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    Milestone 5.1.0 Released! (Experimental)

    in Xenonauts-2 Releases & Patch Notes

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    14 hours ago, gG-Unknown said:

    I hoped, that Xeno2 is a dark game, where player fights by tooth and nails to tha last breath. Experiance los of soldiers, is forced to do hard decisions (dilema in the original meaning, where non of the options is bright and clean). It means player is in the position off underdog most time of game play. It means, mission should be lost, some mission where you just run away to save at least some resources.

    I'm with you on this one.  Xenonauts 1: CE eventually had commander iron man that hurt pretty good!  I have high hopes for Xenonauts 2.  This milestone just started, maybe after tweaks/rebalancing the game will allow for more nuance and challenge.

    My thoughts of the milestone 5 (ongoing)

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

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    53 minutes ago, Chris said:

    I think MS4 probably felt largely on point for you given your playstyle - most of the balancing feedback comes from the more hardcore players who tend to hang out on the forums and discord, so previously the game was balanced towards fighting lots of crash sites. I don't think it was necessarily as enjoyable for people in the other camp, but we do need to bear them in mind too.

    Having pondered it a little, I do think one of the suggestions @Skitso made above might be an improvement - changing the penalty from Panic to Operations Points, so it's effectively another "purchase" with your free strategy points rather than inflicting Panic. Not sure if that'll make you feel any better about it, however, as it's still a form of punishment.

    Yeah, this problem has been around for a very long time. It's more pronounced in X2 though because the game is quite a bit longer, and X1 was essentially balanced around the idea of doing 1-2 Crash Sites per UFO anyway - fighting more than that did make the game easier than it should have been.

    I appreciate your acknowledgement on my perspective Chris.  MS5 is going to be a hell of a ride :D

    My thoughts of the milestone 5 (ongoing)

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Warie_W00kie

    7 hours ago, Chris said:

    The reasons were outlined in the patch notes. 

     

    I'm not criticizing the reasons, I am criticizing the solution and how it's implemented right now. 

    7 hours ago, Chris said:

    Lots of players don't want to fight every single crash site because they find it repetitive and grindy, and really there's no way to balance their experience against that of people who want to fight every crash site. Either I force them to fight every single mission by setting cash and resource prices based on everyone fighting 4+ crash sites of each type, or I make the game incredibly easy for everyone who does get all the extra resources for the fighting all the crash sites. This is the only way I can see to split the difference.

    This is especially true given how many people are saying I should add more UFOs to the game, or make it longer - a campaign is already at least 29 missions if you capture each UFO type twice.

    This is the same issue in Xenonauts 1 more than 10 years ago.

    If I remember correctly, the solution is not perfect but worked out.  On the latest MS4 build, I was under the impression that the pacing and the gameplay was pretty on point.  This just seem like a complete change of direction from "We're almost to the end game guys!" to "clearing a crash site has the same consequence as ignoring a terror mission".  I'm all for making the game less grindy but so far the only thing this mechanic did for me is hit F4 and wait for the next thing I get to do.  Maybe I'll see the point of this when more improvements/adjustments come along, but right now I''m not a fan.  

    I'm really digging the changes to Sebilian and Mantids so far: the LMG / gas grenade and Symbiote launcher compliment their fighting style while creating another dynamic to tactical combat.  Looking forward to end game!

     

    My thoughts of the milestone 5 (ongoing)

    in Xenonauts-2 General Discussion

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    16 minutes ago, Skitso said:

    25 panic per crash site is harsh! Maybe make in incremental for subsequent crash sites like 10 > 20 > 30 or make it cost operation points instead of panic?

    Are you able to see the panic go up and down during the playthrough?  Mine is stuck at 50.

    While I really like many of the additions on MS5, I just can't wrap my head around this one.  Battlescape is a core mechanic of the game and the challenging combat a big reason why this game is fun, why punish the player for this?  It doesn't make sense narrative wise either; the Xenonauts program is funding nations' solution to the alien threat, why would they compete with it this way?  Keeping resource away from Xenonauts is what the Cleaners and the aliens want!

    [V5.0.0 - Geoscape] CTD/Hangs at 90% on first abduction mission at day 11

    in Xenonauts-2 Bug Reports

    Posted · Edited by Warie_W00kie

    16 minutes ago, Chris said:

    Weirdly I can't reproduce the crash from that save you've attached - it loads into the mission fine for me if I let the dropship fly over. Is that the case for you? Do I have to do anything else to make it crash?

    hmm no I don't think so.  I did notice that the "raise funds" SO played a jet sound when I clicked on it but the funds didn't change.  Recruiting the supporter at NAM showed the funds increase for the monthly report.  I've attached the save right after the ATLAS mission, before I clicked on the SO and recruited the NAM funds supporter.auto_strategy_after_combat-2.json

    [V5.0.0 - Geoscape] CTD/Hangs at 90% on first abduction mission at day 11

    in Xenonauts-2 Bug Reports

    Posted · Edited by Warie_W00kie

    CTD when soldier transport land on site.  The game will hang at 90% when I attempted to load the "before mission autoload".  Reproduced when I utilized "raise funds" strategic operation and recruited the funds supporter in NAM before sending the transport.  Not sure which one of these two (or both) triggered the crash.  The abduction will load properly if I don't spend the OP points.

    bug_report_2024-12-14-12h24_wn_5.0.0_unhandled_exception.zip user_raised_funds_and_nam_funds_up-1.json

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    [V4.27.0 - Ground Combat] Item swap/drop crash

    in Xenonauts-2 Bug Reports

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    In this save, the game crashed when one of the assault guys switched from rifle to shotgun (sorry I couldn't be more specific).  This has been happening sporadically throughout the entire play through and it's annoying that I couldn't consistently reproduce it.  This also happens often when I repeatedly drop and pick up something, for example during early game when I use multiple soldiers to stun an alien but only has one stun rod.  Hope one of your testers run into it during their playthroughs.

     

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