#Xenonauts 2 update#
#Xenonauts 2 upgrade#

The support youвЂ™ve all given us has been humbling вЂ“ it really means a huge amount to us to see so many people backing us on trust, particularly those who were happy customers from our first Kickstarter / Early Access period! WeвЂ™re so pleased to see that we didnвЂ™t have to worry about that. We wondered whether people would still be interested in Xenonauts-2, especially now itвЂ™s four whole years since the original game came outвЂ¦ The games market has become far more crowded since we started developing the first Xenonauts, and Kickstarter is hardly the fresh new way of funding games that it was when we last ran a campaign back in 2012. I had genuine concerns this morning about how well this campaign was going to go.

#Xenonauts 2 update#

Originally designed as a reimagining of the original X-COM games, Xenonauts threw itself into the details when XCOM: Enemy Unknown recreated the original franchiseвЂ™s systems in broad strokes.Д¬hris England, the head of Goldhawk Interactive, posted an update thanking donors: The original game was also a Kickstarter success story when it received its funding in 2012. Releasing in 2014, the original Xenonauts was a highly acclaimed game that had players fend off an alien invasion. The sequel sought ВЈ50,000 for their game, and theyвЂ™ve already surpassed their goal in only 8.5 hours. Many thanks for reading and for staying up-to-date with our work вЂ“ as ever please do join us on Discord, the forums or the Steam community if you have any questions.Xenonauts, a Cold War-era spiritual successor to the XCOM games, has released a Kickstarter for a sequel. WeвЂ™re hoping to get that out before we break for Christmas, so stay tuned. ThereвЂ™s now three Raid maps per biome which means thereвЂ™s way more variety in the early missions, something that will improve further once we set up the new mission types in the early game in the next major build. ThereвЂ™s a lot of Raid missions in the early part of the game, but there was previously only one Raid map per biome. Thirdly, weвЂ™ve added another dozen maps to the game. The visual updates to the tactical mission environments continue too, with the Polar biome getting some attention this month вЂ“ weвЂ™ll be moving onto the fourth Biome (likely the Dock) next month. Another cool little detail is that weвЂ™ve added a lot more hairstyles to the 3D models, so now a soldier in the ground combat will change hairstyle and colour to (roughly) match the hair shown in their soldier portrait вЂ“ something that took a surprisingly long time to implement, but makes your starting squad much more distinguished from one another. The new UI graphics for the loading screen and strategy topbar have been added to the game, and all the Xenonauts are now using their final 3D models in the tactical combat. The second thing weвЂ™ve done is to continue to improve the visuals. Of course, weвЂ™ve also put some further lore and explanation in the first Research project popup that the player gets. Some of you may remember that weвЂ™ve set Xenonauts 2 a little before the alien invasion properly begins, with the player first having to deal with the Cleaners and transition from being an intelligence agency into being a military organisation. The first is to establish the game setting more clearly right from the start of the game, which weвЂ™ve done by adding a short text intro that is played when you start a new campaign. Our priority for V22 has been to improve the opening hour or two of the game, which weвЂ™ve done in several ways. WeвЂ™ve done three hotfixes for this build since it was first released and there is a fourth due out shortly that should iron out the most serious remaining bugs weвЂ™re aware of. This is currently only on our Experimental branch but it should be making its way to the main / default Steam and GOG branches in a week or two when it has had a bit more testing.

#Xenonauts 2 upgrade#

The big news this month has been the release of Closed Beta V22, which is a fairly significant upgrade on previous builds. With October over, itвЂ™s once again time for our monthly update.