Chris

Hey - thanks for this. As Koki said, the saves would be very helpful here. Was the Cleaner mission you played the Rescue Soldier one? Maybe this guy got left behind on that mission if you recovered more soldiers than you had space in the dropship for.

This update is also only accessible by switching to our Experimental branches (instructions on how to do so here) - although note they have slower load times and worse performance than normal builds due to the extra logging they contain! A few more fixes for bugs, including the "bald soldiers" bug that reappeared in the previous experimental build. This is hopefully now the final update needed for Milestone 3! Bugfixes: Fixed some soldiers being bald in combat missions. This bug has reoccured several times now due to Unity shenanigans, so we've entirely rewritten the system responsible to ensure it stays fixed - but please let us know if this has caused any further bugs! Fixed an issue where the three "On Mission" soldiers would get permanently stuck in the dropship after returning to base if you flew to a Soldier Extraction mission site, then aborted the mission and returned to base. Fixed pressing Esc on the Transfer Items screen not returning to the Geoscape like it does on other strategy UI screens.

Hey Gam - so the official translations are now under the control of our publisher, unfortunately. I don't think they're planning to do an Italian one. If you wanted to do another volunteer translation then that should be possible once our mod tools are out; all the text strings are in one .csv file and it could be distributed via a mod / Steam workshop.

We've now released our Milestone 3.8.0 patch onto our standard Steam / GOG / Epic branches, which fixes several more stability and gameplay issues. Although our primary focus is working on the next major update (Milestone 4) we will continue to fix and patch Milestone 3, so please do report any bugs or issues you encounter. Gameplay Changes: Selling an aircraft now returns any equipped items on that aircraft to the base stores, rather than just deleting them. Secton eyes now glow when Psionic Triangulation is active. Fixed large amounts of text not appearing correctly in Chinese languages. Fixed a large number of text lines being vertically misaligned in non-English languages. Bugfixes: Fixed a situation where players could interrupt alien reaction fire, causing them to gain control of the alien unit that had been trying to attack them. Fixed another way in which the blast doors in the ATLAS base mission could get out of sync, and appear visually open when actually being closed (or vice versa). Fixed planned soldier loadouts (on unassigned soldiers) not reflecting changes to soldier stats that will be caused by equipped items. Fixed double-clicking on a soldier in the list on the Soldier Equip screen not allowing you to replace them with a different soldier. Fixed the "custom" button on the campaign settings menu remaining selected if you change back to a different difficulty setting. Fixed some display issues users could experience if using multiple monitors while mirroring one of them to different screen. Attempted to fix panning the camera in the air combat being broken if users were using mouse and keyboard while also having a touchscreen or touch peripheral plugged in.

Thanks. I've been able to reproduce the issue of the soldiers remaining in the dropship once it returns to base if you abort the mission once you reach the mission site, which is probably the cause of this bug. We'll get it fixed. The posts Koki linked above would be useful for any further bug reports though!

Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately there's not really much you can do to help besides making sure your bug reports have all the required info when necessary (logs / saves) so we have all the info we need to fix the issues as quickly as possible. I didn't need any more info in this case, but I'm sure as a dev you know what's needed to make your life easier!

One of our junior coders investigated it a few weeks back and it's not a straightforward fix, so it'll require our tech director to sit down for at least a couple of hours and figure out what the issue is - and his time is usually spent on the highest priority issues we have on any given day. This bug is only classed as medium priority; how long ago you reported the bug doesn't really factor into that. It's likely to be addressed once all the game content is in place.

Ugh, so they have. Thanks. Guess we'll be releasing a 3.10.0 on Monday then!

This update is also only accessible by switching to our Experimental branches (instructions on how to do so here) - although note they have slower load times and worse performance than normal builds due to the extra logging they contain! This update just contains a few more minor fixes, and we'll likely be releasing this onto the main branch on Monday if it proves stable (or releasing 3.8.0 if not). Bugfixes: Fixed being able to heal alien units (this allowed players to get into a few situations that could allow crashes). Prevented the player from healing an unconscious unit if there is another unit stood on their tile, as that would lead to two units occupying the same tile. Fixed the Western Town restaurant interior walls appearing black on some systems. Fixed the soldier HP bar that is shown on hover on the Dropship soldier arrangement screen showing inconsistent values when you switch between soldiers. Fixed some ladders on some of the new Polar maps not being climbable.

It's not something that Xenonauts 2 has done. For some reason your PC will have removed the files from the save directory, which is in My Documents/My Games/Xenonauts2/. Some other users had an issue with this a while back and it turned out to be a setting on their computer. I can't remember exactly what it was, but I think it was maybe OneDrive syncing options? Or maybe some kind of antivirus software has quarantined them because it thinks it is dangerous?

Yeah, it shows soldier health. Sounds like it's bugged though - if you figure out anything consistently wrong then just post it up here! I'll take a look at it myself later today if I get a chance and see if I can see anything wrong.

Every weapon can do between 50% to 200% of their base damage. I guess we should add that to the tutorial

Thanks for the feedback. I think you've found a bug in the game there - if there's a string of adjacent cover with the same or less stopping chance than the original adjacent cover (i.e. the box), then it should all be ignored. In this case that means the wall should be ignored because it's adjacent to the box, which is correctly being ignored. However it doesn't seem to be working here for some reason, so we'll take a look at what's going on.

Hello everyone - hope you all had a good Easter! It's time for our monthly update on the progress we've made on Xenonauts 2. Milestone 3 Patches: A lot of our time has been spent fixing bugs in Milestone 3 recently, with five patches being released in the last month. Many of these issues were minor problems caused by our Unity 2022 upgrade, but there's also been fixes for various older bugs and some improvements made to the foreign language translations of the game too. These updates should have collectively improved player experience quite a bit. One highlight was finally finding a fix for a long-standing bug that turned the screen black whenever any unit fired a weapon. This bug only affected a small number of users and there was a workaround (disabling the "camera shake" setting), but it made the game basically unplayable for anyone who did not know that - so it's definitely a relief to have it fixed! New Maps & Environments: We've also been hard at work on the content for Milestone 4, and the new maps needed for the largest UFO crash sites are the biggest component of this. These are progressing well - we're aiming to have 3 large maps per biome when Milestone 4 comes out, and we're about 80% of the way there now. In addition to this, the update will also contain numerous new Alien Base maps that were made the previous month. Furthermore, a new environment artist contractor has joined the team to help us improve our existing environments and eventually finish off the Soviet Town biome that we plan to add to the game before final release. We've already updated the command room in the ATLAS Base map so it more closely resembles what we have in our artwork (with a command table and proper wall screens), and now we're working on some underground earth textures for use in the Alien Base maps. I'm planning on using these to address one of the gameplay issues with the Alien Base maps - that all the walls are indestructible (even the ones between rooms). Under this new setup all walls will be destructible, so it'll be possible to destroy both internal walls and the external ones around the edge of rooms. Doing this will reveal the earth tiles behind the walls, and these themselves will also be destructible. This should allow more realistic gameplay where powerful weapons and explosives will be able to gouge holes in the walls, and theoretically it would also allow players to dynamically "mine" through the earth and breach other rooms if they sufficiently powerful weapons. Be aware this idea is still at the testing phase so I can't promise it will definitely work as planned... but all our testing so far looks good! Alien Visual & Audio Improvements: Our updated Androns have now been finished and will be marching into battle against humanity in Milestone 4. We've also retextured the basic Sectons, as these are the first aliens that new players encounter but previously had fairly basic textures. We're currently retexturing the Wraiths so their basic non-combatants have a simple military uniform rather than being completely naked, and this month we'll be creating an additional Wraith variant with heavier armour that will appear towards the end of the game. We're also in the process of hiring a contract audio engineer to improve the game's sound design in general, which will include creating some new sounds for the aliens to try and give them a bit more character (like new injury / death sounds, or unique footsteps etc). Smaller Improvements: We've also completed several small features this month that were requested by the community. Firstly, the dropship screen (where you can position your soldiers within the dropship) now shows the soldier role icons on the green soldier tiles, making the process much more straightforward than it was previously. Secondly, we've finally got "destruction linking" working properly, which allows us to have walkable tiles placed on top of large multi-tile objects like shipping containers and have them remove themselves if the underlying object is destroyed. This means there's now a lot more objects in the game that allow you to land on top of them and walk around (shipping containers, caravans, buses, certain fuel tanks, etc), and fewer cases of aliens mysteriously standing in mid-air on invisible tiles. Work was also done on the end of turn camera, which now better shows regeneration healing and Bleeding Wounds damage on any visible units at end of turn. We also rewitten the item assignment logic that occurs after a completed mission, because players were getting some strange loadout problems when running a second mission with the same dropship (some weapons not starting with a clip loaded, etc), which was just down to the primitive way in which the game assigned items to your soldiers if there wasn't enough to equip the whole squad. Finally, a surprisingly popular request was an upgrade for the basic Combat Knife weapon that is available for your soldiers, so we've designed an upgraded Energy Knife that will unlock off Alien Electronics and should allow the weapon to remain relevant for much longer. Conclusion: That's everything for this month - lots of smaller tasks that together represent good progress on the project. Hopefully we'll have an early version of Milestone 4 out for testing on the Experimental branch later this month!

This update is also only accessible by switching to our Experimental branches (instructions on how to do so here) - although note they have slower load times and worse performance than normal builds due to the extra logging they contain! Bugfixes: Selling an aircraft now returns any equipped items on that aircraft to the base stores, rather than just deleting them. Secton eyes now glow when Psionic Triangulation is active. Fixed a situation where players could interrupt alien reaction fire, causing them to gain control of the alien unit that had been trying to attack them. Fixed some display issues users could experience if using multiple monitors while mirroring one or them to different screen. Attempted to fix panning the camera in the air combat being broken if users were using mouse and keyboard while also having a touchscreen or touch peripheral plugged in.