Xenonauts — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
|---|---|---|
| Launcher Update | 2023-04-17 | Hello everyone - today's update is just a minor update that shouldn't affect gameplay in any way! As Xenonauts 2 will be launching into Early Access in the next couple of months, we've just replaced the old development update RSS feed in the Xenonauts launcher with an image that links through to the Steam page for the sequel (in case anyone that enjoyed the first game was not aware that the sequel exists). |
| Xenonauts-2 Kickstarter: 72 hours left! | 2018-07-17 | Another quick update to let everyone know that the Kickstarter for Xenonauts-2 has entered its final three days. You can see it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts-2-strategic-planetary-defence-simulator/ It's been very successful, so huge thanks to anyone that backed us - we asked for £50,000 and were fully funded in 8 hours, and we're now well over 300% funded! Some cool stretch goals have already been unlocked (like weapon attachments and locational injuries in combat) and we're hoping to hit the next one at 400% which involves us giving extra support to the Community Edition and modding teams that created such gr |
| Xenonauts-2 Kickstarter is live! | 2018-06-20 | If you played and enjoyed the original Xenonauts, you may be interested to know that the Kickstarter for the sequel Xenonauts-2 has now gone live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts-2-strategic-planetary-defence-simulator/ Full details of the new game are available on the Kickstarter page, along with a free alpha demo of a tactical combat mission - we've still got plenty of work left to do, but hopefully you can see the improvement! Xenonauts-2 is not a chronological sequel to Xenonauts, but rather an updated portrayal of similar events. We've moved to a much more modern engine (Unity) and improved the quality of the visu |
| Cloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community Edition | 2016-10-29 | Two things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be able to access them if you want to play Xenonauts on a different machine. Hopefully that will make things more convenient for you guys! The second thing is the Community Edition of Xenonauts. A lot of people already know about this, but not everyone does - it's an optional free upgrade to Xenonauts that has been created by coders from the community who were given access to the source code of the game, fixing bugs and adding various new features to |
| Cloud Saves & Xenonauts: Community Edition | 2016-10-29 | Two things to discuss in this announcement - cloud saves and the Community Edition of Xenonauts. We've now enabled cloud saves for Xenonauts. Steam should save your save games and you should now be able to access them if you want to play Xenonauts on a different machine. Hopefully that will make things more convenient for you guys! The second thing is the Community Edition of Xenonauts. A lot of people already know about this, but not everyone does - it's an optional free upgrade to Xenonauts that has been created by coders from the community who were given access to the source code of the game, fixing bugs and adding various new features to |
| Xenonauts V1.65 Stable Released! | 2016-08-08 | This is a brief update, as we've pushed V1.65 from the Experimental branch to the Stable branch. I've post the patch notes from V1.65 Experimental below so you can see what has changed, but the main reason we've pushed this update to Stable is that there's a Windows 10 specific bug that is fixed by V1.65 which is affecting some of our users. We'll be monitoring V1.65 to see if it causes any additional problems (in which case we'll roll back to V1.64 and let people who want to keep it opt in to the Experimental branch), but we think all will be well. Please let us know if you see any new issues appearing though! Changes: Miss shots should no l |
| Xenonauts V1.65 Stable Released! | 2016-08-08 | This is a brief update, as we've pushed V1.65 from the Experimental branch to the Stable branch. I've post the patch notes from V1.65 Experimental below so you can see what has changed, but the main reason we've pushed this update to Stable is that there's a Windows 10 specific bug that is fixed by V1.65 which is affecting some of our users. We'll be monitoring V1.65 to see if it causes any additional problems (in which case we'll roll back to V1.64 and let people who want to keep it opt in to the Experimental branch), but we think all will be well. Please let us know if you see any new issues appearing though! Changes: Miss shots should no l |
| Xenonauts 2 confirmed and expected in 2017! | 2016-02-04 | We have now officially confirmed we are working on Xenonauts 2, and we're currently hoping for a 2017 release for the game! The full statement and some basic details on the sequel can be read here (with more to follow in the next couple of months): http://www.xenonauts2.com Thanks to everyone that has supported us by buying the first game - the experience we've gained making it and the feedback received from the community should allow us to create something even better second time around! |
| Xenonauts 2 confirmed and expected in 2017! | 2016-02-04 | We have now officially confirmed we are working on Xenonauts 2, and we're currently hoping for a 2017 release for the game! The full statement and some basic details on the sequel can be read here (with more to follow in the next couple of months): http://www.xenonauts2.com Thanks to everyone that has supported us by buying the first game - the experience we've gained making it and the feedback received from the community should allow us to create something even better second time around! |
| Xenonauts V1.65 Experimental Released! | 2016-01-19 | We've released a new version of Xenonauts for Windows on the Experimental branch, V1.65. It contains some gameplay updates, but it will need some testing to see if it is stable before being rolled out to the default Stable branch for all Steam users, so if anyone can test it that would be appreciated. To access the Experimental branch, please follow the instructions here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/5958-Xenonauts-Experimental-Builds-Instructions We will also merge these fixes into the native Mac / Linux builds in the future if they prove to be stable. Most of these fixes are drawn from improvements to the game ma |
| Xenonauts V1.65 Experimental Released! | 2016-01-19 | We've released a new version of Xenonauts for Windows on the Experimental branch, V1.65. It contains some gameplay updates, but it will need some testing to see if it is stable before being rolled out to the default Stable branch for all Steam users, so if anyone can test it that would be appreciated. To access the Experimental branch, please follow the instructions here: http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/5958-Xenonauts-Experimental-Builds-Instructions We will also merge these fixes into the native Mac / Linux builds in the future if they prove to be stable. Most of these fixes are drawn from improvements to the game ma |
| Further fixes to Mac / Linux builds! | 2016-01-10 | We've had another patch for the Mac / Linux versions of Xenonauts available on the Experimental branch over the festive season, and it appears to fix some compatibility issues that some users have been experiencing without introducing any additional bugs. We have therefore now released it to the main default Steam branch. There's no changes to the gameplay mechanics so there are no changes to the Windows experience, it should just improve the experience on the native ports a little more. We here at Goldhawk hope everyone had a merry Christmas and we wish you all a happy new year! |
| Further fixes to Mac / Linux builds! | 2016-01-10 | We've had another patch for the Mac / Linux versions of Xenonauts available on the Experimental branch over the festive season, and it appears to fix some compatibility issues that some users have been experiencing without introducing any additional bugs. We have therefore now released it to the main default Steam branch. There's no changes to the gameplay mechanics so there are no changes to the Windows experience, it should just improve the experience on the native ports a little more. We here at Goldhawk hope everyone had a merry Christmas and we wish you all a happy new year! |
| Mac / Linux Builds Updated | 2015-10-06 | Just a quick note to say there's been a further patch to the Mac / Linux native builds that were released last week, bringing them up to V1.60. This should address some bugs that were only affecting the Mac / Linux builds, the most annoying being the crashes / freezes during the alien turn that were making the game unplayable for some. Initial reports seem to suggest that the majority of these issues are now fixed but the porter is continuing to work hard on the stability of the new ports. If you're a Windows user, your version of the game will remain at V1.59 as all the fixes have been made to the port rather than the actual game code. You'r |
| Mac / Linux Builds Updated | 2015-10-06 | Just a quick note to say there's been a further patch to the Mac / Linux native builds that were released last week, bringing them up to V1.60. This should address some bugs that were only affecting the Mac / Linux builds, the most annoying being the crashes / freezes during the alien turn that were making the game unplayable for some. Initial reports seem to suggest that the majority of these issues are now fixed but the porter is continuing to work hard on the stability of the new ports. If you're a Windows user, your version of the game will remain at V1.59 as all the fixes have been made to the port rather than the actual game code. You'r |
| Native Mac / Linux Builds! | 2015-09-29 | Xenonauts now has native Mac and Linux ports available rather than the WINE-wrapped Windows version that we previously used as "ports" for these platforms. These have been produced by a porter who works with the Humble Bundle team and are not directly being produced by us. This is obviously great news and we've just made these versions available on Steam (the WINE builds are available in the Legacy branch). Unfortunately, these ports are still a work in progress and the porter is still busily working on making them fully stable. If you're trying the new native ports and you're struggling with bugs - sit tight, more updates are incoming! Hopef |
| Native Mac / Linux Builds! | 2015-09-29 | Xenonauts now has native Mac and Linux ports available rather than the WINE-wrapped Windows version that we previously used as "ports" for these platforms. These have been produced by a porter who works with the Humble Bundle team and are not directly being produced by us. This is obviously great news and we've just made these versions available on Steam (the WINE builds are available in the Legacy branch). Unfortunately, these ports are still a work in progress and the porter is still busily working on making them fully stable. If you're trying the new native ports and you're struggling with bugs - sit tight, more updates are incoming! Hopef |
| Xenonauts V1.59 Released! | 2015-04-13 | We've just released Xenonauts V1.59 for PC and Linux, and will be releasing the Mac version shortly if no bugs appear in the next 24-48 hours. V1.59 is the revised version of V1.58, which we rolled back a week or so ago because we were concerned about stability issues. V1.58 included several fixes over V1.56, the biggest of which was a fix for an annoying AI hang. Thanks for your patience! |
| Xenonauts V1.59 Released! | 2015-04-13 | We've just released Xenonauts V1.59 for PC and Linux, and will be releasing the Mac version shortly if no bugs appear in the next 24-48 hours. V1.59 is the revised version of V1.58, which we rolled back a week or so ago because we were concerned about stability issues. V1.58 included several fixes over V1.56, the biggest of which was a fix for an annoying AI hang. Thanks for your patience! |
| V1.58 Rolled Back to V1.56 | 2015-03-29 | As we've had a few reports of a bug within V1.58 that may be worse than the bugs fixed by the patch (it prevents some people loading ground combat), we've now rolled back the default branch to V1.56 while we look into it. This should not affect save games etc, but if it does or if you are playing V1.58 with no problems at all and want to continue using it, it is available on our Experimental Steam branch (under the Betas tab of the Steam game options). Just switch over to that and you can keep playing. For everyone else, we're planning on investigating the reported bug in more detail over the next few days and will put out an updated version |