Xenonauts 2 – DLC confirmed?

In their latest patch notes, the devs let us know that the team behind it wants to continue making content for Xenonauts 2.

“Now the dust has started to settle on the 1.0 launch, we’ve taken some time to collect our thoughts—and everyone on the team is indeed keen to continue expanding the game via DLC“

So, I assume with that tidbit the game sold well enough to warrant DLCs, which is excellent news for us alien blasters. Continued support is great by itself, but hearing that tactical games like Xenonuats 2 are still viable in this world of endless Fortnite clones soothes my heart. That’s all, folks!

Xenonauts 2 – The Boys Are Back In Town [Review]

After a thousand years in space, slowly floating from one uninhabitable planet to the next, the distress call was finally picked up by HMS TomsGamingVault, and the package was retrieved. After carefully thawing out the mysterious object, it—lo and behold—turned out to be the sequel for the awesome Alien defense simulator Xenonauts—the people of Earth cried out in rejoicing! Hence, the artifact was named Xenonauts 2.

Now, the question to ask—is it a worthy successor, or not? Read below and find out!

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Xenonauts 2 [Early Access] – Round Eight (THE END)

Merry Christmas to me, because I just finished Xenonauts 2 after countless restarts (thanks to the ending not being part of the game, yet). Well, now we are here. While the experience was not perfect, thanks to unfinished lore bits in the form of research, and having random crashes, I had a pretty good time. However, it’s not without problems; mainly, the campaign is still incredibly short, which has been my worry for a while. According to my end game stats, the campaign was completed in under 20 hours. Not exactly epic now, is it?

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Xenonauts 2 [Early Access] – Round Seven

After much suffering and hardship, patch 5.0 is finally out on the experimental branch for Xenonauts 2. Now, this is an early version of the patch, which the devs state is in a fairly buggy condition. And that I can confirm, as the progression for solving the Cleaner conspiracy is not working correctly, nor is the status for nationwide panic. Despite these issues, it’s fully playable (so far), and I have given it a few hours for testing. Since it’s this buggy, I won’t play for too long to ruin the experience. But here are my impressions of the new mechanics, and other changes I have discovered.

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Xenonauts 2 with a PS4 controller [Steam]

Yeah, this might come off as heretical, but sometimes I do enjoy playing games in front of the big TV on the comfy sofa. The only problem is that most good games are for PC now, and some genres do not support gamepads. However, with the Steam input controller anything is possible, regardless of the game having native support or not. And as it is, which is not too surprising, Xenonauts 2 does not have support for a gamepad. Here comes Steam to the rescue!

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Close Encounters

I played some more Xenonauts 2, even though I have said to myself that I won’t touch it until milestone 5. It’s just too much fun when you are in the mood for some X-com-like action, but don’t want to go full autism mode. Anyway, I decided to try the zoom function a bit, and boy. There are so many details that go missing when you play at the default perspective. The models of the units, and the environment are very elaborate with markings of uniforms, detailed faces of humans, and alien features that you otherwise wouldn’t see, or take notice of. Here is an example of the fine texture work:

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