Phoenix Point: Year One Edition Free Download

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Phoenix Point Year One Edition Free Download Unfitgirl It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Phoenix Point came out on the Epic Store. Fast forward to today and developers Snapshot Games Inc. have released three installments of DLC, a metric ton of updates, graphical updates, new equipment, and even a rebuilt tutorial to help new players acclimate to the unforgiving tactical combat. Time to put our boot to some alien crustacean butt and see what’s new under the sun in Phoenix Point: Year One Edition. For those who skipped the Epic Store launch, Phoenix Point is a spiritual successor to X-COM: UFO Defense, a brilliant turn based tactical title that holds up to this day. In Phoenix Point, humanity is facing extinction having released a deadly virus (dubbed Pandoravirus) from the melting permafrost in the arctic. This virus immediately begins to mutate anything it touches, turning any creature into beasts straight out of any good H.P. Lovecraft novel. The year is now 2047, and seemingly all hope is lost. You are the leader of a secret group of soldiers called Phoenix Point who intend to fight back against the spreading Pandoravirus by any means necessary. As you take your fight to the enemy you’ll encounter three other factions who are also pushing back against the alien threat, but have wildly different ideas of what that looks like. The Disciples of Anu worship “the Dead God”, and believe that they can evolve humanity with limited exposure to the alien mist to allow them to “evolve” into their higher forms. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

In short, these people are cultists, but that doesn’t make their advancements any less viable or useful. Synedrion believes that technology is the key to dealing with the alien threat, but they intend to use their advanced tech to build a wall that can repel the mist. Since this hasn’t worked ever in the history of the world, it’s unlikely that this is the path, but their technology could be the key to rebuilding the dying planet. The last faction is New Jericho. New Jericho is a ragtag group of mercenaries and ex-military who are mounting a resistance with captured military and industrial gear left from the old world. Their ability to manufacture weapons and equipment are very useful in a war where resources are extremely scarce. Who you align with is entirely up to you, as are the consequences of alienating the others. If you’ve not picked up on it, Phoenix Point looks to provide you with a wealth of options, allowing you to pick your playstyle with alignments to any of the three competing factions. Do you align with one and use your combined might to raid the resources of the others? Do you try to straddle the fence and balance all three? No matter what you choose you’ll face an ever-evolving and dangerous foe that will stretch your tactical skills to the limit. One of the biggest changes to the X-COM formula is the addition of willpower.

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Willpower allows you to unleash special moves but also serves as a barometer of your soldier’s morale. The willpower system was meant to inject flexibility in the field, allowing you to “stretch” a soldier’s turn to allow them to take different actions than just move, shoot, power, or run. Instead, you could, as an example, run into the open for a better shot using one action, shoot using two action points, and then use one last point to dash back into cover. Similarly, you could use four action points to simply fire your pistol four times. Sniper rifles take three action points, so your options are more limited. Where willpower comes in is stretching beyond these action points. Expending a willpower point allows you to reduce that sniper rifle action down to two, granting some additional flexibility to reload, move, or take two shots with a pistol to finish off a nearby target. The hitch? Willpower doesn’t regenerate. Killing foes will restore some of your willpower, but the only real cure for tired soldiers is rest. Since the enemy can also take advantage of the willpower system, figuring out how best to manage this limited resource The issue at the launch of Phoenix Point a year ago was that there were a number of exploits for willpower. You could find loopholes that would allow a single sniper to kill everything that moved, wiping out the enemy in a single round. Most of these have been removed, thankfully, but a few remain. FINAL FANTASY IX

Once I got a handheld stunning device for capturing units, I found that I was able to use it without cost, slowly killing even the largest of enemies in a single turn. I’m sure more will be found by inquisitive gamers, but suffice it to say that it’s improved, but not quite “done”. There are a lot of balance improvements in the Year One Edition. While it’s still very possible to have an entire team wiped off the map by a tough encounter, the game has shifted a little bit towards sanity. I no longer felt like the game was cheating or setting me up to fail, I just felt like I was unprepared for the task at hand — a very welcome shift. Thankfully, enemies evolve a little slower now, so it gives you time to grow your team before you’ll have to change tactics. On the overworld portion of the game you have to use your Manticore troop carrier to jaunt around the world and investigate various points of interest. Before you had to find all of the Phoenix Point bases before you could clear them out and invest the resources to reactivate them. Now, those base locations are known. This helps balance out how quickly you can expand your footprint, which eases some of the boot-on-neck difficulty when the game launched a year ago. One of the things that Phoenix Point did very differently than its contemporaries is the use of “Free Aim”.

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Any time you line up a shot your troops will aim at center mass, but you also have the option to take control of the targeting reticule directly. Aiming with your mouse allows you to select individual body parts on your target. The reticule is split into an inner and outer ring. 100% of your bullets will land in the bounds of the outer ring, but at least 50% of them will hit the middle ring. Given that this can be the difference between disabling an enemy or just pissing it off, this becomes important. Whether this makes you feel like a master tactician or if it becomes tedious is entirely personal preference, but I am more the former than the latter. That said, the symbols in this system are utterly confusing. Are more arrows inside of the ring better? Less? What causes them to change? What’s going on? After 20 hours I still don’t know. Let’s talk about shooting the arms off critters for a second. Phoenix Point’s enemies, be they human or otherwise, are all made up of component parts. Vehicles have tires, turrets, armor, and more, and people have arms, legs, head, torso, etc. Each part has a purpose — movement, holding a gun (some are two handed), perception for aiming (head) etc. What makes Phoenix Point unique is that it takes this formula, which has been present in a lot of other turn based tactical games, and tries to adapt it. FINAL FANTASY VIII – REMASTERED 

Enemies you fight will notice that you’ve decided to try to shoot off their heads and might evolve a massive chitinous plate over their skull. Maybe you like to pick their legs off — expect armor there too. It turns the enemies into puzzles, especially the bosses, requiring some positioning, forethought to bring the right gear, and a little planning and tactics in the field. Is it perfect? No, but it does mean you can’t rely on the same tactics throughout the entire game, and that’s worth the occasional missed shot that you know should have torn off an arm, but instead landed squarely on a massive shield instead. The only downside in having a system that relies heavily on modification of an enemy through swapping their parts is that it can make the foe roster feel shallow. Some say its a spiritual successor to the original XCOM and some say it’s just a complete clone that offers nothing new but while I agree that there are some similarities it also holds it’s own. Phoenix Point isn’t just about going into a mission all guns blazing and taking a little bit of cover every now and then. Taking cover and relying on your wits and knowledge of your surroundings is what’s gonna keep you alive. Phoenix Point gives you a new twist to the strategy and turn-based system of usual games in its genre. It of cause offers the usual tropes that we all know and love in these types of games but it also gives you a little hint of an FPS.

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As with the usual just click and shoot at an enemy you also have the option to take a more precision aim where you can target an aliens limbs to affect their movement or aiming for the torso some they bleed out over time. One great feature that Phoenix Point adds is factions. There are three factions to take into consideration and each faction offer their own missions with rewards that are special to that race but showing allegiance to one action causes friction between the others. Rewards can vary between resources to technology and even recruit soldiers that you can’t recruit anywhere else. Faction missions can be fun as they can be taking out an alien camp or getting some vital information and even attacking another factions camp to steal an aircraft. Lets talk aliens shall we and they don’t disappoint. There are so many and what makes Phoenix Point stand out is that aliens mutate and evolve over time from interchangeable body parts to change in size and shape. If you ever lose a mission then that alien species will use what technology and weaponry you used against you in future missions so the more missions you fail then the harder the game gets in later stages. You have the standard front line species that are just cannon fodder and pose no real threat and then you have The Arthron with its armoured shell and ability to put down a shield and also the giant Chirons that are huge and fill some of the screen. Fireworks Mania

Your Phoenix Point operatives don’t just have weapons and gadgets to get them through a mission they can also call upon armoured vehicles and tactical drones to scout an area which is a great thing to do so that you get a good idea of the map and what enemies you are dealing with on that mission. Just like you being able to target a certain alien body part, your opponents can also do the same thing which can be a pain as they tend to aim for your weapons so you are left defenceless. When Phoenix Point first released a year ago I will go and say that it was a mess with bugs and glitches around every corner but now with this being the Year One Edition you can tell the developers have put their heart and soul in this because now it feels and looks a different game. Bugs and crashes have been fixed and running on max settings I experienced nothing to hinder my game. Maybe the audio could do with a touch more work as it just doesn’t give you feeling that you’re against a treat that wants to take over the world. There is a little eerie music but not enough in my opinion but everything else is great from the sounds of gunfire to an alien getting blown up. Longevity After completing the game once you will never do everything there is to do in one sitting because as there are three factions you have three different endings and then there are other missions in the game you can easily miss or just get sidetracked by something else.

The monstrous threat known as Pandorans appear as mutant hybrids of sea life, insects, and humans. Their designs are equally creepy and terrifying, and one particular thing I love about them is that they never lose that monstrous presence, even when they inevitably adapt firearm usage. Fighting the Pandorans never feels like taking on humans with an alien skin. They constantly evolve all game with new species and several variants of existing types. Those variants matter a ton and must be fought in different ways as different limbs or body parts will have new abilities or various amounts of armor plating. Your tactics will have to change alongside them and an interesting thing to note is that the variants don’t necessarily mean they replace the previous versions. You will often encounter a variety of enemies pulled from the entire roster of evolutions that the Pandoran’s have reached and that keeps battles against them fairly fresh. I would’ve liked to have seen a few more front-running types but Pandorans are far from the only foe you have to contend with in Phoenix Point. It never truly becomes stale, even after multiple playthroughs. Phoenix Point is not the only faction attempting to repel the Pandorans. The world is populated with other groups and factions that operate with or without you. They research tech, build bases, and launch attacks against the monsters, and eventually each other.

Add-ons (DLC):Phoenix Point: Year One Edition