Meanwhile, multiple factions of humans will pursue their own objectives as they compete with players for limited resources in the apocalyptic world. Players start the game in command of a lone base, Phoenix Point, and face a mix of strategic and tactical challenges as they try to save themselves and the rest of humankind from annihilation by the alien threat.īetween battles, the aliens adapt through accelerated, evolutionary mutations to the tactics and technology which players use against them. Phoenix Point is set in 2047 on an Earth in the midst of an alien invasion, with Lovecraftian horrors on the verge of wiping out humanity. Phoenix Point is intended to be a spiritual successor to the X-COM series that had been originally created by Snapshot Games head Julian Gollop during the 1990s. It was released on December 3, 2019, for macOS and Microsoft Windows, for Stadia on January 26, 2021, and Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on October 1, 2021. Phoenix Point is a strategy video game featuring a turn-based tactics system that is developed by Bulgaria-based independent developer Snapshot Games. The tech tree images will be included with the release, but start planning your galactic domination now!Įdited by Phoenix Rising, 21 December 2008 - 06:50 AM.Microsoft Windows, macOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Stadia
The rule of thumb is that research is time-consuming and upgrades are expensive. Regardless of how many there are for a certain unit, they should total to around 50k for everything. The initial price of upgrades has been lowered, but the step has been increased to compensate. Research costs are now based on the tech level instead of the unit cost, while build times are based on class.
I've reworked both the prices and build times for research and upgrades to make it more accessible in this release. Between the two options, there are nearly infinite unit possibilities. Upgrades function the same as before and can be thought of as a third dimension to the tech tree. In a normal game, Level 0 represents your starting units and Level 1 represents the beginning research. Rather than viewing a ship's placement as a sign of its launch date, consider it to be the period in which the ship came into widespread use with the faction. I have purposely designed these with the intent of corresponding to a certain period within our timeline: these levels are directly used for both the starting tech level setting for Galactic Conquest and the station upgrade level in Skirmish. The new tech tree is organized into levels, which are an indication of how much prerequisite research is required to unlock a given unit. Similar lineages are aligned roughly vertically, while units generally get bigger going from left to right. No longer is one line of research confined within a class each individual unit has its own prerequisites, as illustrated by the arrows. Just in time for the release, I present to you the tech tree 2.0 for Phoenix Rising v1.1: I've only completed it within the last few days. There needs to be a tech tree 2.0.įor over the past four months, this is what I've been working on behind the scenes. There needs to be more flexibility, choice, and authenticity in how research can be conducted. Notably, it can be temporally inconsistent between like depths ( Republic-class/ Reef Home-class) and it has problems dealing with units in the same class that historically launched in the same period ( Venator-class/ Victory-class). Although superior to synchronous tech levels, the current class-based, linear tech tree has always had its flaws.
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