Phoenix Point

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>>15469874
Here's a pic of the VTOL thing. Looks kinda Starcraft-y in the sense of seeming ramshackle and heavily used, but that makes sense in a postapocalyptic environment.

So is he trying to show up Terror from the Deep, the X-Com he didn't work on, or what? Maybe he's just doing something different from the new XCOMs.

>>15470038
There is also a tank and stuff.

>>15470467
I think he wants to do Terror from the Deep right this time. From what I heard, Microprose was under some very severe time constraints, which meant the TftD was more or less a reskinned X-COM with a lot of bugs. Now that Gollop has plenty of time and money (he's already been working on this for a year and he's got 250k dollars out of 500k in about a day), he has a chance to really do a Lovecraftian strategy game well. He hasn't even released the stretch goals yet, I wonder what those will be. I hope modding is one.

>>15469874
>This looks pretty badass, anyone else thinking of backing?

Could you be anymore obvious? GTFO

>>15470467
It looks like it also is expanding on some of the ideas of XCOM Apocalypse with the other human factions and shit

And of course there's an alien worshiping cult

I'd only vaguely heard about this before, but it being TftD-ish has gotten me interested. I sunk an unreasonably large number of hours into that game and really liked the underwater/coastal aesthetic. It's not something you see too often.

>>15470495
;_; Yeah, I know linking to stuff like this is kinda unseemly, but I remember /m/ had fun XCOM threads and I figured folks around here would be as interested as I am in the tanks and exoskeletons we've seen so far.

>>15470499
Yeah, building on Apocalypse was also another thing he wanted to do. Diplomacy seems to be a pretty big part of the game, like you can either trade or steal for tech, get involved with inter-faction wars the AI starts, things like that.

>>15470503
Yeah. I haven't played that much TftD but from what I recall it was very scary, and the original UFO: Enemy Unknown could get pretty scary too. The underwater missions really got across a sense of dread and unease.

>>15470038
I have no idea what's what on this thing.

>>15470515
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuVXz4IEGnM

Unsettling is what TftD did better than any game I've played before or since. Picture this music while you deploy a bunch of hapless schlubs with harpoon guns in a murky deep filled with rocks and old oil rigs. There's no contact for several turns, just the occasional footsteps over sand or squelching over coral, and then a pulser flies out of the dark and takes out four guys (who you'd had semi-close to try to have them cover each other). Half your team's dead and you don't even know what you're fighting.

If Gollop can capture _that_, it'll be a hell of a thing. I love TftD, but interface shenanigans make it hard to go back to. Something in that ballpark with a modern UI would be fantastic.