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Me too. I check this thread almost every day.

Meh, when I wear one out of work the buckle just kinda goes wherever. Also as a fellow modder I totally understand how much time this stuff can take, though I have no art skills even though I kinda need them. You need time to do what you want as well, it's not your job to make this. That said I am very much looking forward to the release.

I find rifles to be useless as well. Anything they do something else does better. I roll with mostly shotguns and machineguns. A few sniper rifles for cases that I need them.

Any game that has the AI do something or not do something based on events can and will be used to game the system. For example in UFO:Aftershock the next set of aliens won't show up until you do a certain mission so you simply don't do it until you're ready for the next wave. That is something that I like about xenonauts. It's a rush to do as much as you can before they aliens hit you with more then you can handle. There are no cheap tricks or anything to exploit, at least as far I have been able to tell.

I like the geoscape much better than the original x-com. The ufo sightings/activities pop up so you know where they are. You can mouse over countries to see their funding levels and decide between putting a base at a country that is getting hit hard so you don't lose it or putting one closer to your existing one(s) so the bases can support eachother and you can shoot down more UFOs. If you do not have air superiority you will find yourself in a downhill spiral pretty quick I find as you can make a ton of money shooting down UFOs which gives you more money for planes to shoot down more UFOs. Bring able to catch them is the first step to shooting them down so I build mostly foxtrot at the start of the game. The starting planes are too slow for the majority of UFOs.

So uh....when can we DL this?

these are seriously badass

Have you tried a torrent? Your connection has to be completely useless before a torrent will mess up. There is a torrent which is offered as a download option on the humble store, though since you've already purchased the game buying it there as well would kinda suck. Maybe they can just send you the torrent.

For the humble store do you need to download the entire game again or will there be a patch available?

New x-com was good enough for a single playthrough, but it's a shallow and basic game where the only redeeming features are the music and presentation. Even the graphics on new x-com are pretty terrible compared to games which came out years before its release. If the game were on sale for two dollars I might get it....maybe. I am just glad I didn't buy it. This game however gives you freedom to play how you want. You can use your time units how you wish, the cover system isn't a broken mess, aliens actually do their thing, civilians do their own thing(and even fight aliens, very cool), equipping your soldiers is based on str and you need to carry ammo as well so you need to decide what gear is important instead of having it already dictated to you. I could go on. I think maybe the xcom remake MIGHT maybe be kinda okay if you have never played a game like this before but anyone looking for something with a little depth should just pass it by. Now one thing I will say about this game that sucks so far is the total lack of patches on the front page. Where are they? Why are they so hard to get? I wanted the devs to keep their money instead of giving it to valve but if I cannot get my game patched I might just load that steaming turd and put in my steam key.

I couldn't find any of the previous patches either.....

I got it on the humble store. So I need to get it from them? edit---------- K so I created an account on humble, added xenonauts to my games list, but I cannot find a patch link....

I cannot find anywhere to download the patch?....I also don't see any posts about it when I searched. Am I blind?....I must be.