#Xenonauts 2 game free#
"XC'mon: Xenonauts 2 releasing free dev builds".
Goldhawk launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in July 2018, the funding goal was reached within 8.5 hours. They wanted to get feedback from the player community before charging for an in-development version of the game through the Steam Early Access program. The demo was later released on distribution service GOG.com in February 2017. In November 2016, Goldhawk began distributing free development builds of Xenonauts 2 with fortnightly updates. In February 2016, Goldhawk officially announced Xenonauts 2, with the game scheduled to be released in 2017. Project lead, Chris England remarked that he wanted them to be both visually and mechanically more interesting than in Xenonauts. They also set out to redesign the aliens for the sequel. The developers believed that this decision gave them the freedom to alter the story, setting and enemies to craft a more interesting game. Setting the game in an alternate timeline meant that humanity would not possess the advanced alien technology from Xenonauts. The use of 3D graphics would enable features such as objects with physics behavior and rotating the camera angle. The development team's main concern with the transition to 3D graphics was whether they could create an art style that looked good and replicated the sprites from the original game. It will make use of 3D graphics rather than the 2D sprites of its predecessor. The game is being developed using the Unity game engine. At the time, the possibility of Xenonauts 2 becoming their next project was still under evaluation.
In 2015, Goldhawk Interactive began prototyping and designing a potential sequel to their 2014 game Xenonauts. Though like its predecessor, Xenonauts 2 is inspired by X-COM: UFO Defense. Xenonauts 2 takes place in an alternate history timeline during the Cold War, rather than being a chronological sequel to Xenonauts. Units are generally only vulnerable to panic if Xenonaut soldiers are dying around them (particularly high-ranking ones) or the unit itself has been wounded, or if there are psionic aliens messing with their heads.īalancing is still required but overall it should be a little smoother and easier to understand than it was in Xenonauts 1.Xenonauts 2 is a turn-based tactics video game. There's now a button that allows you to spend TU in order to gain Morale, and the morale system is a bit more sensible in general. The first is that Morale always starts at 100 for every soldier, and the Bravery of a soldier (boosted by the squad commander bonus) reduces the amount of Morale damage taken when something bad happens (a soldier with 0 Bravery takes about 3x the morale damage that soldier with 100 Bravery does). We've made a few improvements relative to the first Xenonauts. This system is mostly now implemented but there's still quite a few bugs and edge cases we're working through. We actually planned not to include this in Xenonauts 2 for quite a while, but ultimately we felt the game would be weaker without it and not having it gives us fewer tools when it comes to designing the alien abilities (particularly psionic ones). The main focus of recent work has been the soldier Morale system which causes soldiers to panic when things go horribly wrong on a mission.
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