Mermel

The moment my soldier entered the teleporter field an alien got some reaction fire on him. He teleported, the screen moved and the shots were heard, but after that the game didn't continue. I waited for 5 minutes, but there was no further reaction.

As per title. A button that lets me temporarily ignore the safe-TU setting for my soldiers. Or quick keys to change the setting. Is there something like that in the game?

I guess the easiest way to simulate the traitor nations is to point the local forces the other direction. I think the coding for that would be minimal and thus be an option altogether.

Well, in that case I'm one lucky guy. Two times in a row.

Just a quick question. Has there been a change to soldier death mechanics for different difficulty levels? I just had a mission where one of my men got shot during the second turn. He dropped to the ground and I assumed him dead only to be pleasantly surprised he survived the mission with 1% health. Have I been lucky as hell or is there some noob protection on normal difficulty? Edit: As it just happened the second time, it's highly likely this is something set in the difficulty level.

Another important thing are advances in soldier stats. For that alone I don't want to skip a single mission. I just don't have any options to compensate for that.

Stolen from http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/7910-New-crash-site-mission Turn limit for some missions. With decreasing rewards for exceeding the limit.

A production strategy is something I would like to see as well. It's easily modded in though, so no sweat here. I can also see where the whole thing is coming from. A lot of the design philosophy involves not being able to go for an easy mode and just skip ground combat except for some necessary missions. No training, no production for money, you got to go down and dirty for that. If you do it your units get better and there is a nice little bonus for money. I think it's better that way, not giving you an option to just skip a part of the game. And as said before... the basics to mod all that stuff in are there. I'm sure a mod letting you train your people more than once as well as upping the selling prices will come to be sooner or later. Good luck on the balance though

Just reducing the brightness of the image should do the trick. But anyway, thats something for a far out wishlist. I would love to see it, but don't count on it

Whatever is done to the vehicles, I just hope power creep doesn't hit the whole balance thing. As for that, I like to take back any support for increasing sight range. Drastically increasing total TUs and TUs needed to fire the main gun seem more appropriate, as it also promotes scouting with the hunter, but in that case with a certain degree of risk.

I think Max got it mostly right. Keeping the Vehicles interesting throughout the ages should be a major concern. Giving each of them a unique theme sounds about right. I just have to add that adding HP and armor to the hunter doesn't seem right, as it would make the light scout age completly trivial. I'd rather see a research path to increase the health after the light scout age than making the hunter tougher from the start.

I think the role of the damage dealer is already well defined. There are a lot of ways to deal damage in a multitude of ways. Stun, AOE, Precision, Hypervelocity, you name it. So damage dealing doesn't feel like a thing that compells me to take a vehicle with me. What remains are scouting and tanking duties. Personally I would like to see vehicles primarily in the scouting department, as it is also kind of tanking in the sense of preventing damage through superior intelligence. I have to admit, that I havn't seen any vehicle but the Hunter in action so far, so I can only comment on that one. Bringing its sight range on par with the sight range of caesans should already be enough to make me very interestet in bringing one along instead of two recruits. As for other characteristics and skills that would be interesting: -Small hover drones taking up half a slot (So you're able to take two instead of a soldier) as fast, fragile and weak scouts even within buildings. - Smoke screen launchers on vehicles - Improved sight range during night (like thermal vision or headlights like mentioned above) - Flare arrey lunchers on vehicles, scattering several flares in an area for high efficiency lighting - expanded field of view - A grenade that provides short 360° LOS where it is fired, like a lunchable camera - Vehicle providing low cover - Expanded sight range of course Ram attacks as mentioned above seem like a bad idea to me. Their usefulness would at best be questionable, as the vehicle has to come into close combat with an alien to do the attack. Thus the ram attack itself is highly situational and not really a point of sale. I would rather go for a lower hanging fruit that provides more general usefulness so the work invested would pay off and don't just fade away into "I never use that feature"

I have to agree to a lot of the things mentioned before. The starting Vehicle gets pretty useless as soon as plasma rifles pop up. And as two soldiers provide essentially more flexibility and chances to get better than the vehicle in time, it's a no brainer to go for the soldiers. The only way to get the ground vehicles back into the equation is by letting them provide something you want but can't get anywhere else.

Shoot down the escorts, disengage from the fight, reangage, shoot down main craft. This way the CTD that seemingly only occurs if an escorted craft is downed, doesn't kick in.

There is another workaround that makes the game a bit harder actually. You have to shoot down the escort craft, disengage from the fight and intercept the now sole main ship again. This way you can escorted craft are downable without a CTD.

I would suggest dealing with it. Right after filing a bug report... Most people can play and give feedback, the situation is not bad enough for a distraction from the next planned build.

I personally like where the difficulty and complexity is for the normal mode. And as for the manufacturing of ammunition and other small stuff... it doesn't add much to the game. The idea of adding a feature that actually reduces it to a couple of klicks at one point shows already how flawed it is. There is no meaning in deciding on how much ammo you manufacture. I'd rather see manufacturing burdened with the additional technical tasks that occur within the base. You fighter is damaged? Too bad, invest 100 Manhours of technicians to repair it. Dented that shiny armor of yours? Go get it repaired... Dividing your time between maintaining old stuff and producing new things will result in Interesting decisions and fill up the manufacturing queu at the same time.

The Problem is persistant for me and occures with seemingly every escorted ship. Once I shoot it down or flee combat (I'm just testing to confirm this) The game gets a CTD. By now the game crashed after following air battles and results: escorted scout, victory with 2 shot down planes => crash escorted scout, 2 alien fighters and three planes down => game continues escorted scout, victory, one plane shot down, no crash site due to battle over ocean => game continues

If stunning really is the most effective way to deal with enemies, something is wrong. Capturing life aliens is, and should be even more, a secondary mission objective with it's own rewards. Making it more difficult than killing is an absolute no brainer. That said I also want to raise an important point. The whole game should be balanced around the hard mode. Standart and easy are for first timers in strategy or just XCOM like games. The most long term fun can only be provided by balancing the game around the abilities of an advanced player. So, the most time and effort should be put into thinking how hard hard should be. Changing some numbers to decrease difficulty feels a lot less cheap than rising some to make it harder. When you play the first time, Graphics, Lore and general gameplay are important. Is the whole thing nice to look at and does it keep me with goodies and new things to see. But the more you play, the more the game itself becomes important. Is it challenging? Do I bleed if I fail? Are there real decisions to make or is there just one golden path? So in the end it is best for the game to put as much manhours as possible into making a challenge out of the hard mode and just choose simple and cheap ways to make it easier from there.

Scouts without escort can be shot down without problems. I can't say anything about Corvettes though, I havn't seen those yet.

I have the a similar crash. Two fighters and a scout. CTD when autoresolving, CTD when manually played out. I have a savegame of the crash and it is reproductable. Anyone in need of the file?

Yes, good ideas up there, especially the interrogation of aliens and associated research boni concept is a taker for me. It's closely tied to stun mechanic and so makes the game as a whole harder, not only research. It's generally more dangerous to stun an alien instead of simply killing it. So increasing the need to catch aliens rises the difficulty of ground combat in an interesting way, without the need to make the AI harder or tweak the Numbers. So setting the research pace to low on difficulty level high and insane, will promote the live capture of aliens to get all technologies in a relevant time. On normal things stay as they are. Basically just a few key aliens have to be captured alive, while the research boni stay in tact. And finally on low difficulty all research that would normally require a live captured alien, is available with a corpse. This way a player can safely ignore the complete stun mechanic without having any problems on the lowest difficulty setting. It's difficulty setting via a feature, like lemm mentioned before. Besides that I would like to see more stress on the phoenix like fighters. Getting them from ashes should be on normal and easy only. Let them die on hard, be reborn on medium and even faster on easy. It's a nice way to make the game less forgiving.

Sad to hear there will be no training. I liked the concept of being able to invest into the training a backup squad. Just having better soldiers to recruit after some time seems shallow to me. It would imho offer a nice additional strategic option for the geoscape, as long as it costs money, or teachers or whatever. Long term planning so to say. I always love it when I can plan on a long term and reap the benefits of something I set in motion a while back. The more viable options, the better.

Spalter! Now go have a coockie....

I think there are settings where 2D is actually preferrable to 3D. Take Braid as an exampel. It's a little beauty and it works because it's a sidescroller. The necessary amount of work is a lot less than in the case of Xenonauts because you only see the characters from the side. When you start taking efficiency into the equation 2D gets a lot worse when you do something like xenonauts with it. I prefer gameplay over optics. And in some scenarios 3D really cuts it. We won't be able to blast holes in UFOs here. A main reason for that is the amount of work required to make that work. 3D might have solved that problem. Looking acceptable and giving the option of destroyable UFO parts. (I actually think the 2D UFOs will look better than theoretical 3D counterparts)