PHOENIX POINT UPDATE XBOX PS4
PHOENIX POINT UPDATE XBOX PC

'Through this mechanic there are benefits, namely the fact you're able to research and develop this completely new class of soldier, which is really cool because it uses a whole bunch of different alien abilities which had previously been used against you.'Ĭorrupted Horizons also introduces a new monster which, well, let's just say it's pretty tough, not least because it's evolved forms can spread corruption pretty damn rapidly. 'It all becomes a bit of a race to find the cure, and you need to work out how you can actually do it.'

'It's a bit of a Lovecraftian idea, where there's this creeping mental corruption degradation it feels like it's impossible to escape from, and when you go into these areas where you can become mentally corrupted, your squad's going to suffer,' Gollop adds.

PHOENIX POINT UPDATE XBOX PS4

With Saber focusing on getting Phoenix Point ready on PS4 and Xbox One, and with PS5 and Xbox Series X incarnations on the horizon, Gollop and his core team were able to work on Phoenix Point's fourth and latest portion of DLC - Corrupted Horizons, which, alongside the prior three DLC instalments, comes with the game's console edition.

PHOENIX POINT UPDATE XBOX PC

It's more common for independent and smaller scale studios to crowdfund PC games, given the typical scale of developing games for current-gen consoles, and Gollop is ever-grateful to Snapshot's sister studio, Saber Interactive in Minsk. Like Chaos Reborn before it, Phoenix Point was also crowdfunded prior to development, which meant much of its initial player-base was PC players. So, yes, we quite shamelessly copied them on that or at least tried to match the quality of what they did there.' Point of praise 'You also always need an overview of the battlefield working, so there's a lot of inspiration there from the way they approached building things and presentation, the way some of the interface works, the fact you can see quite clearly where a character can move within a turn and things like that.

The camera views and camera shots have these sort-of behind-the-shoulder views, so you need to make sure that graphically you can support that level of detail while still retaining this overall top-down view clarity that you get as a typical strategy game.' Obviously, it has a fully 3D interactive environment with detailed models. We looked at some of the UI and presentation things they did and tried to match it, at least in terms of the way it works or in terms of the visual fidelity.

'In terms of being inspired by Firaxis and what they're doing with XCOM. It's great to have got the porting done, it will reach a wider audience there, and it's also great that it's on Game Pass, of course, because anybody subscribed will be able to get the best version of the game including all of its DLC. 'Even given the fact that it's a pretty hardcore sort of strategy game, it still works on console. 'I've always wanted the game to reach as wide an audience as possible,' says Gollop. Granted the success of Chaos Reborn meant Snapshot was always likely to continue making turn-based strategy games, but it was the tangential success of the newly evolved X-COM series, now rebranded as simply XCOM, which guided Gollop and his studio's next move.

It follows on from the developer's 2015 turn-based tactical role-playing game Chaos Reborn, and, by Gollop's own admission, wouldn't exist if not for Firaxis' slant on X-COM. Phoenix Point, for the uninitiated, is the latest venture from Snapshot Games – the studio Gollop co-founded in 2013 – which launched in 2019 on PC, and has just arrived on PS4 and Xbox One with future launches (free upgrades if you opt for last-gen now) on PS5 and Xbox Series X planned. Look out for some news on that in the near future.' Julian Gollop, Snapshot Games 'I can't say too much about what's next, but we do have another DLC in the works, which we haven't announced yet but I can assure you, it is all designed and is in production.

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