Xenonauts 2

We've released another collection of bugfixes for Xenonauts 2, fixing another three crashes and addressing the "Operations Points Available" popup after the ATLAS Base mission not being translated (a bug which had been introduced a few weeks ago), along with some other more minor fixes.

Another update is planned in the next week to fix a few additional (but minor) translation issues. As mentioned previously, we're working on a larger patch and we'll have an announcement related to that at some point in the near future.

Gameplay Changes:

• Screen shake from firing weapons now works correctly when toggled on - this got broken when we added the settings option for screen shake around launch. If you find this annoying, you can toggle it off in the options.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a crash that could occur at the end of tactical combat if a player manually aborted the mission just before it automatically transitioned back to strategy, causing the game to run two parallel loading threads.

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur during the AI turn in tactical missions, sometimes triggered if an unconscious unit was being carried in a soldier's inventory.

• Fixed some potential crash issues with the inventory drag-and-drop system (usually occurs on the Soldier Equip screen).

• Fixed a bug where the Supporter effects would sometimes display an error string rather than the actual effect.

• Fixed the Operations Points number on the strategic operations button hover state being wrapped in brackets.

• Fixed the "Operations Points available" popup after the ATLAS Base mission not being translated.

• Fixed some further localisation fixes, including a few broken code tags that were causing error text to occasionally show in Spanish and Korean.

Another hotfix has been released onto the main Xenonauts 2 branches for everyone to play. We're hoping this is our final hotfix for this series of builds, as this fixes the two remaining reproducible crashes in the game and has made several improvements to the Mod Manager panel.

We are working on a larger update in the background, and we should have some more to say about that soon!

Game Updates:

• Updated the visuals / layout of the Mod Manager panel to make it easier to use.

• The Mod Manager panel now shows more extensive details when there is an issue with a mod, including:

• Each enabled mod has a red or green circle next to it. Green indicates no problems, whereas red indicates an issue with dependencies, conflicts or versions.

• Viewing the mod shows the required game version, and any other mods required to make the mod function (dependencies). Any problems are highlighted in red.

• A new section for "Conflicts" has been added, which indicates when multiple enabled mods are attempting to edit the same file (if this occurs, the changes from the mod that is lower in the list are discarded). When in "Developer Mode", the Conflicts section lists additional information on the conflict so mod creators can easily debug potential issues with their mods.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a crash that could occur at the start of a tactical mission, or more rarely on the strategy layer - essentially it would happen if you tried to reload a save within a certain time after a "character conversation" occurs (when the Chief Scientist and Operations Director talk about something).

• Updated the way the game reads save games so that corrupted (or very old) save games existing in the save game directory can no longer cause crashes when the game tries to read the directory.

• Fixed a mod-related crash that could occur on the Mod Manager panel if in "developer mode" and template patches were interacting with other modded templates / patches.

• Fixed a Dockyard Battleship UFO map that had a spawn point inside the outer hull of the UFO, which could make any alien that spawned there impossible to kill.

• Fixed an issue where the first loading screen tip you saw would always be the same after starting / loading a game (although future ones would randomise correctly).

• Fixed a few more broken translation strings recently reported by users.