XENONAUTS: il vero seguito di XCOM?

[TucoBenedicto]

state sbagliando entrambi.

Punisher ha una versione di ennis sopra le righe, che è punisher marvel knight(col russo, spangled dave, bentornato frank, insomma quella con dillon).

E poi c'è la versione seria punisher max, che è quella con darrick robertson e goand pavlor (o simile insomma) con madre russia, born ecc ecc ecc.

Ma non è che sia l'unica seria di ennis, cioè pmax continua con Aaron e merita (e con swircevy-qualcosa)

Sto capendo a malapena di che parli, so solo che io ho letto un Punisher di Ennis (quello de "Una Banda Di Idioti", di Wolverine contro i nanetti mafiosi, di Bruce Banner con il post-it promemoria "Sei Hulk , ti piace spaccare", ecc... Ed era tutto fuorché un'opera seriosa.

[Lucasart]

Allora la serie max, quella di cui stavo parlando io, quella seria e cinica, non la conosci.
Fatti un favore e vedi di recuperarla

[Lorenzo.ns]

nuova build disponibile su desura:

Spoiler

Build V9 is available on Desura and ready to download. Sadly, it doesn't include everything we wanted to put in it, but it is still a substantial improvement on V8.9 that we released a few weeks ago. Expect further updates over the coming weeks as finish the features we want to go in V9, and then (fingers crossed) we'll actually release this build to various press outlets.

OK, so here are the improvements made:
GEOSCAPE:
- Launch menu: We've implemented a new launch menu when you attack UFOs / Crash Sites. It'll look better with the new GUI, but essentially now you have to select a destination before the window appears, and then the interceptors are sorted by proximity of bases and an ETA is provided to the target as well as various information on the craft readiness levels.

- Interceptor Engagement window: We've implemented a new window that appears prior to attacking an enemy craft. This gives you the information on your interceptors, including the amount of time (in seconds) they will have in combat before they have to disengage due to low fuel. It will also show an image for each UFO taking part in combat, so you have a better idea of what enemy types you are taking on in combat.

- Training System: This was actually released in V8.9 but that's only because we'd already coded it when we did some emergency bugfixes. Basically it allows you to send new recruits away for a week or so in order to give them a small stat boost and promote them to Coporal (where they don't cause a morale penalty to the troops around them as newly-recruited Privates do).

- Alien Bases: The basic code for these has been added. I don't think you'll be able to play long enough to be able to get to them yet, but they are there. I think attacking them causes a crash because we're still working on linking them with the ground combat, but if you see a little house icon appear on the Geoscape then you've found an alien base. Obviously development on them will continue over the next couple of months.

AIR COMBAT:
- Relative Positioning: We've added code so the UFOs and Interceptors will now appear in the air combat in the position and headings that they had on the Geoscape when the combat was launched. This may mean it's a bit tricky to shoot down Scouts now, so we might have to do some more balancing with this. But it should make air combat a bit less predictable than it was previously.

GROUND COMBAT:
- Farm Tileset: We've added the Farm tileset to the game with a couple of maps. This is actually the default tileset used when another tileset can't be found, so you'll probably see quite a bit of it. It's still a work in progress, but it looks quite nice. The barn tiles haven't yet been painted over and are in their bare 3D form, but they'll be updated shortly with prettier versions (if you see Mechanicus floating around the forums, he made them). Also, there's not really any props in the maps yet besides walls, fences and hedges. They'll come with time, but we're concentrating on getting the foundations for the different tilesets done first as they are the hard bit.

- Industrial Tileset Visual Update: We've also redone the ground tiles in the Industrial tileset. It's still the same map you've collectively played thousands of times, but it looks quite a lot prettier now. I've set the game up so any combat in the northern hemisphere uses the Farm tileset, and any in the southern hemisphere uses the Industrial.

- Sebillians: We've added the Sebillain aliens to the game too. You should be able to encounter Sebillian Noncoms and Guards in missions - UFOs will either contain them or Caesans early game. All UFOs are now generated with their crews on the Geoscape, so if you play later in the game you'll likely encounter UFOs full of what appear to be Caesan non-combatants. These are the default sprites for aliens not added to the game yet. If you start seeing them, you've played too far into the build...

- Loading Times: The ground combat loading times used to be pretty extensive - it didn't affect me too badly as I had a solid state hard drive but I think they were pretty shocking if you didn't have one of them. We've significantly sped up loading times by tidying up the code required, putting a texture atlas in place for each tileset, and stopping the game pre-loading all possible unit animations. This has reduced loading times to about a quarter of what they were previously. The only tradeoff is if you see a very slight pause before the game plays an animation - this may happen if it is the first time the animation is played. It shouldn't be noticeable, but that's the price you pay for not spending 3 minutes looking at the load screen.

- Tileset-specific Civilians: We've now got three different civilian types for both the Farm and Industrial tilesets, instead of the single office worker spawning everywhere. Each tileset has its own library of civilians to ensure consistency. The number of civilians will expand as development continues.

- Fire System: There is now support in the game and terrain editor for flammable items. As yet we don't have waist-high grass in the game, so there's no massive firestorms caused by detonating a rocket in a field of hay, but the code is there for it. A unit will take 30 damage on entering a tile with fire in it, and 30 damage if he starts a turn in a tile that is on fire. This is mitigated by armour's incendiary resistance. I'm not sure the pathfinding has been updated for this though - please post up bug reports if you see troops merrily strolling through an inferno and getting injured as a result.

- Soldier Sight Ranges: These have been increased by about 50-60% to be more in line with X-Com. Lots of complaints about how short they were previously, and I think you guys were right. The game is a bit more enjoyable this way.

- Shadows: Units now have them. We'll probably implement different shadows for the aliens and civilians though, as these have been made to suit the Xenonaut units and their stances. They don't necessarily match the other units in the game properly.

MISC:
- Modding: You can now mod the game and be confident the Desura autoupdater will not wipe out your changes. The game will now preferentially read files from a folder in your documents (same place as your save games) rather than its own file structure if told to do so. Therefore if you want to change the stats of a weapon, you'd keep weapons_gc.xml in that folder and the game will give you the option load that instead of the one in its own files. There's a couple of options at the bottom of the launcher that are linked to this - if you're not interested in modding the game, just ignore them.

Full details are on the wiki here: http://xenowiki.goldhawkinteractive....ying_Xenonauts


BUGFIXES:
Ground Combat:
- Night combat maps should no longer appear when it is not night-time.
- Pressing "I" in the inventory screen will now close the inventory view.
- Menus are once again accessable on the Ground Combat maps (just press Esc).
- Hotkeys can now be used after making a save game.
- Crash caused by rearranging items on the inventory screen is now fixed
- The unclickable soldier / 'ghost soldier' issue is fixed
- Sending a soldier to battle armed with a Precision Laser and Wolf armour will no longer cause a crash.

Geoscape:
- Extra scientists no longer appear if you load a save game when a research is in progress.
- Notifications about crashsites escaping to space will no longer appear
- On the equip screen the hotkey for fast equipping / un-equpping is changed to Mouse 2 / Right-click.
- On the Soldier Equip screen the Infinity mark for human weapons no longer changes to "-"
- Multiple Xenopedia notifications will appear for multiple researches completed at the same time.
- Callsign length is limited for vehicles and soldiers to stop overlong names being used.
- Hunters will no longer disappear when loading a save game containing an airborne Chinook.
- Reassigning the engineers to a different project will no longer result in crash.
- Loading a save game will no longer remove parts of the tech tree.

Air Combat:
- The destroyed UFO notification will display properly (eg: "crashed into the sea", "crash-landed", "destroyed")



As you can see, it is a rather substantial update. Things that are missing that I would like to have included but have not been able to:
AI Model - this is progressing but we're still working on it. It will follow as soon as possible. The game is very easy without it unfortunately, as aliens will only fire at you with reaction fire at the moment even if you stand directly in front of you...
New Ground Combat GUI - again, this is being implemented at the moment but is not done.

Additionally, the dropships and crashed UFOs still need quite a bit of work. We're trying a few experimental things to make them look more realistic, and things are going well. I expect to have some updated spawn zones and crash sites in a week or two. Here's a sneak preview of how the new Chinook looks:

Old Chinook: http://www.xenonauts.com/devimages/oldchinook.png
New Chinook #1: http://www.xenonauts.com/devimages/chinook1.png
New Chinook #2: http://www.xenonauts.com/devimages/chinook2.png

Again, this is a result of all the money we've had coming in from pre-orders. It allows us to go the extra mile and actually make things good, instead of sticking with what gets the job done. So if you've pre-ordered the game, thank you. Hopefully this helps illustrate why everyone wins when we get money in pre-release!

We're going to try and apply a similar principle to the crashed UFOs. There's some technical issues to work through, but if we can solve them than the UFOs should actually look like they've crashed and the ground should actually look like a UFO has crashed into it. So, that could be fun.

Anyway, plenty to look forward in the coming weeks - the AI being the biggest thing. Give the new build a play and report any bugs on the subforum so we can fix them up.

scarico e vi dico.
a fine news, c'è la preview del nuovo chinnok... mi fa sesso cazzo!

[acct-eliminato.62]

Lorè ma non ti rovini un pò il gioco\la sorpresa giocandoti le pre-release?
Io è una cosa che ho sempre odiato fare

A parte questo a me sta venendo il dubbio che da un pò abbiano assunto nuova gente per il comparto grafico...il salto di qualità che si vede dal vecchio al nuovo farmland e dal vecchio al nuovo chinnok è impressionante.
Qui dice che hanno anche rifatto le tiles del terreno della zona industriale..esigo screen

[Lorenzo.ns]

non rovina più di tanto, perchè non c'è praticamente un cazzo di tech tree (laser rifle e la prima armor) ed il gioco praticamente va in stallo: i dev vogliono creare un gioco dove devi correre per vincere, non per farmarti milioni di super navi e brasare alieni in 2 secondi e se non lo fai, gli alieni ti invadono sempre più velocemente e con molte più forze.
oltretutto il ground combat è quasi insesistente se non implementano un'IA degna... per ora gli alien camminano/camperano qua e la e tirano di reaction fire sberle assurde.
appena ho 2 minuti faccio qualche screen dei nuovi tileset.

[Wildcat]

data prevista per l'uscita?

[Baionetto]

non c'e'... si spera per fine anno

[Peacemaker]

lorè non hai ancora trovato 2 minuti?

[Baionetto]

lascialo stare lui lavora................................................si spacca la schiena tutti i santi giorni...........................................................................

[acct-eliminato.62]

non c'e'... si spera per fine anno

Visto che non è un idiota, il suo obbiettivo dichiarato è tentare in tutti i modi di rilasciarlo prima del remake della Firaxis..ok ho controllato ora e dice

Now, back to Xenonauts. The hubbub over the Firaxis remake had a couple of major effects on the project. Firstly, we’ve sped up development on the project. Previously we didn’t have a specific release target, although we were certainly making progress on the game. Now launching the game just before or at a similar time as the Firaxis remake seems sensible, as we’ll benefit from the buzz around the franchise – particularly if Xenonauts turns out to be as good a game as we want it to be. Their game is due to be released in Fall (read: ‘Autumn’) and we’re hoping to do the same thing.

[Baionetto]

eh...

è la paura cresce, perchè lui fara (probabilmente) carte false per uscira il prima possibile dando una data per autunno 2012 ma se questo si deve tradurre in "faccio alla bene meglio per non farmi fottere altri clienti" beh allora sux, e si mi interessa poca che lui abbia detto "no chi compra qui compra anche li" non ci crede nessuno.

Sta e deve continuare a fare il suo lavoro con calma dignità e classe anche perchè ho una certa età e mi son rotto le palle di aspettare il degno erede.

[acct-eliminato.62]

Luuunga itnervista su RPS: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/14/chat-xenonauts-dev-on-firaxis-and-outdoing-x-com/

Vi incollo qualche parte interessante.

We’ve re-done the tiles for the drop ships, and we’re currently working on doing the tiles for the UFOs, because you know in X-COM, obviously if you shoot down a UFO it basically just sits there on the ground. We’re trying to make it look as if they’ve hit the ground and the UFO’s taken some damage, so it looks a bit more realistic

Uno screen con un pezzetto della nuova industrial:

Spoiler

[Lorenzo.ns]

lorè non hai ancora trovato 2 minuti?

lascialo stare lui lavora................................................si spacca la schiena tutti i santi giorni...........................................................................

ogni giorno esce un gioco nuovo che mi rapisce, anche se ormai il portafoglio è vuoto, quindi mi ci dedico appena ho tempo.
il problema principale è la merda di desura che mi deve fare un filecheck e POI downloda tutto... ovviamente il filecheck è la cosa più lenta mai vista in questo mondo, anche più dei caricamenti di xenonauts.
promesso che stasera metto up qualcosa.

[Lorenzo.ns]

ok ho gli screen, devo solo upparli da qualche parte.

Spoiler

non fate caso alla disposizione dei soldati, non c'è IA, solo reaction fire.
le fiamme che vedete verso gli ultimi screen, è il lanciamissili di uno dei miei: praticamente me lo sono sparato addosso per via di vari missclick e l'UI che non funzionava bene; metà squadra si è impanicata.

[Baionetto]

non paiono male sti screen !

[Drest]

sono speranzoso

[Peacemaker]

tnx lorè!


allora... gli omini sembrano soldatini di plastica e sono la cosa che mi piace di meno, assieme alla luce della scena.
L'atmosfera non è creepy..

[Someuglyone]

eh...

è la paura cresce, perchè lui fara (probabilmente) carte false per uscira il prima possibile dando una data per autunno 2012 ma se questo si deve tradurre in "faccio alla bene meglio per non farmi fottere altri clienti" beh allora sux, e si mi interessa poca che lui abbia detto "no chi compra qui compra anche li" non ci crede nessuno.

Anche se continuo a nutrire una certa fiducia per il loro lavoro questa è la prima cosa che mi è venuta in mente quando ho saputo del nuovo X-Com di firaxis.

Anche se non mi aspetto certo un gioco "fatto alla bene meglio" ma uno che potrebbe uscire un po' prematuramente.

Quegli screens, però, rincuorano. Incrocio le dita.

[Larios (( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))]

ma hanno abbassato il prezzo o sbaglio? ora sta a 15€

[Lorenzo.ns]

Build V9.1 has been finalised and is released on Desura! This is only available with the Desura client download (it should give you an update icon on the Play page) - downloading without the client as a .rar file will take a day or two to update yet.

Full update notes are below, but the big news is that AI is back in and now the aliens are moving and shooting. It's not particularly refined and hopefully we'll make big improvements on it over the next month or so, but at least the game is playable once again. Sorry for the delay on this front - I know it's been painful.

Two other major things to talk about quickly:

Firstly, I've put new tiles in for the Scout and Light Scout (new UFO type) and there will be more UFO tiles coming, as well as the Chinook tiles being added to the game now. Generally this is great, but right now there's no UFO interiors so there's a couple of things missing that are needed for the tech tree to reach lasers / Wolf armour. We'll patch them back in next week, likely next weekend, when we add the interiors for the various craft.

Secondly, as part of a much wider revamp of the research / manufacturing in the game that I did in the last week, we've made the MiG interceptor researchable instead of purchaseable. Unfortunately, there's a complication - it turns out the functionality to manufacture aircraft is not yet in place so you can unlock the manufacture but it doesn't work. Again, we'll get this fixed and patch this in next weekend. As the F-17s are now all you need in the early game, you're not missing out - just be aware of it.

We're working on some features arriving in the next few weeks that I'm looking forward to showing off, but this update should keep you ticking over until next weekend. As always, if there's any bugs then post them up on our forums...but hopefully this should be a pretty stable build.


Features:

- AI is back in.
- A new UFO has been added, the Light Scout. This is slower than weaker than previous UFOs and can be shot down by a single F-17 (it is set up to be shot down after two Sidewinder hits). As such, the MiG-32 is now researchable (although for the reasons mentioned above, not yet manufacturable).
-The research project Alien Invasion has been added to the start of the game. This is the trigger for the MiG research becoming available.
- New ground combat tile have been added for the Light Scout that has landed or crashed on the Farm tileset, and the Scout crashed on the Farm and the Industrial tileset.
- The new Chinook tiles have also been added.
-New ground combat UI has been added. This is still a WIP but includes an improved AP Reserve slider which shows the shot costs next to it, a Quick Reload and Quick Grenade throw button. Tooltips are also partially implemented.
- Units in the Chinook will now automatically re-arrange themselves to accommodate vehicles instead of simply blocking the vehicle assignment if there is no 3x3 space present.
- An extra copy of the select circle now appears above the head of units on mouseover, making it easier to select and identify units behind walls.
- Weapons now have reload sounds.
- Soldier portraits will repeat less frequently.
- We have added new tiles for the Chinook and new tiles for the crashed Scout, although this is currently only present on the Farmyard tileset. We will roll out additional UFOs in the next few weeks.
- Buildings now display roofs until you have a unit inside them, irrespective of camera level. There’s still some teething issues with this system but we’re working through it.
- You can now modify the construction times and maintenance costs of buildings in /assets/buildings.xml, and building maintainance costs have been significantly reduced.
- The alien invasion AI can now be balanced – the AM_ file in /assets/ allow you to specify which alien UFO types will appear flying the mission at what points.
- UFOs are now less likely to immediately flee from combat when attacked with superior numbers of human craft.


Bugfixes (amongst others):

Ground Combat:
- The camera is no longer restrained by the edges of the map on the Farm tileset.
- The random crash associated with reaction fire has been fixed

Air Combat:
- Interceptors now move at correct speed when fightning against corvettes
- The ”Invisible Fighter” issue (where the icon sometimes did not display) should be fixed.

Geoscape:
- Undetected UFOs will no longer spam the game with UFO Detected notifications if they attack Xenonaut craft.
- Interceptors will now detect alien bases as soon as the base enters radar range of the craft.
- Selling items on the store screen no longer results in an extra item being sold.
- The Intercept window will no longer appear in duplicate if you intercept a UFO using the Intercept button

Miscellaneous:
- Pressing the ESC button will now correctly take you to a higher level of the menu

scarico e vi dico!