Xenonauts 2 News

• The player's base funding now passively increases by roughly ~$120,000 per month, split across the six funding regions. This should help ease the mid-to-late game funding issues (unfortunately this change may only take effect in new campaigns).
  
• Guardian armour now offers 15 Armour, and +15 more with heavy armour (previously it was 12, with +12).
  
• Exosuit armour now offers 25 Armour and +25 with heavy armour (previously 25, and +18).
  
• Colossus armour now offers 40 Armour (previously 30), and when upgraded it has 70 Armour (previously 60).
  
• Stun Gun now gets +6 hit chance for each tile closer than max range (previously +4.5%)
  
• Electroshock Pistol now does 40 EMP damge (up from 35), and Electroshock Rifle does 50 EMP damge (up from 40).
  
• Electoshock Grenade EMP damage reduced to 45 (from 50)
  
• Updated Electroshock Pistol / Rifle so they have broadly the same accuracy and fire modes as a standard Pistol or Rifle (this is a slight buff), but their range remains as before (i.e. shorter than a standard pistol / rifle).
  
• Cleaner SMG range reduced to 16 tiles (previously 20).
  
• Increased Armour Destruction on Reaper melee attacks to 15 (from 5).
  
• The crosshair / crosshair text now always draws on top of any text displaying the stopping chance of intervening objects along a shot path.
  
• Reinforced Shield now unlocks properly from Ultradense Alloys.
  

• Fixed a crash that could occur on completion of a tactical mission.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to load an older campaign into version 4.14.0.
  
• Fixed being unable to reload weapons in the tactical inventory if you were playing a campaign that was started prior to version 4.14.0.
  
• Fixed an issue where units could move diagonally through multi-tile doors without opening them.
  
• Fixed a number of gameplay issues in the Tropical maps - e.g. there were a number of vegetation items in our newer maps that wouldn't remove properly if destroyed, and it was also possible for units to walk on the swamp water tiles if they were damage.
  
• Fixed aircraft not regenerating inbuilt armour.
  

• We've removed grenades from all types of Wraith except Wraith Leaders and Wraith Officers, as the AI is now clever enough to know how effective grenades are and will use them (very) frequently. In a future update we'll add a small chance that other types of Wraith can also spawn with a grenade, but it'll remain a small chance.
  
• Fixed another lockup that could occur during the AI turn.
  
• Fixed weapons in the tactical inventory backpack not being able to be moved to the equip slot or be dropped on the ground.
  
• Fixed grenade throw mode sometimes getting stuck displaying a 0% hit chance.
  
• Fixed an AI bug that could sometimes cause AI units to move to a good attacking position and then just not fire their weapon.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Harvester UFO on Dockyard maps where certain interior tiles could end up not being walkable (these were shipping containers by incompelely deleted by the UFO when it spawned).
  
• Fixed the Fusion Lance engineering project not being cancellable.
  
• Fixed a white square briefly appearing when assigning soldiers on the Soldier Equip screen.
  

• Added research text for the Ultradense Alloys and Biosurvey Array research projects.
  
• Sentinel Module now has a 360-degree vision arc (and the item tooltip reflects this).
  
• Added a death sound for the Servitors so they no longer scream like humans.
  
• Bug reporter tool will now delete excess Xenonauts 2 crash zips if you have more than 25 on your machine.
  

• Fixed a hang on the AI turn that could hardlock the entire game.
  
• Fixed Secton eyes always glowing purple when the unit is moving, even if Psionic Triangulation is not active.
  
• Fixed an issue where moving items in the soldier inventory could lead to "ghost" temporary duplicate items being created, which could cause crashes if interacted with.
  
• Fixed replacing a weapon on the soldier equip screen not also updating the ammo clips if the weapon in question was an upgraded Laser.
  
• Fixed the game incorrectly showing the "quicksave completed" popup if you quicksaved with another pop-up open (as that will prevent the quicksave being made).
  
• Fixed multi-shot UFO weapons in the air combat (e.g. on Cruisers) continuing to fire the remainder of the burst even if you pause the game, or destroy the UFO. 
  
• Fixed a bug where the player was not being given notifications when alien units suffered a morale break and panicked, fled or berserked if they were not directly in the vision cone of a Xenonaut soldier. This "fixes" a bug where suppressed Sectons were still performing overwatch fire - what is actually happening here is that they're suffering a morale break after the death of a nearby Psyon and are berserking, but the game wasn't giving a notification.
  

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• Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to commence certain Terror Site missions (due to a corrupted dishwasher tile that appeared in certain maps).
  
• Added research text to the Harvester UFO Xenopedia project.