Multiplayer?

[Firepower]

I remember reading a bit about it on the old forums. But is there any talk of perhaps adding mutliplayer to Xenonauts after release? The thought of players being able to control their own bases and squads to fight the alien incursion together makes me excited.

[Sathra]

This might help answer.

As always, it depends on how big the 'nice to haves' are. I don't think we'll be adding major new features to the game, but we may continue to add small ones.

Eg. We won't add multiplayer, because it'll involve an enormous amount of coding. For reasons explained on the site under Technical Details, we won't be adding female soldiers (sadly, it's about 500,000 extra frames of animation). We won't add a mode that lets you play as the aliens, because we'd have to remake half the game.

We'll probably continue to upgrade the terrain editor or modding systems in response to community requests. We'd continue to monitor the mods made to check if the skins or balance changes they make could be incorporated into the actual game. We might add a weapon art pack that allows you to swop the starting weapons (currently NATO) for Soviet ones, for example. Or we might update the way grenades were used to make them more intuitive, if lots of people were complaining about the previous system. Small things, little freebies that we'd like to have done in the game but can't justify it (or haven't thought of it) right now.

We wouldn't charge for any of them; they're not big enough changes to warrant paying for them. So yes, we'll continue to support the game, but it'd be best to see it is extra polishing rather than anything that will drastically change the game.

So its really unlikely, but a more recent post had this:

Xenonauts won't have multiplayer, but it could take the multiplayer mode that that Total War games do when you're playing against another player - when one player is conducting a mission, the other player would control the alien forces.

[Chris]

Nope, we can rule it out at this point. It'd be a LOT of effort and we'd rather just get the game finished at this point