[X-Com player with some questions about Xenonauts - particularly the Geoscape.]

Oh, that's cool. I always wanted X-Com to feel like part of a larger effort instead of 14 guys single-handedly taking on the alien invasion. I read about local forces, and I liked that idea since I was always wondering in the OG where the army or police were.

Once you have global coverage, how many downed UFO missions are you running in a month roughly? Also, what time frame are we looking at to get the 2nd and 3rd bases up? In the OG I would get started on one with my starting cash to have it up by the beginning of Feburary.

[X-Com player with some questions about Xenonauts - particularly the Geoscape.]

I'm a huge fan of both the new and old X-Com games and I had some questions about Xenonauts, it's beginning to pique my interest. However, I must admit I'm actually a fan of the much-maligned strategy layer of the NG, since I felt it solved a fairly pernicious problem of the OG Geoscape. Here's the probem as I see it:

The new interception/sat/strategy layer in general was designed with the idea of correcting a significant problem with the OG Geoscape.

In the OG, as you expand your intercept coverage across the globe; you get an exponential amount of new contacts. To make the new bases payoff, you have to run a just gigantic amount of Downed UFO missions. It gets incredibly tedious by the endgame. I never want to play a version of XCOM again where I'm running a mission on UFO-123. It got to the point where I would attempt to splash UFOs over the ocean just so I wouldn't have to stare at the annoying white x's.

Additional intercept bases in the OG would increase the resources coming in since more downed UFOs meant more missions run, more loot to sell, and happier funding members. But as mentioned, it would also require a ton more tedious missions to be run on yet another Floater Large Scout.

So - instead of requiring the players to run all those missions, they instead just gave players cash, personnel, and continent bonuses for placing sats and limited downed UFOs to about 2 a month. I like this. I like not having to run 10+ UFO missions a month. Squad progression vs. Missions run is very nicely balanced in this game; not like in the OG.

I was wondering if Xenonauts addressed this problem and how. Will I be running a mission on UFO-123 in Xenonauts with the OG-style Geoscape?

[Thoughts & Lessons from X-COM: Enemy Unknown (by Firaxis)]

Barring the Heavy with a specific ability that lets it (which is illogical anyway for the "heavy tank/dps" unit) or the assault class, none of the two classes (+ rookies) can do either shoot-shoot or shoot-move.

This is incorrect. There's a specific sniper build that can Shoot-move-shoot-move. Snap-shot+In the Zone allows this. Under the right conditions both shoots can be multiple.