[Is Australia supposed to look like that?]

The South Island of New Zeland is also missing a big chunk. Damn those aliens for abducting a large part of the country.

[How to download Xenonauts without using Desura!]

You can try the kickstarter demo. Should still be available on the kickstarter page.

Also what is it that seems messy about desura? the client or the whole thing? You don't actually need the client to download the game from desura. They offer a direct download zip file.

Unfortunately none of those demo links on the Kickstarter page works anymore. The ones hosted by Atomicgamer are all corrupt. I have downoaded it through each of their mirrors at least twice, it took about 4 hours and not one of them worked.

I guess I will wait until a new demo is released.

EDIT: Okay, tried once more and finally the file was not corrupted this time. Have played about 4 mins and looks good, will give it a better try in the morning. Better get to bed since it is about 2am here, haha.

[How to download Xenonauts without using Desura!]

Sweet, thanks didn't know there was a stand alone demo. I will give it a try.

Its more that I don't want to sign up to another service and have another client on my computer. And I haven't heard much good about it.

[How to download Xenonauts without using Desura!]

Desura seems like a complete mess. Is there any way to buy and download the alpha without having to buy it or activate it on Desura?

If there is no way, then I will wait until it is out somewhere else before I buy it.

I came here after being dissapointed in the XCOM demo and wanted to try this out, but if I'm forced to use Desura, the I will wait for the full release instead.