Let’s Play Xenonauts (without My Conscience) – EP 1 : Missions 1 – 3
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For someone with over four-hundred (and still going) hours into Firaxis’ XCOM, Xenonauts is a game that I have had so much trouble in order to enjoy—and not because it harbors back to the classic era of XCOM. Far from it; if the older games were as accessible and easy to understand as Xenonauts, then I might have gone back to play the original Enemy Unknown to this day.
To describe the problem in short: The text is too small that it impeded my ability to enjoy the game, and that aspect almost forever turned me away from enjoying this game until I discovered “Strinder's Large Font Mod.” Ironically, while I did install the mod, the font doesn’t seem to be enabled in this footage, so I may have to go back and tweak it. It probably helped that I ran this game on a 4K monitor, so the text-scaling issue likely fixed itself from that alone. However, as I go back to get that mod issue sorted out, you can view the vast improvements from my comparison down below as well as a link giving you the instructions to install the mod:
https://twitter.com/SchmaltzyCynic/status/1107117726554828801?s=20
Anyways, this video series seemed like the best idea to accumulate all my future footage for an XCOM retrospective as these games are genuinely my favorite games of all time. XCOM 2 is without a doubt the best game I have ever played—modded or not—and it speaks volumes that I have likely spent fifty hours just making characters for my roster. Maybe someday I will be tolerant enough to finish a game of Long War 1 or 2 before getting tired of it. (Someday, perhaps, but not today.)
Xenonauts Steam Page Details: https://store.steampowered.com/app/223830/Xenonauts/
Xenonauts is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending a Cold War-era Earth from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat. A detailed strategic layer allows you to co-ordinate the defence of the planet, using your interceptors to shoot down UFOs and researching captured artefacts to learn about your foes and unlock new combat equipment to use on your missions.
Xenonauts is a spiritual successor to the classic X-Com strategy games from the 1990s. We aim to improve the graphics, add new content and streamline the interface whilst still retaining all of the key mechanics of the original games. Devoted fans should love this game, but we're also keen to introduce the joys of old-school grand strategy to a whole new generation of players who might not otherwise experience it!
Please note that the native Mac / Linux versions of the game are still in beta, however older WINE-wrapped "ports" are available and known to be stable whilst development of the native ports is still ongoing.
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