There were about 3 cut scenes in the entire game, one of which was for you failing. There are more thoughts to come, I am still about to think all of that through. if the player builds up a new base, there should be lot of stuff ready, just needed to dust.

mothballed bases same here with bases.

mothballed radar stations the player should put some ressources to reactivate already existing logistics more than building new ones.

submarines as the second idea of mobile bases / rocketlauncher against the alien air superioirty.

In the Year 1979 aircraft carrier are the world wide major and most advanced military unit.

aircraft carrier a kind of mobile basis which hase the advantages to be better protected against detection and alien aggressions.

Put 2 officers into the facility as military instructors and put new recruts into the drill which should be easily made by the retired squads.

training facilities the single squad left should have own facilities, which should be able to make use of for the new recruts.

But they should make the game more spooky, more tense and more ambientic. They are more cosmetical than anything else. The suggestions which I am bout to make have the major purpose to change the ingamefeeling without changing the present mechanics to much. The player should be able to reactivate easily the old status and networks of the xenonauts-project. The player should have both feelings: beeing overwhelmed by the alien superiority on the one hand beeing somehow more prepared on the other hand. That should be more noticeable when the game starts. The Project is an 21 year old advanced military project. Transfer out of the storyline into the game It is all in all comparable to the gladio-project ( ) The Xenonaut-Project has done something for 21 years, it has databases, sleeping networks, mothballed hideouts, retired officers and soldiers which can be reactivated. They are prepared, compared to the rest of the world, but fallen back to almost marginal logistics. The xenonauts have an advanced knowledge about the pure existence of the aliens, an ideas on their superior technology and the alien tactics. With the years pasting the funds where reduced, the backers vanished and the whole project was about to be shut down.

For the first years after the Iceland Incident major ressources where put into the xenonaut-project from both blocks, east and west. The storyline told us, how the first contact was made 21 years (not 30 as the homepage suggests) before the start of the game, which is the autum 1979. I want to suggest some minor changes to the game, to make a better use of the storyline and hence improve the feeling ingame. One of the major changes is the timeline, which affects almost the whole background.

Hardly satisfying.Īlso, with base defenses only mattering if they can shoot down Battleships, what's up with missile and laser defenses? Without effecting base defense missions they are entirely useless.Xenonauts hase a nice story with some significant changes compared with the original xcom. I get that the aliens still want to destroy your base, but why send one battleship again, when the last got blosn out of the sky before landing? Shouldn't they send two the next time around? It would only make sense to me that aliens should increase their assault efforts (inevitably rendering your defenses pointless) or that blowing up an attacking battleship should re.ove the assault-your-base flag, in which case defenses become a tax to avoid a mission. Speaking of, the whole assault-your-base flag not getting turned off when a battleship is destroyed by base defenses is pretty lame in how it works. Second is to build plenty of defense and try not to be annoyed by the constant parade of Battleships knocking on your door. First is to not build any and leave a defense party to deal with raiders and stop the attacks. Until base defenses have an effect on base defense missions, there will only be 2 ways of going about base defense. You'd never have to leave your front yard, and even if you only got 50 elerium at each site, who cares when you had to fly 5 meters to the site?

Build enough defense to render you impervious and that battleships will keep coming indefinitely and piling up crash sites without ever endangering your crafts. Having crashed battleships from base defenses would also just drop a steady supply of stuff at your doorstep and would be easily exploitable. A crashed Battleship means a lot of well equipped aliens for an average of 50 elerium, I'd let them repair and leave.

Xenonauts base background