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It was still somewhat fun to watch this “never-before-seen footage”, and one has to say that some of those features, especially the way city attacks would work, or the extra work put on the leaders animations were really cool, but could probably become tiresome on the long run. Features and art style which were cut out from the game. Yes, footage from Civ5 before it was first released. This was cool to watch and looks to be a promising new feature.Ĭiv5: Brave New World - Pedro II of Brazil (new Civilization)įiraxis also presented some prototype footage, or previz, for Civ5. There was some Civ5:BNW footage showing off the new international trade routes system, which allows you to set up trade routes on land and over the sea. But, to be honest I was expecting more Civs to be revealed. I would say that Civ5: BNW presentation was OK and moderately satisfying.

Sid Meier’s Civilization 5: Brave New World So, what were these “big reveals and announcements” and “never-before-seen footage” about? And, was it worth it? Civ5:BNW presentation (main part) starts at 6h 03m and XCOM:EU at 6h 16m.

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You can watch the full panel video here (starts at 5h 20m). Civilization 5: Brave New World was represented by Ed Beach (Civ5:G&K lead designer) and Dennis Shirk (Civ5 producer). In a discussion panel set up for the occasion, named “Strategy Masterminds Mega Panel – Behind the Scenes at Firaxis Games”, XCOM: Enemy Unknown was represented by Jake Solomon (lead designer) and Greg Foertsch (lead artist). You will grow to care about the brave men and women under your command as they slowly grow from green rookies into hardened veterans, but that only makes it more painful when their heroic tale is cruelly cut short by a burst of plasma fire.I watched 2K’s PAX East (Penny Arcade Expo) live feed this weekend, because there was going to be “never-before-seen footage and big reveals and announcements for upcoming Firaxis Games projects”, namely about XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Civilization 5: Brave New World, the second expansion to Civ5. PERSISTENT SOLDIERS: Soldiers in Xenonauts are persistent from mission to mission, improving their stats and gaining ranks with combat experience - but their deaths are always only a single bad move away. There is now more varied and exotic equipment for you to play with, and players now have the ability to further develop technology and equipment they have already researched - provided they can spare the scientists! RESEARCH TREE: Xenonauts-2 has an even more extensive research tree than its predecessor, allowing the player to unlock new battlefield equipment and aircraft whilst slowly revealing the intentions and origins of the invaders. One of the major goals of our Early Access period is to work with our community to figure out how we can integrate them into the existing Geoscape mechanics to give the player the best gameplay experience, so don't be shy with your feedback! New concepts such as regional infiltration levels and strategic operations that allow your organisation to intervene directly in funding regions have been introduced - but we're still experimenting with these. STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: The strategic layer of Xenonauts-2 will be remixed and rebalanced, giving the player more interesting decisions to make.

The combat is just as deep as it was in the first Xenonauts - but now you have a wider variety of missions to tackle, a larger selection of equipment to do it with, and more deadly enemies to face in battle! Can you hold humanity together long enough to end the alien threat forever?Key FeaturesTACTICAL COMBAT: Xenonauts-2 delivers tense turn-based combat across realistic, varied and fully-destructible 3d battlefields. It is not a chronological successor to first Xenonauts, but rather an updated portrayal of similar events - the action takes place in an alternate timeline where decades of alien interference has prevented the end of the Cold War, leaving NATO and the Soviet Bloc teetering on the brink of a catastrophic nuclear war. Xenonauts-2 is the sequel to the acclaimed Xenonauts: Strategic Planetary Defence Simulator, and like its predecessor it draws heavy inspiration from the classic X-Com strategy games from the 1990s. 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-2 is a strategy game in which you control a multi-national military organisation defending our planet from alien invasion, using small squads of persistent soldiers to eliminate the extraterrestrials and recover their technology in turn-based ground combat.

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