It’s definitely from a design standpoint, it’s really, really tricky balance-wise because when you have six, losing one soldier is not quite a mission breaker, but at the beginning of the game when you have four, you lose one soldier and you’re now down twenty-five percent, if you lose two soldiers you’re down fifty per cent of your squad. And the guy at the top is the guy who’s been with me on twenty missions, I think he was the captain or something like that. Jake Solomon: Exactly, and I don’t know why this is, but love going there. It’s actually pretty cool because we just put this in too, when you go to the memorial it’s sort of this UI screen and the camera’s looking at the bar, and as more guys die, you start to see these blurry pictures filling in on the wall behind the UI, and then there’s more and more shot glasses in front of the memorial. You can go to the memorial wall where you can see all the guys who have died, and it tells you how many kills they had, how many missions they went on, what operation they died on. I guess that what I’d say is that because I just finished the game last night, and I lost twenty-two soldiers, which is a significant amount, and again I went on a mission where I lost four out of my six, and one of those had already been on twenty missions. I’m not saying that people won’t win that difficulty level, I’m sure they will, but that’s not what I’m intending with it. My goal with classic difficulty is to have an experience that’s not about winning the game. Let’s say you were to play classic difficulty. Chris England, project lead on Xenonauts, asks ‘Why can’t you just die?’ No, no, actually his question was "I was wondering how they were going to keep things as lethal as it was before, where your troops are being mowed down left, right and centre?" So we know there's perma-death in there, but how often and how easily does it happen? I’m sure they’ve gone through a lot of the development headaches that we have as well. But, what I would say is that I am actually kind of excited for them because if there was any way, whoever is on that team over there, you tell them that we seriously need to sit down and have a beer some time because I can only imagine the stories that we could share about trying to make a game like this. I’m going to digress before you hit me, although if you call them rivals I’m a little afraid of what the question’s going to be. Jake Solomon: They are not rivals! I consider them to be brothers in arms. Are you aware of Xenonauts, your erstwhile rival? RPS: So, I have a question from someone you might have heard of.
#XENONAUTS BASE BUILDING GUIDE HOW TO#
I'll probably try it both ways (missus) to work out which I prefer in practice but I'm super-chuffed that we're getting the option.Īlso discussed - what he thinks about indie X-COM remake Xenonauts, chat about how to capture live aliens, how alien interrogation and research works, more on the game's lethality, and to what extent the game will shape your advancement up the tech tree.
Turns out we will indeed be able to turn them off in favour of quieter, interruption-free strategising.
#XENONAUTS BASE BUILDING GUIDE MOVIE#
Here it is - and it brings with it particularly glad tidings if, like me, you weren't 100% convinced the slo-motion 'glamcam' killshots and 80s action movie soldier vocals were for you. As promised yesterday, here's another chat with XCOM: Enemy Unknown lead dev Jake Solomon.
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