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

[passerby]

They went from gritty and realistic artstyle to some Starcraft 2 cartoon/plastic toy look.

 

[PanteraNera]

 

[Ivan]

"buy our game to pay respect"

 

[RickOmbo]

Great game. Going to play its definitive edition with all dlc stuff, in two years or so.

 

[razvedchiki]

Hows gollop retirement project going?picked the vacation resort yet?

 

[Shog-goth]

Great game. Going to play its definitive edition with all dlc stuff, in two years or so.

At this pace, in two years or so we'll play the beta, maybe...

Disclaimer:

Spoiler

 

[luj1]

They went from gritty and realistic artstyle to some Starcraft 2 cartoon/plastic toy look.

Yeah, its horrible. Guess they took lessons from the team making Copper Elysium

 

[Space Satan]

nuXcom is superior because people made porn with their models. I can't imagine(of course I can) people using Steam film maker with Phoenix Point monsters porn. I is a measure of game popularity in 2019.

 

[PanteraNera]

 

[thesheeep]

I choose you, Mutog!
Tail bash!

 

[Grotesque]

"We've got something big coming at E3. Here's just a little piece. We'll post the rest on the run-up to the reveal. Can you put them together? 1/16"


this shit again?

 

[samuraigaiden]

this thing must be bleeding money left and right

How many people were involved in their previous game Chaos Reborn?

Chaos Reborn Credits
Julian Gollop
Director/Game Designer

Dimitar Dimitrov
Producer

Sergey Georgiev
Lead Programmer

Borislav Bogdanov
Lead Artist

Stoiko Todorov
Programmer

Svetoslav Petrov
Artist

 

[PanteraNera]

The build we show at E3 won't be too much different to BB4

What?!
4 more months of development, 2 1/2 months since BB4. Release September (probably not earlier than the 30th).
Either they scrapped a lot of content/features, or another delay.

Oh boy, curious how that turns out. Especially since I really liked BB3 and 4, while the later hasn't added as much as I hoped it would (or as one would assume with an September 2019 release in mind).

Also:

There won't be a public beta

Just to put this into perspective, the game is still pre-alpha (before alpha) in a time frame of four months they want to get from there to beta than goldmaster?
They never shown on any gameevents an more advanced build than the current Backer Builds they had and as it seems the same will happen with E3 as well.

But do not fear:

We’ve got a very good marketing manager now. Used to be Obsidian’s guy. We’ve got plans. No need to fear.

So we are in for something like this:

I think that is not quite as catchy as Iggy Pop.

 

[Thane Solus]

So thats why US destroyed Ukraine, they needed more cheap labor for Gollop retirement fund. Its all makes sense now!

 

[Shog-goth]

What?!
4 more months of development, 2 1/2 months since BB4. Release September (probably not earlier than the 30th).
Either they scrapped a lot of content/features, or another delay.

By now, almost everything about this project has become a travesty. What a joke.

 

[Grotesque]

Lol, retards thinking that 4 months is/should be something from a programming point of view.

 

[udm]

Perfect time for an overused meme!

Paul Neurath: Shit looks good boys, we're ready to go from alpha to launch!
Julian Gollop: Hold my beer, chaps.

 

[Shog-goth]

Lol, retards thinking that 4 months is/should be something from a programming point of view.

Hey, at least they can add more PADS!

 

[Grotesque]

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...project&term=The Refuge: Terror from the Deep

 

[luj1]

I used to really look forward to playing this game, but it's a shame how much it changed visually and stylistically.

I mean how do you get from this Doom/Hellgate London look...




... to this Pokemon shit?





From this color palette and characters...

... to this plastic G.I. Joe look?






How do you get from this clean UI....

... to this Overwatch/The Division clusterfuck?

EDIT: Looking at this as a fan, how can I not be disappointed? I'm not even a backer, but I can imagine how they might feel. This game is unrecognizable.

 

[Mazisky]

indeed they need to keep the gritty\horror art, otherwise it looks like a budget version of Xcom 2.

Since during the development till now the game started to look more and more like a X2 clone.

Don't get me wrong, i love Xcom 2 but then why i should play this over it?

 

[lightbane]

Blame greed, incompetence, and Epic.

 

[mwnn85]

Oh dear that looks like absolute shite
If they wanted some sort of nimble, animal/beast/beastrider unit then you just "take inspiration" from Kroot Hounds - Dark Crusade was easily the best DoW expansion.
What you don't do is mash together a Rhino, Snake, Eagle and Hammerhead Shark and stick a boulder on the end of it's tail.

It's looking like it'll be another slim year...
Blood Fresh Supply hasn't fully delivered. This is looking worse every time I check up on it. Battletech was/is crap as well.
On the plus side we got some more Battle Brothers DLC and Underrail might get it's expansion eventually.
Pretty poor when the highlight of the year are old Blizzard games @ GOG.
Bannerlord is still MIA.

 

[luj1]

I mean the transformation this game has had is quite uniform across every segment. Whether it's creature design, character design, color palette, whether it's from an isometric perspective, world overview, third person...

Third-person perspective (VATS thing) before...

... VATS thing after. Now it's legit a different game, almost resembling Team Fortress/Fallout 76.






World (?) overview before...

... world overview after. Is this a theme for the iPhone?

Some kind of an airport brochure? These are some pretty drastic transformations.

 

[Latelistener]

These are some pretty drastic transformations.

Somewhere here the PR guy said that the art was changed to reflect the writing better.