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Obviously: it releases a charge of laser shot in one shot. Less obvious: it has a larger angle (a larger cone) of scattering of the laser beam. Also (theoretically) a laser shotgun should dazzle.

The idea of having special tactical groups for different types of missions is just wonderful. But to implement it, you will need special skills for soldiers, and these skills should give a bonus on various types of missions. For example: UFO hacking skill (without this skill, it is almost impossible to get inside the UFO. And for success, 2-4 soldiers with a similar skill are needed.) Urban fighting skill. (Without this skill, soldiers shoot "on reaction" at civilians if civilians suddenly appear in sight.). Etc...

The separation makes sense if Xenonauts 2 is also done with the expectation of the possibility of modifying the game. You can, of course, reduce the entire Xenonauts game to "special cases" (which were found among a wide variety of classic X-COM variants), motivating this by the need to optimize the gameplay, but this will make the game too specialized (focused only on the tastes of one audience) and make the modification process more difficult, and sometimes impossible.

New fashion is often shown on TV. And although jeans were invented 150 years ago, almost all new models of jeans do not stand up to any criticism compared to the classic model. I agree with the fact that people always strive to experience something new, but "new" is not a synonym for the word "best".

No matter what good specialists (soldiers) the player would hire, the player will always have soldiers with experience only for 1-2 battles (or no experience at all) and soldiers with experience for 10-20 battles. And the player will risk less experienced soldiers. The war for survival without death is like a detective film without a crime.

The more advanced (developed) technologies xenonauts will have, the less experience (level of personal development) will be required from soldiers to achieve victory in battle. One day, the player will reach such a level of technology proficiency that the personal experience of soldiers will no longer play a decisive role.

I would suggest this option: And the game has a "pool" (maximum list size) for hiring soldiers. Let's say that each region provides 5 soldiers for recruitment. There are 6 regions in total. In total, there will be 30 soldiers on the list for hiring personnel. (5*6=30). With the increase of panic in the region, the number of soldiers on the recruitment list (from the specified region) will decrease in proportion to the level of panic. For example: If in one region the Panic level is 20%, and in other regions the Panic level is 40%, then the size of the list for hiring soldiers will be equal to: 1 region (1-0,2)*5=4 2 region (1-0,4)*5=3 3 region (1-0,4)*5=3 4 region (1-0,4)*5=3 5 region (1-0,4)*5=3 6 region (1-0,4)*5=3 Total: the size of the list for hiring soldiers is 19 (4+3+3+3+3+3=19)

Add an aircraft carrier to the game. An aircraft carrier ship can sail the seas and oceans. The aircraft carrier ship will have a radar to detect UFOs. There will be hangars for fighters on the aircraft carrier ship. The aircraft carrier ship will help solve the problem of targeted reduction of panic in the necessary region of the globe. In fact: The aircraft carrier ship is the player's floating base.

A very good idea. If the player does not appear at the UFO crash site in a day or two, then the number of opponents may be so large that it is very difficult, and even impossible, to win a tactical battle. When there are 8-9 bases in the game, then the loss of 1-2 bases by a player (during the game) is not as painful as when there are 6 bases in the game.

I agree. The counter reduces the intrigue and "gambling" of the game.

Players are trying to save not so much soldiers as to preserve the experience accumulated by soldiers. In the game "Xenonauts 2" soldiers have an infinite resource, and therefore it makes no sense to take care of saving this resource. The experience of soldiers is a scarce resource. Total: first of all, players strive to keep experienced soldiers. As for the "lying position": this is a logical improvement of the X-COM series, which was implemented in the third part of the original series. X-COM 3 Apocalypsys

There is a natural (logical) fact: a soldier has more pockets (space for inventory) after he puts an exoskeleton (military uniform) on his naked body. Unnatural (not logical) is the fact that a completely naked soldier has more pockets (places in the inventory) than a soldier who will wear a soldier's uniform. Items that are put on the soldier's body should not take up space in a tactical backpack. I agree with the fact that the image of an item (those that are dressed on a soldier) looks better to the player than a list of items (those that are dressed on a soldier). Additional armor plates, night glasses (other things that are put on the soldier's body) should also have an image.

Civilians do not react in any way to the presence of the player's soldiers. The player's soldiers cannot influence the behavior of civilians in any way (soldiers do not have the functions of influencing the behavior of civilians). The only existing way to save civilians without completely killing the aliens is to paralyze (put to sleep) all civilians and bring them to the helicopter. As an option: I propose the idea of a mission in which huge robots fly around the city and paralyze all civilians. The player's task: 1. Distract the robots. 2. Collect the bodies of paralyzed civilians and deliver the bodies of civilians to the evacuation point. P.S. Robots shoot only paralyzing beams. With the help of ballistic weapons, robots can only be temporarily stunned. It is forbidden to use explosives in the city. (Otherwise, the panic increases).

It looks more natural than wearing a bulletproof vest and a laser sight in a soldier's tactical backpack.

What you need to do: 1. The construction (birth) of new bases costs the player very cheap. 2. The production of fighter planes is very expensive. Total: Progress in the game is measured not by the number of bases, but by the number of fighter planes. Thus, the player can transfer fighters from a base located in regions with low panic to a base located in a region with high panic. Instead,: The player has a limit in the game - 6 bases. To appear: The player has a limit in the game - 6x3 = 18 (as an example) fighter planes.

Most of the players are here because they liked the principles underlying tactical battles in the UFO game:1-2. , and not because they didn't like the principles underlying the tactics in UFO:1-2, and the players decided to look for games on a different basis.

A bad balance is when there is a "stress" mechanic in the game, which actually forces the player to maintain and train at least two tactical teams (for rotation and rest), and in the final game allows you to take only one tactical team. The Final Battle (X1) was no different in scale (epic) from any other battle in the game, with the exception of constant enemy reinforcements. In X2, it will also differ from the rest of the battles only by a large number of enemies, (so that it would be difficult to win on the first attempt) and that's it. Due to the inherent (underlying) limitation on the maximum allowable number of soldiers, players will not be able to create a modification of the game, which in terms of tactics and scale of battles will resemble the classic UFO:1-2. The gaming market is saturated with games with tactics at the level of 1-2 squads (maximum) . For example, the recently released Boldur Gate 3. Jagged Alliance 3. There are no tactics at the platoon level now in any turn-based game, with the exception of the classic UFO:1-2 and "Battle Brothers" (especially with modification). The assaults by UFO soldiers (in Xenonauts 1) were very monotonous and time-consuming. The player is tired of storming hundreds of the same UFOs. The maximum number of soldiers in battle should be laid as a basis, focusing on the final battle, and not on those battles that the player will see many dozens.

You are inattentively reading the topic. In classic UFO: 1-2 cards were even smaller, and the player could take 26 soldiers. In OpenXcom mods, the player already has 36 soldiers (the map is still 60x60). Because the players like it that way.

The developers of Xenonauts-2 have been asked many times to make the size of the tactical team the same as in the classic (original) UFO: 1-2-3. The market is oversaturated with games where the player controls a tactical group of 1-2 squads. Tactics at the platoon (3-4-5) squad level are only available in old UFO games:1-2-3. And these old games are still popular. By adding several tactical missions to the game, in which twice as many soldiers will participate (not 9-10-12, as usual, but 18-20-24 soldiers), this will make the battles more diverse and unlike each other. For example: the final battles; the assault on the alien base, the anti-terrorist battle - all these battles can be made more ambitious. Xenonauts 2 has quite a lot of tactical battles, but they are very similar to each other. There are not enough battles of different scales.

I have never seen the Babylon 5 series (not a single episode), so I have a very vague impression of it. But I suspect that the game will strongly resemble the new "xcom": On the surface of the "ball" (which plays the role of the "Universe" and where, instead of the locations of cities, there are locations of planets), a base ship flies and performs various tactical tasks. This concept will require a huge variety of biomes, and a huge variety of biological species of opponents. I doubt that a small team will be able to master such a large amount of artwork and hire such a large number of artists and designers.

This is a real flaw in the game. If aliens for some unknown reason suddenly decide to stop taking over the planet, then humanity will continue to live in such stress and panic until the end of the universe. And an accidental "duck" (a false media report) that a UFO stole a cow from a farmer can lead to a general nuclear apocalypse and the death of all mankind. The level of panic should gradually decrease in the same way as the flood level decreases independently after rain.

I doubt that we will easily be sold the rights to create a game based on the Babylon 5 universe.

I suggest collecting ideas here that will help diversify tactical missions (tasks) in the game. Mission: "The release of prisoners on the alien Base." The aliens have built an underground base on planet Earth, where they keep prisoners for experiments (20-50 people). The player's task is to destroy the guards (1st floor). Destroy (capture) personnel (2 st underground floor). Find the prison and break down the doors (in order for the hostages to escape).

An experienced xenonaut can have 100 TU. It is the player's soldiers who are able to move with "inhuman + superhuman speed".

As an alien weapon, I would suggest: a poisonous snake robot. It is difficult to notice her from afar. It is difficult to get into it from small arms. It explodes and bites with poison.