Jazzkovsky

About seven months ago I bought and tested the game and I was pretty pleased with the result considering it was an early beta (Or was it an alpha still? I don't remember). Now, half a year later, I installed the game again (using steam) to see if it has improved, and I have to say that I'm disappointed (especially reading that developers consider the game pretty much completed). Here are a few points that annoyed me: - Loading times for missions are still pretty long and after 6 months I still get the same message that “obviously” loading times will be shorter in the final version. Is that going to be the case? - I was happy to see that the AI has improved (nicely done!), but I seriously think that playing the game on "Easy" is far to hard. That difficulty is not for beginners or casual players. If you state that "easy" is for beginners, it really should be. - After finishing a very hard hard first battle against the aliens I get a minus two score for having one (!) civilian casualty. At the same time I saved several civilians, captured an ufo and killed all of the aliens. -2 sore? Seriously? - after about half an hour of playing the game a had a bad crash after trying to access the troop equipment screen and had to end the game using the task manager. At that point I was so annoyed and disappointed from the current game version that I didn’t restart the game. - Then I visited the game hp to read the latest news and was shocked to find out that the game was supposed to be completed by the end of last year. Obviously all of that really disappointed me, but I would like to add that I still have a lot of respect for the developers. This is a very nice game with a lot of humor and loads of demanding tactical combat. Also, the graphics and the AI both really rock. Finally I have to say that I really don’t mind to wait another six months for the game to be completed as long as it is enjoyable and polished at launch date. Thank you for your hard work and please take your time.

The name of the file is items.xml and you can find it in the "assets" folder in your game directory. If you got the game via steam you should find it at [c/programs/steam/steamapps/common/xenonauts/assets] I recommend to edit the file with notepad (or perhaps with MS Excel). Also make sure to create a backup. I tried to edit it with libreoffice calc (which usually handles .xml files just fine) and it crashed my game. Editing with notepad worked fine though.