History VideoGame / Xenonauts

* OddlySmallOrganization: The supposedly last line of defense against the aliens command 20 - 30 troops at most. There are various explanations of this state, mostly revolving around some political plot. More justified in this game thanks to the presence of police, soldiers, militias, farmers with shotguns, etc., as well as nations having limited capability to shoot down [=UFOs=] on their own.

* BusCrash: [=UFOs=] can now attack your transport helicopters (Fighter [=UFOs=] ''will''). Not all of the carried soldiers may survive the crash.

** In the beginning of the game, any player of the original X-Com game will quickly want to [[spoiler:research the Alien Alloys technology, since it used to be the stepping stone to manufacturing armours made of alien alloys, which were incredibly useful in the early game. But not in Xenonauts: as your scientists notice in the research report, alien alloy would make an incredibly good armour material... [[RequiredSecondaryPowers if only they had any tool capable of machining or even cutting it.]] Instead,]] the first armours you get come [[spoiler:(quite realistically) from studying alien weaponry, since understanding how it operates is the key to designing efficient protections against it.]]

''Xenonauts'' is a TurnBasedTactics game where you command the eponymous organisation, sending interceptors and strike teams out to fight the alien menace while researching their technology in an attempt to become strong enough to take the fight to them. It is a FanRemake of ''[[VideoGame/XComUFODefense X-Com]]'' by indie developer Goldhawk Interactive, mostly faithful to the original but with some improved mechanics like cover, suppression and a fully playable air combat system. Its homepage can be found [[http://www.xenonauts.com/ here]] and was up for preorder; preorderers got to test the game as it undergoes development. A Website/{{Kickstarter}} campaign to raise money to add new features [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts?ref=live finished on June 10, 2012]]. It [[http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/4377-Build-V18-%28Beta-Candidate%29-released%21 officially went beta on April 4th, 2013.]] On June 1st, 2013 it was added to Steam's Early Access catalog. Its official 1.0 version was released on Steam and Website/GOGDotCom on June 16th, 2014.

* MoreDakka: Some heavy weapons shoot 5-bullets in a burst, while normal weapons shoot 3. This can be (and sometimes is) modded to increase this number almost indefinitely, creating possibly unbalanced but nevertheless immensely fun weapons.

* RockBeatsLaser: Averted in the beginning (gunpowder weapons are quite useless), played straight in the end( Railguns *absolutely murder* any armored alien punching through it)

* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:One possible fate for the Xenonauts on the final mission. They kill the High Praetor, but get trapped by swarms of Reapers, and the game ends before they actually die.]]

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: The Praetor captive falls into a coma after the High Praetor is assassinated following a VillainousBSOD, dying slowly. It's hard to feel pity for the amoral bastard. ]]

* EnemyMine: The Xenonauts were formed through NATO-Soviet collaboration.

* EmptyShell: [[spoiler: The Praetor captive falls into a coma after the High Praetor is assassinated following a VillainousB.S.O.D, dying slowly. It's hard to feel pity for the amoral bastard. ]]

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: How do you stop an invincible alien empire from overrunning your little, fragmented planet? [[spoiler:Find a way to scramble all Faster-Than-Light travel across a thousand light-year radius with an elaborate, giant device constructed under your base. Any attempt to bypass several systems has to be sublight speeds. And even if anyone wants to shut it off, any aggressor needs several *millenia* to reach Earth to fight.]]

* ChunkySalsaRule: Soldiers killed in the field can potentially be resuscitated if their bodies are recovered intact, though the chances are usually quite slim. Even if they can't be revived, their gear can at least be recovered and carried back. However, if the victim gets gibbed by a rocket or grenade to the face, all bets are off -- they and anything they were carrying is gone for good.
* ColdSniper: Harridans are the epitome of this trope, being genius marksmen but also completely oblivious to not only morality, but seemingly even reality itself.

* RockbBeatsLaser: Averted in the beginning (gunpowder weapons are quite useless), played straight in the end(Railguns *absolutely murder* any armored alien punching through it)

''Xenonauts'' is a TurnBasedTactics game where you command the eponymous organisation, sending interceptors and strike teams out to fight the alien menace while researching their technology in an attempt to become strong enough to take the fight to them. It is a FanRemake of ''[[VideoGame/XComUFODefense X-Com]]'' by indie developer Goldhawk Interactive, mostly faithful to the original but with some improved mechanics like cover, suppression and a fully playable air combat system. Its homepage can be found [[http://www.xenonauts.com/ here]] and was up for preorder; preorderers got to test the game as it undergoes development. A {{Kickstarter}} campaign to raise money to add new features [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/69341191/xenonauts?ref=live finished on June 10, 2012]]. It [[http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php/4377-Build-V18-%28Beta-Candidate%29-released%21 officially went beta on April 4th, 2013.]] On June 1st, 2013 it was added to Steam's Early Access catalog. Its official 1.0 version was released on Steam and Website/GOGDotCom on June 16th, 2014.

** The Hunter Scout Car IS the [[BritsWithBattleships Ferret armoured car]], even being referred to as "ferret" in the game's code.

* InterserviceRivalry: The head scientist repeatedly snipes at the engineers in his Xenopedia articles.

** In addition, researching and building them each costs a singularity core, which can only be recovered from raiding a battleship, i.e. the strongest UFO in the game (minus TheUnfought Dreadnought). So you can only get the Fury once you demonstrably don't need it anymore.

* BarrierBustingBlow: The racial ability of the Androns, as well as [[spoiler:Sentinel power armors]]. Also possible with the more powerful heavy automatic weapons (laser, plasma, [[spoiler:magnetic]]), with the first few shots in a ten-round burst vaporizing the barrier in the way, and the remaining ones making Swiss cheese of the target.

** Though it is less justified than in [[VideoGame/XCom]], since, unlike in X-COM, your soldiers have what unit they were in before joining the Xenonauts listed in the equipment screen, as well as any previous combat experience, meaning you can have female soldiers coming from units that didn't allow women to join in 1979, and some of which still don't allow women to join.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the original ''VideoGame/{{X-COM}}''