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      Creator Chuah Teong Leong 2 days ago

      turn based strategy fans,
      check out jagged alliance flashback
      http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2079547763/jagged-alliance-flashback

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      Creator Knight PT on April 29

      @ Hans, I disagree. Game can only be judged when it's on the release form. A delay in the release date is something very common in all kind of companies ranging from realy big ones to small ones. Saying a game is crap because its delayed and you pick up an alpha version and say its crap because its the only version you can play on the time YOU decide it should be done is something i disagree. You can complain of the delay, but not say its crap because of an alpha version => 2 diferent things.

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      Creator Hans Melius on April 28

      @Knight, except the game was SUPPOSED to be released at the same time XCOM: Enemy Unknown released. So the fact that I still haven't received my finished game, I have to agree with Manuel.

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      Creator Knight PT on April 25

      @ Manuel Otera Moreira, are you for real? do you even know that the game is still in early stages of being balanced and the AI is realy still in early stages? like in ... the game is still in beta? like in ... not released yet ?

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      Creator Manuel Otero Moreira on April 12

      a crap of a game.
      in easy mode they dont know to shoot. the soldiers are stupid. shoot at other soldier or everywhere except to the aliens is patetic. to point to another alien is difficult and unfriendly.
      the aliens dont have a lot of mistakes but the soldiers....really int=0
      and drop a granade ..... or shoot behind a bush.... you shoot to the bush the earth the sky but to the
      FUCKASDFQ·$%!"·$ front no way. its a shotgun only look in the way.
      and money funds..... a sad day when i backed this .....
      a huge mistake backing this game.

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      Creator ThomasN on April 11

      With like a publisher I mean they enforce in Germany all players have to have the version without the blood and so on. Talk about artistic freedom.

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      Creator ThomasN on April 11

      You know steam is like a publisher and receives 30% of the game's money, right?

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      Creator Onno Ebbers on April 5

      Yes!, Steam keys!

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on April 5

      Dmitriy - we'll do our best!

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      Creator Dmitriy Skryabin on April 5

      Please do not forget to add the Russian language. thanks

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      Creator Onno Ebbers on April 1

      Thanks Dave, I'll try that!

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      Creator Dave on March 30

      I've had issues with Desura too. Best workaround I know of is to go to their website, log on through that, and go to your CD keys page. You should be able to download the stand alone installer from there.

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      Creator Onno Ebbers on March 30

      I still have alot of problems trying to download through Desura... Am I alone in this, or is it a common problem?

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on March 26

      Thanks. Big update coming in the next couple of weeks too. Got something I'd like to announce, but need to get a final confirmation first.

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      Creator WP - Member, Mutant League on March 22

      Oh this sound like a bad time/money sink, but I have faith you can handle it.
      So far reading the background story (iceland incident) and the occasional kickstarter updates is making me want this game to be my first xcom experience, even held of buying XCOM: Enemy Unknown :)
      Good luck hunting and fixing those bugs.

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on March 21

      Current build has some quite major bugs in it, I'm not writing an update advertising it until it's stable again.

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      Creator WP - Member, Mutant League on March 21

      Wish there was a march update, even if it's from the bahama's.

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      Creator Paul on March 20

      Wow, this is taking a LOT longer than expected...

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      Creator Alan Murphy on March 19

      Any updates?

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      Creator Thomas Melberg on March 7

      Hope youre still kiling bugs and make good game ;)
      Take youre time and make it as good as i would :P

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on February 11

      Sadly it's only cost-effective to ship the rewards together, so we're limited by the slowest ones to produce - the DVD copies, which can only be burned when we have the game finished. Possibly we'll look at getting the other stuff done first and shipping it to people who don't need a DVD (we've got more storage space now we operate out of an office) but I want to hit beta before I consider that.

      Sorry for the delays though, we're working on it as hard as we can!

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      Creator Slippery Jim on February 10

      I have a lot of faith that Chris and his team will pull off a nicely polished product. I am patient and would rather see them finish it at their own pace.

      I hope they make a fortune with it too once it is released. I am sure there are a lot of people waiting to buy a final product.

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      Creator Gustaf Carstam on February 5

      Jakub: I assume that he wants to ship as much as possible together. Although I don't know if there is anything that still needs to be finished before shipping it out.. maybe the softback art book?

      The expected october shipping date was the expected release of the game wasn't it? Since the release has been deleyd maybe the shipping of goods has been pushed back too? I don't know it is a fair question and I'd suggest asking it on the forum :)

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      Creator Jakub Zdzieblo on February 4

      Chris, what's up with the T-shirts? Estimated delivery October 2012... The spring is almost around the corner, I'd like to have something to wear when the sunny days come back!

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      Creator ☜☆RSF☆☞ MGT470 Virtuous Duck Merchant on January 22

      Just wanted to say thanks again for the update. Certainly a lot of good progress!

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on January 20

      I'll post an update here if V17.52 (released today) proves stable. The last couple of releases have had some game-breaking bugs in them and I'm not going to be shouting about them until those are gone.

      Andrew - the AI is closer to being finished than the UI is. The combat UI is done but there's a lot of Geoscape UI screens are a major upgrade and only the first has been put in the code thus far (though all the concepts are finished now).

      On the plus side, the old UI is still perfectly usable so the AI is actually more important at the moment.

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      Creator Andrew Easter - on January 19

      It appears that the new UI is almost finished.Combat and geoscape UI are in game. The big missing link is the AI which appears to be in the last stages for a major overhaul

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      Creator S.D. on January 7

      I think it's a great time for a new update, now that the holidays have passed. A December development wrap-up would be welcome :-)

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      Creator ☜☆RSF☆☞ MGT470 Virtuous Duck Merchant on November 12, 2012

      @fellow backers Shameless plug but if you enjoyed the original Quest for Glory hybrid Adventure / RPG games, you might want to know that the original designers (Lori & Corey Cole) are back at it with a new KS project - Hero-U. It's said to be a "a turn-based PC RPG with adventure game puzzles and immersive story". So if that sounds like something you might be interested in check it out. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878147873/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption

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      Creator BillD4 on November 9, 2012

      I understand that the forums are faster for updates, but I have backed 84 different Kickstarters. 24 have delivered on time, 31 have not met their projected delivery date, and 29 are pending. I simply do not have the time or ability to have dozens of forum addresses, usernames, and passwords at hand every time I want to check on the status of what I have paid for. A duplicate comment here, as well as on the forums, when there is a quick update would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on October 31, 2012

      Sorry, we'll post something up here shortly. I've been terrible about updates but our main site is slightly better, and our forums are MUCH better for quick updates.

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      Creator daquack on October 28, 2012

      They been updating there forums often...not so much here

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      Creator Nigel Lau on October 27, 2012

      No updates on KS since Aug 26th?

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      Creator Andrei Sokolov on October 27, 2012

      Hello. Can you tell when finished game will be out?

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      Creator Hans Melius on October 22, 2012

      What is the status on the Physical copy of the game?

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      Creator Devon Rampe on September 12, 2012

      Hopefully there will be a tutorial implemented in the future. :) I've got this installed on Desura, but tried just jumping in and playing, and I was stumped immediately. hehe

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      Creator Jason Christopher Faught on September 7, 2012

      What are your plans for the game manual? I hope you put some effort into designing it. I'd hate to get a crappy black and white boring scrap of paper... Maybe you could dress it up as a rookie Xenonaut's handbook? I think we would all love that! Give us flavor for the game please like: "In the case of mind controlled squad mates don't hesitate in inflicting non lethal wounds for the sake of the squad and the mission."

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on August 26, 2012

      You should have been sent a Desura key which will let you access the game. If you've not got it, email me at chris(at)xenonauts.com and I'll sort you out.

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      Creator Jason Christopher Faught on August 26, 2012

      My step father and I both pledged and do not know how to access our digital rewards. We would both like to play, please let us know what to do to get our rewards.

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      Creator MrSisterShotgun on July 29, 2012

      AND THE WEBSITE/FORUMS ARE BACK!!

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      Creator Stormfury on July 29, 2012

      Double clicking the save game will CTD, but I was able to load the games if you single click them and click the load button. Try that, hopefully it allows you to play a bit more.

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      Creator Hunter Chace on July 23, 2012

      I'm having similar problems to the ones Morg is having. I can't load saved games or Xenonauts will CTD. Also, I'm not sure if anybody else is experiencing this problem, but after a while at random times Xenonauts will CTD. I've checked the forums and didn't see anything helpful but maybe I'm not looking in the right place?

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on July 17, 2012

      Morg - without access to the bug forums or our internal bug tracker, I can't really give you an answer. If it is actually a bug, something that serious will be given priority for a fix in the new build.

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      Creator Goldhawk Interactive on July 17, 2012

      Just an update on the forum situation - they're still trying to get everything back online, which is laughably incompetent of them and I plan to cancel the subscription as soon as the game is released. I'm just not willing to do it yet because all our developer online tools and code hub use the same server and I don't want to risk data loss and confusion in the team. Sorry about all the downtime but there's not really much we can do (it's also made this week rather unproductive in development terms too)...

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      Creator Morgurthion on July 16, 2012

      damn, is there a way to get saves to load? I'm itching for some Xenonauts but loading my saves just makes the game CTD, and without the forums, I have no idea if and what I can do to fix that.

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      Creator Ben Fraser on July 16, 2012

      Thanks for the reply and excuse poor spelling and punctuation, kickstarter could really do with edit post functionality...
      Glad to hear it's nothing like you lot having lost all your work so far or anything really terrible. Hopefully everything else is trundling along nicely.

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      Creator ThomasN on July 16, 2012

      I think OYA is a great scam milking (700$ for cheapest dev-kit) devs by pressuring them with a vaporware-dream-product (100$ for some smartphone hardware in a box which in no way or form can play AAA games contrary what they show in the video) hammered so many times in unsuspecting consumers by means of buzzwords and lies until they believe it.

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      Creator Adam Lang on July 16, 2012

      So, looking for a new hosting provider? I know of several who would be happy to have you, and who wouldn't take DAYS to get your site back up and running...

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      Creator Jesper Edmark on July 16, 2012

      Thanks for asking (and thanks for answering) that question! I couldn't find information about what happened to the site anywhere...

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