Rando Gaming Stuff

It has more of an 80's Cold War aesthetic rather than the 50's Retro Futurism of X-COM. You also need to hit up the Community version, the fans have constructed more maps which helps as Xenonauts has a fairly limited tile selection out of the box.

Otherwise, it's a really, really, really well made "fan" adaption of X-COM (it's basically X-Com with some minor tweaks).


I've played it. Wasn't a fan of the slow-ass speed. Although I might check it out again and see if ti can run on my system... I'm getting bored without a GPU and no money to do a proper upgrade.

Hmmm... let me fire up dxdaig... this machine is ancient. My last beast died the hard death five years ago, this one just lost its GPU like 15ish years ago and I put it in storage. Busted it out when the last beast gave up, it survived: lightning took out the cable, dsl modem, router, started the rj45 on fire, and melted the ethernet port on the motherboard... but she still worked for another year after I installed an ethernet port. But little by little something started going, and eventually the motherboard and/or cpu gave up the ghost. In theory the GPU is still fit as a fiddle (I transplanted the harddrives and two mem sticks), but there is the ye olde PCI versus PCIe issue (the GPU is PCIe, this mobo has only PCI slots - my other old GPUs are AGP).

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, ~2.8GHz
Memory: 2048MB DDR2 SDRAM (there are two sticks, either one died, or the motherboard gave up trying to read it, or the system decided to stop figuring out how to use a memory stick giving memory that exceeds the motherboard's limit [mobo tops out at (in theory) 4gigs] - since I just noticed this discrepancy [it should be reading something like 3.8 gigs which is what she read when I installed those memory sticks] I haven't bothered to dig in and see what the issue is. One stick may have simply been jostled loose last time I rearranged furniture in here*).
Drives: A pair of 2Tb HDD SATA drives (Western Digital and a Seagate - I'm not picky) which have less than 100gigs of free space on each... the struggle is real. I really need an external...
GPU: None.

And yes, I'm running Win7 64 bit on a 32 bit mobo (it's what was installed on the HDDs when I moved them). I can tell when the system hits problems, and I'm frankly surprised it runs as well as does, but since it does run... well... I've been too lazy to reinstall Win7 at 32 bits. Also I keep saying "I'll get some money aside and get a new system and then won't have to worry about it anymore"...


* And of course, part of rearranging was to get the compy out where I could easily pull it open to get into it for maintenance (blowing out dust, jiggling memory, etc) but of course, once everything started going to its places the only convenient and logical place for the compy was right back between the display case and the shelves making it a pita to get into. I swear, I'll learn one day.