thothkins

thanks for the bump Gorlom. I'd missed those clips. As if I didn't appreciate a333's art enough already. Now, that I've seen just what goes into it, even more impressed. Did anyone else find watching them and the music amazingly relaxing too?

Yeah, I was thinking about that and I'm sure there was some mucking about with flame effects way back too. It would be lovely to have.

I'm reading that they won't be making it into that post >sniff< Cue pun related regrets of dreams going up in flames and some fun going up in smoke >/sniff< Ah well, at least we know.

Base names or political statement?

Vasquez: All right, we got seven canisters of CN-20. I say we roll them in there and nerve gas the whole fucking nest. Hicks: That's worth a try, but we don't know if it's gonna affect them. Besides, technically you could do your very best to avoid stun research but you would still have the airstrike option available, so the research done wouldn't match the UI.

bonus points for having the Aliens counter on there. Extra brownie bonus points for labelling it the X-Com Apocalypse Toxigun.

In the original the part where you researched psionics, built facilities, got yourself psi amps all the way up to the first occasional successes in the field were great. Every mission beyond that was overpowered. So, the trick is to keep all the first part but limit them so they don't become the second.

I've had Rose and Cherry Blossom Ice Cream. Yummy! Actually, there's nothing there I wouldn't try.

Because some of the UFO debris can land on your base? It's just gives the game a different feel. UFO:AI has a few interesting things like that. Not really what Xenonauts was hoping to do, as it's closer to the original in that respect.

You're never unsure what to get for birthday presents are you? Hmmmm..what would the Blood Gods fancy this year? What could the Skull Throne do with? Hey! I know... I generally just go with the default. There's no point giving them names, and picking out cushion covers if another build is going to be along in a minute for me. In previous games I've done famous landmarks Pyramid, Uluru, the American one.... the Texan Barbed Wire Musuem.

Tsk Commissar. Do try to stay on the very valid topic of Flamethrowers. No need to start a flame war. I do wonder if the pennies for the flamethrower effects were put up front, and that part of the budget has now gone? Or if it worked best with the person who vanished off the face of the planet? Or if it's really, really fiddly and the cost of getting someone else in to do it is too high? questions.... burning questions...

I think it's fair to say that the bases set up is pretty much towards what will be in the final game. Separate missile silos, radar stations etc have come up before. I think the idea with Xenonauts was to stick fairly closely to the original in that department.

other categories they probably couldn't just didn't have room to mention on the features list - Appease weasel politicians - compromise on every step of the programme to fudge a solution - file for divorce after spending a third week on a camp bed in your office - deaths on the launchpad - shutdown through endless recriminations until a scapegoat is found - choose between prescription drug or alcohol addiction

You put tumbleweed on the maps?! Oh.... you mean... hey, this counts as a post in your tribute thread!

did you think it was a burning fever?

yup, the music is a plus for Xenonauts.

although there remains the flickering hope that somehow they will make their way back in.

to be honest "ugh" sums up what I thought of that one too.