"Dead" soldiers have a small chance of surviving the battle and recovering otherwise they will have to be replaced. Successful completing missions will grant soldiers with additional stat points, which improve their effectiveness in later battles. Each battle requires the player to carefully consider using covers, limited field of view, reaction fire to successfully complete mission with their troops intact. Each Xenonaut have a certain amount of Time Units (equivalent of action points) which can be spent on moving, firing, changing equipment, etc, or reserved to fire at aliens entering view during enemies' turn (reaction fire). The battles takes place in turn-base isometric view, with each side take turn moving their units around. The player can bring as much Xenonauts as the dropship is able to carry (which is 8 at the beginning of the game). Depending on where the location is on the world map, an appropriate map is chosen (which can be desert, farm or urban area). The funding received at the beginning of each month is vital for building and expanding new bases and hire more personnel to counter the growing alien threat.īattlescape takes place when the player investigate crash sites, attack landed ships, or assault alien bases. Neglecting to protect a region for too long, and they will eventually surrender to the aliens. The world are divided into 10 geo-political regions, as UFOs are shot down over each region, the player's reputation and funding from said region is improved. : When UFOs fly within range of the base's radar, interceptors can be sent to shoot them down (the air battles can be automatically resolved, or played out in a real time mini game).
When multiple research options become available, the player must choose what to develop: new armor, new weapons or study more about the aliens? There is also a necessity to equip soldiers with weapon and equipment, which the game facilitates by introducing "roles" as quick equipment setups.Īir battle. Like with facilities, there are hiring costs and monthly salaries. : The player is required to hire soldiers, scientists and engineers to fight, research and build things, respectively. Each of the facility have their own cost and upkeep, so it is extremely important to carefully consider the cost-versus-practicality. From there, they will have to build more facilities like radars to expand the UFO detection radius, hangars to hold more aircrafts and dropships, workshops to build new equipment, laboratories to research alien tech.
GEOSCAPE Building and expanding.: The player would first choose the location for the first base of operation. The game contains two main interfaces: Geoscape and Battlescape Their offer was simple - fund them, and they will fight what no one else could. However, it wasn't until 1979 when the whole world are aware of the existence of the aliens and the emponymous military organization. Shortly after, the Xenonauts was founded to research and counter the potential alien threat.
After a six-hour battle with the ship's crew members at the crash site, the mobilized elements of the 95th Airborne, 202nd Infantry and Soviet Fourth Army were all wiped out in their entirety when the aliens purposefully detonated the ship's power core. The story starts in year 1958, in what was known as the Iceland Incident, a huge spaceship was shot down over Iceland by eight missiles with nuclear warhead. Xenonauts is a single-player turn-based strategy game, in which the player takes command of the eponymous elite military organization, the world's last line of defense against a potential extraterrestrial invasion.
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