It is not just that. I don't know how long you have played but a bit later when you got access to more weapons and modules you want to keep your intereceptors in base and equip them with right weapons before you send them out. And you don't really know what kind of weapons enemies have until you fight them a bunch and learn this (you only see details of their weapons once you get to first Engage/Disengage screen before the battle).I called it banal because it all just boils to cooldown management. Personally, I hate such thing in a game that was supposed to be turn based.They are not banal, you can get easily owned in the air. But main change of air stuff is that your resources are now more stretched out as you need to defend vs this as well. And new Myrmidon enemy is nasty in the evolved forms. It an enemy that if you ignore thinking you can deal with it later it will devastate your squad. Reminds me of UFO's Crysallids. Crysallids one shot your guys, these little fuckers 2 shoot them.The new aircraft battles are banal shit boring. Don't see much value added by the whole behemoth thing.
It is not just that. I don't know how long you have played but a bit later when you got access to more weapons and modules you want to keep your intereceptors in base and equip them with right weapons before you send them out. And you don't really know what kind of weapons enemies have until you fight them a bunch and learn this (you only see details of their weapons once you get to first Engage/Disengage screen before the battle).I called it banal because it all just boils to cooldown management. Personally, I hate such thing in a game that was supposed to be turn based.They are not banal, you can get easily owned in the air. But main change of air stuff is that your resources are now more stretched out as you need to defend vs this as well. And new Myrmidon enemy is nasty in the evolved forms. It an enemy that if you ignore thinking you can deal with it later it will devastate your squad. Reminds me of UFO's Crysallids. Crysallids one shot your guys, these little fuckers 2 shoot them.The new aircraft battles are banal shit boring. Don't see much value added by the whole behemoth thing.
Each weapon has different aiming mechanics (4 in all) and there are a couple of different damage types. Then it also matters the range of your weapon and then the cooldown as well.
Air combat is most similar to UFO 1994 and certainly more complex than Firaxis Xcom. And even Xenonauts does not have turn based air combat.
You're probably better of without it.So, is it worth the addition? I got the Year One version and I'm about to start playing it but I'm not sure if I should get the last expansion or not. Comments?
When you start a new game you choose which DLCs will be active in it. You can disable Festering Skies.Can I mod out the air combat? I never liked it in these games and this one seems to be specially unfun.
*turn-based
That said turn-based air combat is pretty rare in games.
There's ancient Flight Commander 2 and beyond that I got nothing.
What if I want the content besides the air combat?When you start a new game you choose which DLCs will be active in it. You can disable Festering Skies.Can I mod out the air combat? I never liked it in these games and this one seems to be specially unfun.
Then you are out of luck.What if I want the content besides the air combat?When you start a new game you choose which DLCs will be active in it. You can disable Festering Skies.Can I mod out the air combat? I never liked it in these games and this one seems to be specially unfun.
It's pretty good, but not Battle Brothers, Templar Battleforce or Troubleshooter -tier, if you're looking for current-ish tactical game.252 pages and I cant get a bead on whether this game sucks or not
Part of the Epic vs Apple lawsuit documents currently ("MM" indicates how much Epic paid for the exclusivity).
Not sure if posted. Epic Games paid 11 million for Phoenix Point.
You're probably better of without it.So, is it worth the addition? I got the Year One version and I'm about to start playing it but I'm not sure if I should get the last expansion or not. Comments?
I'm not saying its bad, but from what I've seen aircombat adds relatively little to game besides some busywork, additional resource sink and even more story missions to a game that already has quite a lot story set pieces in it.You're probably better of without it.So, is it worth the addition? I got the Year One version and I'm about to start playing it but I'm not sure if I should get the last expansion or not. Comments?
That bad, huh? Could you elaborate? What makes it not worth it?
Are you sure?, I find this claim extremely weird.
- That would have been a very bad deal for EPIC.
- According to the SG reported figures I have found, the number would have been below $0.6MM https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/phoenix-point-declining-player-base/13234/314?u=osiyeza
So... Is this coming from an actual source or is nothing but made up information? Can anybody point to the alleged document this information is in? Or the actual source of the claim?
- I looked the documentation on the case, published here by the United States District Court Northern District of California: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/cases-e-filing/cases-of-interest/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc/ . It is obvious that the posted image does not come from the documents of the case, but that hardly matters. I have searched through the files and I have not find any specific claim about Epic Deals, or any reference at all to Phoenix Point, Snapshot Games or Julian Gollop in any of the documents. There really aren’t actually specific numbers on the documents, as those seem to have been redacted. Furthermore, the only actual game I have seen mentioned in the documents is Fortnite.
Are you sure?, I find this claim extremely weird.
- That would have been a very bad deal for EPIC.
- According to the SG reported figures I have found, the number would have been below $0.6MM https://forums.snapshotgames.com/t/phoenix-point-declining-player-base/13234/314?u=osiyeza
So... Is this coming from an actual source or is nothing but made up information? Can anybody point to the alleged document this information is in? Or the actual source of the claim?
- I looked the documentation on the case, published here by the United States District Court Northern District of California: https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/cases-e-filing/cases-of-interest/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc/ . It is obvious that the posted image does not come from the documents of the case, but that hardly matters. I have searched through the files and I have not find any specific claim about Epic Deals, or any reference at all to Phoenix Point, Snapshot Games or Julian Gollop in any of the documents. There really aren’t actually specific numbers on the documents, as those seem to have been redacted. Furthermore, the only actual game I have seen mentioned in the documents is Fortnite.
DX-3399 Redacted.pdf
So I checked, asked from the origin of the document, cross referenced it, and realized it does NOT come from the official exhibits of the case. The information is public for anyone to see, the document is not listed or accesible in the party exhibits and demonstratives used on the trial, it is just not there. If the document does not come from the "Epic Games, Inc. v. Apple Inc." public files where from? Does anybody know?
https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...rid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=132#post514627297so that comes from the 1 document uploaded and hastily removed that i never caught live, DX-3399 Redacted. it's got orders of magnitude more info on how EGS operates than all the other documents combined, 222 slides, 50MB, from 24/09/2020
there should be only one copy of 3399 and the judge made an order that marked it as sealed (a bit late mind)
They didn't have time to go into skill nerfs. That is planned for a bigger future patch although we got no clue what exactly are they looking to change. We only know they are looking at a wider range of skills to nerf or change.