Xenowar

[michal]

Alpha b685 Windows:

- Mod file support! Check out README.txt for info.
- Item descriptions
- Gameplay: lost UFOs now get a cash bonus instead of XP
- Gameplay: research dependencies fixed
- UI: tweaked the inventory screen to hopefully be neater
- Help: new images, cleaned up errors

On the source site: https://code.google.com/p/unflobtactical/

Quote from readme about modding:

You can add mod files to change the graphics of the game. (Or write your own - below.)
Mod files allow people to share alternate graphics for the game

Anyone want to try doing better gfx?

[Daiky]

I think the minimalistic graphics has it's charm I'm certainly going to try this out.

[Volutar]

Yeah, minimalistic and schematic design is definitely charming, though it shouldn't be overmiminalized
Too much realism can easily kill originality/soul of game.

[michal]

For me, those soldiers models are too simple:


Comic style is nice, but they could use more polys

Btw, they have wiki:
https://xenowar.wikispaces.com/

[Volutar]

I suppose developer will use "schematic" graphics only in development stage. Later on he'll replace them with more fine models. I would do that.

[michal]

Yeah, i hope someone will help him. For now it's mostly programmer's art

[michal]

New releases:

Beta 804:

- difficulty levels
- resize supported
- T3 armor/weapons now always available after research. Region traits determine cost, not availability.
- scissor rectangle fixed, should clean up right hand edge noise
- fixed bug where "military" bonus wasn't being applied
- fixed bug where standing color isn't correct for some weapons

Release v2.6:

New aliens! Improved graphics! Flares and smoke! 2.6 is a big upgrade to the game,
with bug fixes thrown in as well.

Special thanks to Johan Forsberg for the icon graphics.

- Researching alien corpses now shows you a picture of the alien.
- New title screen.
- Updated help images.
- Psi attacks & squid. Psi shields.
- Addition 2-stage alien.
- Reworked MCAN. No longer has snap fire. Added flares and smoke rockets, which explode at distance.
- Added new background images.
- Fixed the alien AI to detect weapon blasts.
- Fixed some (scary) save/load bugs.
- Can no longer "sell all" soldiers and scientists

Release v2.5:

Additional save game support.
- Higher quality text rendering. Text should look crisper across all screen.
- Support for font modding.
- Hired soldiers sell/fire for much less money. Fixes expoit.
- Aliens should now calculate line of site correctly and not blast walls repeatedly
- Reaction fire AI greatly improved. Should shoot own team, blow up weapons in face, much less often.
- Sometimes units don't scroll onscreen - fixed.
- Some bugs in visibility detection were fixed. Soldiers should no longer stop needlessly
  when an enemy has already been spotted by a teammate.
- New battleship model.
- Builder.exe is now hardened somewhat against bad inputs, and gives more errors. Particuarly will now detect correct texture sizes.
- Map objects that are destroyed no longer obscure vision. (Blocking items workes; obscuring items did not.)