It's...fine?The story is pretty bad, there's not a lot of plot, the graphics are, frankly, abysmal. But the gameplay is pretty good, if a bit grindy.Anyone else playing this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnoNm7eaMl8
>>736569992please don't shill in my thread
>>736569950Why did it take so long to come out? It looks identical to the first game from 2014!
>>736570046Good question. I think the game genuinely has a bad art direction. The overall viewpoint is fine, but it just looks sort of like an old game with a bad HD Patch. I'd almost call it soulless.Also what the fuck is wrong with the story? I'm not spoiling it but I swear the writers got changed part way through, and it becomes really stupid and very very preachy. Lots of "Humans are the true evil ones"...what the fuck?!
>>736569950Sounds like the first one which is basically exactly how og xcom was.Im into it but not at the list price
>>736570174The story and art direction for the original XCOMs (Especially Terror of the Deep) are leaps and bounds ahead of Xenonauts 2. Hell, Xenonauts had a better plot overall.
>>736570206Meh from the screen shots looks the same as xeno 1 to me which I didn't mind at all. Its simple, not going to win any awards but if thats what they could do whatever. Doesnt take away from the experience for me.How is the plot worse? The xeno 1 was super barebones. Genuine question by the way not being a dick
>>736569950I haven't play Xeno1, does either of them have mechs? I'll play them if yes
>>736570206>the original XCOMsReminder:>Original = X-Com (hyphen)>Reboot = XCOM (no hyphen)
>>736570708I haven't beaten the game so this is all I can say (and spoiling it due to, well, spoilers) but Cold war hasn't ended but this is just ignored and never brought up, the "aliens" are from earth but a "multiverse" sort of thing, aka capeshit stuff, and it pushes a lot about "humanity is bad too">>736570773The first one had a really poorly implemented vehicle, but no, no mechs. And no vehicles in Xenonauts 2 (though there are interceptor planes)>>736570797Eh. nu-xcom doesn't matter to me in the slightest.
>>736569950the game feels barebones
>>736570829>but no, no mechs>nu-xcom doesn't matter to me in the slightestokay thank you anon, added to ignored list
>>736570838It does, doesn't it? Just feels weird it was in development for so long.>>736570907Unfortunately, yeah, I was really hoping for mechs or at least tanks/ATV's
>>736569950The issue with both Xenonauts games is that the art sucks. I was never once excited to see the new alien designs because they always looked dogshit.
>>736571483Compared to UFO Defense or Terror from the Deep, yeah, its pretty lacking. Back then it was hardware limitations, and nu-xcom is pretty much just as bad as xenonauts in that regard. I feel like Xenonauts 2 could have been their lightning in a bottle but it straight up feels like Xenonauts 1 with some QoL and poor implemented XCOM 1/2 mechanics.
>>736570829Eugh I detest that trend of "humans are the real monsters" thats around these days. I read so many fantasy stories where we wipe out man eating monsters and that somehow makes us the villain.Nope. they fucking eat people there is no redemption for consuming humans.
why has nothing surpassed openxcom
>>736571685Some genres peak too early.
>>736571676I miss the short era of "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!"I agree with you.
>>736571558>nu-xcom is pretty much just as bad as xenonauts in that regardAt least there's a wide variety of aliens, not just the same 4 over and over again.
>>736571760True. I shouldn't be too harsh. XCOM 2 had like, what, 8 enemies? 3 of them flavors of ADVENT?
>>736571743Its the same half wits claiming super earth or the imperium of man are the bad guys when theyre preventing our extinction. I accepted it in the Witcher because some of it was humans just being dicks to elves and smart monsters who never did us any harm so there was a middle ground but its so pervasive these days.
>>736571808Let see. Ignoring the dlc enemies as best i can remember. Advent variety pack.Sectoids. ViperAvatar.GatekeeperAdvent mechsTurretsAndromedon ArchonBerserkerChryssalid CodexFacelessMutonSo more than 8 but it depends on how youre counting.
>>736569950funny thing is that most of the patching since early access was to fix the stupid 3D graphics instead of just sticking with 2D from their last game which looks the same if not better
>>736572652I saw screenshots almost immediately after having beaten 1 and I would never have believed they changed the graphics at all.
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>>736571685Because the original XCom was already more or less a perfected game loop, and OpenXCom is just that but with modern UI/UX sensibilities and mod support tacked on. Nothing that apes it is every going to surpass it, and anything that tries to do anything new will still get compared against it anyway. Even if someone made a new XCom-like that was perfect it would still lose out when getting compared to the free price tag for OpenXCom.
>>736574807Any loli mods for OpenXCOM?
