Xenonauts

[Rujasu]

Well, loading a ground combat is a bit better now. Everyone's where they're supposed to be, but the aliens can shoot through the UFO. Lost many men to that mission. It's still buggy, but seems more or less playable now.

 

[Kevlar]

I thought the game was suppose to be in beta a while ago 

 

[Rujasu]

I like a "when it's done"-approach in videogames. Beta is 0.18, so we can't be too far now.

 

[Kevlar]

I played it for about a month straight and got burnt out. I simply don't want to play it anymore until it doesn't have a ton of game breaking bugs.

 

[Rujasu]

I'll be sure to inform you once they're in that phase of the beta.

 

[DanAngleland]

It sounds as if this company's ambition is not matched by its abilities- if they are still at the point where single missions cannot run properly (spaceships disappearing when hit by explosives) after years of development, maybe they aren't cut out for making games.....Is it not just an indie version of the original UFO: Enemy Unknown with more realistic weapons?

 

[Rujasu]

Refer to Theoditus' comment at the top of the page. Bigger studios have multiple coders and most certainly don't publish their buggy alphas.

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Multiple coders doesn't matter if the coding practices you're using end up making a shoddy product. From what I've been hearing of each patch causing more and more issues I begin to think that the skill of the coders involved is somewhat suspect if with every major fix two major bugs appear/reappear. In this case, it's likely not the number of people, just people not doing the best job.

That being said, I look forward to this game.

 

[Kevlar]

Bigger studios have multiple coders and most certainly don't publish their buggy alphas.

...they don't have to because they have actual testers and don't need to rely on mass amounts of people alpha testing.

 

[Sartek]

SO now they have hit beta ( almost). They call it beta candidate. Pretty much everything is in, but not quite there yet.


http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/4377-Build-V18-%28Beta-Candidate%29-%28not-yet%29-released%21

 

[rebelknight]

So how's the state of the game right now?

Kevlar told me it crash a lot.

True or false?

 

[Wellenbrecher]

The way I know you it's too unstable for you to enjoy. For the record, that's not meant to be offensive.

 

[Sartek]

Havent played it a while. THe game is quite large, and DLing it and then finding out the beta is out the next day is not something I want to do.

Beta SHOULD be out soon, I am waiting for that. Wont play it before.

Exactly the same situation with Project Zomboid. So close, yet so far. 

 

[russik112]

How big can a game like this be? 1GB?

 

[Rujasu]

It's currently standing at 4,5Gb.

 

[Kevlar]

Beta SHOULD be out soon, I am waiting for that. Wont play it before.

Latest version is beta, I thought.

 

[Rujasu]

All 18.X builds are beta candidates. It won't go beta until all the major bugs and crashes are sorted.

 

[Kevlar]

Was wondering why desura still says alpha 

Should probably start playing something else in the meantime since starting over after getting so far sucks.

 

[russik112]

Apparently after waiting 16 days I have to wait 1 more before I get my salary. Finally, gonna get this as soon as I can because I ****ing CAN!

 

[Austupaio]

Wow, I'd heard this version was unstable but I was expecting it to take a little longer than opening my backpack in the very first mission.

Edit; This time I got as far as shooting an alien. I understand this a test version but holy ****, that was not worth the 2 hours it took to download from Desura.