8 Best And Worst Things About Phoenix Point | Phoenix Point Review (PC)
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- Although it moves a lot like XCOM, Phoenix Point is packed with distinct features, from the Geoscape to advanced faction diplomacy. In this Phoenix Point review, we look at the best and the worst bits. Oh, and check out our Rock Paper Shotgun Displate store here: displate.com/rockpapershotgun...
Is Phoenix Point worth it? We’ve got a full Phoenix Point review on Rock Paper Shotgun, but this is the video team’s impressions of the game. Having read mixed things from Phoenix Point Backer Build 5 reports (the last version released to crowdfunders) we had low expectations, but the release version is far from a disaster. As you’ll see from this Phoenix Point gameplay (PC), it hasn’t got the visual splendour of modern XCOM, but it has loads of great ideas, from combat tweaks - free aiming and action points - to massive trucks and the deep strategy of the Geoscape.
Julian Gollop - the head of Snapshot games - knows his way around the genre (he invented many of its underlying ideas) and as you’ll hear in this Phoenix Point test, many are delivered with quirky twists. Due to the procedural nature of the campaign - you start in a different place on the globe, with random events to uncover - we wonder if Phoenix Point impressions might depend on how cruel or kind the game was to you. My advice: don;t freak out about all the flashing symbols and focus on soldier well-being and finding more bases.
If you helped fund the game, we’d love to hear your Phoenix Point analysis - does it live up to expectations? After writing this review, Matthew realised he had a big XCOM shaped hole in his life, so he’s glad that it got made.
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'Fish fingers are now attached to fish fists.' Oh man, that's some good writing.
Put all your best lines in the opening paragraphs and hope people stick with it.
@@rockpapershot Well, it made me subscribe at least so there's that.
@@Dasspapirfly Wonderful!
I have never heard of this game until today. It's like Gollop finally realized some of the ideas he had for X-com Apocalypse like factions and so on.
“. . . squatting behind benches and shooting at crabs. It’s the kind of behavior that got me banned from my local aquarium.”
Hol up.
Thanks for the review Matthew! Waiting for the bugs to be ironed out sounds like a good idea for the moment as I still have bad memories of my neverending turns in XCOM2. The manual aiming, destruction, faction systems all sound great but the art style of reminds me too much of XCOM 2 as I was hoping for a little more grounded look and the lack of an interactive looking base is kind of a missed opportunity.
"interacting looking base" omg you should have seen my face when I saw THATS how they made the bases interior look like... my disappointment was immeasurable. NOTHING screams more as a missed opportunity on this decade that the fact its almost 2020 and we CANT still do a nice proper base management like x-com made in... 1995 -_-
the only way this would be even better is with Phoenix Point Long War
Hey, let's wait for a while for modders to get to work
Long war always makes it better
And numerous, and I mean numerous bug fixes and balancing passes.
this game really doesn't need to get any harder
@@e21big why?
i played a sabotage mission and when i first time ended my turn, sniper shots came from a WALL and killed one of my guys. i restart because that was bs. i thought it was a glitch and did the same as before. once again sniper shots came from the wall. i restart again and this time i take my heavy and shoot the wall to pieces, and a sniper appeared in the same place the wall had been. so yeah i dont think snipers standing inside of walls is meant to be a thing, but yeah that sniper had a pretty bad day after i found his hidding spot.
atleast the reticle aiming is much better than Xcom 95% hit success chance that would miss
oh..
dont forget to mention, a worm can block an APC/Tank movement
Running Aquarium joke gets a thumbs up. It even shows up in the ad! Well done.
Been following this game since backing stage and travelled across the UK to play it at PCGamer Weekender a couple years back. I am so happy to play the full thing at last.
Yeah, we streamed a bit of it with the one of the developers back at Rezzed and it definitely caught my attention.
You get a like for that "Fish fingers are now attached to fish-fists" joke
Looks very promising. I especially like how they renovate the old dusty percentage system into more intuitive aiming system, which will make the missed shots feel more 'fair'. These guys really gave a lot of thought into improving the old fomula and it shows.
Ay, to me it seemed that they took everything good or just acceptable in Xcom and stepped it up a notch or gave it a different spin. Really refreshing. After going thought Battletech that kept it very close to the formula I started to lose hope that this title would have anything worthwhile to offer. Really surpassed my expectations.
I heard there will be at least 3 DLC, maybe 5, so the game can only get better. I enjoyed XCOM immensely and still do. But it seems there is a new king on the throne.
One of the best written/spoken/delivered fish finger reviews I've seen.
Lol, i learned not to overwatch next to your own soldiers... they shoot them in the back of the head....
A similar thing happened to me while I was raiding a Pandorian nest. My soldier used return fire just to mureder my sniper. At the end I won by punching the hell out of that sentinel with my heavy (I wasted all of my ammo and had to go melee)
Matthew in his prime, here...
... except CoD is totally a fish pun. Even if it was unintentional.
Happy New Year. great content especially this which helped me alot deciding to buy it or not ^^. Keep it up
The simplification of the new xcoms is my one hangup on those games, and why I keep playing the originals. I'll definitely be getting this. I'd have preordered it if it was on steam.
the gameplay loop reminds me when I used to play Terror from the Deep. The geoscape and combat feel similar...even down to the old hunt the last alien at times lol
Thanks for the review name-brother! This one's been on my radar for a bit, but looks like I'll wait for the Steam release.
Well it's on steam for half off. You getting it? I'm on the fence. I just got Empire of Sin and I'm really trying to love it but I've had enough disappointment for one week.
I assumed I would want to play this, now I know I do. Good advice to leave it a while, perhaps until steam so it's less buggy... I often do the same.
My least favorite parts of xcom are the 2 action 'move/shoot' action system and the way enemy packs are triggered preventing any stealth, looks like Phoenix point has neither :-)
Word. The reveal mechanic has to be one of the most obnoxius features ever conceived. Ive alt-f4ed so many times due to stupid / annoying reveals that I almost stopped playing it.
You should have mention the fact, that sometimes gets a bit annoying the two exploding worm launcher giant creature, who prevent your every attempt to go further, while at least three mind contolling head hugger, running towards your men, and of course, the "unbeatable" enormous jumping crab that can eliminate your soldier in a single attack, while your entire squad needs about 8 turn, to make it even bleed.
I never had trouble with the big crabs. You just need to know how to manage them. Try shredding their armor with one or 2 heavies first and then use virus weapons. That way the crabs will panic and be of no danger to you for the rest of the mission. Alternativly you can use acid weapons and just wait 3 rounds till the crab is dead.
"be friend with fish" HELL NAH PURGE THEM WITH FIRE and ask help for science man
I can't wait until I can buy it on GOG next year.
It's on Game Pass for pc
Check out Silent Storm. It's an old game by now, but the destruction system is unparalleled in TBS.
silent storm great game
This review was really informative, thanks. Leaning towards purchasing it now.
I’m a backer of PP, and I would recommend you wait a few more months until they fixed the worst errors and balancing problems.
Shout out to displate! I have 2 of them already and they really are incredible!
Cool. I backed this baby as the OG X-com is my fave game of all time and I even liked the firaxis remakes. I’m maaayybbeee 2 hours in and I can see myself restarting as I have backed myself into a corner. I know this is not really in the game but the fiction created as backstory on the games website is amazing and very well written. It really does pull you into the world they have created. I prefer the free aim and the move away from % to hit. overwatch (the go to start in Xcom ) is still your friend but has major drawbacks and over reliance will get your soldiers very crabby(?). Spoilers.........
The mutations are a neat touch and have some Interesting implications in the story I suspect.
So far I am really enjoying it and can see my self doing some very bonkers future playthroughs.
Thx for a great review!
I bought it at launch. Thanks for backing this game way back, and making it happen!
awesome video, really enjoyed it, smashed the like button and looking forward to more
Thanks! Please do check out our other review videos.
Loved the witty humor. Awesome review too. keep it up! Liked and subbed :)
Awesome. Thanks!
Thanks for giving us a good and detailed review! Though I've heard that the AI isn't that great and you did touch on that by saying they lacked creative approaches with all this game appears to offer. I can't wait for it to be on steam and to see what the modding community can add to this game!
I didn't think the AI was noticeably bad - some of the stuff I've read about AI making pointless moves (wasting turns climbing up buildings only to jump down, etc) don't reflect my experiences. There's a bit of unbalance in that certain units are way deadlier than others - the sirens, for example - but I've generally been constantly challenged.
AI is actually very good, youll see it with mind-controlled troopers especially.
I love my troops and my world and I REALLY love annihilating any threats to them, so my immersion into these kinds of games gives me more enjoyment on further playthroughs since I can be more efficient about it.
we started with fish and ended with bugs - brilliant sir, just brilliant
This looks like the tactical switch game I've been looking for. Hopefully they have plans to port it to the switch!
Informative review, guess I'm gonna wait till it is on steam then. Or at least a few months down the route after they did some bug fix.
I'm downloading it now and was a backer - I confess I got a bit worried by backer build 5. It was very repetitive, which can be a hallmark of these types of games, but without any of the story (or, that is, anything to give me a reason to do basically the same missions over and over) I actually got a bit bored and stopped playing after ~10 hours.
Also, I seemed to level up my squad really quickly, but it wasn't clear if there was a real point to the science / tech tree. I did a lot of research, but it never really seemed to give me any new cool toys to play with - it felt way too slow compared to the character leveling.
One thing I did find frustrating in some of the backer builds was the accuracy of the aliens. My guys weren't able to hit the broad side of a barn (even with me carefully lining up the shots manually) but aliens were basically one-shotting me from across the map. It was particularly frustrating when they did this as response actions. They seemed to fix this in later balancing, but it's a shame to hear it's quite buggy (I had the save bug in backer build 5). I noticed lots of hitching in your footage and it looks like they've not fully addressed the poor performance issues that have been there since the first builds either.
Yep, squad levelling is quick, especially once you've got training centres at the base - you can just leave rookies there to quietly improve in the background. And the research seems more connected to buffs than equipment - the best new toys come from faction alliance or raiding rival labs. And yes, it is quite repetitive at a core level, but I enjoy the core combat enough that it kept me engaged. I wish I had played backer builds to offer more of a direct comparison.
The big question, will this game make me feel like I've lost someone I care about when ever one of my soldiers die?
Yea losing one of your soldiers is REALLY hard. They're not as easy to recruit and get up to speed.
I played for 10hours first day and I had all level 7’s and two of the mind control things that slither(forgot their name) took 4 of my units under control in one turn! If you haven’t encountered them well they have very high movement and a lot of armor. Anyways they use those four soldiers to kill my other two and BAM! Lost my whole team.... I then decided it was time to take a break. Until tomorrow that is
Not really, no
Theyre kinda like faceless cannonfodder
based on the look of it right now, the apparent bugs, and the EGS exclusive horseapples.... yeah waiting for Steam release.
Thanks for the laughs, the Aquarium and Fish Fists lines nearly coffeed my desk!
It is supposed to arrive at Xbox Game pass for PC so I'll wait for it there :D
No one seems to remember UFO: Aftershock and UFO: Aftermath. Both were quite similar to this and earlyer than the new XCOM-installment.
I particularly liked Aftermath, Afterlight was an interesting addition.
have both of games, but imho they are so damn repetitive...
It kills me to see people not use the right click for moving around.
Thanks for the video! Waiting for it to hit Game Pass PC (sadly delayed) then I'll hop in.
There’s ol’ lubeman Castle coding it up in the aquarium again...
Just like that other Epic-first game, Outer Worlds, I'll check it out on GamePass. Then I'll most likely buy it on GOG once it's out properly.
The original UFO was possibly the first game I ever completed. I'm stoked to see Gollop return to the genre, and this sounds very interesting.
Does Snapshot have a site where we can request mods or submit ideas. (I think the game desperately needs a loadout saving feature when sharing equipment between squad deployments since doing it manually between each activity is ROUGHHH)
although it has some major improvements on combat mechanism, yet it desperately fails to grab my attention when it comes to sounds,icons, base ,gears ,soldiers graphics .. u just cant get that feeling which u get when u play xcom
In deed, the animations or the lack of them is what I dislike the most from phoenix point
The Los issues aside , the manual aiming is nice because it definately makes the soldiers feel less useless. I really don’t like how you can’t swap soldiers while one is moving to speed up gameplay (in XCOM while a guy is running to a point you could swap to another dude). Also it’s annoying how your guys automatically open doors when they stand next to them
I would love a game with 4X level of complecity of the global map, but that plays more like X-Com, i.e. not building cities / civilisations and dominating the world but being a faction with a specific goal embroiled in a certain story.
Age of wonders planetfall 👍
@@jawnatawn804 not really, it's Age of Wonders, there's story but you're still building cities and conquering the map pretty much. X-Com proved that there could be more creative mechanics to the overworld map.
Also another element of X-Com style that I like - the enemy is unknown (pun intended) and totally unlike you and the game is a process of discovery - who they are, what their aims are, what arsenal do they posses, how to defeat them. In 4x including Age of Wonders the enemy is just another faction like you. Because 4x are often balanced around the possibility of multiplayer whereas X-Com-like goes all-in on single player and there can be total asymmetry as the other faction is not designed to be playable.
This dude likes his fish and bugs.
I was a backer, being a big fan of Xcom, Xcom2 and Xenonauts. So far I am enjoying it greatly and looking forward to all the DLC i apparently get for being a backer. Was a bit miffed about it being on epic but meh. Haven't encountered any bugs yet, but I'm only like ~5 or so hours into it.
:O 2 teams in the same map, i didn't know that. -.-
Heh. "There's no % based chance, instead it's likeliness to hit". I know what you're trying to say, but, 'tis the same.
Hey, what's a tautology between friends?
At least you won't miss at point blank range
@@frankpurvis9189 Gotta love the whole 'Shotgun barrel phased into Sectoid's skull, 60% Chance to hit'
Novalight it’s not
I had no idea you did video reviews..
It's exactly this kind of thinking in the box that makes me avoid cover in these games as it gets in the way.
Now why do I lose so many soldiers...
Yes! Lots of video reviews. Please do check them out.
This guys funny and entertaining I'll subsc... Rock paper shotgun... Moving on.
Hey, if you want to deny yourself "funny and entertaining" writing, you do you. Bye!
I've heard some different information regarding looting the battlefield. I've heard you have to pick up what you want to bring back with you, and also heard you just collect it all automatically at the end of the fight, can you confirm which is right?
On Christopher Odds videos it shows that you auto-collect crates and what not if they, and you, survive the mission
Crates are auto looted, but items dropped by enemies have to be picked up by your soliders before the battle it over.
Maybe it's like in XCOM 2 where If you evac then you leave everything but what you have on you behind
12 hours in one day. Can't wait to go back to it.
The overwatch is a little twitchy. I've had it not trigger once or twice - which is annoying. I've also had a couple of the larger bugs clip through scenery and see things , and attack things they shouldn't have.
But that's it. The interface is clean. The gameplay depth is a full notch up from the Firaxis games. Not original Enemy Unknown and not Terror from the Deep complexity and micro management, but certainly quite a bit more to do both tactically and strategically than XCOM 2 vanilla.
And there is the rub. I've got well over 1000 hours in XCOM 2 - but maybe 50 in the vanilla game.
I would not play the XCOM 2 vanilla game now - at all - even if the DLC's and mods did not exist.
I run with Long War and about 25 other mods in XCOM2. Making enemies tougher, allowing for A LOT more customization in characters, adding to the research tree etc.
This game starts from a slightly better footing then XCOM 2 which was buggy as hell on release. PP has a few bugs but nothing like my first 8 hours with XCOM 2
XCOM 2 in 6 months grew into a great game, and 2-3 years later is a brilliant game. Firaxis approach to DLC and allowing modders to add so much by opening the game up to them means despite being - what - 4 years old. I still play a full campaign through once or twice a year with new mods and new personal objectives.
PP would benefit from the same developer and community love - and I very much suspect it's going to get it.
But as it is, the first 50-80 hours on a vanilla play through are well worth the cost.
Remember this is a 2/3rds priced game a $40 not a $60, and as such I think, if turn based tactics is your thing - it's an absolute must. Deserves
Oh - even on normal difficulty it's a LOT tougher than XCOM2, and on harder it will challenge all but the most hardened players. Use those level up AND Phoenix skill points, equip those grenades, research those better weapons and armour. You're going to need every bit of it.
@vexew got any recs on good X-com 2 mods? I wound up getting WotC and dropping it in favor or simply playing more EW Long War haha
Can't wait for this to come to ps4
It looks at watching this that it has quite a few similarities with Phantom Doctrine in the way the World Map 'Geoscape' operates and movement of the team members.
What the actual fuck, I grew up in Dokkum. Of all the places to encounter in a video game, that's the last I would have expected.
Backed the game since the beginning... didn't like the backer beta actually but the finished product is in such a state of awesomeness I can't stop playing. There are rough edges for sure and for sure we all think Julian should/could have made something that feels different from 2K XCOM but imo he took the best of XCOM and X-COM and UFO:AFTERMATH and gave birth to a game which gave me what I loved in all 3 previous series. And yes, free aiming is the master touch of this title for sure and a feature I suspect is going to be copied by many many games in the turn based genre to come.
"finished product"? you mean that game which is full of bugs and has a rediculously bad balancing is supposed to be "finished"?
@@Chaser1983 LOL! 50 hours in and I don't see the bugs you are talking about... check your computer and please pay for some anti-virus. Imbalanced?! LOL! I play on legend and I am having a blast... GIT GUD!
Don't shoot crabs at aquariums kids. It's not big or clever
This looks like it puts everything into the game that I felt was missing from X-Com. Might have to give it a shot
These enemies are terrors from the deep.
Why nobody noticed that? Maybe coz they disguised ocean aliens as crabs?
T'Leth is still rising to get us all!
This game is just getting better and better, though. The Year One edition is a nice upgrade, with better performance and better graphics rendering, for example.
Going to be awesome when Festering Skies comes out, because the amount of content is starting to be pretty nice, and there are still more DLC planned.
there's a weird thing when it comes to some super clean textures against really low quality one that tickles me, sometimes i'll think the game is beautifull, sometimes it feels like the old strategy games, i don't get why i used to think the old video i've watched about the game looked way better, was it downgraded during the development or anything like that ? : (
Is there save-scumming allowed (i.e. rolls aren't predetermined)?
Either way, thanks for this video. I've been fluctuating between super hyped and just on the fence. But it seems this game is a huge time sink, in order to get the most out of it. And that just doesn't fit my gaming lifestyle right now. I still may get it just to support Snapshot.
Man the manual aiming and AP system really makes me want the game, but Epic....
I actually found out it's on XGP.
10:18 ahhh an Ultima 8 reference
The few times I got the mouse bug I fixed it by clicking and then the mouse became stable.
Terror from the deep.
You talk about how you always wanted a strategy game that allowed you to creatively alter the landscape as if Silent Storm and Perimeter never existed.
I have not played them. But I will, if they come recommended?
@@rockpapershot
They are... Old. Quite damn old. Both were released in 2004.
But Silent Storm allowed you to literally shoot out small gaps in the walls. stick a gun through them and keep shooting. And one of the mechanics there was "shooting on sound". So if you have a gun, that doesn't have trouble penetrating walls, you could just lay down fire on the approximate location of the enemy. Also, it was quite weird semi-futuristic take on the alternative history of WWII.
Perimeter was more of a proper RTS, but one of the core features of the game - you could shape the map while you're playing. Have a mountain range in the way? Flat the mountains. Have a huge flat land, that's hard to defend? Make some artificial mountains! A whole lot of enemy buildings clamped together? Destroy the terrain right under them.
EDIT: Also, one some maps in Silent Storm or with some powerful weapons, you could tear down buildings like it's noone's business. That worked both ways. Some stray bullet hits explosives two stories under your sniper? Part of the building collapses, your sniper falls down, takes damage and now has no high ground. At all.
@@nemamiah7832 Sound great! Will check them out.
So long and thanks for all the fish.
If you like shooting up the environment, try the silent storm series. You'd be blasting floor, roofs and doors if you even think there's a guy there.
Yes, it has been recommended. Clearly need to give it a go.
sneek up to the door plant explosives, back away shoot door and have half the house destroyed
do you bases get attacked? was my most fave part of original xcom the tension trying to frantically defend a key position or completely lose it
Heard about this game today, I really wanna try it but I'll probably wait until they stomp out a few more bugs. I don't care about it being on Epic, it's worked perfectly for me for Borderlands 3 and Outer Worlds, but I still have PTSD about XCOM 2 bugs...
Not all shots land within the circle... seen plenty of videos where 15-25% of shots land outside the circle, even higher for heavy guns.
That shouldn't be so.
Every shot has a 95 percent chance to hit inside the big circle. 50 percent chance for the little one. That is something i remember from the dev blogs.
@@jyrilamminaho2539 No, it should be 100%/50% for the larger/smaller circles. That's what I heard in the most recent videos.
I was really hoping this one would have turned around more since the backer builds that made me get a refund a bit back. It's got a lot of neat ideas, but hopefully they'll have it figured out by the time the real release rolls around. Until then, You mentioned several mechanics early on that Xenonauts, and by extension, the utterly amazing X-Division Mod did years ago. Things like super satisfying, crushy vehicles, and in the mod's case, extreme flexibility with your movements. For anyone curious, the Xenonauts 2 folks have been taking some pointers for finding a middle ground between XDiv and the original XCOM feel, which was ultimately what got me super hyped for that one over this. Just saying, for anyone that missed it that feels bummed right now, give X-Division a try, it's amazing.
When you say original XCOM, do you mean, genuinely, XCOM, or the *original* X-Com?
@@ouroldhouse3674 I mean like X-Com with Final Mod Pack, with a few neat tweaks that could be considered comfortable to NewCOM. Stuff like being able to suppress with missed shots, using shields, getting group morale bonuses, tearing off armor with repeated shots, and having certain weapons shoot into an enemy's TUs (Shotguns and SMGs have a sort of Shock and Awe effect). It's basically an amalgamation of everything I've ever wanted in an XCOM game, though obviously tastes will vary. It's just an awesome mod that never really sits in one place too long before throwing something new into the mix.
@@CoffeePotato Yeah that sounds good.
@@ouroldhouse3674 It is, and probably would have much more attention if more folks had Xenonauts. For it's flaws, it's still a really solid XCOM game in it's own right. At least, now, with the Community Edition. The original release was a tad scary. Plus side of the whole situation there is that Xeno 2 seems to be actively trying to find the middle ground between the grim remix of XCOM of Xeno 1, and the complex sci fi soup of XDiv. So far it's promising, but still far from ready.
i dont experience any of those bugs. and it runs perfectly.. unlike xcom that has a issue with memory leaks and that sort... im still early into the game but its a great game :)
“The more you help a faction...” he says as he guns down a synedrion soldier
Well...he didnt specify *that* faction!
Is this game any better now regarding bugs and overall balance?
Call of Doory : Crab and Squid edition
I'll play it if it shows up on Game Pass
I must confess: While XCom is superior on a technical level, this one has waaaaay more soul. - I am absolutely idiosyncratic when it comes e.g. to the monotonous mission design, and the whole "marvel super hero" presentation attached to it, of the former. PP feels on one hand far more grounded, while it also looks more interesting from a strategic POV on the other.
- It will be quite interesting to see how Wasteland 3 compares when it comes out.
I don't think "idiosyncratic" means what you think it means. But I take your point, and I'll probably enjoy this one once they fix the bugs.
New X-coms are not superior on a technical level in any way, its just move to cover-shoot-occasional push.
Fortunately those bugs will probably be ironed out.
those poor crabs
I did really want to buy this game but the epic thing made my choice of not. Hopefully I will remember the game in a year when steam gets it.
They have literally the same game play mechanics mostly hah. I love both
Just played it today. I had to reload every soldier's gun before going to battle? The fuck? Freakin soldiers couldn't be trusted to take care of their own guns? Now THIS is micromanaging. Meanwhile you get half the option of the things you actually care about, like soldier customizations.
It's a poor man's xcom, what did you expect?
@@stickydude8921 like an xcom 2.5 or something? Hahah like i expected them to be at least as good as mutant year zero, gameplay-wise.
is there a alien side that you can play as?
I guess you could consider the disciples of Anu semi aliens being that they worship and can somewhat control the virus and it's mutations
Thats dispearing objects are sort of iriteiting. Even so fck cant hit the floor propeltly. I feel bad coz of them. And that with all time out in game? I understand clean is well, cleaner even better but LET THE MESS LET IT BE!
Muy interesante pero todavía ese juego pierde valor contra XCOM 2 por que su caracther customization es muy mala calidad y es imperdonable no tenga la cámara de acción si no mejoran eso ese juego no merece lo que cuesta , el me gusta al video lo bien explicado que muestras el video
I have HATE the "lairs". It is damn hard to visualize the lines of sight in the silly-ass terrain tiles they felt the need to shove into the otherwise good game. It literally killed the tactical game dead for me. I stopped playing at that point entirely.
I dunno man. This game looks like it has done more good than bad. I'm really liking the small gameplay improvements/differences it has with X-COM while still feeling like X-COM.
i see...
you are same as us player's when we see a siren....
when you see a siren at anytime shoot him first cause they fking destroy you with their mind control and 30 willpower
The problem is that the UI is absolute garbage. I'm baffled bc the one on display awhile ago that had a behemoth on the map was a very slick UI. This one looks cheap and lazy by comparison and that's something you really need to get right in any game but especially this type.
It's a Unity game... The Fisher Price game engine for cheap, lazy devs.
Will be getting on xbox, hopefully patched up nicely.
I'm just trying not to go insane waiting (also trying not to get too many spoilers)
This makes me want to play XCOM 2 with the 180 mods I'm using. 😁
The description of the XCOM action points was incorrect. They aren't just for Shooting and Movement
It's a shorthand to explain that they cover distinct phases and don't allow for the granular approach of PP.
@@rockpapershot But they don't cover distinct phases. Subject to skills and abilities a soldier may shoot twice for example.
I think this is a tiny bit nit-picky. The point made is that movement can't be divided into smaller steps as it can in PP.
@@rockpapershot Ah gotcha. I think I misunderstood what you meant by phases. I thought you meant that an action point was meant for shooting and one for movement. My bad!
@@20storiesunder No worries. I sometimes oversimplify to get to my point!
xcom with 40 pages of mods....
From GITS to Jedi....
To me, the poor sound design is a huge down to me
As a backer of the game I have to say this is an awesome review. I was just telling someone about the game and said almost the exact same things you did (minus the amazing fish puns and humor).
why everyone takes a fish joke on this game rather than take the crab it deserves
Maybe it’s how you hacked up the video but I do have to ask, how bad is the RNG? Is it just as bad as XCOM2?
The game is much more fair. When it spanks you hard, its usually your mistake. Pushing soldiers out with fatigue, not packing proper crab openers, etc.
I love it.