the game isn't bad it's just that it's pretty mediocre despite the possibility of being great instead Also the dev is totally irrational in his zealous defense of the game. I posted my complaints in a civilized manner on the youtube video of the launch trailer and within an hour I was banned from posting anymore comment. Is this what you would expect from a indie dev? Someone who can't take a single bad review? Yes he did later send me a message apologizing which I appreciated but doesn't make the deed undone when it comes to coming off as very unprofessional

Just because Fargo and Shafer did it doesn't mean xenonauts can. A lot of kickstarters don't meat the goals and while I can't say for certain if xenonauts would or not I'm just not sure it's the right way. Sure if there is no other options go on but I would look to solve the money problems in other ways.

Not impressed by it. I wouldn't mind the lack of turn based gameplay since it's difficult to sell those kind of games today but all the other simplified features kills the game for me. Lack of Mortars, proper roof climbing, fewer weapons, only one attachment per gun, no training, no IMPs are among things that break the game for me. Also the camera was pretty awful if you ask me, If you make the game in 3D at least make sure the camera is flexible so you can actually get a good look at your soldiers and their cover, too many times did it seem like I was safe in cover when I was clearly not. Also the portraits in BiA is just horrible, pretty much all soldiers look the same. They should have kept the iconic 2D portraits IMO

I just realized I had one more question Is there plans to keep updating the game after release with new content? As in new aliens, research, buildings and so on? Could be for free could be expansions, just asking if the game will keep improving after release instead of just being bug fixed