A new Xenonauts 2 update 4.8.0 released on PC. According to the official Xenonauts 2 patch notes, the latest update 4.8.0 addresses some bugs and crashes.
Since the last patch, players are experiencing problems with the game. Today’s Xenonauts 2 patch 4.8.0 will fix a few of these issues.
Check out more details below.
Xenonauts 2 Patch 4.8.0 Notes – June 14, 2024
Gameplay Updates:
- The Exosuit is now called the “Vanguard Battlesuit”, and has updated research text that reflects the fact is is now the ultimate armour. The “War Machine” achievement now unlocks from equipping this rather than the Colossus.
- The Aerial Warfare research project now unlocks an “Aircraft Missiles” engineering project that grants unlimited quantities of the basic missiles and torpedoes, as many players did not realise earlier versions of Milestone 4 gave these items immediately on completion of the research.
- We’ve updated the click detection in the tactical combat so UFO hulls no longer block clicks, as it could sometimes be difficult to select soldiers near the UFO in earlier versions of Milestone 4.
- The cabbage field assets that were causing FPS drops have now been fixed (properly this time). We’ve also made some performance improvements to the tropical jungle tree clumps.
- Added new research text for the Colossus battlesuit.
- Added corpse analysis projects for the Cyberdrone.
- Added new artwork for the Andron and Cyberdrone corpses.
- Updated the Andron idle animations to look more robotic.
- Updated the animations for the Colossus battlesuit to make it look more robotic, and made some minor improvements to the model.
- Added a sound effect when you decomission an aircraft.
Balance Changes:
- Wraiths seemed disproportionately strong compared to the other alien races, so their HP values have been reduced by 20% and their Cloaking Field now reduces Accuracy by -1.5 per tile (rather than -2).
- Colossus now sets the user to 100 Strength, rather than giving them a +25 Str bonus.
- Mentarch Corpse Analysis II and both Andron Corpse Analysis projects now require fewer corpses to complete.
- HEVY Launcher is now an arc-fire weapon rather than a direct-fire weapon and now has a maximum range of 25 tiles, which makes it significantly stronger (unless you’re indoors). The scatter for missed shots has been updated to ensure they don’t always catch the target in the blast area, particularly when shooting at long range.
- Slightly increased the fire costs on the shotgun (28% TU to 30%, and 40% to 43%).
- Reduced the range of the pistol from 12 to 10, but boosted hit bonus from +3% per tile to +4% per tile. It’s therefore more accurate within 10 tiles, but less accurate beyond that.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed several crashes related to Cyberdrones being killed.
- Fixed another crash related to throwing grenades.
- Fixed new suits of Colossus armour built after the Colossus Upgrade project still being the old non-upgraded Colossus version.
- Fixed Andron Praetorians not having visible weapons, having too little armour, and incorrectly looking like the basic Androns.
- Fixed the game playing some strange “weapon equip” sounds after throwing a grenade.
- Fixed research projects not showing a duration if the remaining time was between 23 and 24 hours.
- Fixed the Air Superiority achievement not unlocking correctly if you were using air combat autoresolve.
- Fixed the Angel incorrectly having an (oversized) F-16 icon in the air combat.
- Fixed another indestructible wall inside the Abductor UFO.
- Removed references to the integrated grenade launcher on the Colossus, as it can’t actually use grenades.
Download Xenonauts 2 update 4.8.0 on PC.
