The Aliens in Xenonauts 2 are SAVAGE and DEADLY - XENONAUTS 2 Gameplay
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I vote for keeping a body count of your troops in the top left corner. I played for several hours and lost a lot of soldiers. This game is brutal.
game needs a memorial like in xcom2 for fallen units, pilots included
@@keithsinter5611 In Xenonauts you shouldn't get attached to units and expect them to die, thats the 1 major difference between Xenonauts and XCOM
Nothing says "Not your Firaxis' X-Com" like a soldier immediately dying to an Overwatch shot.
Would love to see you playing this long term.
I feel like it would make a better series when it releases from EA and is complete.
@@ChristopherOdd True enough! Anyway, you got a decent number of views on this one so hopefully that's a good indicator of interest in a longer series. It makes all the sense for you to play something that's so close to the original X-com.
@@alexisdeacon8727 Agreed, as a fan of the original XCOM and the new, it's great to see a resurgence of the brutal oldschool. I can't think of anyone better to tackle it than Odd.
@@ChristopherOdd for complete game, there's also Xenonauts 1... but you don't seem to have done lets play on it?
Ok, so how many videos/series with Aliens do you wish to make?
Odd: "Yes"
This channel was basically founded on XCOM, squad-based tactics vs aliens are the M.O.
I was talking about how you haven’t played this game yet and was worried you wouldn’t because you weren’t really into the very original XCOM but I can’t put into words how happy I am you are playing this game. I played it to the point of doing all I could in the early access. It is so so good! I truly hope you love it!!!
Didn't Odd play like 10,000 hours of Long war?
It would still be even better if Odd played the original.
Yes this is incredibly similiar to UFO. The nostalgia hits hard ❤
Nope. I didn't enjoy long war very much as it felt too tedious for my liking.
What does Long War have to do with the original XCom?
Odd severely underestimated the brutality of this game by not bothering to setup his squad and letting the random soldiers have random setups.
You need to really pay attention to how good the cover is and account for how deadly the aliens are. That and configure the soldiers according to their strengths or they will under perform.
Oh and Odd... look at the transport chopper. You can setup how your soldiers are lined up there and position them to cover all exits (yes there is more then one exit from the chopper)
Definitely want to see Odd have a go with this.
I hope this game stays as one of main series - I struggle to find someone to playthrough it and I have no time to play it myself. Keep it up Chris! Feed us those sweet sweet episodes.
Chris, I'm guessing you never got hands-on with the original UFO: Enemy Unknown but this is basically about as close of a spiritual successor as you can get, with a few quality of life improvements. Definitely worth your time for a series if you're willing ☺️
When playing the original UFO: EU I just assumed rookies were tactical ablative armor until they proved otherwise.
@@nstrangways those poor poor rookies 🤣🤣🤣
X-Com: Apocalypse 🤔
The game did you dirty with this first mission. Having the aliens basically expecting and ambushing your men. Welcome to Xenonauts, commander
Cover color chart :
Green : good cover
Yellow : mid cover
White : no cover at all
There are 3 colors on each obstacle : the front and 2 corners. Sometimes you get cover up front but none on diagonals
I love this idea of seeing the autoresolve result first. You could always 'save scum' -this just makes the option official and with how dodgy auto-resolves can be it's good.
Spellforce Conquest of Eo does something towards this telling you which of your troops might die (when you're going to win)
lol apparently you never played the original xcom, There was away you always had to deboard the landing plane. first to guys would take one step off and turn 45 degrees in each direction. the next 2 would leap frog over them and look towards the front of the plane. You had to do this like every single mission. Very rarely it would load you into a map in the very corner.
Will you ever play Xcom UFO Defense? I'd love to see how the series all started, and as a bonus, name your troops after your favorite soldiers you used in the modern Xcom games.
At first, I thought this game was a complete ripoff of the original, but the more you played it, the more nostalgic I got. I've been really itching for more X-Com, and I think this will be a perfect replacement for the time being. I'd vote to continue this as a series, it looks like a lot of fun!
If you do decide to do a playthrough, wait till the full release, i would love to watch it all because this game is too much fun
OG X-COM is one of my most memorable games. I remember playing on a biege PC and CRT Monitor before custom cases and modding was a thing. Played the game so long without sleep that at times when I did go to bed I could still hear the background music from the game and would open my eyes in bed thinking I had left the game running only to find the computer was off and the music was just in my mind. Might have to give this a go.
I would love to see a full blown series on this game. It is Brutal in a good way! This game makes you learn to play very tactical, and cautiously. Checking corners is essential as well as making sure you leave enough TUs for Crouching, and Overwatch. This game makes you play a lot slower than most other games out there. The original XCOM games were very similar in this regards, but they were a lot more brutal. Expect to lose soldiers, and the difficulty will ramp up quickly. Be Prepared! Research is essential, and expanding the number of Scientists, and Soldiers is a must.
"He looks dead. I don't know if that's bleeding, or just dead, ya know?"
- it's been a full minute and I'm still chuckling. Man it's great to see you back in the X-Com RNG vibe. Vintage Odd.
The goal of base placement is to protect as much land area of the six regions (shown in the bottom-right-ish). The inner circle is with one radar, then two, and the largest circle is with three radars. Building more than three radars has no effect. The region is important, because you can see from the highlighted borders that Greenland doesn't count, so you'll benefit from covering Alaska, but not Greenland.
I am so happy you are doing a Xenonauts 2 campaign!!
Also you should at least do a quick read of the aliens' authopsies since they seem to give you clues on how they behave and on their strengths and weaknesses.
That Secton authopsy said that they were pretty "weak" alone but that when they group together their accuracy tends to improve drastically (probably a psionic thingy if I had to guess). And it mentioned also that they seem pretty fast as they could cover a lot of ground.
The game: "Commander, the future of the human race depends on the success of this organization under your leadership."
The commander: "I don't know if that's bleeding so much as dead."
The old xcom games where amazing. This is the only game that even comes close to reliving childhood memories.
Finally we get to see how Odd deals with the REAL xcom ❤
Soo many people doing jagged alliance, I would like to see xenonaughts, XCOM UFO defense is my number 1 PC game of all time. It's the first game when I was 11 years old. I played for like 24 hours I still remember the day, My dad came out and was like are you still awake? OMG What I have created. That was the start to my 40+ year gaming addiction. This looks just like it. Xcom was super hard in the start. taking regular guns against aliens with laser weapons. Not till you get armor / alien weapons could you even stand a chance to not loose troops every round. Plus now you got mars, You can have mars leave the ship first.
I know that I am looking forward to this one ^^ I'm definitely digging those nostalgia vibes. Exiting the deployment ship is always going to be super high-risk event, due to that challenging fog-of-war, if the old MicroProse dynamics hold true. Good luck, commander!
U could try terra invicta
Damn. This is just like the original X-Com, complete with Aliens camping your landing site and killing your soldiers just as they leave the plane.
This one looked really interesting!!! I really liked how you can loose units at any moment by oneshot kills. It just gives a different layer of risk that feels really unique compared to other games I've seen on the channel. Nice job reviewing new ones for us to check, thanks!!! 😁
Jagged Alliance 3 is one of the best TPRG I have seen recently. Simply cannot put down once you start playing.
Xenonaut 2 is also a promising game.
This game looks to be a great challenge for our Odd, and his hard wired X-COM skills. Would love to see more!
I like how literally his first move triggered reaction fire
Full play-through would be amazing, Commander!
They Chris!
This game I recommend you play as defensive as possible while also super aggressive on destroying covers and buildings that belongs to the enemies with Free Aim, breach charges or Grenadier unit before engaging directly.
The aiming in this game is very unforgiving indeed! Also be sure to keep your units packed up. One extra modules and grenades or so can change the course entirely.
Quite tense gameplay actually. Might get this one day. Thanks for sharing, Christopher.
Oh, I've been hoping you were going to play on tone of the classic style XCOM games. Looking forward to more, hopefully!
really hype for this series. Super nice to jump from Aliens Dark Descent to this. Here's hoping we get a whole series! :D woooo!!! stay rad Odd
Oh and I'm also interested in the Baldur's Gate 3 series personally too. Would definitely watch. ok peace
This looks really cool. I have tried the original Xcom only for a little bit (basically only installed the game), so I can't comment on that. This gives me Jagged Alliance 2 vibes with the fluid action points and the crouching mechanic. I like the vision cones; that's one of my favourite features of Project Zomboid.
In Xenonaughts 1 hovering over a particular region let you know how much money that region provides initially the regions covered by your radar and in range to be 'protected' tend to gain $ while everything outside of your region of protection tends to lose money. This Incentivized building more bases as the 'IDEA' of protection was better than actually being successful in shooting down all UFOs. The exception is Terror attacks of course. You HAVE to go to those to be seen to be 'doing the job' even if you don't have a successful mission it still counts. I believe they continue with the same principle in this Second one. So far it looks like it.
Nice video about Chris reading EVERY tooltip
I played a lot of TFTD, so this has my attention! Big QoL improvement, that the devs switched in the TU preview for the old Reserve TU toggle.
I would love to see a whole series of this!
More please Mr Odd! i'd love to see you play this as far as possible, how do i sign up for cannon fodder duty? :)
I've wanted an original x-com play through for a long time now. I SO much enjoy hearing you learn things. like, Oh, they can one shot me. Oh, fog of war matters. Oh, looking takes TUs. Oh, this feels bad. Yyyyesss, now you begin to understand....
We need more of this Chris!!!
It can be worth it to fire the LMG's 10 round burst just for the suppression even if the chance isn't great.
The Secton's Psionic Triangulation(in the xenopedia) give them a big accuracy bonus if another Sectonnis close(I forget the exact distance)
I hope this becomes a series.
It is kinda funny to see you play this because I keep forgetting you aren't super familiar with OG xcom mechanics, including things like bullet trajectory :D
But yeah welcome to veteran or "feeling nostalgic for 90s strategy games" difficulty I guess xP
Puts me in mind of tftd,first guy nearly always died or the tank would get melted.
I'd personally love to see more as your schedule allows. Thanks
A few months ago I played a little in Early Acces/beta, and right after I started my 3. mission I did a rage quit. My first move was to go out the chopper with one of my man and after he moved 1 meter he was shot dead by an alien. I really like this game, but sometimes it is so unfair.
Please, odd, do a series of this.
This playthrough is going to be rough 15 mins in and Odd is already killing off soldiers
i was hoping u would play this!! very excited and hope u can make it a series :)
Look interesting. If it’s between this and Baldur’s Gate 3, a Nightmare run on Alien’s DD, or a new season of Xcom2 then this comes in a distant 4th.
If I'm not mistaken, Xenonauts are based on the old Xcom: Apocalypse model from '97.
Looking forward to seeing more of this! Classic X-Com and Xenonauts 1 were great, and will be fun to see how you handle things having not played the classic series. Hopefully we'll get more even if it's after EA is done
Remembering I didn't have this much trouble with the first mission, me also remembering I cranked the diff down and savescum...
41:30 Electrons move at light speed. Even in the form of electricity where we model that they're moving from atom to atom, they move at light speed (in a vaccuum). I wish games makers would at least get the basics right.
The reason the original XCOM was so much more brutal and paranoia inducing. Was because the aliens had a different fog of war than you and could shoot you out of the darkness and you would have to crawl around the map trying to find out who was killing you. The new XCOM, Players just creep around the map and pop pods one at a time, You always see your enemy before they see you. Not real scary. Just imagine, You're getting yourselves out of the sky, Ranger, And suddenly, out of the darkness, one of your soldiers gets shot. That was the paranoia of XCOM.
Yup, just like old XCOM, you can count on the first unit to leave the transport to be killed instantly by ambush. Old XCOM was not fair by any means.
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Oh yeah! The Algorithm is gonna be the final boss, baby B) ...what do you mean no--aliens are a thing?!
I'd wait until full release and then for sure gave a series of this. Seems neat, it's crazy how exact it is to xcom, but I've played other games that are that way as well.
Hey just as a quick thing, the placement of your bases is VERY improtantz those 3 circles you saw when you were setting up shop showed you the radar ranges with 1, 2 and 3 the best way to set up bases is for them to cover the most terrain with little need for overlap, and plan with exansions i radar in mind
Edit: also read autopsy reports!!! Very important!
Hey chris, while its funny to watch a firaxis xcom player suffer in xenonauts heres a tip on cover thats going to need some brain rewiring for this game: xenonaut cover isnt x - y based like it is with xcom where youre only flanked when someone crosses your x axis. Just because youre behind cover doesnt mean it covers all frontal angles. Each obstacle has 3 cover indicators when you put a guy behind it which indicate its cover strength for shots coming in from the front as well as left and right diagonals. Green means its area is well covered, yellow means partial, white means its exposed and red means its fully covered (blocks line of sight as well as shots).
So be aware of the actual protection given by any given cover. For example a one tile sized cover may only provide green coverage for directly in front of it (it will show white, green, white indicator). if you are trying to block shots from an enemy at your 2 o clock you will actually be exposed. In this case the best place to go is the "corner" of the cover, the 8 o clock, if that makes sense.
Also final tip - you dont have to be right behind cover to receive "cover". You may have noticed your shots getting 40% acc penalty because of a random rock between you and your target thats standing naked in the open. This works in your favor as well so keep this in mind when thinking about a safe place to end turns!
Would love you to play a campaign of this. Partly to get to understand it (I played OG xcom but that was nearly 30 years ago) and see if I want to get it once I'm done with the myriad other tactical rpgs that just came out. But also because in this game there WILL be casualties all the time, and so ultimately it could be more tense and cinematic than other game where a Let's Play means watching you curbstomp 99% of the missions in other games where losses are rarer.
Reminds me a lot of old school XCOM. Love this !!
glad you started this instead of the lacker dark descent :)
Would love a series on this game :)
This is old school XCOM, the over-watch is automatic.
If can say, try original xenonauts with community mod, its insane.
This game gives me some real XCom UFO Defense vibes. Very nostalgic. Depending on how well they did with it, this could be a great playthrough to watch.
The chief scientist reminds me of Gaius Baltar in newer Battlestar Galactica
Worth noting is that all your soldiers that died were not wearing any armour.
As for "similar to enemy unknown", i think its the other way around...
But yeah, high death count is normal in this franchise, its not arcade xcom after all, where all characters are inhuman super heroes stronger than tanks ;)
Hope you cover this game a bit more. Love me some old school x-com
yes, do more of this. If not a whole series, at least a good chunk to get some emergent story and a feel for how the game progresses, 10 or so? I mean, I'd also watch a series.
I think the shields are going to be essential. You might even want 2.
I would love to see more of this!
If its anything like the old xcoms, it will be harder than the fraxis games in certain ways- like its easier to loose a playthrough if you do the wrong stuff.
Since bases can be attacked etc its important to shoot down more ufos - that also makes missions to them easier - so you want a lot of well equiped jets- a lot more than in Fraxcom - and you need to build and manage multiple bases to cover other parts of the world or you'll end up loosing toomuch funding and it becomes impossible too (Thats assuming it works like OG xcom- ive not played it).
no chatty bradford thats a plus lol
would love to see more. such a brutal game
This is the content I am subscribed for.
I was waiting for you to check this out. Didnt watch anyone else.
Mechanics pretty similar to wasteland 3.
Smoke Nades, Stun nades, ambush fire etc
And he missies on the last two lines at the sectons that are fairly important.
You need to read or at least hover over the abilities on the autopisys enemys have some hiden traits you might not realise on missions
Odd got some sentry guns o boy lol.
I'd watch as many of those as you can make.
Why can't Firaxis develop a game like this but AAA?
Thanks for the video Christopher!
I'm sorry, I think I need to take Advanced XCOMology 202 for this game. :D
waited for this, this the OG xcom feel
This seems a lot like the OG Xcom but like remastered. I'm gonna have to get this.
I'd recommend the community edition of xenonauts 1 first. This one is not quite there, the air game is lacking and the late game is quite empty. Otherwise its a great game
Ah yes. Now THIS is Xcom. This is why many of us thought the newest game was to easy. Fun watching you figure this out - until you get tech you will die. Slow movement, lots of shield units that go out first move in circle formation. Please continue - maybe go down a level though unless you want die A LOT.
more of this please
Yes, please. More, more, more
How interesting! If you aren't researching anything, they earn you cash.
so, line of sight - YES, you can hit something behind a miss or nearby in the direct line of sight. 2 yes, it's hard to get off the skymaster. Many a runs in orig XCOM games you'd lose the whole squad on turn one trying to walk down the ramp. Have fun! I hope you stick with it.
I think sticking with default loadouts for a while is probably good, but you should try not to send soldiers in with not full weight. Throwing in one extra grenade, or if they're really strong an extra aim or armor module can make a huge difference. The more you play the more you can think of what you'd want to move around (for example, I rarely use the pistol on my riflemen that have good aim, so I remove the pistol and give them some armor plates so they can play more aggressive)
I strongly disagree. rushing warden armor for everyone dramatically prevents bad events from becoming a snowball of catastrophe. Not only do almost none of the classes start with heavy armor (especially rifleman, because their equipment is already light weight), but in particular, the frontline suppression class, the heavy, starts with zero armor. (you can't even put your heavies behind your own troops, or they suppress your own men and possibly even friendly fire them.
Armor also dramatically reduces healing time, saving you money on soldier upkeep as you need fewer replacements.
First thing to do is to redo all the loadout templates to something that makes sense. Everyone carries too many demo charges, too much ammo (the machine gunners start with 150 rounds for a LMG that fires 6-10 bullets a turn), not enough smoke, too many pistols, pistol ammo for guys who aren't even using pistols as a primary weapon, and many start with not enough armor.
@@timmietimmins3780 I think we agree that actually, but for someone learning the game I was just suggesting they do a couple missions and see what they can remove (like you said, when you notice your heavy is never reloading, you probably don’t need to bring 3 stacks of ammo)
I've asked for this on Twitter. Now I'm seeing it and giving the respective instalike!
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Would love to see more
Please do a series 🎉🎉
More please :) And i happily volunteer as a chum