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Vagrant
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Posted: Tue, 20th Apr 2010 15:05 Post subject: Xenonauts |
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Xenonauts is an upcoming PC strategy title inspired by the classic X-Com series of strategy games.
http://www.xenonauts.com/
Announcement came after 2K's own, about butchering and simplifying yet another legendary franchise.
Release date: Q4 2010.
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Posted: Tue, 20th Apr 2010 15:11 Post subject: |
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This looks pretty good. But the release date is end of 2010 and they still don't have any in-battle media up ?
I don't think they can meet the release date. Cool concept though !
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ixigia
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wawrzul
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Posted: Wed, 21st Apr 2010 11:26 Post subject: |
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Just one look at the homepage and seeing geoscape made me droooooool :O
Gimme!
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Posted: Wed, 21st Apr 2010 18:25 Post subject: |
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Looks good, doesnt it? Its another game I am looking forward to, hopefully they will finish it.
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wawrzul
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Posted: Thu, 22nd Apr 2010 10:15 Post subject: |
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Seeing the screenshot on the main page (geoscape) reminded of the first time i ran x-com many many years ago and starting to build up the first base, selling useless equipment, buying a rocket launcher, explosive ammo...
I also remember how i hated terror sites, because sometimes aliens were hard to find. Plus too many dead civilians were not cool.
Christ, X-com rocks!
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VonMisk
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Posted: Thu, 22nd Apr 2010 12:24 Post subject: |
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From the description - me wants. But time will tell if they can deliver what they promised.
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wawrzul
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Posted: Thu, 22nd Apr 2010 16:05 Post subject: |
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VonMisk
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2011 12:47 Post subject: |
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http://www.youtube.com/user/TotalHalibut#p/u/0/nc7IVbY3UYg
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2011 13:18 Post subject: |
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2011 13:35 Post subject: |
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dezztroy wrote: | Day-1 purchase for me. |
Why not pre-order it and play it now for less money if you intend to buy it anyway?
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Posted: Fri, 30th Sep 2011 13:48 Post subject: |
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Overlord123 wrote: | dezztroy wrote: | Day-1 purchase for me. |
Why not pre-order it and play it now for less money if you intend to buy it anyway? |
Cause I'm lazy.
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Posted: Sat, 1st Oct 2011 23:00 Post subject: |
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Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 09:08 Post subject: |
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Lookin' pretty smart, though the art isn't quite at the level of X-COM apocalypse.
This really does look to be the closest we'll get to a real X-COM sequel. (wonder how many times that line has been said..)
The terrain is destructable right?.. if an X-COM clone doesn't manage this feat, it can burn in a pit of fire. 'Official' X-COM included!
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ixigia
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Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 10:37 Post subject: |
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Quote: | With 2K’s (let’s put it mildly) divisive XCOM FPS fast approaching, there just isn’t a better time for Xenonauts to exist. |
Indeed, it's a breath of fresh air and we desperately need it 
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Posted: Sun, 2nd Oct 2011 13:40 Post subject: |
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jermore wrote: |
The terrain is destructable right?.. |
Of course.
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Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 17:31 Post subject: |
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why dont they just use alertpay or googlecheckout ffs.. paypal rapes everyone in the ass eventually
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Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 18:46 Post subject: |
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snoop1050 wrote: | why dont they just use alertpay or googlecheckout ffs.. paypal rapes everyone in the ass eventually |
I think googlecheckout has the same issues, according to the guys at Xenonauts.
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Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 18:47 Post subject: |
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Yeah, the team behind Project Zomboid had the same issue with G.Checkout --- which is why they had to sell the "worst games in the world" lol.
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Posted: Sat, 29th Oct 2011 11:41 Post subject: |
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Quote: | As some of you may be aware, we have been having some problems with Paypal. These problems involve them cutting off our only income stream and then freezing the $4,300 in the account for 180 weeks before they return it.
The community has been very helpful during this period, both in terms of the community around the our project and the indie scene as a whole. There have been numerous suggestions about how we could circumvent the Paypal ban on pre-orders, but I was never particularly keen on going back to them. Fundamentally we were always going to struggle with their rules, I think – I was much more interested in finding a solution that was better aligned with where we were going as a project. This gave us two main options – Desura, or the new Humble Indie Bundle store widget.
The HIB store widget was effectively exactly what we had before, but with lower transaction fees and the shield of another (better known) organisation between us and Paypal. Desura, for those who are not aware, is effectively an indie version of Steam owned by the people who run IndieDB/ModDB. I think both would have been good partners, but we decided on Desura because it allows us to outsource the pre-order process (saving me time) and will make it easier to actually deliver the final game when it is released – the plan is Desura or Steam keys for each pre-orderer.
We’re currently working on integrating Desura with vBulletin so pre-orderers can get forum badges for buying the game, but pre-orders should be up again relatively soon, so sit tight. We’re announcing this on this site rather than Xenonauts.com because we’re having problems with that – the frontpage is frozen as it was when the site crashed from the Reddit traffic a couple of weeks back, so we’re migrating over here and will be replacing the current Xenonauts.com with something a bit more snazzy.
All pre-orderers will recieve a Desura key sent to their Paypal email addresses when the Desura pre-orders go live, just as a heads-up.
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http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/news-blog/
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Posted: Sat, 29th Oct 2011 14:09 Post subject: |
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Quote: | freezing the $4,300 in the account for 180 weeks |
180 weeks?
That's three and a half years, what the hell are paypal playing at these days and is it even legal?
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Posted: Mon, 7th Nov 2011 22:02 Post subject: |
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You can pre-order again and have access to the last game builds.
http://www.xenonauts.com/pre-order/
14.99€ the standard package.
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Posted: Sat, 7th Jan 2012 19:33 Post subject: |
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So, since the thread has been found...
The game is pretty much in progress - a lot of features work now, the graphics are ok (god, i couldn't play UFO:ET, even the gold edition, because of the graphics).
If someone would buy some copies (though i'd like to clearly highlight - this is alpha, a work in progress, though most of the features work as intended already, there are - some placeholders, CTDs are not rare, ufopedia is mostly empty, research was just unlocked with only some of the technologies available, 4:3 is not fully supported, though i play in 1280x1024, etc,etc) - that would be great, since Chris England got hit pretty hard by the Firaxis XCOM announcement, and it would be cool if they could finish the game faster.
Here are some screenshots:
        
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