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I now have the new version. I'm seeing the new loading screen and the victory art for air combat. Also got a CTD on 2nd combat mission.

Not seeing the new loading screen.....

The game kept getting changed and then when they got one I didn't like they keep it for awhile.

Agree 100%. The 'I can hit two guys at a distance in one turn' sebbies are a real game breaker. Not a fan of this version.

'INSANE accurate aliens'. Yeah, what he said. Also..... locked up on me while I was viewing my soldiers.

1st mission, one lone alien, hides under cover, runs out, kills one of my guys. And again. And again. My guys cannot hit the alien because there's a 100 block from the spaceship, which makes no sense to me from the map. THREE GUYS HIT THE ALIEN AT VERY CLOSE RANGE IN ONE TURN AND HE IS 'SUPPRESSED'. Pathfinding seems weird. I had guys just not be able to move. Think I'll sit this version out.

That is good news.....

I'm an X-Com vet, but this is ridiculous. I go into a terror site with 6 troops and an armored car with 8 missiles. THERE ARE OVER 20 ALIENS THERE. Including the ones that kill two of your guys in one turn, turn them into aliens, then when they get killed turn into ANOTHER alien. Seriously, it's like 25 aliens to kill on this one map. This is FREAKING RIDICULOUS. This is three months (game time) into the game. I certainly hope this is not what they're shooting for in the final game.

I hit the 'start mission' button and boom.

I had a base attack in November. BOTH my missile launchers missed. My Skyranger with the good troops was not on the base, so all I had were newbies. I won the mission. At the end of the mission my base was gone and so was my Skyranger, all I had was my 2nd base (barely started). So, won the mission, killed all the alien base invaders, but somehow I lost base, troops, and four aircraft. WTF?

Soldier walked into a room and couldn't move. I could select him by clicking on his number, but he would not move. Lasted till end of mission.

What are the controls? All I can tell from that is someone hitting the space bar. How do you fire missiles?

Here's my newbie question: What's the deal with air combat? I'd love a short summary of how the controls work. How do you fire missiles?

Just had a CTD after finishing first mission. I was able to get back to the base, was trying to buy more scientists and boom - done.

I just started another new game to see if it would be good twice - nope. CTD at first mission. I checked the integrity of the game cache on steam, they told me again one file was corrupt and needed to be downloaded again. EDIT: I have now started two games from one 'verify game cache' so I don't know what's going on here.

Intel i5-2500k CPU @330GHz, 8gig ram 1920x1080

New game, 'Ground Combat loading' then a CTD. Twice. I tried deleting all my save games.... still crashes. Win7 64. EDIT: Went to steam and did a 'verify integrity of game cache'. Steam said one file was invalid and needed to be downloaded. No CTD now.

I started a new game, loaded up my troops with the right gear, started building a few additions to the base, shot down a UFO and sent my guys in. Game loading screen, then crash to desktop. Bummer. EDIT: I deleted all existing saves and started again, this time it took me into the mission. Don't know if deleting the saves did anything or not, but it did run this time.

Deleting the appcache folder in my steam directory forced a reinstall and so that worked. Game seems harder, but maybe that's coincidence. My first two missions I had multiple xeno's in very fortified positions.

My game is busted. When I try to start it I get a little steam window that says 'Updating Xenonauts ready in 0 seconds' and absolutely nothing happens. The 'play' button is grayed out. It is not downloading updates. I tried deleting the local cache, but nothing changes anything. Suggestions welcome..... FYI, I deleted my appcache and that forced a reinstall. Steam is handy until id doesn't work....

The thought just struck me that development updates on the webpage are about every two months. So in all likelihood the next one we see will read 'Retail release 1.0 is ready for download'. Far out.

I haven't played this game in a long time. I'm amazed at how polished it is now. HUGE improvements!!!! Can't wait for the release version. This game is really wonderful - finally a decent modern X-Com.

Great news! If you had asked me to guess I would have said March to June, so this is very encouraging.

Great video, thanks.

Trolls to the left of me, Trolls to the right of me... it's like the battle of Balaclava.