Good information, mates: you’ll get to go exterior and see the solar this summer time, as a result of Phoenix Point has been delayed once more. The new turn-based techniques ’em up directed by Julian Gollop, the co-creator of ye olde unique X-COM games, was beforehand delayed to June 2019 and now Gollop says it’ll be right here in September. The delay is for the same old cause: as a result of they need to make it higher. And hey, this implies we are able to escape the siren music of battling terrors from the deep this summer time, then Phoenix Point will probably be ready for us when the climate turns.
“Even though the game is on track to be content-complete much sooner, the extra time will give us the chance to test and polish the gameplay much more extensively, and I think that the end result will be well worth it,” Gollop stated in saying the delay.
Apologising for pushing it again once more, he added that this additional time “will help the game live up to your expectations.” If they’ll afford to do that, peachy. And provided that the game has been partially funded by a Kickstarter, expectations are an enormous concern – and potential level of backfire.
Phoenix Point, to refresh your reminiscence, is a turn-based techniques game about managing squads of troopers battling mutant monsters melding all types of wildlife. That’s not only a backstory to justify cool crabmen (and to provide a crabqueen tits), because the enemy will mutate throughout the marketing campaign in response to your techniques, rising new diversifications to counter you.
Our boy Brendan performed a preview chunk final 12 months, and got here away saying “Phoenix Point is so much like XCOM it scares me.” Yes, Gollop might have co-created ye olde X-COM games, however he’s additionally made clear Phoenix Point’s debt of gratitude to the fashionable XCOM reboots by Firaxis. Fine by me, friend-o.
September it’s.
