Its been 3 years, has the base gameplay changed at all during this time?

[happystrawberry1]

Last playthrough I got to the alien base and had fun shanking aliens and giving one soldier only grenades and ammo to resupply the assault team. Am I still able to do that and put whatever I want on a soldier? Pretty much the only thing I care about. It will be about a week before I get home and download the game.

 

Did we ever get an in game map editor? I remember that's why I stopped playing the game, I just remember every single map back then. I would love to have the ability to make maps and explore the vertical gameplay.

[SoftwareSimian]

You can only overload soldiers by +16 weight now so you can't bring massive amounts of ammo with you and drop it on turn 1.

There are considerably more maps than when you played before (180?)

[Skitso]

6 hours ago, happystrawberry1 said:

Did we ever get an in game map editor? I remember that's why I stopped playing the game, I just remember every single map back then. I would love to have the ability to make maps and explore the vertical gameplay.

No map editor as of now, but Chris did mention some time ago that releasing one after the launch could be a possibility. Let us hope!

[happystrawberry1]

16 hours ago, Skitso said:

No map editor as of now, but Chris did mention some time ago that releasing one after the launch could be a possibility. Let us hope!

my man skitso! glad to see you still here. Heres hoping! Hows the game looking for you so far? I been playing the old open xcom game and getting my ass kicked. Cant wait to experience 1.0 on xenonauts 2.

[Skitso]

13 hours ago, happystrawberry1 said:

my man skitso! glad to see you still here. Heres hoping! Hows the game looking for you so far? I been playing the old open xcom game and getting my ass kicked. Cant wait to experience 1.0 on xenonauts 2.

Hey!

It's pretty much the game I wanted the X1 to be back in the days. Sure, there's a lot of room for improvements still, but I have high hopes for post release patches and paid DLCs. Goldhawk has delivered again.

Things I'd still like to see improved are:

• Better maps. They are good already, but lack verticality. Stairs would be nice!
• More mission types later in the game. (Preferably tied to geoscape gameplay)
• More dynamic geoscape gameplay where things tie in to how other things work.
• More visual flavor like different weather effects (rain, dust, snow), persistent footsteps and blood trails, some, fire and debris around UFO wrecks... stuff like that.
• Some tweaks to cover system. (Being next to a cover should matter more)
• Better auto roof removal.

 But the game is already a 9/10 with seemingly unlimited replayability. I have some 500 hours on it already

Edited April 2 by Skitso