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    Build V12 Released!

    in Xenonauts-2 Releases & Patch Notes

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    I can't believe you guys are having this discussion. It's a game. It's a game about fighting aliens. It's a game about fighting aliens in 1979. Oddly enough some of us were actually around back in them days. It didn't happen. I was in Uncle Sam's Misguided Children back in them days (now I know how my father felt when saying "them days") and never heard of an alien invasion. But I remember women in the military. I remember when a female team came in from Israel for a demonstration on tactics. Small arms, hand to hand that kind of thing. These chicks ask for volunteers and no way in hell was I going to fall for that but bigger than shit my platoon commander and platoon sergeant are like "Ok, how bad can it be?"

    That was easy money. I could not believe there were guy's betting against the women in hand to hand. Small arms we held our own. We were used to shooting 200, 300, 500 yrd ranges. We did that all the time. But hand to hand. I just laughed my ass off. The Captain and the Gunny were frickin' rag dolls. In all fairness it was way before USMC line training but still they were Vietnam vets and had been trained in hand to hand. These ladies were not of any unusual size. They looked just like any other girl walking down the street. Couple of them were hot and yes we hung out at the E club after the demonstration. There were about 10 of them but there were couple hundred of them that were trained in the same fashion. That was in 77 or 78. I know I had my blood stripe. I just made NCO. It was a few months after that promotion. We took a couple of them to the NCO club. In retrospect if we were thinking we would have taken them to someplace nice. But you know, young and dumb.

    The bottom line is male female, straight gay if you can consistently prosecute a target with the weapon you were trained on everything else is somebody crying because they don't have anything else better to do. The object is to defeat the enemy. And if your sisters in arms are hot.... all the better when it's over. (You really do need to see the big picture) OK I'll shut up now.

    [V12] Loading saves crashes the game

    in Xenonauts Bug Reports / Troubleshooting

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    I had a save that would not work. It was on a ground combat screen. Went to a save before loaded fine. It was just that one save that CTD. Subsequent saves had active crash sites and interceptors in the air. I don't know if this is a result of corrupted saves that would load but alien activity went nuts like 7 ufo's in the air between 2 bases. It was only 25 of June. Also some were squadrons of 3 alien fighters. Notice I said some. I never seen that many this early in the game playing on easy. I could not hire troops either because the hire troop screen would not populate. It would take the money for hiring them thank you very much. Will wipe out all saved games in folder and try to recreate.

    Shooting the second alein problems

    in Xenonauts Bug Reports / Troubleshooting

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    It was sebilian but it was facing se and I was shooting through an open doorway the last time. The others were sebilian I think. It was within the first crash sites. It seems if memory serves it is only when your solders take the shot. I haven't had problems when the tank takes the shot. Will have to do some mechanized only missions and see if I have any problems then solder only missions and see if that is the problem. They are also from saved games. If any one can tell me how to delete a saved game that would be nice as to not have 50 saved games somewhere. Kinda manage the game pool if you know what I mean

    Air Support for lone Chinook

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

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    It seemed kind of weird to me that the troop transport has no means of defense against attack from land or air. The first time my transport got clipped that was a WTF moment. At the very least we had Huey's with "60s" and rocket pods. At most we had A-10 Thunderbolts along. Warthogs ain't pretty but they are ungodly effective. Minigun in the nose with phosphorus rounds will pretty much melt anything it comes in contact with. Slow enough to fly with helicopters. Bad enough to turn anything that tries hurt the escorted "into shit fast" as we used to say. It is well within the time line and can be bought rather than have to be researched.

    It can be sent with the Chinook as you would send two or three of your planes to intercept a ufo. Only difference is the icon would remain the helicopter. If a ufo does attack, the air combat screen just pops up as an "oh shit moment". Then let the fun commence. Nothing says the the ufo would not win the engagement but it's better than your Chinook was lost. You spend a lot of time renaming your troops. Making sure they have the right armament for their stats then their just gone seems sort of unrealistic.

    If the game is moddable then you might be able to include close air support in terror missions. Doesn't have to have a sprite as much as a calculation in the ground combat screen. If it gets shot out of the sky then the Chinook goes back unescorted then you can sweat

    Just a thought....

    "Spherical" Geoscape? X-Com nostalgia.

    in Xenonauts General Discussion

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    One of my biggest gripes with the game is the inability to stretch the radar over the top. It works side to side but not over the top. I don't know if at this point there is a way to include it through a formula modification or it is a function of the "flat map" that makes it impossible to do. If it were possible I would be trying to find out. The only other gripe is a different subject with a new plane to be used.

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