I told them we had a chance if we set the warheads to airburst, and targeted them manually. Everyone was demanding information on the status of our missiles, if they were ready to launch and whether they could hit that thing we had heading towards us. I guess it was about then that someone suggested the nuclear option - all our lines went red hot all of a sudden. He unloaded his missiles and got the hell outta Dodge. We interviewed the pilot afterwards he said there was a flash of light and the other jets were gone. The fin had been sliced clean in half, as if someone had taken an angle grinder to it. Out of a squadron of six F-8s, only one made it back, and it was missing half its tail. Then when they closed in on it, it started shooting at them. Tried all the radio frequencies, nothing. "The pilots tried to communicate with the ship. Or have such a small radar cross-section. It was as big as a goddamn battleship - we couldn't believe anything that large could move so fast. It was like nothing we'd ever seen before, a massive armoured bullet pushing through the air like it just wasn't there. Well, we guessed pretty quickly that it weren't the Soviets that had built it. "A squadron of F-8s caught up with the thing about one-fifty miles off the coast of Iceland and started sending back pictures. We had more important things to worry about. I think they spun them some bullshit about a search-and-rescue operation or something. Anyways, diplomacy ain't my area of expertise. I'm pretty sure if a single one of our planes wandered into their airspace, or went anywhere near Cuba, the entire Cold War would turn real hot, real fast. Our jets were all over their radar screens, and they'd started launching their own. It was about then that the Kremlin got on the lines and started screaming at us. I figured it must have been some kind of experimental Soviet plane, but whatever it was, we knew we wanted a damn good look at it. The command room was chaos just a wall of noise. "Well, we scrambled pretty much every jet we had on the entire Atlantic seaboard. But it was moving far too fast to be any plane we'd ever heard of. They flat out can't, they don't work that way. So we watched and waited for a few minutes, and then suddenly the damn thing just changed course completely.
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There was only one missile too - hardly a full strike. We had the blip headed for some remote part of Ohio, and there ain't nothing there but wheat and tractors. "It was probably our trajectory data that convinced them not to in the end. From what I heard afterwards, the Pentagon was about ready to launch a full retaliatory strike on the Soviets with everything we had. Every radar station on the whole Atlantic seaboard was trying to track the damn thing, find out where it was headed. "We got on the line to NORAD, warning them about it. It was traveling far too fast to be anything else. I remember looking up at the clock and thinking to myself, "Y'know, this ain't a bad time for the world to end everyone's still tucked up in bed." We thought it was a missile at first, y'see. No more blind hires then firing half of them because it turns out they couldn't even pass for normal troops.Īnd since you managed to make it this far, here's some concept art/screenshots. You'll have access to a potential recruit's stats BEFORE you actually recruit them. Two, so the psionics don't screw you over due to aforementioned mechanics.Ħ. Mainly there for two reasons, one, you have a inital team that doesn't have X-COM recruit accuracy. You don't start off with a team of rookies, instead, you get I believe 8 members of experienced men, from a Captain to Sergeants. Psionics will be making rolls against the morale rating.ĥ. Instead, psionic defense will be based around higher ranking officers, who give a morale boost to lower ranking troops. Remember how you were always the only one to respond, even if the terror site was someplace like Washington D.C? Not anymore, depending on the mission and locale, local friendly units will also be in the combat zone.ok that doesn't sound incredibly helpful, but hey, meatshields are meatshields.Ĥ.
You will be relying on funding, since the US and USSR already have access to the Xenonauts' R&D databases.ģ. Selling items is either not a feature or isn't as powerful as it was as in X-COM. F-17 looks like a F-16, so MiG-32 will most likely look like a MiG-31), order them to do special manuevers, essentially making air combat more than just "Send, press aggressive attack, if too powerful, pull out before its too late"Ģ. The air combat is pausable real time, with you being able to directly order your aircraft (The F-17 and MiG-32 so far. Now, there are a few key differences between this and X-COM.ġ.
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