Utterly Mad

I bought Insurgency a few days ago, I'm not entirely sure if my current potato will run it though, I've just sort of been buying games I want to play on sales in preparation for my new rig. I went from like 12 games to around 130 or something.

Xenonauts is hard as fuck.

1. Use smoke. If you're playing on easy, use stun gas for everything as it's horribly OP. Even at normal it's pretty potent.

2. You can stun gas your own guys if they're about to die.

3. Get Wolf armour ASAP. If you take the right weapons along, you don't need great guns till the midgame.

4. Start around Egypt, then the US, then east asia. You don't need to put guys in each base, just lots of planes.

5. X:CE is harder in some ways, but much more fair. Also has a better UI.

6. Get the breach and clear mod (I think that's what it's called). Whole new game in some ways with that.

7. Remember that shooting around corners is... fiddly. It will usually favor the AI. If you have X:CE you can see whether the corner actually provides cover or not. I can't remember if that's in vanilla.

8. If you're having trouble with certain enemies, and haven't gotten the tech to completely avoid them yet, remember that tanks can't turn into zombies or be mind controlled.

9. Get used to taking a shot then running away, rather than plugging away with all your AP, unless you KNOW you're gonna kill the target. On higher difficulties, being in LOS will invariably get you instakilled.


Dunno if that helps, but Xenonauts is one of the most played games I have. Lots of fun.