goduranus Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 (edited) I know that ground combat is the meat of the X-com games, but I really like the air combat in Xenonauts 1. Back in Xenonauts 1 I played just so I could fly the interceptors aroundand strangely didn't really care much for ground combat. I wish there could be a pure turn based air combat game like Xenonaut's air phase at some point. Edited June 5, 2018 by goduranus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaBoy Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 I thought it was cool too. It suffered from not having a tutorial, overpowered missles and not being able to practice without risking interceptors. It was too high risk for a reflex based mini-game. I’d often try tough take-downs, but a single mistake would mean waves of UFOs causing havoc.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decius Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 There's several tabletop games a lot like that. There's also X-Com: Interceptor, but there's a reason nobody recommends it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakon Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 As someone who also enjoyed this aspect (though seemingly a number of people didn't) i actually thought about making a mod towards that end. Wouldn't be difficult even: all you need to do is change airstriking a crashsite so that it basically gives the same rewards as clearing it with troops, and then you only need to do a couple of missions to acquire tech and the rest is strategical planning and air missions. There is a free flash game which has strong similarities to Xenonauts air combat which is set in a fictional WW2 era and is turn based - if you're interested i'm sure you can find it quickly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninothree Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 I really liked aircombat, especially being able to shoot down three UFO fighters with a Corsair when the autoresolve gave something like a 0% chance. The problem with it was that the dogfights became repetitive - there weren't enough variables fed into the mini-game. You would often end up playing the exact same match. It would've been nice if the autoresolve factored previous wins into the calculation. Overall, I felt that its merit came from sharing principles with martial arts: gaining the advantage on your enemy by paying attention to timing, distance and angles. A lot of combat in games ends up being a match of numbers: which side brought the most HP and DPS. This was much more elegant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 On 6/6/2018 at 5:12 PM, Drakon said: There is a free flash game which has strong similarities to Xenonauts air combat which is set in a fictional WW2 era and is turn based - if you're interested i'm sure you can find it quickly. Pretty sure that's Steambirds you're referring to there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakon Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 6 hours ago, Chris said: Pretty sure that's Steambirds you're referring to there? Correct. It's been a long time since i had time to play, so i couldn't remember the name off the bat. Found that one reasonably entertaining for short period of time - being a free flash game unsurprisingly there is not a lot of content. But i thought the execution was reasonably well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emikochan Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 On 6/6/2018 at 6:26 AM, FloridaBoy said: I thought it was cool too. It suffered from not having a tutorial, overpowered missles and not being able to practice without risking interceptors. It was too high risk for a reflex based mini-game. I’d often try tough take-downs, but a single mistake would mean waves of UFOs causing havoc.... It wasn't reflex based, you could pause and issue orders in Xenonauts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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