That is actually good, if the game does well they will be able to afford to fix the bugs and UI issues and people will make mods for it that make it better for people that do not consider nuXcom the top of the TB genre.
You forget you can create your own Mercs. You are not required to used fixed characters. Open world is also not that much different than how Xcom works, at least old UFO. It only lacks base building and research stuff but needing to scavenge things during missions, and options you have to do between missions is also kind of similar.
XCOM clones are called like that because they have XCOM combat, fighting is 95% of what you'll be doing in these games so it defines how the game feels, everything else is just fluff. This game's combat is 10x closer to XCOM than to JA2.
Nah, PP is way less NuXcom than this game. Only art style in PP is kind of similar to nuXcom and soldiers get special perks, the rest is pretty old school. It even has full bullet simulation unlike this game.
If you bought it on Steam just activate official mod devs released on day 1 LOL
That is not correct. Xcom had very abstract boardgamey shooting, this doesn't. It's not perfect, but it is simulating the ballistics. If calling this Xcom, you might as well call Phoenix Point Xcom.
It is really not simulating anything. It is straight hit chance roll and if you miss that roll you miss character completely and at best the bullet can hit something behind although that happens rarely. Phoenix Point is actually simulating it.
Well in good news the writing is very cheesy and non-PC (in a good way).
Initiating combat in this game is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in a tactical game*.
So, like most non-retards, you think in a turn-based game, you could toggle pause to give orders, slowly sneak your team up to the enemy, get behind cover, and start blasting.
No. That's for brainlets. Obviously you have to manage your entire team in real-time, including aiming with their fiddly ass system, try to get your guys in position without being seen, and then try to take potshots at the enemy, or even melee knife someone.
This essentially removes so many tactical advantages you could have otherwise had, and it makes combat really gamey instead of simulationist. At least in JA2 it was acceptable because the enemy didn't scatter behind cover with their free turn.
I can't decide if I'm impressed that they actually expected the player to run Starcraft-tier actions per minute to micro their squad (with the worst UI I've seen in a while), of if someone just was really stupid.
The best way to start combat is probably just to set up an overwatch trap and wait for someone to step into range.
*I will however, add the caveat that like a real man, I ignored the tutorial to learn the game organically. So if I'm being a retard and there's some easy way to actually toggle pause on the tactical map.... I missed it. Judging from the complaints on steam however, it doesn't seem like there is for the launch version.
