Actually, the first file I downloaded by default was a Galaxy file(which I don't want), not even the demo. I found the actual installer just below it, so this makes sense.

*Bill Hicks

I haven't supported a lot of such projects, but this one was an easy decision for me. I hope the gameplay improvements are as nice as the visuals. As for the anthill, I have to assume it was well-received in XCOM as an improvement?

These are questioning thoughts. I don`t see any insults.

I like GOG. A lot. I came to this because I loved the ethos and the mesage GOG brought which was unique to the standard mainstream of games. Being DRM free was what I loved about gaming, so every small attempt to make it a client like Steam/Origin and UPlay, will always have my thinking and critical thoughts pop up.

I don`t want GOG to forget that.

But, hey, I have some business advice, treat your customers like you like them, listen to their concerns when they make it. Customers complain, perhaps rudely, in your view, but honestly. Which do you want, pretended politeness or sheer honesty?

That`s good business practise. You fail that at your peril.

The moderator/blue one is correct.
Imm able to download the demo just fine withouth Galaxy, Just tested. so your basicly trolling in hope to get some emotional responses. In other words being rude.

You should have been here when we had the infamous InfoWars thread. XD

Most politeness IS pretense. That is its point: social lubricant.
Tactlessness is not the same as honesty.

i am confused here

i tried the demo on my "office"/jack'of'all'trade daily computer which has only an Intel Dualcore G4400 skylake CPU and a Gforce 750ti, the demo was set on max settings on 1080p and it ran fine...

only notable "issue" i could spot was the CPU and GPU heat rising rather high (but it's a common behavior i saw on many games made with unity engine, such as hard west, battletech, or others...)
while a game like the Xcom Enemy Unknown/Within recently released here on GOG would run fine on max settings too with at least 10°C less heating on both CPU and GPU than the unity games mentionned above (Xcom used Unreal Engine 3)

so, no, the requirements are not that high, but given your experience and your testimony, i would seriously try to inquire about your computer's installation and background process of running apps, and check for any problem there, because it seems you have at least a CPU that is on par with mine, or better, and the same GPU. If we both get that different a behavior from the current Xenonauts 2 demo under such circumstances, the problem may not be lying on the game itself.

As for "too many options", maybe people nowadays are used to downgraded poor pc ports of console games that obfuscate any kind of technical tinkering or just remove any "choice" to the player; auto detection of the host machine had greatly improved this last years so that people craving for simplicity wouldnt have to even bother going into an option / settings menu at all, but it is nice - for people interested in it - that such settings and options would exist nonetheless for them (it practically saved me from having some games run badly, just because i prefer do some educated tinkering of a few options). So, no, i dont think there was too many options on the demo, they are just there for people who want the choice of using them, and the game already does a now standard job at autodetecting your configuration and do the job unattended if that is a concern...


i liked all of them: first UFO Defence from Microprose in the 90ies, Firaxis's reboots and expansions, Xenonauts 1 and i am rather convinced i would like the upcoming Xenonauts 2, from what i could read and see about it so far.

So what does it make me ? a damn plebeian tasteless fanboy with no brain and a clean tacticalwhore side ?
or just someone who like good tactical games and dont give a damn about what people would think or say about it ?

Or both :)

I really enjoyed Xenonauts and definitely want the sequel, though I'm on the fence about backing the Kickstarter since it seems to be purely a marketing thing. I guess a preorder with vaguely interesting perks is better than paying full price at launch.

I would argue the opposite, actually; prior to the recent "backup" UI change getting to the offline installer required an additional click to bring up an identical looking UI element, which has led to me accidentally wasting bandwidth on Galaxy downloads on more than one occasion. Now it's on the main page and very clearly labeled, suggesting an increase in importance and visibility.

I'd like to buy you a beer for that first sentence. I LOLed at the reference.

Well, at least visually Xenonauts 2 looks better then Jagged Alliance 2. That's the progress! :)
Can't say much about strategy layer yet, but the same map and XCOM-like base constructing... shame

100% agreed.

Honesty can be respectful. Actually, it ought to be if it aims to achieve anything.

Rudeness always comes from either posturing or sheer clumsiness.

Is there an option to enable vsync?

I've had similar issues with many games, e.g. Age of Empires 3, which started to overheat the system (fans on the laptop start screaming in full power etc.). Enabling vsync in the game options usually seems to fix this, so I presume it was only because vsync was off, the game was using 100% of GPU (and CPU) power to calculate extra frames, unnecessarily so. Even with older games with simple graphics, like Age of Empires 3, or some Quake mod I tried a couple of years ago (where it was calculating thousands of frames per second, just because vsync was not enabled).

Enabling vsync in those games locked the framerate to the refresh rate (in my case 60 Hz/fps), fixing the problem.

If you have an Nvidia GPU, you can enable VSync for any software in the Nvidia control panel.
(Might be possible too with AMD/Intel, but I have no experience with those - in this context.)

Vanilla Jagged Alliance 2, at least.

thank you much for the tip
i will try that
however, i got this issue on games that were barely working at 30fps at all, so i dont know if it would help or not.

strange that one engine like unity causes such behavior, while older games (like, some created before unity ever was used... like "in UE3" - are behaving like charm on same computer)