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Offtopic / Re: let's play... xenonauts?

« on: May 28, 2012, 03:40:26 pm »

You can only download a (huge file size) demo from places that lets you play for a short time as it's a soon to be commercial product you have to buy.  That's assuming you can even get the game to work in the first place.  Never ever been able to load the geoscape on my system on the demo I downloaded and the members of their forum weren't much help in resolving the issue either.  Doing an update of all my drivers didn't even help me so gave up on the game in the end.  With no geoscape loading you can't do anything at all and pausing it and resuming results in a game over screen immediately.  Think they've got a long way to go before they can make a viable project to make money off even though they think it's near completion for release.

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Discussion / Re: A few quick questions

« on: April 29, 2012, 11:48:55 pm »

Each base you set up for some reason has a random amount of unusable squares in it.  It's a pain the backside when you've got 4 of them in a new base your setting up as your limited on the kinds of structures you can place and have to wait for builds to finish before adding new ones near it.  Also a few of the structures like large hanger, workshop and laboratory require 2 squares to be built on which reduces the amount of buildings you can have even further.  So far haven't found any new buildings to research but I'm sure there will be at some point so it's hard to decide what to build where in case more double slot buildings come later on in the game.

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Discussion / Re: Few suggestion.

« on: April 29, 2012, 11:43:50 pm »

Had the same problem Trashman, loads of ideas while playing but by the time I come to type them up I've forgotten half of them LOL

The items that get rare are the T20 rockets I think they're called.  I'm early in the game and currently have 4 bases going doing research and have only just done some of the laser weapons (craft one and laser rifle).  I know I have the laser rifle cartridge to research which is currently going on and then I'll use it for my troops instead of sonic weapons which are quite hit and miss on the battlefield even when standing right next to an alien.

Thought of another suggestion as well.  I'm not sure if it's the same with all weapons but with the sonic rifle when you choose 3 round burst it fires one shot which splits into 3  in a w formation.  When using this option neither of the shots seems to come anywhere near the enemy.  In the original games 3 round burst fired a single shot 3 times one after another, obviously not all 3 hit their target but it was more effective in the original UFO games than in UFO AI.  So any chance of making the 3 round burst fire 3 bullets one after another instead of 3 at once?

Also I'm not sure if after doing quite a few missions and getting kills with your squad the number of time units doesn't seem to increase that much.  As it stands I have a few squad members that are still alive after about 100 missions and have racked up kills but in the battlefield I don't seem to have many time units for them to do anything, maybe move a bit and fire an aimed shot and have them set up for reaction shots and that's it.  Can take about 30 turns to go from one side of the map to another when stopping to shoot.  Shouldn't their time units increase more the longer they're alive?

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Discussion / Re: Few suggestion.

« on: April 28, 2012, 11:01:18 pm »

Would like to see more of each weapons ammo available at the end of each month.  When you've got more than 4 bases set up you sometimes can't get enough ammo for the weapons each month to keep them operating   Especially the missile systems where you sometimes only get 50 to share between all the bases.  I know this may not be important during the start of the game with few bases and before you start developing weapons that don't need ammo (lasers for instance).

Also some of the other items get quite rare to find after a while (night vision goggles).  It can take a few months to get enough for a squad of 8 troops.

Sorry I don't know anyone modellers or animators to help out or I'd try to convince them to get onboard with the project

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Discussion / Re: Few suggestion.

« on: April 28, 2012, 08:30:54 am »

Had another idea that should be implemented (at least I think it should).  On the battlefield there should be an option to lay down on the ground.  You have walking & crouching so laying down flat should allow you to aim better and have a higher chance of hitting your target.  Also laying down would make your men safer against enemy fire.  Obviously you'd use up more time units laying down and standing back up or crouching but it'd help with random shots from enemies being so accurate with the slightest move you make (small niggle after multiple battlefield missions where the enemy is nearby and as soon as you try to move or take a shot they kill your man with deadly accuracy and the same with the next few men you try to move as well)

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Discussion / Re: Few suggestion.

« on: April 25, 2012, 10:12:11 am »

Was one of the air combat ideas like the original UFO as they seemed to work quite well, although with UFO AI, it may not because of the intercept points the craft sometime choose (for instance from a base in South America to a UFO in Central USA it decided to go via the south pole and then over the north pole to intercept it).

Thanks for the info on craft repair, that gives me another idea for the game if possible.  Adding time details for repair when you view the craft.  Same thing also would be helpful in the hospital part when soldiers are injured to let you know how long they'll be in hospital for to fully heal.  Although I'm not sure if it's a bug or planned but if you take injured soldiers into the battlefield you can heal them with medpacks and they don't go back into the hospital upon return.  Quicker way of healing them than using the hospital to do it.  Think someone else mentioned this before as well.

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Discussion / Re: Few suggestion.

« on: April 24, 2012, 10:09:22 am »

I had another thought last night after playing for hours.

What about implementing a tactical box like the original UFO Enemy Unknown game when attempting to shoot down UFO's.  The process in place is quite unforgiving at times with some of the more powerful UFO's, you don't get a chance to outrun them, land or return them to base before they're completely destroyed (annoyed me after a terror mission and a UFO intercepted my troop transport and blew it away on my way back to the base and there was nothing I could do about it).  Even in a situation like that the ability to land and defend your vehicle from the UFO on the ground would be a nice idea, I mean you take the offensive like in a base defence mission but it's a totally random area you don't know the layout of same as the enemy doesn't.  At least then you'd have a fighting chance and if you could kill all the aliens on the mission you take off again and continue your way back to base and also capture another UFO and equipment.  But this is distracting from my first point.

The original UFO had a box that come up when you intercepted a UFO and gave you options to shoot it, tail it (follow it) or disengage from the conflict.  This allowed you to get more than one interceptor to attack the UFO (from another base), so tailing the UFO until the other arrived then attacking in force (2 instead of 1 at a time).  This helped greatly with the biggest ships in the game and gave you a fighting chance against them.

Also a few more questions, do damaged ships repair when in the base or do you have to manually repair them (with engineers)?

Do the ships even get repaired or do their health go down until they're completely useless and you end up selling them and buying a new one?

Is there a limit on UFO yards and Sam & Radar sites?  Currently I have two bases set up around the globe (another in the process of being built) and I can't seem to build more than 2 SAM sites & Radar installations.  I also noticed last night I can't build anymore UFO yards either just bases now.  Is there some description somewhere on the build limitations of each?

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Discussion / Re: Few suggestion.

« on: April 23, 2012, 11:50:04 am »

I can understand people wanting keyboard shortcuts for everything if possible but numbers for bases would be helpful instead of having to scroll around the globe to find the base you want, even the possibility of adding them to a CTRL+1 key for example like you can with RTS games would help.  Just makes navigation to bases quicker, especially if pressing it opens up the base layout and you can then click on which base you want to get to.

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Discussion / Few suggestion.

« on: April 23, 2012, 02:43:44 am »

New to the board but decided to post a suggestion after messing around with the main map and controls.

Any chance of putting a base section on the main screen console, even a number would help bound to a keyboard shortcut (display a 1 symbol for the first base or press the 1 key on the keyboard to zoom the map to that base on the globe)?

Also it'd be helpful with buttons to confirm actions, also when buying selling items, have them in separate columns or pages for each action.  It gets a bit confusing for a total newbie when you don't know if you've purchased something or not or started building or researching something.

Would also put some type of save points into the main tactical part of the game.  On the easiest level unlimited save points for instance and as you progress up to the harder levels have less save points until you hit the hardest level where you have no saves for the tactical portion.

Also the ship loadout screens can be annoying when you have a box drawn over a vehicle but can't click it to select that part of it to load a weapon on, also time taken to refit a weapon and ammo is quite annoying.  Just minor niggles on that one though, it'd take time in real life so understandable taking time in a game but not hours to load ammo.

Also it's confusing with additions to the ship (armour, targetting computer etc).  It doesn't make clear if these take up weapon slots of not when fitted.

Other than these few suggestions I commend everyone involved in this project, I have been after a worthy successor to UFO: Enemy Unknown for a long time, even the sequels to the original kind of sucked.  Looking forward to the next build and the commercial 2K games rebuild of UFO   Keep up the good work, thanks for the game.