Okay, first of, I srsly like the first Xenonauts! U did a great job! :)
Now something I might be a little bit late to suggest, and, something maybe someone else already suggested, but, I am not going to look threw all the posts, so, ignore it, if u already heard it.
I played Ufo: Enemy Unkown as a kid. And I was totally scared. But I loved it. Then I played Terror from the deep, and, well, got my ass handed back to me. Then, I played Xcom Apocalypse, and, regardless what other people think, I love it. On the occasion, I still get back to it. And I am totally sad they did not finish it, and lost the source code. :(
There is one thing, I really missed in Xenonauts 1 which got me hooked a few times on the old series. And that is, "economics".
Even today, I constantly come back to, let say, Xcom: Apocalypse, with the thought of, "maybe I can do it a little bit better". And then I start playing around in my head, what if I safe ammo in the first week and only use sniper's to raise their stats before giving them Autocannons with which they destroy too much of the city and I end up having less money, and so on.
For me, personally, this was some real important part in the old series where I was able to thinker around and kind of try to get better results by producing stuff, hiring machinists, selling corpses, and so on. It was a wayof tweaking and ... yeah, a lot of fun, in my case. Some way where u could make a difference. And, that's one thing I missed in Xenonauts 1. In my opinion it's a real good combat simulator and u got that part done well. But it empazied a lot on the combat and less on like building and selling alien technology. In Xenonauts 1 production played only a role as it was important for building your own equipment.
I think, they meant, in the original series, to take this one level further in Xcom: Apocalypse, with corporations and the politics, which, afaik, they never finished. I think I read somewhere, that, there was supposed to be effects u could gain from the corps, like, if u had a good standing with "Gravball League" u get better recruits. If u are good with the "Technocrats", then all technology corps are more favourable to u. And so on. To a certain degree they implemented it. But, afaik, it was not finished.
What I want to say is, there was more then just the combat. And that's something I missed... besides soldiers who can lie down. :) ( but that's a different story ^^ )
So yeah, I know it's a little bit late, but, better late then never. :)
Have a good one, and, I am looking forwards to Xenonauts 2, ... so, keep it up guys and girls!!!
