Xenonauts 2 | Ben Saves The World #4

[@nintandrew13]

YES! I was so hoping Ben would continue this! It's such good watching, thanks Ben!

[@MsArchitectschannel]

Great to fall asleep to 😴☺️ my favourite!

[@PabloLomez]

To counter the stealth aliens, why not throw explosives at them since a hit is guaranteed, which will disable their cloak for follow up shots. AOE is the way to go with them, no?

[@iamcatlegend]

Ben absolutely underutilizes explosives I think. Which is weird, I guess it was Lewis who really pushed the bomb and stick strat.

[@MadeByForce]

2:05:00 (KZbin doesnt like to save my spot so I have to do it manually)

[@Deniecu]

Being in the pile isn't so bad. The slimey stink really get quite pleasant after a while.

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

There's a stink? Admittedly I was born in the pile so maybe that's why I can't tell

[@scourgey4205]

Bab5 still holds up Ben. It'll always hold up. Got to meet almost the entire living cast at this tiny little convention in Galveston TX. Peter Jurasik is a fucking legend of an actor!

[@capt_iron2797]

It is my obligation as a resident of Arizona that it is currently 45 degrees Celsius today, and I wish I had your summer weather

[@Techstriker1]

Ok, the civilians are super dumb, but a farmer with an empty shotgun running into not only the UFO, but a tiny room with a melee alien, and then closing and blocking the door has to be some weird sort of malicious coding lol. Edit: Ok as of May the devs confirmed the AI was still a strong WIP.

[@Alteram]

I had started a run at the same time as Ben, and it's gone poorly.. Ended up with a series of unfortunate events and my best soldiers were on their way to a crashed ship when I got base attacked...

[@homeless0alien]

Just a thing about what was said regarding board games on the 'Games Night' channel, I think the idea that it didnt do as well as the wargamming stuff because it was a board game is likely not the case given the board game video prior to that latest one did very well. I think its more likely that it was rather down to the specific board game chosen (Apex Legends, compared to the previous Skyrim board game that did pretty well) and the cast of players (given that Tom was in the Skyrim video and Tom + Ben in a video is an auto-sell) rather than board games/topic swapping playing into the algorithm on youtube worse. Im sure the algorithm plays some part but I dont think its the cause of the drop from the Apex Legends vid personally. Hopefully you read this comment Ben but the reason I mention it is because although im not the person who posed the question on stream, I would love to see another board game episode crop up occasionally in between the regular wargamming content so would love if you would reconsider the decision. Either way have a good one bud!

[@Tometh28]

Thinking you should definitely get some grenadiers, firing smoke/flashbangs seems really important at this point. Plus frags seem good against the cloaking lads

[@scourgey4205]

Also, DONT SKIP ANY OF BAB5 S1! Its all a part of the set up for the story.

[@Balsiefen]

2:04:28 This just made me think. I would so go for an Imperial Guard mod for Xenonauts. Although ever-greater waves of chumps would be necessary.

[@Aussie_Archmage]

Learning that the Chaos Gate vods are gone is sad, as a vod gobbo by necessity. Oh well, guess I'll have to finish the game myself.

[@walabeeWACKOFF]

Hehe old man Ben always gets me when he talks about the temperature the metric culture shock stands out from the white noise

[@Techstriker1]

As he sold the magnetic alien weapons, what happened to the data entry about supposedly being about to convert captured alien mag weapons to be usable? I haven't seen any options in the UI, so maybe outdated data entry?

[@ThySovereignLP]

This song at @2.28 sounds alot like Gua'old music

[@plainlake]

I kinda feel that Lewis is needed to keep the focus on the game rather than chat and fringe scifi-trivia. Well seasoned soldiers die and Ben does not even acknowledge it. It is probably important to engage chat a lot on Twitch, and it is par for the course that scifi-discussions distract Ben a lot.

[@mattlevens6382]

Yeah that moment when he creeped a soldier up to a lizard just to get a 19% shot with a shotgun was painful😂

[@Techstriker1]

The playing for the alien side game sounds like some of the factions from Terra Invicta. Unfortunately, as the devs of the long war, Terra Invicta is mind numbingly long, and only a small fraction of it is based around manipulating earth.

[@iamcatlegend]

For what it's worth, I've been really enjoying Strange New Worlds but I haven't watched Discovery.

[@Habakkuk15]

Where is birthday bot!?!

[@mattlevens6382]

Dead 😢

[@Eledore]

Darn it's Ben. I wasn't expecting Xeno this week so didn't plan for it, only to miss it by 2 hours. Argh i want a Chump in!

[@KyIeMcCIeIIan]

We love you. I would love to see you play an RTS like Red Alert or something old school. Tiberian Sun is good!

[@ghostlyswat12]

For the alien xcom game could be you a detachment sent to earth in order to get everything ready for the main fleet For one reason or another the fleets busy so they sent you to prepare earth for invasion so you show up with limited resources and pleb aliens There’d be a couple of enemy types so and factions like say the USA nato Russia China Africa etc So early game you can’t really attack big country like America to powerful so you attack small countries set up hidden bases probe locals destabilise the local leadership and take over that part of the map I imagine early game you’ll be more stealthy ie not attacking city’s in mass etc But eventually the governments of earth notice you and then they make xcom or a xcom like faction who’s goal is to stop you The alien leaders will give you objectives like capture humans take over country’s destabilise governments etc and you’ll be rewarded with resource weapons and new aliens to recruits etc I imagine early game would be like xcom 2 with you being a small unit but later on you’ll be bigger and be able to attack city’s etc

[@TheRadradrobot]

A new soldier says as the order comes through to split the team. Shouldn't we never split the squad? Never works in DND.

[@witoldgrabowskiwatcher]

All that Chaos Gate is lost...? Well, crap... I was so wanting to watch it but streams are not for me, Emperor damn it...

[@shadowcarthage]

Ben Please grab the Adenium power it gets you able to research new fighters and a new Helo/vtol also means that you can take more guys so that robots can take some hits for you instead of your guys dying.

[@Alteram]

Yeah, and I keep seeing him skip over the regeneration research which unlocks better medbay for higher chance of not losing a soldier, as well as my favorite module, nano bots that auto-heal you every turn.

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

He doth return! Was thinking maybe it wasn't

[@ThySovereignLP]

Favorite Scifi show from the 90s... Oof thats a hard one... Space Above and Beyond was great Everything Star Trek was great Stargate SG-1 was great Andromeda was great (though this was 2000) Battlestar Galactica was great (however this was 2004) Farscape was great Lexx was... Something Babylon 5 was great Red Dwarf was great But i would say that Stargate SG-1 was my all time favorite. From exploration to comedy, to space battles and dont forget my favorite topic. Shields!

[@benjaminmeriwether9165]

Is this all pre-recorded by this point?

[@Dracowinges]

Ah another 3 hours of solid turn based goodness, courtesy of Ben. Hurrah!

[@plainlake]

Love watching this!

[@thomasquail8795]

Yes more xenonauts

[@moorheadsky]

BENPERORRRRRR.

[@KyIeMcCIeIIan]

Your name... a moors head has been the symbol of my house for 500 years. It's my family crest. I guess I belong to the black nobility of Scotland.

[@joshcassan9036]

*wub wub wub wub wub*

[@RajItToMe]

Crouching improves accuracy can literally see it improve before and after, usually only by 4-5%. Don't listen to these bozos, plus it does decrease enemy accuracy against you.

[@redhood1060]

I feel like this game will be really good if they rebalance a lot of it. Because at the moment it has a problem with a lot of useless options.

[@nickdavis5420]

Ah perfect

[@Christians_Retro_Gaming]

Babylon 5 all the way!

[@BrentStarling]

I disagree enTIRELY with DS9. Long form arcs in a show can make or break it, and god the Dominion gets boring. Early seasons were so polished and wonderful. Not to mention Sisko didn’t have a goatee.