Trance

I played both the original X-Com and FiraXCOM and honestly, i like both base views, but i strongly in for multiple bases/dropships even though i used secondary bases just to store interceptors/base defences/radar mainly and up to 2 dropships mostly, like someone said already in this thread, i prefer having a more mundane and "realistic" approach to this game than cartoonish soldiers playing heroes.

First of all congratulation on the beta launch GHI, i'm happy for you guys. So i tried one battle today and everything went pretty smoothly except for something : one of my dudes got shot for 35 damage of 37 health by a plasma rifle, after that, i attempted to heal said soldier and i discovered that i couldn't neither heal him nor select the soldier entirely, he literally disappeared from the UI, the soldier model was still in the scenario, also bleeding wounds might not inflict DOT damage, but i'm not so sure about that, given that once a soldiers gets shot and leaves a small puddle of blood, i can't say if it's a simple sign that the soldier got damage or is indeed a bleeding wound. Still, i'm quite happy with how the game plays and looks i feel like it's going to the right direction.

i agree on the fact that these guys are quite expensive, especially the russians, i enjoyed testing some of them and i still use mainly the american fighters, F14 for the 4x heavy hardpoints and the F15 for the cannon+heavy combo, but like said before, the Apollo and Cheburashka are silly cheapand built in no time and they usually can deal with everything, as long as i keep them well armed, the Apollo can take only 2 light laser shots or a missile to be taken down but the 2 cannons hardpoint AND a missile is just too great against fighters, the Cheburashka is slightly better armored but in terms of firepower is almost on par with the F15 as it have the same hardpoint + a cannon.

thats sick, does this version work with games started in 1.3.9 ?

there are ... holes ? on the ceiling ?? well, i guess ill just nuke these c**** from the orbit then, i didnt know about that.

Sebillians inside scouts have them most of the time. So aliens that can shoot through the ceiling is a feature ? I initially discovered it on the M84 ATR, but im quite sure it happened on the M79 aswell.

Mod is great but i have few things that bugs me : 1) like said before, aliens accuracy maybe is too high 2) alien assault plasma is silly broken, there's no dispersion from the pellets but instead it works as like a single blob of pellets that literally destroy my xenonauts with impeccable accuracy and most of the time guaranteed suppression 3) i grounded a landing ship and i board it, in the middle room of the first floor of the ship, i got shot from the upper level by 4-5 sebillians, no fun, i checked every corner of the first floor and there was nobody. 4) when your weapons runs out of ammunition and you got nothing left, by removing this weapon and putting it on the bag, it refills its clips for free. 5) i hate androns.

Regarding the Energy tab crashing the game ... even though i installed the last patch 1.09 my game still crashes when i click it, maybe because i'm still playing a game that i started with the older version (the version when this wasnt fixed) or because i collected some alien energy weapons that i still haven't researched ?

Because they are awful games most of the time, Xenonauts its a very good game at least.

This, i would rather use grenades or rockets than mines

My main base got sieged by a Caesan Carrier in details this what happened in my all 3 playthrough: -1st try- 1)1st wave of Aliens started to teleporting left and right, started shooting things in my facilities 2)In my first tun i moved out my boys in order to scout, no sign of aliens 3)2nd Alien turn, i saw some Teleporting Alien getting close, some of my men got engaged 4)Realizing i scattered my men too much, i order the retreat in the HQRoom, i kill a Leader on my way back 5)Alien troops storm my Workshop where 2 of my men are defending it, 1 got killed by some random shots that went through the eastern wall the other just got some injuries 6)"Wall shots again ? , damn son imma reload" -2nd try- i Scatter all my men just outside the HQRoom leaning all the corners 1)1st Alien turn they do the same thing, teleport here and there, shoot things 2)my 1st turn i just order my men to sit and wait in their corners 3)2nd Alien turn its when i got stuck in the Hidden Movement screen 4) Well, S*** -3rd try- Same setup, same doing, same thing, got stuck in the 3rd turn What happened so far: 1)Aliens eagerly teleporting left and right 2)Shoot down my furnitures and facilities 3)Shooting through walls (Ain't kidding, it happened in the Workshop from the room at the extreme east from it) 4)Hidden Movement screen freeze savefile: https://mega.co.nz/#!5QpnzL7a

So are you telling me that Alien bases are stealing ma' money ? fug, im in april btw.

Hello again, i wish to discuss this topic (again i think) with the rest of the community regarding the upkeep costs in general: To get you a general idea on what are my manteinance cost: This, roughly x3 since i usually build 3 bases, its a lot but fortunately i still gain some good money from the airstrikes that keep me floating, but still the funding money is not enough and is 95% irrelevant and ill explain why and what happens in details : This is my previous month payday and as you can see, they money i got will be used to pay the maintenance costs, now ... considering that still i dont quite understand why certain country no matter how many UFO i shootdown they are still indifferent (Middle East for example, i got my main base there), or worse they got into a Bad status, hell, i eradicated a Alien base in North Africa and not even a thanks, so umh, someone else that got this feeling ? like being in the edge and unsure on where to spend the dosh ?

I dont know if this has been discussed ... but, i'd point out something funny that has popped in my game just a couple mins ago: Just to clarify, these guys are all battleships, aren't they .... a bit too much ................. ? considering the upkeep costs of those damn aircrafts i got, the funding i receive (wich is WAAAY too unbalanced getting something 60 dollars each month and spend 3 millions on manteinance cost) i barely have the aircrafts i need to shoot down a couple of these x base, anyone else noticed this ?

a xcom-like game with Chtulhu monsters instead of Aliens, pls Goldenbros, pls.

Shields are absolutely bonkers, love them.

While playing the lastest build, after something i dont remember, a couple of soldiers got injured and now they won't recover. Can provide save file.

CCCCCCCCCCHRIS YOU'RE TIRELESS, seriously i've been using the shields quite a lot and i noticed that when breaching UFO doors, the guy beyond the shield always get shotted on the face, even tho he's literally stading in front of the alien, will eagerly test the new shields. Corsair ? 2 Cannons ?

So that means it is true that Airstrike are actually worthless in terms of improving the relationship with the other countries ?

It freeze my game when i try to : - Build 2 or more Predator armour (Building 1 at time goes smooth - Allocate more projects in the foundry i'm pretty sure i had more cases, but these are the one i remember for now, i can provide a save if needed.

The situation is kinda messy and ill explain why : First of all, the number of UFO spawning in the map is massive, i get at least 2-3 ships x base, so thats roughly 10 ships x day, but i could only attend to assault 2 or 3 at maximum and considering from 10 ships 7 are large/massive and only 1 is a scout, i really have difficulties sending a proper strike team that could raze a Carrier or a Battleship (those are the ships i usually spawn, i haven't seen a Landing ship for example in a long time), here's the tough part ... as i'm playing e20v4 there's the bug that Aliens can shoot through walls and ceilings , so the chances to have my team survive an assult are very thin, i have to rely on the RNG Gods all the time and hope they can't shoot down my squad, and thats VERY unlikely, as i love and enjoy playing this game, the frustration that comes from the frequent freezes and this bug drains my will to do crash site mission, thats why i'm literally abusing the Airstrike option.

Here my geoscape : http://oi40.tinypic.com/x3gv3p.jpg and thats my main base : http://oi43.tinypic.com/a32ec9.jpg edit: i beg you pardon for the harsh language

Hi everyone, after quite a long break i decided to come back into playing this game and checkout the updates and changes, i will not spend much time to talking about this but i'm quite happy to see the devs are putting a lot of effort into this game, but now, back on topic: Despite a few bugs and a lot of curses, i managed to get through a lot and i'm now sitting at March with a reasonable ammount of veterans (or should i say commanders?), a mix of Condors and Foxtrot, a single Corsair and a Marauder, in my main base i have 30 scientists and 30 engineers ... now heres the thing that doesnt break my game or anything but its crippling my expansion by a lot, my upkeep cost of everything in my main hub reaches 1.000.000 scheckels alone, with the other bases i have half of that ammount is added to the overall upkeep cost, which is 1.500.000 scheckels roughly, the majority of it is taken by scientists, engineers and soldiers. Now, i do not remember how much the costs were in the original XCOM so i really can't do a comparison, fortunately i can still maintain myself by just razing every ship grounded by interceptors (thanks devs, this was one hell of a feature), but money i get from the countries is minimum, i have a few questions : 1) I understand if i improve my relation with a country, this one give me a raise, but no matter how many ship i put down, no matter how many Cities i liberate, no matter how many bases i clear this country still doesnt care and in the end of the month the relationship deteriorates overtime (recently in my playthrough i cleared a huge base in Brazil and in the end of the same month, South america gave me the middle finger, god damn you guys) ... so, what i am doing wrong ? 2) Maybe airstriking is not the best course of action ? should i send the Xenonauts more than just Nuking the crashsite ? 3) Should i use less Engi and Scientists ? but considering the ammount of research i still have to complete, i feel like Scientists are always needed in large quantity, while engi maybe not, but with less engineers, especially in the early game, you will need them ... a lot. Thats it for now, i will attach some screenshots in the next post.

Fortunately yes, i have a save : http://www.mediafire.com/download/8f094woewyoywp9/2013-11-18_10.02.48.sav When these big discs decided to move, the game often crashed for me but only when i couldnt see them, while i had a visual contact everything gone smooth without problems.

walls from inside the ufo and bases alike