gone is the inn, instead you have to recruit units from a limited number of roaming civilians. the alien factions is trimmed in order to not have too many units of each race per faction. the human factions is good but, at the cost of the others. the way to create several units is unknown. think this is what killed the series.
i got to the boss on level 4 and he is overpowered. he killed me in a matter of seconds because i have to use weak armor just to get to him. i tried to escape through the wall but, he hit me even then. good thing it was cheap when it is so unbalanced.
the first time i tried to run it, it worked but, on i7-8700k and rtx 2080 ti it defaulted all settings to low. that in itself is a serious bug. the second time i tried to start it, it did not start because i did not have the disc which prevents its cd-check from authenticating the game, preventing it from running. multiplayer also does not work, likely because of no disc.