Trivia / Xenonauts

• Dueling Games: With the new official instalment Enemy Unknown, though Chris England is cordial about the competition, as is Jake Solomon, the Enemy Unknown project lead.
• Dummied Out: A lot of things in between versions of the Alpha/Beta build (ex. certain types of researchable equipment]. Putting said things back in is one of the current hot topics of the Game Mod community.
• What Could Have Been: The art book contains a lot of such commentary, including designs that went unused. One such regret was that the complexity of rendering the alien starships meant that making their hulls destructible had to be removed from the base game. Another was the decision to abandon the original vision of having full-on heavy mechanized combat with tanks and alien super-heavy units and instead hew more closely to X-COM's small unit tactics.
  • If you got far enough into the tech tree, you could have fielded pilots in Mini-Mecha, in a less permanent version of Enemy Within's MEC troopers. Mods restore this and above, too.

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