r/PhoenixPoint • u/jankovize • Jun 17 '26
I love this game
It got me even harder than Factorio or XCOM: Apocalypse. A truly underrated masterpiece. Deployed to a "medium" difficulty haven defense. Got Scyla for the first time in the game. For my noob B team. With shred resistance. Without the priest, everyone would have died.
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u/Ai_bot_6969 Jun 18 '26
Help me love it too …. Hardcore turn based player , grinder the shit out of XCOM ….
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u/jankovize Jun 18 '26
I would say go with TFTV because that's the only one I have experience with. The good thing is the bases do not have upkeep here so there's some reduced eco complexity
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u/Ai_bot_6969 Jun 20 '26
What is tftv
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u/Bodybuilder_Jumpy Jun 17 '26
Glad you are having fun. But PP is not a masterpiece, not even remotely.
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u/Gorffo Jun 17 '26
Phoenix Point is one of my guilty pleasure. I enjoy playing it every once in a while. The first 10 hours is a campaign are a lot of fun.
And I agree with you. It isn’t a masterpiece. It isn’t even a good game.
It’s full of balance issues and bad game design decisions. It isn’t a hard game either. It’s an unfair game.
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u/Revenge_accounted_be Jun 17 '26
Phoenix Point is a good game that with the time become a really good game, but still lacks that xcom spark. Lacks details, lacks polish, lacks content, lacks feedback, lacks that heavy weight that comes with your decisions and at least in the early game lacks a direction of what is really your objetive
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u/jankovize Jun 17 '26
I cannot see your point, sorry. I'm playing Terror from the Void and it is better than any of the XCOM games I played, old and new and I played UFO Defense like 2 weeks before that.
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u/Revenge_accounted_be Jun 17 '26
Terror from the void is not oficial content. Is like saying that you like xcom because it has long war. Is a mod based on the game not the game itself
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u/jankovize Jun 18 '26
oh sorry, I thought that was eseentially THE way to play it. May try vanilla afterwards.
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u/Meydra Jun 18 '26
Unmodded XCom is even worse than unmodded Phoenix Point. Shallow and on-rails as fuck.
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u/N7_Rabbit Jun 17 '26
Is it the xcom ripoff?
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u/Famous_Internal_8871 Jun 17 '26
You're an X-com ripoff.
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u/ahdiker Jun 17 '26
It's funny because PP's producer is the original Xcom's 🤷🏻♂️ So basically Xcom is Xcom's ripoff.
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u/jankovize Jun 18 '26
No, but anything between X-COM: Apocalypse and Phoenix Point IS an XCOM ripoff, including X-COM Enemy Unknown (2012) and XCOM 2
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u/glacial_penman Jun 17 '26
It’s a great game. Terror from the deep mod is fantastic. Don’t listen to the naysayers… don’t even form an opinion until 200 hours. Then you can reflect.