If you haven't played the Backer Builds, which had a lot more tactical & strategical depth to them, haven't followed the development, especially the interviews around it's Kickstarter, than I guess it is decent.
bugfixes, and more.
We at Snapshot Games are honored that the PHOENIX RISING team has dedicated so much time and effort into customizing our game Phoenix Point. We believe that they have achieved an amazing re-imagining of our campaign, and we want the result of their hard work to be noticed and enjoyed by as many players as possible. Phoenix Point is also currently on sale to mark the release of the incredible mod - enjoy their great work! Now, let's give them some space to present their mod:
PHOENIX RISING team announces 1.0 release of Terror from the Void, a complete overhaul mod for Snapshot Games’ iconic Phoenix Point.
TFTV Official Launch Trailer
Mod Features
A complete reworking of the Phoenix Point campaign, with new characters, story, events and reports, and integrated and rationalised in-game lore, including a revamped Oneiric Delirium from the original release. Written by and for sci-fi horror fans!
Completely redesigned classes, focusing on sharply defined fighting roles and strong class identities, and on removing and rebalancing overpowered synergies from the vanilla classes.
Fight the nightmarish doubles and replicas of your deceased comrades! Revenants are special Pandoran combat forms invested with the mutilated consciousness of your fallen heroes – they will hunt you relentlessly over the course of your campaign!
Modular campaign settings, with both very easy and nightmarishly difficult settings, and more than 20 toggles that allow you to fine tune your playthrough to your liking.
Total rework of Legacy of the Ancients; redesigned missions, automata, and ancient weapons, with unique mechanics and reworked lore integration.
Total rework of Kaos Engines; massively expanded marketplace that will now sell you faction research, rebalanced Kaos weaponry, and mercenary soldiers with unique gear and abilities! Vehicles and modules have undergone an extensive redesign, with a focus on expanding and specialising their roles over the course of a campaign.
All other DLCs have been rebalanced or reintegrated
A series of UI changes and QOL improvements - loadable soldier loadouts, helmet visibility toggles, and more!
A reworked final mission, with new mechanics and access to unique support troops depending on your factional alliances.
Void Omens! Semi-randomised modifiers to your strategic campaign, that represent humanity’s slide into a waking nightmare.
AI fixes, a stealth overhaul, over 50 vanilla bug fixes, and many, many more features. Terror from the Void is a true reimagining of the vanilla experience from the ground up, made by fans who love Phoenix Point.
Mod Vision
Phoenix Point was a visionary game from an acknowledged master in the genre. Terror from the Void takes that vision and runs with it, asking the question: what more could be done in terms of balancing and harmonizing the base game and the DLC content? How could the systems be adjusted with reference to experienced TBT players who value interesting tactical decision-making, while also making the game even more enjoyable for novice players? If the original horror setting was pushed into and explored more fully?
This is a total conversion, created by fans for fans, that seeks to realise the untapped potential in the original product, and elevate one of the hidden gems of the genre by polishing, streamlining, and, where necessary, re-imagining the original. The scope of the work cannot be overstated, and the points above are only a rough guide to the changes. Almost every system has been touched, chopped, and changed, with an insistence on maintaining the original feeling and identity of the product.
Terror from the Void has been built in the grand tradition of fan reworks in the TBT space. Our community response during the open beta has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are enormously proud of our product. We invite you to once again pick up your Ares AR-1, stare into the abyss, and embrace entropy and madness in Terror from the Void, available now on Steam Workshop, and on GitHub for the Epic Games Store and GOG editions.
Soul-rending truths and black, indifferent cosmic vistas await you… Director.
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It is not Long War in sense that it takes longer to finish, it probably takes less if you compare it with vanilla with all DLC (because DLCs added a lot of new missions), but a lot of systems were overhauled or at least changed a bit.
I think supply and acquire vehicle missions could be very valuable, at least early on. Ambush is intended as a bad thing, so it makes sense (although it does make exploring points of interest at all pointless lategame).
Unfortunately most of these issues are base game issues and cannot be fixed with mods."Oh, I'm just gonna shoot at this spot with my scarab, path is clear."
Scarab proceeds to launch both rockets into the ceiling.
"Well, uhh.. okay, then. Next turn. I guess I'll annihilate those two fools close to the scarab. Explosion shows to not be touching the vehicle."
Scarab proceeds to blow up its front half.
"Okay, this rocket attack shows to collapse the ceiling, meaning the enemy should drop down, right?"
Scarab proceeds to shoot at the targeted spot and... nothing happens. No hit, no explosion, just nothing.
"You know what, I think the scarab stays home now. Good thing I invested all that early manufacturing."
No wonder that vehicle is named scarab. It's buggy as hell!
Why the fuck can I manually aim a shot, including leaning to the sides, but not overwatch where you'll just overwatch right into the wall instead of leaning?
Same with overwatching upwards or downwards. Very often, it just won't do anything and the enemy walks right through your cone.
In general, the hints the UI gives you are at best an "uhhhh, maybe, idk, just guessing". In the few hours I played, I already lost count how often grenade/rocket paths turned out to just not be the case.
Thinking about just not using those kinds of weapons because I feel like I cannot afford crapshots like that for long.
This game, man....
I barely started and I already feel like ragequitting for all the wrong reasons
Usually, X-COM likes get to me with their 95% miss-chains, but this one gets to me with its UI "hints".
Aoe attacks don't have perfect accuracy (I think grenades might though?). They follow the same spread formula as everything else, just the feedback is a lot worse. Iirc the only way to tell is to see how solid the damage indicator is on the enemy hp bar. Pure white = guaranteed hit, everything else means you have a chance of scatter.
You have sonic grenades and poison also debuffs your stats now. And of course from the start blowing up dangerous enemy limbs worked. And you can also soften enemy armor and then drop fire grenade on them (fire grenade was nerfed that it no longer reduces armor). And of course you can use Mech or Mutoid abilities to block some of enemy abilities.
You are not meant to easily CC Sirens and Scyllas. That is exact reason why WarCry was removed. That and skill being very bugged. There were attempts to nerf it first but it was not possible to fix its major bug where AP reduction is remembered and then if you warcry next turn as well it is added resulting in enemies not having any AP anymore.
It is not end of the world if Sirens get to MC or kill some of your soldiers sometimes, they are meant to be dangerous. They are basically Ethereals of this game.
Note that TFTV is harder on Veteran, Hero and Legendary difficulty than vanilla. It can especially be felt on Legendary which is only difficulty I have ever played vanilla or this mod.
