This sounds interesting. Downloading now

Also this really isn't the same project, well it is, but wasn't the initial version to give people a base to base things off of? This is not open sourced. Not like I really see it as a huge issue, the old code made me want to rip my ears off, but just saying. I don't think it should be called the same project. Nice job using ShooterCD sounds, too.

@Charles
Does the game taking 6 seconds to load affect the gameplay in any way?  I remember other games I enjoyed taking much longer, like Entombed for instance.
I've found that coders often have to make the choice between loading the sounds the first time they play (slower in the actual game) or at the start (slower when starting the program).  I don't know about you, but I'd much prefer the latter.
Automatically gaining items for kills doesn't seem so bad to me...  After all, it's still the same in the end right?  And I don't much like running around frantically gathering items while trying to listen to the enemies my self anyway.  I guess it's just one of those mechanics choices that helps make games a bit different from each other.
I bet you'll get better at the game and survive longer after practice, I had the same trouble with Oh Shit for a long time too.

Hi.
This game is cool, but the AI spawning is too fast for me, to fast that I can't even check my items and use them, I can't even take off with my air craft, if I did, the helicopters will shoot at me, and by the time the aircraft is fully set and moving, it would be too late, as my aircraft will explode after being shot sevral times.

This game is very very stupid. Cand start aircraft can'd kill chelicopters. No savet time its very very sorry for this shitty game. Sudden attack is better. Or kotillaroini.

I'm going to assume part of the reason this game is not quite up to scratch yet is because this is the first version of the rewrite. But here's the thing. It is a rewrite, not a clone, and I think that's very important.
As for sounds from ShooterCD: well, I don't recognize actual sequences (note, I said sequences, as in sounds put together, not just individual effects) from that game. If you're going to come out and say the footsteps, or bullet impacts, are from there, let's get real, they could be from anywhere. I certainly don't recognize the fist swinging sound from anywhere, and the punching sounds sound like, well, punching sounds. I am also not familiar with most of the weapon sounds either.
The metallic aircraft hits have been heard in a few projects before, it does not seem to be taken from one specific, project. Essentially more like a stock sound.

well yes the game is hard, but i mean come on people, we can't like all the time have a game where easy go play and the player has like a huge sniper that shoots for 100 tiles and kills for 1 hit, i mean yeah it's hard, but you could e.g. take a aircraft from some enemy dropped items, and then take like 4 robots, and then you could like enter your aircraft, wait a bit, if you noticed that lots of enemies are attacking you, launche the robots, they should at least kill 95% of enemies that are attacking you. and then when launching, since the launche sound is long, take your 2 weapons, and reload them, note that helicopters doesn'tstart attacking you till the aircraft is already going, so at that time you should be fine if you know what are you doing, and then when flying, i like to do the following, reload my rocket, walk away from the helicopters, lets say i have a helicopter at my left, i face right, higher my speed, wait a bit, and then face left, wait a bit that i be close but not that much close infrunt of the helicopter, fire my rocket, and again face right, repeat the thing over and over, that way i most the time battle in air since battling the helicopters with the energy blasters is a bit of headache mostly if like 3 helicopters attacks you at once lol.

@16, i letted the x when launching the aircraft let you select a weapon to avoid players using normal weapons like gun and machine_gun, yeah i just now noticed that normal numbers draws them anyway, but i thought that i disallowed that, should be fixed in the next update.

@16 96% of that long time when lonching the game is python's falt

I still get this when trying to use a aircraft.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sxt.py", line 23, in <module>
  File "shooter_xt.py", line 27, in shooter_xt.main
  File "shooter_xt.py", line 46, in shooter_xt.mainmenu
  File "shooter_xt.py", line 46, in shooter_xt.mainmenu
  File "shooter_xt.py", line 39, in shooter_xt.mainmenu
  File "game.py", line 51, in gameloop
  File "game.py", line 499, in heliloop
  File "lucia\audio\bass\sound.py", line 114, in pitch
  File "sound_lib\channel.py", line 515, in set_frequency
  File "sound_lib\channel.py", line 279, in set_attribute
  File "sound_lib\main.py", line 61, in bass_call
sound_lib.main.BassError: 20, an illegal parameter was specified
Also yes, a lot of the launch time is due to Python being Python. Well, actually, it's pyinstaller. It literally has to extract everything to a temp directory and run it. Plus pygame, lucia, etc.

Hi why i say that game is stupid? Not  save game options. What i can play in this game when when start i death. That is that stupid as blood rain or same. Sounds are super but no normally chance to play. When jet start helicopters death you. Jet start very long its ok but i have 0 chances! I am very very frustratet! This game is for brutals slayers.