Now that the devs have released a new build, let's start a fresh game. Name the campaign, select the country for our first base and name it. I'll post a screen with the available soldiers so you can name them and also pick their equipment and check their stats.
The initial weapons are a pistol, sub-machine gun (these two are the only avilable weapons for the combat shield, besides melee weapons and other items), light machine gun, shotgun, rifle, sniper rifle, grenade launcher, stun baton and combat knife.
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Gavin Williams
Ryder Martinez
bump
Thomas Campbell
classic tryhard base location in north east africa to cover the most countries
base name: based
Elijah Gutierrez
Done. Time to name rookies.
Landon Hill
baracks guy and engineer guy are now epic women? k
my first character is gonna be nadia petrova with the 60+ str, make her a heavy machine gunner and rename to Natasha
Eli Gomez
Donny Two Scoops
Andrew Turner
>Military guy is now a strong womyn
Oh for fuck sake.
Jacob Davis
have they updated the armor sprites in the equip menu to not be mirrored from the middle?
Owen Thomas
I wont make any more toons and wait for some other people but can you please show what Natasha looks like with 1 HMG and how much extra ammo and weight she can carry
Also in the overview on top there there is an "Agents 1", what is that?
Jayden Ramirez
also this thread would be better off on /vst/
Dylan Foster
not only the military guy but apparently also the engineer if you look at the pic in OP
Chase Martin
We have a mission, let's go
This is the engineer. They have the same science guy form X1 for some reason.
Oliver Long
What about the loadouts? Did you bring at least 1 guy with a shield
Cooper Smith
Here's your Natasha. Not sure about the agents thing, something to fuck around in Geoscape but I think you can't do shit with it in the early game. That's a new feature since the last time I played.
Brandon Evans
I kind of liked Xenonauts. Some things I liked less than that of old Xcom, and some things I liked more. But overall I liked the game.
But then I'll have to admit that ever since I got into OpenXcom I never really felt the need to open up Xenonauts again. And it's not as if I disliked the game or anything, I thought it was good.
So how is Xenonauts 2? Is it an improvement over Xenonauts 1?
Jonathan Reed
LMFAO look at that new ayyy
Is that a Caesan?
Kill him
Robert Cook
Turn 1: 2 wounded aliens and some rookie is bleeding due to reaction fire.
Xavier Kelly
3D was a mistake.
Christian Edwards
Some Natasha info.
Joshua Martinez
How can you see over the rocks, is that a bug
Jonathan Moore
If she finishes the mission can you replace the pistol with flashbangs, I find pistols to be mega useless
Eli Taylor
Donny about to fucking destroy that xenoscum
No, it's supossed to be a different height. Oh, they remade the art for that build and everything lacks polish, previous build look better imho.
Bentley Johnson
heal the rookie!
Parker Miller
Lol that menu looks like the first game. Serious effort I see.
Joshua Williams
The menus were fine in 1 already. I think most of the work is going into making the game 3d
Jace Ramirez
Coomer McNiggerson
Jose Perez
Is it worth playing open xcom over xenonauts? I played a bit of both and the readability and weapon variety of xenonauts seems nice to have.
Connor Fisher
I like the updated visuals but dont know much about any gameplay improvements theyve made
Hopefully they add a way to counter psychic attacks, that stuff is just pure bullshit
Landon King
I like xenonauts more. X-Division adds a whole bunch of stuff too if you want variety
Xavier Perry
Turn 2: I managed to heal soldiers and Natasha and Donny killed the aliens
Yes, specially the major mods.
Luke Evans
A civilian was just killed at west, I'm gonna check
Tyler Scott
>No more Cold War aesthetic
>visual style unchanged
Nah
Jaxson Fisher
Play Apocalypse instead.
Charles Torres
You should have brought a shield guy for scouting broski
Lincoln Ramirez
These fags of course missed the overwatch, but at least didn't get hurt.
Yeah I forgot that. I'll fix it when I'm bacl at the base.
Luke Robinson
should be easy kills when theyre bunched up like that
Nathaniel Barnes
Holy shit their aim is shit. The LMG suppressed them and only the sniper couild kill one of them.
user, I... I should've used grenades.
Daniel Jenkins
Why care about Xenonauts 2 when they just decided to collapse and copy all the shit from NuCOM?
Caleb Taylor
they reverted all that
David Torres
Donny spotted a new enemy at north and now he's an easy target. I'll try to stun it with a grenade.
Sebastian Sanders
Seriously? That's kinda hard to believe, as they were basically just banking on those changes to justify making a second game. What changed now?
Caleb Peterson
aim is always dogshit for the first couple missions thats why I like having at least 2 machineguns for suppression
what youre supposed to do is put the rookies with the lowest aim on snipers because it gives aim bonus
then strong dudes on machine gun
and best aim dudes on rifles
Jackson Nguyen
Suppressed and also wounded. Good job Nao [placeholder name, consider rename her]
Gabriel Ramirez
Donny is solo with no backup??! Thats crazy
Adam Taylor
Donny is on fire
Andrew Torres
I guess they realised that they couldn't beat firaxis at their own game, so they decided on improving the already existing formula. IIRC the main drive is increased mission variety, more ayys, more air game mechanics, stuff like that.
Grayson Clark
tbqh nucom stuff made by firaxis is way too casual at least thats what I think
Andrew Young
Sure, but stuff like Long wars which base on nucoms aren't.