Posted on: October 7, 2023

Early-Access-Bewertung

robaki

Spiele: 122 Rezensionen: 2

scratching the itch

[This is July 2023 early access review ; I'm a backer and have played the first xenonauts] Compared to the first xenonauts there is enough changes and improvements to make it worth playing for me. Apart from some quality of life improvements, there are changes to equipment, the number of soldiers that can be taken on missions, the role of the support vehicle (there is a less of a tradeoff between taking soldiers and the vehicle now, which is a plus for me). The gas rockets are gone, and overall using the rocket launcher is not as good choice as it used to be in the first installment. There is a bit more variety in missions now, including item retrieval, diffusing bombs, and sometimes added time-pressure. The crashed/landed UFO missions are still the majority. There are new enemies, including one that is hard to kill using firearms, unless its sensitivity to noise is exploited. The storyline was also changed, which is nice. This time we don't start fighting the invasion immediately, but after initial few missions aimed against their human helpers. The aircombat is announced to be changed in future updates, but at least for now I had more luck with the autoresolve than the manual combat. Some of the research descriptions (autopsies mostly?) are still missing at this point. I wish the global view was showing a globe instead of a flat map, given that the engine is now 3D.

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Posted on: July 20, 2023

Early-Access-Bewertung

khakirumble75

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 105 Rezensionen: 1

Promising improvements to the original

TL;DR Good game with imporvements on the original. Buy if you're a big fan of the original and want to justify playing the game again or if you're new to Xenonauts and want to experience a more user friendly game. But also the game is early access and things can drastically change for better or worse as development continues. Much like a nut is a delicious snack, a chocolate coating elevates the experience. Xenonauts 2 is that coating of goodness around the solid core of the original. Some good, the visuals are largley inline with the original but with more refinement, clarity and a modern UI, which is good because the original art style still holds up and didn't require a massive overhaul. The mechanics so far seem to simply build upon what the first game established, providing more challenges and dynamic situations for the player to encounter. Sound design is immaculate, the guns are punchy, the lasers are "zappy", its all just wonderful. The music is likewise equally stellar and so far hasn't become grating or annoying during gameplay. That's not to say the game is without issue, it is still in "early access" and like so many other games this is cause to be warry of the game. While I personally am confident in the devs to deliver a full and polished product, for most people I'd recommend holding off until the game is further along to spend your hard earned money on it; especially if you already own the original. A major issue in my experence is a problem with crashing and stuttering when trying to complete actions quickly. I understand it's a turn based game, but its a tad annoying when I'm checking my sectors quickly to figure the best solution and the game slows to a crawl. Additionaly, the game crashes during loading screens and the aforementioned quick scanning around the map, which is particularly agonizing as multiple times its crashed near the end of my turn where my troopers hit most of their shots only to reload and have them miss everything.

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Posted on: September 13, 2024

Early-Access-Bewertung

TornaSerrallonga

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 175 Rezensionen: 3

Good game, slow development

The game is fun and interesting, an improvement over xenonauts 1 albeit with the same theme. I would recommend it, but one also has to take into account that the development by the programmers is taking really much. Perhaps wait until you can finally complete the final mission and finish the campaign, it's not available up to now (13_9_2024).

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Posted on: July 21, 2023

Early-Access-Bewertung

Mondfels

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 720 Rezensionen: 3

Fiese Aliens, gutes Spiel

Neun meiner Soldaten machen sich auf, um ein paar Zivilisten von den bösen, fiesen und gemeinen Aliens zu retten. Ehe ich mich versehe, sind drei meiner Soldaten gefallen, ein weiterer blutet stark und seine Rettung erweist sich als unmöglich, da die Aktionspunkte nicht reichen. Mein Resttrupp hält tapfer durch und vier Soldaten schaffen schließlich die Mission. Dann die Überraschung im Abschlussbericht: 3 Soldaten konnten wiederbelebt werden und haben schwer verletzt überlebt. Lediglich zwei Neulinge muss ich ersetzen, der Kampf gegen die Aliens kann also weiter gehen... Spiel macht also schon Laune und es gibt zahlreiche Verbesserungen, nicht zuletzt die Unterstützung der deutschen Sprache in Textform.

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Posted on: August 3, 2023

Early-Access-Bewertung

Mr.Manga

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 1165 Rezensionen: 13

Has possebilities

They are improving on many of the things from the first one and adding things for good and bad, timed missions are on the bad side, never really liked them especially when its a really short timer combined with reinforcments from random directions or all sides at the same time. People seems to mention bugs and crashes but they have not been a big thing for me, 200 ingame days and the game only crashed 2 times, my problem is that they need to work on the balance, even if you choose the easiest difficulty, use flashbang and multiple smoke grenades so does it seem to be impossible for the aliens to miss. I read the book that came with the first game with ideas that never was implemented and i hope they use some of them now like maybe larger scale battles longer into the campain, something i would also like is more use of friendlies, neutral and hostile forces, the cleaners was a good idea but they where a really small part of the game. So the game is fun but lack a lot of stuff atm, it has lots of potential and i hope they use as much of it as possible.

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