About This Game XENONAUTS-2 is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending our planet from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.
Xenonauts 2 has been in the works for quite a while now, but developers Goldhawk Interactive decided to launch a Kickstarter campaign last month to raise funds for the finishing touches on the sequel to their spin on the classic X-Com titles of the ‘90s. That effort was successful, and they’ve wrapped up their crowdfunding project with nearly 400% of their target backing.
London-based developers Goldhawk Interactive set a goal of £50,000 for the Xenonauts 2 Kickstarter, asking potential backers for help with the final push on development – finalizing the feature set and polishing the game. Friday, the Kickstarter came to a close after bringing in a grand total of £191,107.
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That amount was enough to unlock five stretch goals the studio set out as incentives, including modular weapons, Geoscape ‘Situations’, locational injuries, a MARS weapon platform and sentry guns, and an additional community edition and modding support.
The community edition and modding support had been set as a £200,000 stretch goal, but when the campaign wrapped up, Goldhawk wrote in an update on Kickstarter, the team wanted to show their gratitude by unlocking the next goal as well.
Xenonauts can be thought of as kind of an alternate timeline version of the X-Com reboots, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2. As in the classic ‘90s games, Xenonauts had players building multiple military bases around the world, and managing tactical situations on the ground in a more sprite-style isometric battlespace.
The sequel promises to expand on the strategic and tactical options available to players, and provide remarkably granular control over the alien interdiction effort at all levels, with the ability to manage employees from foot soldiers to command staff.
GOG.com has hosted a free Xenonauts 2 demo for a while now, and you can also download it direct from Goldhawk.
Xenonauts 2 is scheduled for release November 1st.
Pokemon platinum emulator reddit. There’s some confusion surrounding the Xenonauts 2 release date: On the, you get a vague “March 2019,” and Google provides a more specific March 14 if you look up the term. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Developer Goldhawk Interactive says Xenonauts 2 isn’t ready for Early Access yet, but they will have a new build going out to Kickstarter backers in a few days.Goldhawk says Beta Build V3 will head out to backers on Tuesday, March 12. It’ll be the first Xenonauts 2 beta build where the developers have begun considering “the gameplay experience rather than just purely stability and functionality,” according to last Friday.The March timeframe was part of Goldhawk’s initial plans for an Early Access launch, but the developers say that’s going to be delayed, probably by a few months.“We don’t think the game is polished enough of has enough content for an Early Access launch,” they write.
“Any negative reviews we receive now will last forever and potentially reduce sales for the entire lifetime of the game, and as our finances are still relatively solid there’s not really any need for us to risk it happening to us.”It’s always tempting to be disappointed by delays in games we’re looking forward to, particularly when it’s with a follow-up to a truly excellent spin on Microprose’s classic turn-based tactics game. However, it’s encouraging to hear that Goldhawk Interactive is financially stable enough to not have to rush Xenonauts 2 out to market - more time in development is almost always a good thing (to a point, at least), and as they’ve wisely pointed out, putting an unfinished product on the market can turn off a lot of potential players.Here's the trailer Goldhawk put together for the Kickstarter campaign. Interestingly, if you check out, you can check the revision history and see that someone at Goldhawk changed the Steam Release Date value to March 16, 2019 a couple weeks ago, on February 22. That was removed two days later, but those changes may be the source of the misinformation that’s still circulating on reddit and elsewhere.If you are still itching to get your hands on a beta key, Goldhawk says they’re looking at ways to make this work, whether through Xsolla or another rights management system. That way, folks who missed out on the wildly-successful Kickstarter campaign can still contribute to development and try out early builds, and still have a GOG or Steam key waiting for them when those become available.
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