BTAxis

Five or so.

Hello. I'm part of the team working on UFO:AI. I'm posting here to ask anyone interested to help build the game. I'm hoping this is the right place to post this. We're particularly in need of people who can code, model and animate, but help in other areas is appreciated too. If you are able and available, you're the person we need. Detailed information on contributions to the project can be found on our wiki page on the subject. For questions, you can visit our forums or our IRC channel (#ufoai@irc.freenode.net). A word of warning: As ours is an open-source project, we require that all contributions be licensed under a compatible license. GPL 2.0 or later is preferred.

Yes, the portraits look like crap. The soldiers look like they're sprites, too, rather than 3D models.

That'd probably be the equipment bug that's in the beta. The only equipment you can actually use on a mission is the equipment you get at the start of the game. Stuff you buy or find on the battlefield will disappear on mission start.

I've looked at the older threads here, and so far it seems few people have complained about this, so I guess I must be doing it wrong. You see, I have arrived at the stage of the game where the game starts being unfair. I can no longer win UFO missions. For example, I had to recover a Planter. So I took my squad, managed to fight my way in, met 7 aliens on the way. Then I looked at the mission goals in the UFO: "eliminate at least 10 reticulans". TEN!? In a planter!? Those guys must be breathing in turn, considering how the 7 from before had to fit in there as well. TEN aliens, all armed with warp rifles, microslug throwers and rocket launchers. Needless to say, my squad was mopped up spectacularly fast. This is just an example of usual UFO missions by now. I'm invariably being outnumbered, outskilled, outgunned and out-armored (I'm playing on normal difficulty, so producing Sky armors takes two days apiece with 11 engineering bases. Fat chance of me matching the aliens anytime soon). I'm getting frustrated here. Any comments?