Xenonauts - Legit remake of the original XCom

Gavinmad

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And a fair amount of stuff was stripped out or redesigned. I mean granted psychic/molecular control was absurdly overpowered in the originals, and borderline useless in EU2012, but stripping it out entirely really takes a lot of fun out of the game.

While I support Xenonauts, Gorestabb you should really give OpenXCom a try as well.
 
Gavinmad

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Vaclav_sl said:
Woah, no psychics?
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Well the aliens still have psychic powers, but you can't get them. And they still ignore line of sight like the original.

Also, the new XCom is on sale right out of the gates for this steam summer sale. The UFO series, heavily inspired by XCom, is 80% off, although from what I've heard UFO: Afterlight is ok and the rest are lukewarm at best. The originals are all 50% off, which means 2.50 a piece or 7.50 for the collection of 5 (Original, TFTD, Apocalypse, Enforcer, and Interceptor)
 
Vaclav

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Yea, already own the originals and they've done a good job at scratching the itch when I've got it. (Although TFTD does tend to crash on me on terror missions with Win8 for whatever reason)
 
Burns

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Xenonauts 2 was released from early access a few weeks ago. If you liked the first game, you should like this one. It's still a small indie game, which means it has some rough edges but all in all, a good Xcom-like (originals, not 2012).

The main feature I would have liked is the ability to lay prone, so shooting from roofs was a bit safer. If two mobs target one of my team, they have a high chance of being dead. If you don't save scum, you will chew through troopers.


Figured, with this being a smaller niche game, it might be better to just necro the original game thread.
 
cyrusreij

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I never played the original, but I bought this when it was on sale at release and did a play-through. It is competent. Made me retry Phoenix Point after beating it.... and I still cannot force myself to finish that game. Such wasted potential.
 
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