KickStarter Phoenix Point - the new game from X-COM creator Julian Gollop

[ArchAngel]

It's a bit like Cyberpunk 2077, or even the PoE games, or maybe even you could say Wasteland 2. Not the game we were promised and/or expected, so there was a lot of nerdrage and disappointment on release, but it's turned out to be alright for what it is. Not stellar, but fun enough and worth playing.

All these things are a lesson in (from the dev side) overhyping and (from the player side) managing expectations.

At release it was pretty bad. Buggy, barely working, completely unbalanced.

 

[Serious_Business]

As someone who didn't follow a lick of the hype and didn't play on release either, I like the game overall, with no special negative feelings. A part of me might one day think of it as a modern classic, but I'm not sure ; with only about 50hours in it's hard to say (you need hundred of hours for these types of games, and I can't do them all), but anyway I can say that it's worth it for 50h (if not two thousand). What I do like a lot about it, as I think I might have said elsewhere, is the lore and the atmosphere. I just gobble that Lovecraftian shit up everytime, but yeah, it was very good at making the aliens feel alien.

 

[ArchAngel]

I went back after 6 months to try the TftV mod again, guys were busy and it looks more and more polished each time. Now it also has bigger changes to vehicles as part of it and some options to choose starting base or something like that is coming out very soon.

 

[Fargus]

So far i'm liking the game.

The enemies are pretty original in looks, i was kinda surprised how enemies that are infection in nature learned to use human weapons. I especially like the gangsta squid side gripping a pistol like a nigger.

Love the bodypart targeting.

Factions are pretty cool, i'm playing as Anu race traitor to produce some human squids later.

Soldier customization sucks but everybody is wearing helmet anyway.

What do i need to do to get an aircraft capable of carrying 8 soldiers? I used to have that at the start of the game then my transport got replaced with "The Gift" after crappy aerial combat tutorial.

 

[Skinwalker]

Is it shit?

 

[luj1]

Could have been decent (?) but they changed the UI and look of the game too much (for the worse)

 

[PanteraNera]

Is it shit?

If you haven't played the Backer Builds, which had a lot more tactical & strategical depth to them, haven't followed the development, especially the interviews around it's Kickstarter, than I guess it is decent.

It could have been so much more, both in setting, as well in gameplay mechanics. But mid development they scrapped most of the original ideas and remade most assets to look more like NuXCOM and also streamlined the mechanics.