![]() To give you a sense of this, I think of plans for the project that probably won't even be on our radar for the next 3-5 years. Probably the only advantage we will have on it is the fact that we're open source - our game will never stop being developed and anyone can join that development if they want. From videos, it looks like Xenonaughts is much more faithful to the feel of the original battlescape scenarios - destructable terrain, isometric tiles, etc. No, we have nothing to do with UFO: Afterlight or UFO: Extraterrestrials. In the campaign, the number of civilians killed effects the happiness of your funders, so there is an incentive to get on with it. Whichever you choose, how you find and use cover and the different weapons will make a big difference. Some players prefer to let the aliens come to them, some like to move in and take them down. But the real core of the battlescape is in soldier fire and movement. Even the AI (alien and civilian) is damnably stupid - no herding the civilians to safety, yet. I dream of some day having a robust scriptable events and objectives system like Wesnoth, but for now the battlescape is just a straight up kill or be killed affair. If only! We call that the "battlescape" (as opposed to the geoscape - the world view during a campaign). Should I try to somehow put the civilians on my dropship to save them and retreat? Am I to entrench myself and wait for aliens to appear so that I can blast them? etc. ![]() I often was at a loss at what I should be doing and what to expect. Battlescape render speed dramatically improvedÄixie wrote:It looks pretty awesome, but I've never played the original game and there are just so many things you have to manage/you can do! Also, I've found that which actions you can take/skirmish (or call it however you like) objectives are not really clear.New skirmish options to save squads and respawn aliens.Support for smoke and incendiary effects.New particle and sound effects for weapons.Rescue soldiers in dropships shot down by aliens and retreat from battles.Here are just a few of the changes in 2.4: Version 2.4 supports a singleplayer campaign and multiplayer tactical battles. It's built for those who like turn-based strategy and open-source gaming. It's a macro-strategy base-building game built on top of tiled, turn-based tactical battles. While the lore behind UFO: Alien Invasion is very different from Wesnoth, I think there's a lot of crossover appeal. With more than a dozen new maps and dramatic speed improvements behind the scenes, 2.4 is a major step forward in our quest to build a fully free and open source tactical squad shooter and earth survival strategy game. The UFO: Alien Invasion development team is proud to announce the release of UFO: Alien Invasion version 2.4.
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