The TBS genre is by no means dead (on the console). It's just abysmally overlooked on the PC >.<

Btw atm there's no way to prime a grenade first. What a shame.

I'm new to these types of games (X-Com: UFO Defense sits unplayed in my Steam games list), but I just played through the kickstarter demo of this and quite liked it, even though I only half knew what I was doing. I could see myself putting plenty of hours into it. Looks to be worth backing.

Now I think I need to play some X-Com.

Warning X-Com/UFO are MUCH harder due to filthy cheating AI's that overwatch your ship with plasma missiles -.-

Also, be warned that in X-COM, the interface is really ancient. I've no problems with it, but if you're new, you should know that your TUs aren't displayed. One directly adjacent square costs 4 TUs per normal terrain, and adjacent along the diagonal of the square is 6 TUs. Various tiles also have different effects on your TU cost.

It's also bloody brutal. You can have enemies waiting just outside your dropship on the very first turn. I remember on my first terror mission (i.e., aliens attack the city in large forces), I had cyberdiscs, sectoids (a few with mind control) and chryssalids camping near the foot of the loading platform.

Bumping this because there are less than 3 days left in the Xenonauts campaign. They are at $125,000 right now, far beyond the original target of $50,000. The next (and likely final) stretch goals are new tile sets for Soviet Town and Military Base terror sites. Don't miss your chance to pledge, X-COM fans!

4 hours left, just bumping this in case anyone else wants to pledge.

We're very close to getting both the Soviet Town tileset and the tileset-specific AI soldiers. Only $1,200 more until we hit the $150,000 stretch goal and 300% funding.

Awesome. Don't have any money, so i couldn't pledge anything, but i have high hopes for this game.

The Xenonauts Kickstarter campaign has just ended with $154,715 pledged by 4,668 backers (the original goal was $50,000).

Anyone tried the latest alpha? Thoughts?

I'm still struggling with Desura. It's incredibly frustrating. I've been trying to get it to successfully download and install since yesterday. Steam is a godsend compared to Desura (and Capsule, which is equally awful).

I haven't, for two reasons:
- I don't want to install Desura just to play one game (plus it's only alpha)
- The least I know about the game before getting my hands on the completed game, the better. I like to have the full experience when I finally get the game.

The good news: They want it on gog! Yeay!
The bad news: gog said no :(

Don't you mean, "The old news"? And weirdly as it sounds, I personally think that $25 is too much for it, and $20 may also be a bit too much as well. Personal opinion though, I do hope the game will turn out to be as good as we hope it will.