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Newfr, One could say its laziness, however its only natural to implement such feature (or quick save, quick load) since saving and loading inside GC is already permitted. As with actual implementation, yes, just having 2 slots might be no sufficient, but Im here to propose the general idea Dear Gorlom, First of all, you define "fun" as only one possible ways of playing the game, and discard any notion that other players might be playing a different style. For example I usually play on hardest settings and save-scum not to just advance in the game, but approach "perfect" scenario. I usually spend way more time exploring different possibilities, when just browsing through the game on normal mode. Your argument that other players will somehow be corrupted by the mere presence of such option is in the neighbourhood of national-socialist or evangelical mentality, so you might just relax a little and give a more credit to the people who will be playing this game. Cheers

Hi, I was wondering, would it be possible to include a Save-Scum option for players? I mean two additional save games for beginning and end of each turn? I mean those who do it, will do it anyway, this would only save some time and manual labour Cheers

No offence, but:

I'm I wrong or there is no such thing as critical chance in the game in order to inflict a substantially larger amount of damage then defined by the weapon? You know guys, a low chance, but still a possibility thing It could be dependent on reflexes, thus making this characteristic more relevant to the game.

Is it done by changing isOverdamage="1" to "0" in weapons_gc.xml or is there some other variable?

OK, Im sorry to point it out, but this person, 'basilika', has mental issues And I'm not talking about his/hers suggestions for the game, just the way he/she express them...

Savegame - http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=gf3da1cc91bc329519993370229fbdde7ef554356b

Flying in with Valkyrie. http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=ge148055707e2548a9993370156cadc453d67015c3

OK, I haven't been reading the forum extensively, so I have missed that one.

Hi guys, Last week I did play a little of 19.4 version and arrived at very similar conclusions - grenades are the only viable weapon on this build. Im including a save file if you wish to check out my setup's. At this point (15th of February) I have just researched fission explosives thus grenades become even more powerful, though I still use precision plasmas. http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=g8eef1808b2cd718e999335942758f08f7b25ecb19 So even though the game became unplayable if one uses only guns, I found that it's still fun, but restrictive in tactics, to toss around grenades. My impression that you guys are trying too much to make the game hard, rather then enjoyable. Challenging is fun, but not hitting a target with you LMG/caster 2 tiles away is just frustrating and bad balancing. Also I think you have serious issues with you to hit probabilities. I don't know how you compute and apply them to the game, but after experimentation, I found that even if the to hit probability is represented as 70%, its more closely to 25% - just save a game, make a shot, record the outcome, and load back the game to repeat the shot, and so on... you might start looking at your subsequent shots not as independent event, but as a series of dependent events. EDIT: Oh and I forgot one more issue with the build - the time it takes to refuel and rearm the fighters is insane! It should not take more than an our and this places unrequited restrictions on the planes and the game - if we cant have the cash and resources to have a fleet of birds, that at least we should be able to exploit the few ones that we got, and not wait for 9h to refuel a tank or charge a battery...

I can see the logic behind *Hangar & Runway* system - since bases are no 6-by-6 it would make sense to have 2-by-1 runway and 1-by-1 hangar with capacity to hold say 2 fighters or one transport, or 3 fighters/1 fighter + transport.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEQdvYFMBAU

Hi, IMO during the night missions lamps in the street should provide some illumination (terror missions especially, since they are within populated areas). That's all

Oh man, I think I am done playing Xenonauts until the official release, it's too much of a hart break. Though it would be cool to have an email account or something less public then forum for submission of Easter eggs - I might come up with few suggestions

Game crashes after winning and reviewing the score and soldier progress after first pregenerated mission. Savegame: http://www.filedropper.com/2013-05-15154059 After removal of shields, reloading from Geoscape and re-entering a different map, crash persists.

Yes I did read later on, but I just don't want to loose the feeling of progress. Its great to have an experienced soldier, who can lift a precision rifle, AND a RPG with 3-5 rounds (plus a grenades) - how else do you expect to kill reapers emerging every 5 turns on a final mission?

OK new idea - say sats are not improved during missions, than have a researchable technology for implants to boost stats! For example nanobots to improve oxygen consumption to increases TU, Sub-Dermal Armour, etc. etc. - a player would spend money and time, but his best performing soldiers could actually still improve. How about that?

OK, I must confess I stopped reading the thread after page 3 because it seams majority is supporting this idea, while I don't. Actually I am opposing it militantly! While it is realistic to minimize the increase in stats, its totally no fun! I mean what is the point then in making an effort to have your squad survive the battle, when you can keep one or two high ranking solders and than have a bunch of cannon meat? As far as I have played Xenonauts (~75 missions with single squad on V18) the progress of these solders was the main motivation behind the routinely grinding. Please don't take this away, or at least make it an Iron Man mode feature - Please!

Nah, the sequel should not be a planetary, but a solar system defence simulator! Tadah: Space Engine 0.97!1 [video=youtube;vj-VcZY_nwE]

@Chris, original XCOM had a charts for scores, UFO activities in different countries (which actually was useful in searching for alien bases), maybe addition of such feature could help Xenonauts too? I personally would like to see a kind of timeline summary in geoscape with known events and there estimated influence(score rating) on the fight against aliens.

On awarding points for capturing UFO's - is my understanding correct, that a capture of any UFO (without regards to its size) is always 100 points towards the region? If it is the case maybe it should be weighted by difficulty to down/capture the UFO? Oh and I did wonder does a player get points for crashing a UFO into the ocean?

Oh cool, thanks for sharing

I was just thinking, could it be possible to have say 2 unarmed scouting drones as an option instead of armed vehicles? Say a quadrocopter with low HP but high TU researchable later in the game when plasma canons come onto the scene? Low in manufacturing cost, but taking up space in dropship. Sounds like a fair balance to me.

Since I have read FAQ before playing the game, I was convinced them to be cloaked Chryssalids and I really freaked out.

Actually I have slaughtered the invisible civilians on my first terror mission, when they were swarming the Chinook