Zero Company - Star Wars XCom
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Gavinmad
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According to the recent skill-up video, the developers have a system implemented where it takes stock of your team after every battle and customizes a bit of dialogue to fit whoever's survived, and make a few references to whoever died.
I don't think long-term the story will actually change, it'll just be some references to the extras that rotate in and out.
I don't think long-term the story will actually change, it'll just be some references to the extras that rotate in and out.
Cybsled
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Makes sense - they'll probably have some static characters for story consistency and then you can swap the player controlled shit interchangeably in cutscenes/etc
Gavinmad
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Unless it's some tricky wordplay there's been a strong implication that you only ever get the one force using character which should be interesting.
Of course 'perma-death' means something very different in modern XCom-alikes compared to what it meant in the original games. Even on commander/legendary the only time soldiers are likely to die is during the early game meatgrinder.
Of course 'perma-death' means something very different in modern XCom-alikes compared to what it meant in the original games. Even on commander/legendary the only time soldiers are likely to die is during the early game meatgrinder.
I don't mind losing "fodder" so to speak, but if there are story based characters they will always survive with the plot armor called save scumming. I'm not missing out on potential story based stuff (and potential missions) in a story heavy game. Especially if the story is good. With September and October being as stacked as they are with new / 1.0 releases I won't have time to play multiple runs. These games usually take quite a while to finish as well due to the nature of the combat.
Qhue
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Yahtzee waaay back in the day was famous for pointing out how much games suck. Though that was 20 years ago now.... Christ I'm old.
spronk
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looks really good, i haven't bought a single new game this year (maybe even last) and would be very tempted by this but i'm on vacation next week out of country so doesn't really make sense. will definitely pick this up on PC when i'm back and it goes on sale and a few patches though
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Fadaar
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Cybsled
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A few streamers have early access. Was watching the tutorial mission - between skirmishes you can WASD in third person behind the shoulder to move the squad through the mission at times. Effects seem nice for gunfire/explosions.
Hard to tell from the tutorial alone - I know xcom had pretty big maps to move around in even though you ultimately got bottlenecked to specific spots to fight
Hard to tell from the tutorial alone - I know xcom had pretty big maps to move around in even though you ultimately got bottlenecked to specific spots to fight
