XENONAUTS: il vero seguito di XCOM?

acct-eliminato.107 · April 7, 2012, 10:49am

Della demo dicono nulla ?

TucoBenedicto · April 7, 2012, 5:17pm

Beh, in realtà spiegano proprio nel post riportato da Lorenzo come pensano di affidarsi comunque a Kickstarter usando una mezza gabola.
E per me fanno benissimo, per inciso.
Siti di crowfunding ce ne sono un tot, ma nessuno si avvicina neanche vagamente alla visibilità che offre Kickstarter al momento.

acct-eliminato.62 · April 10, 2012, 8:36pm

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/10/xenonauts-new-look-emerges-from-the-deep/

Lorenzo.ns · April 10, 2012, 9:24pm

roba che ho già fatto vedere con i miei screen.

Lorenzo.ns · April 19, 2012, 5:32pm

changelog 9.3 e 9.31

Spoiler

OK, so Build V9.3 is uploading to Desura and will be available as soon as it is authorised. I expect it to hit in about an hour, asuming the Desura guys are still online when the uplaod finishes.

The following improvements have been made:
- We have implemented a new Xenopedia screen that pops up when a research project is completed. This still needs a bit of work in terms of text scaling etc, but we'll have it done for the weekend. It is also not currently displaying the full research text (about 80% of it) so they end a bit abruptly at the moment.

- The tech tree has been fixed so you can once again access Wolf Armour and Laser Weapons, and it has been expanded to include Alenium Missiles and Alenium Torpedos for your aircraft. The Alenium Grenade has also been added but I've not set it up in the game so it'll still be identical to a normal grenade until the weekend. Autopsies have also been added but don't give the +10% damage bonus yet.

- The air combat now has a contextual menu that can be activated by right-clicking on any interceptor. This pauses the game and allows you to issue them commands without using the sidebar.

- The air combat has been made marginally more balanced. Expect Corvettes to cause you some headaches when you encounter them.

- Aircraft and vehicles now fill hangar / garage slots when construction begins have a WIP construction image. In the next build there will be three images that the game cycles through that shows the progression of the construction.

- You now have to go through the Soldier Development screen at the end of a ground combat mission, as a lot of people didn't seem to know it existed. This now displays the Wounded / Injured days correctly after combat too.

- The game now has an Alt-Tab icon.

- A terror site is generate at 475 on the ticker. This is still incomplete but will hopefully be complete by the weekend.

- The game ends at 550 on the ticker and shows a congratulatory screen. It also asks you to buy the game - this is just a test for the public release of this build.

Bugfixes:
Ground Combat:
- Ground Combat can now start fter loading the auto save.
- Weapon reload sounds added to the game.
- Correct recovery time for injured / wounded soldiers will appear on the soldier development screen after ground combat missions.
- Climbing stairs will work properly in the barn.

AI:
- AI is no longer ignoring vehicles on ground combat missions.

Geoscape:
- Equiping different rockets to your MiG will no longer cause the game to crash.
- The notification can now be cancelled if large numbers of buildings were completed at the same time.
- Fighters above ground will no longer "crash to the sea".
- An alert window will appear if you cannot manufacture a plane due to not having a free hangar slot.
- The game will no longer crash if you attack a landed UFO that has taken off again.

- The game will no longer crash when tailing targets on the geoscape.
- The chinook will no longer float above the target crash site after loading the auto-save.

sul kickstarter potete trovare la discussion relativa alle tier reward qui
invece questo è l'update di "pasqua" riguardo lo sviluppo

Spoiler

It’s now mid-April and the days are ticking by at an alarming rate. We’ve been extremely busy at our end, working on a variety of things. For the past week or so I’ve actually been the bottleneck, as I’ve demanded everyone work harder and they have. I’ve ended up being buried under the results.

Our plans for the future are (as many of you already know) to do a Kickstarter. There’s been some discussion about how we can get around the US citizen requirement that Kickstarter has, and after exhausting a lot of possibilities over the past month I think we’ve finally hit on one that works. My thanks go out to our forumite Kilrathi, who is a corporate attorney over in the US and has helped us set up a US company and is in the process of setting up a corporate bank account for us.

This, while costing us a few hundred dollars, is a safe option for us – I can have full control over the bank account and Kilrathi is therefore not on the hook taxwise at all. It has, naturally, involved a LOT of form filling for the both of us, but I’m about to run off to get the final forms signed before FedExing them across the world. I imagine it’ll still take a couple of weeks for everything to come together, but Kilrathi has been a fantastic help and it goes to show that where there is a will, there is a way!

The plan is to release a public build of the game to accompany the Kickstarter, so anyone who is interested in pledging money is able to see what we have done so far before they make their call. I think the game is sufficiently complete for people to get a feel of what we are aiming to achieve with the final version, and I think this will dramatically increase the funding we receive.

We will be sending this build out about a week early to the press so they can write previews on it. Most journalists don’t want to cover Kickstarters anymore, so letting them combining the Kickstarter with a preview should ensure we still get good coverage. There’s been quite a lot of interest from various sites in getting their hands on a playable version of the game too, which is good.

The net effect of this is that we’re going to have to have the “final” version done relatively soon so we can have a couple of days of bugtesting on the forums before we get it out to the journalists. We’ll then have a week of extra bugtesting before public release of the build.

This public build will be V10. It is likely to include the following features over V9.31:
Enhanced launcher which will allow you to play the normal game or load a “Quick Game” (which launches straight into a terror site) for those who just want to try a quick battle. It will looks prettier, and also include direct links to our manual, bug reporting forums, and our preorder / Kickstarter page.
The standalone builds will have an installer.
The town tileset will be set up properly, though the art still won’t be entirely complete as not all the tiles have been painted over yet.
We’ll hopefully have added an alien support drone to the game, which will appear in the Terror Site.
UFO signals should display their proper size, rather than Medium.
We should have a few more Xenopedia images, and we’ll finish formatting and scaling the text in it too.
That’s what we’ll be working on for the next few days. You can see much of what we’ve been working on in the past couple of weeks in Build V9.31, but the one major thing that we’ve been working on and have not released is the base defence missions.

I’m pleased to say that, from a code perspective, these are pretty much complete. We’ve now worked out a system where the walls and doors display correctly on each side of each room depending on whether or not there is another structure there (accounting correctly for the 2x1 buildings too). These are currently loading up blank grey placeholder rooms, but we’ll be moving onto those tiles as soon as the Town is done.

The major innovation in the base defence missions is that there is a central command centre that must be protected at all costs, and that you can arrange your troops within it (it is a 2x2 building) freely before the start of the battle. We’re just tweaking the unit arrangement system a bit so it’s immediately obvious which tiles you can deploy units to for free, and then we’re largely complete.

There is also a system where most rooms have “key props” in them, which can be destroyed in battle. At the end of the battle the number of surviving key props is totalled up to give a health % for each structure, and any damaged building is set back to that % construction completed. This means that most buildings can be knocked out of commission for a few days as a result of a base attack. This system has been implemented in the ground combat but not linked to the Geoscape yet.

Unfortunately our AI coder is moving house this week so our progress on that front hasn’t been as fast as we’d like, but I’m going to make that a priority again after we get the Kickstarter build out.

Overall, things are going well – but the next couple of weeks will be very important for us and we’re going to need to make them work.

riassunto: la demo uscirà insieme al kickstarter con una terror mission già pronta per essere caricata o il semplice gameplay+geoscape, che stando alle procedure legali, viaggi per finalizzare l'accordo, rifiniture del gioco, uscirà fra qualche settimana, imho metà maggio.

Lorenzo.ns · April 23, 2012, 10:11pm

Xenonauts Build V9.4 released!

Spoiler

Build V9.4 has now been released through the Desura client (though I don't think it is yet active for those doing the standalone download).

Barring a couple of small new features and some bugfixes, this is basically the build that will be released to the general public along with the Kickstarter build (we'll also add new art as and when it becomes available). Please test it as much as you can. If there's any major bugs in the build, we need to squish them before public release for obvious reasons.

The key new features are as follows:

- We've added a new launcher window to the game. This is a bit ugly, but in terms of functionality it is a big improvement. There are two main reasons for this: firstly, the game will remember your screen resolution from game to game, so starting up is less of a pain in the ass (resolution can be set in the Options screen). Secondly, we've added the Quick Battle function, which will load up a Terror Site immediately after you place your base. This is basically for people who want to try the combat but don't want to go through the early game to get there, but hopefully you guys will enjoy it too. This feature will not be in the final version of the game.

- A new alien type has been added to the build, a light combat drone that appears on the Terror Site. The animations are not yet all there for it (nor are the SFX) but they will be before the game comes out. In terms of role I think these drones will come into their own a lot more once we implement supression, plus the AI to go with them. They're intended to harass the player at long range with inaccurate long-range rapid fire weapons, but without suppression they don't really have their own niche yet. Still, I like them. They're kinda cute in their own way. We're working on a nice death animation for them too, which should arrive this week.

- The Xenopedia has several new research images in it, and should display better than before. The only major issue with it is that the text is still being cut off prematurely. I need to look into that in a bit more detail, as it's a problem with the game engine rather than anything that our programmers can do anything about.

- I've spent a little time on the Title Screen, scaling up the text and formatting it better to make it easier to read. There's still a problem with the text scaling here though so on a large monitor it'll still be largely unreadable (though better than before).

- I've added some new maps to the game, and I'll try to expand them a bit so there's more variation. The Light Scout maps are smaller than before now, though the Scout maps are the same size. Should be better than before though. Obviously you can check out the (still WIP) Town tileset too by clicking on the Quick Battle. There's some new props floating around on the Industrial maps though, and I've designed them to have fewer buildings than before.

- The MiG construction images should be working well now. There's three images that show the progress of the construction.

- There's a new grenade explosion, so now it's a bit smaller than the massive explosion we use for the rockets and explosive scenery. There's also a new plasma-type explosion for the alien grenades, but they aren't throwing them yet so you're unlikely to see it.

- We've put various bugfixes in place. These include fixes for building the MiG causing your engineers to disappear, or your money to vanish. Also, UFOs should display their size correctly now. Previously they were always displaying as Medium irrespective of their actual size.

- There's also been a pretty major fix to the accuracy formulas. Previously shots were missing targets, but not scattering properly and so not deviating from their original shot path. This led to shots "missing" but frequent still striking their intended targets, effectively making weapons much more accurate than intended.

The AI bug has not been fixed yet unfortunately, so I imagine you'll still encounter hangs in the ground combat. We'll release a hotfix for that when it arrives and we'll also fix any major issues you guys encounter in the testing pronto. We want to be sending this build out soon, so hopefully you'll see a flurry of activity from us over the next few days.

The features we want to add to this build before it is complete are:
1) Adding Smoke and Nerve Gas grenades

2) Updated smoke / fire for the existing Frag grenade to couple with the new explosion animation. These will no longer generate fire, and the smoke will be thinner than the real thick stuff you get in the larger explosion.

3) There's a problem with the multi-tile rendering so multi-tile objects appear on the wrong layer and sometimes below things they should be (you can occasionally see this with the Chinook walls).

4) Extra art:
- Light drone injury and death animations
- Updated tiles (painted over versions) for the Town tileset and the new Industrial props, as many of the tiles are still currently 3D guides.

5) We'll add some civilians for the terror map. They're currently there, but don't have sprites so are invisible.

6) If possible, auto-toggle roof off toggle when a unit is behind a building

I'm pretty tired now so I'm heading to bed, but give it a try and let us know what you think.

a leggerli ancora un paio di settimane e rilasciano la demo.

bragut · April 25, 2012, 10:38am

Non vedo l'ora: DEMO + soldi subito per aiutarli su Kickstarter

RunningWild · April 28, 2012, 2:07pm

Qualcuno che sta provando la beta può dirmi se è giocabile e fruibile al momento oppure è una miriade di bachi che rende semi-impossibile giocarci?

Sono costretto a casa per il ponte e cercavo qualcosa con cui nerdare come ai vecchi tempi

Lorenzo.ns · May 4, 2012, 7:25pm

credo che la prossima settimana sia quella propizia: hanno rilasciato la versione 10.1 che sarà la demo abbinata al kickstarter!
la maggior parte dei bug è stata eliminata.

TucoBenedicto · May 4, 2012, 7:29pm

Alla fine han deciso se vanno su Indiegogo o Kickstarter?

Lorenzo.ns · May 4, 2012, 7:37pm

ma leggere i miei precedenti post no eh? sei peggio di nameless porca troia.

comunque si farà su kickstarter con l'ausilio di un'avvocato americano che ha fatto inciuci qua e la, ed è fan di xenonauts.

ultime due build:

Spoiler

Build V10 is currently being uploaded onto Desura. This will be the Kickstarter Press Build that we'll be sending out to journalists so they can preview the game.

Barring any serious crash bugs or things that are affecting gameplay, the .exe files will not change any further between now and the public release build - we may make some balance tweaks, update misaligned / broken tiles and update images, but we won't be making any further changes. This is simply because efforts to fix the bugs can end up causing more bugs, and we have to draw the line somewhere if we want to know we have a stable build for when the Kickstarter goes live.

There are a variety of fixes, but here's the headlines:
- Hidden Movement loop should be stopped. It was caused by aliens running out of ammo and then trying to fire their weapons anyway.
- The Ferret should now have its LOS returned to normal.
- The new props for the Industrial tileset have now been painted over in their undamaged forms.
- Various mis-set tiles have been updated
- Toggle Roof now defaults to being off rather than on, which should reduce confusion
- Alien Light Drones (we need to come up with a better name for them than that) now have a less powerful weapon, so they can't one-shot your Ferret any more
- Ferrets now have better ballistic armour and are less vulnerable to damage to Xenonaut small arms (friendly) fire
- Typos and errors in the Xenopedia have been updated
- The Alenium grenade sprites should be displayed correctly
- The Basic Armour troops with Shotguns should vault walls correctly
- Tooltips in the Air Combat now have appropriate line breaks so are a more reasonable size
- Pressing M on the Geoscape no longer nets you $1m
- Alenium and Alien Alloys now only sell for $1,000 or $2,000 each instead of 10x that
- Alien fighters can now dodge missiles as intended

The online manual is starting to take form at http://www.xenonauts.com/manual.html

Please give the build a whirl. If there's any bugs, we'll want to know about them before we send it to journalists. Hopefully it'll basically just be a slightly more stable version of V9.5.1 though.

Build V10.1 has been released. This is just bugfixes and balance updates for Build V10 that need testing before the public build becomes available. It has been uploaded to Desura but I imagine it might be a while until it gets authorised, but I've got a busy afternoon today and I'm out tomorrow so I'll post this up now.

- Aircraft Scatter Laser has been put in the game. It is unlocked after you complete the Heavy Laser research and is an upgrade on the standard Cannon.
- Terror sites should no longer appear as vast open expanses of grassland. They should use the same map as in the Quick Battle.
- Corvettes now have floors. These are Farm floors and won't suit the Industrial maps much, but it'll look better than before.
- Aliens should no longer spawn in the walls of the UFOs.
- Crashed UFOs should spawn as well as undamaged Landed ones (this will only apply to the Light Scout, as that's the only UFO with both tilesets for now). Actually, this is largely moot as I've disabled landing in the public build because it was causing bugs. It's fixed anyway.
- Flares should now have 0 weight.
- Missions should use the Industrial tileset as well as the Farm one now.
- Research times have been reduced a bit.
- Scouts now replace Light Scouts a little earlier.
- The weighting of Air Superiority missions (fighters) to Research missions (Scouts) has been increased in favour of the Research missions.
- New bases now cost $1m to build instead of $1.8m.
- Building maintenance costs for Command Centre and Hangar have been reduced.
- Soldier, Engineer and Scientist wage costs have been reduced.
- Alenium missiles are cheaper and quicker to construct than before, as are Alenium torpedoes.
- Alien Alloys are now worth $3,000 each and Alenium is worth $5,000 each.
- Corvettes now contain Alien Alloys.

TucoBenedicto · May 4, 2012, 7:37pm

Siccome dicevano che ci stavano provando ma non erano sicuri sarebbe stato possibile, sto appunto chiedendo se han sistemato tutto.

Lorenzo.ns · May 4, 2012, 7:39pm

si ma, se leggevi giustamente i miei post, lo scoprivi da solo settimane fa.

bragut · May 5, 2012, 12:40pm

Benebene

Non vedo l'ora di provare la demo. Per Kickstarter hanno già parlato di quali reward vogliono creare?

Lorenzo.ns · May 5, 2012, 6:23pm

si vabbè, ma voi lo fate apposta... io non vi posto più niente.

bragut · May 5, 2012, 6:30pm

Ooops

mi ero perso un pezzo del tuo post

Larios · May 5, 2012, 6:31pm

Ma kickstarter lo fanno?

bragut · May 5, 2012, 6:36pm

Lorenzo.ns · May 6, 2012, 12:20am

controvoglia vi annuncio che kickstarter partirà mercoledì.

Spoiler

So, it's probably time for a quick update on what's been happening and will be happening over the next week. All the hard work on the Kickstarter has paid off as our US company has been set up and has a bank account that has been authorised by Amazon Payments. The page is set up and good to go - its only the video we're working on now. That's all been shot and we are editing that together.

The press builds have been sent out already. They went out on Thursday, but all the preview coverage is embargoed until Wednesday. This is when the Kickstarter goes live, although don't start shouting about it till it goes live obviously. We want to time our coverage so we get bang for our buck.

The other good news is about Steam. I'm pleased to say that we've signed a distribution deal with them so all preorderers will have the option to claim a Steam key when the game is released.

We'll keep you posted as things progress, but if you're planning to donate to the kickstarter then please do so as soon as possible after it goes live as it'll give us that much more legitimacy as a result.

non strillatelo in giro però.

Baionetto · May 6, 2012, 12:23am

ma quando startano su kickstarter ? si sa nulla ?