This mod doesn't crash on me, but it has several flaws that make this just not fun to play. The start is very bumpy, very difficult, you have no workshop available, there is very litte to find or scrounge and its hard to get a basic weapons. Ammo is very rare and expensive and you need several perks to even attempt some kind of armor upgrade. This slows everything down to a crawl, I'm 6 hours in, have checked everything and saved often and its very hard to even survive. The amount of danger even simple enemies pose and the extremely high radiation levels make even a drop into the water extremely deadly. This is beyond challenging, this is pure frustration. In addition exploration doesn't reward you in any way, there is nothing to find, just dangerous enemies you are not even close to be equipped to handle. I think I will stop playing, this is just a waste of time.
I was very excited about this title. Being underwhelmed by the XCOM reboot from Firaxis with the extremly reduced geoscape functionality, linear storytelling and boring research, i was looking forward to Xenonauts. The problem is: The game doesn't really deliver. The UFOs come in waves which are totally predictable, the airial combat is fine if used on auto but gives you disadvantage if you use it in manual mode (Which is sad, because the air combat looks really nice). Even the tactical is kinda boring and nothing in game is REALLY exciting. You have seen it all, often the old game does solve a specific problem better than Xenonauts and the biggest complain i have is: The aliens are to predictable and not agressive enough. Surely you now say: Up the difficulty level! But that does not change the agressivness of the AI. More ships and harder to kill enemies are not AI but tweaks that make em harder to kill/control, but not harder to predict. At nearly 50% in the game i had lost most of my motivation to continue, but i finished it anyway. While i played XCOM the original time after time, i'm not really tempted to play Xenonauts again. I think that is everything that needed to be said. The game tries hard to catch the spirit of the old game, but it's just a subpar copy that can't reignite the love i have for the old game. For the low price it's ok, but don't expect the soul and heart of the original.
