Phoenix Point Development Update – Access Granted

This year’s first development update for Snapshot Games’ Phoenix Point brings us a heap of fresh concept art and talks about the game’s player-built bases. Just like in the original X-Com games, the bases you build in Phoenix Point will be used during the tactical base defense missions where you’ll have to take care not to damage your own equipment.

Here are a few paragraphs to get you started:

Happy New Year!

Ok, so it’s almost the end of January and this is the first update of 2019. There’s been a lot of design and implementation happening over the last three weeks with a large amount of that going into the Phoenix Project bases themselves.

The Phoenix bases play a very important role in both terms of narrative and gameplay. From the title base, Phoenix Point, down to all of the other bases you will discover and reactivate as you explore the world – it is vital that we really nail these player controlled facilities.

Phoenix Project bases tend to be built in hard to reach, hidden or otherwise fortified areas – underground or deep within mountains. The Phoenix Point base, currently the only known active Phoenix base in the world, sits high on the mountainside. This height above sea level protected Phoenix Point from The Mist and the creatures that came with it.

As you would expect from any subterranean base, tunnels and facilities have to be carved into the rock itself.

Player built bases are a key feature we’ve been planning for since the start of development. Your starting base and any additional bases you discover will already exist and have their own facilities already in place. You, as the player, will be able to add more or demolish existing facilities. Not only is this important strategically, ensuring you have the correct facilities for your needs, but also important tactically.

If your base should come under attack, you will need to defend it. The tactical defense missions will take place in the bases and the layouts which you constructed. You will need to defend them while attempting not to cause any serious damage to your base and equipment.