So let's get started!Ĭombat is, predictably, an enormously important part of Phoenix Point, and there's a lot of complexity and layering of systems going on with every single encounter. I've split the tips into groups of five, each of which covers a different major aspect of Phoenix Point: combat, the Geoscape, diplomacy, and general strategy.
The below tips are designed to prepare new Phoenix Point players for these central tenets of the game. If you're a veteran of XCOM, you'll find many familiar touchstones but also a surprising number of innovations which may sweep the rug out from under your feet at first.
Phoenix Point is a tough old game that takes a great many cues from its spiritual predecessor, X-Com (and, by extension, the revived XCOM series of recent years), but then goes several steps further in a great many ways.
Phoenix Point has arrived at last! From Julian Gollop, creator of the original X-COM, comes a new turn-based tactics game which tasks players with reviving the defunct Phoenix Project to save humanity after the emergence of a deadly alien virus that mutates human and animal alike to wipe out all of humankind.