"A Call To Action" Phoenix Point Corrupted Horizons (Season 3) Episode 0
40Announcing a new playthrough that will be starting shortly with the new Corrupted Horizons DLC for Phoenix Point.
Phoenix Point Corrupted Horizons (Season 3) Episode 0
"A Call To Action"
Don't want to miss an episode in this Corrupted Horizons (Season 3) playthrough? Here's the link:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8GzEzeZzA9g7u2WQlhOftc05fSltV1pU
Here's a link to the Festering Skies DLC Playthrough (Season 2):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8GzEzeZzA9g3S75N_Z3NKeFHHGQoevGt
Phoenix Point is the new strategy game from the creator of the original X-COM series. It features turn based tactics and world based strategy in a fight against a terrifying, alien menace. What follows are some various tid-bits of information about the new DLC and the Hypnos update:
THE ARCHERON
Developed in secret by humans of unknown allegiance, the Acheron is an artificially-created Pandoran, the enemy species featured in Phoenix Point. Whether it was engineered to help humanity win the war against the Pandorans or to amass great power for its creators is unclear at the start... but now that it has escaped, there’s a new threat to the world that must be dealt with!
The Acheron is positioned as a larger support unit in the game that strategically buffs enemy units while hindering and hampering Phoenix operatives. It has an array of abilities that range from leaping across the map, firing off pepper clouds to reduce the accuracy of attackers, or allowing it to hang back and heal friendly Pandorans, call for reinforcements, or worse, resurrect dead ones to fight for its cause!
Introduced as part of Corrupted Horizons, the Acheron becomes a new enemy available both in DLC 4 specific missions and regular missions the player will engage enemies within. Players will need to have enabled DLC 4 though in order to make the Acheron available in-game.
As the game progresses, the Acheron will also evolve gaining more strength and dangerous powers. These evolutions boast different visual styles and abilities, and it’s crucial for players to know how to counter each of their strategies.
Its most devastating contribution though is its innate ability to spread Corruption, a new game mechanic that affects the infected soldier’s will to fight. The only way to stop this new plague is to capture and research one of these strange creatures and complete the DLC 4 story arc, but even then, the threat of the Acheron itself will still be present.
THE MUTOID
A cry for help kicks off DLC 4: Corrupted Horizons, which introduces the Acheron support enemy and its deadly Corruption effect that will change the way you play Phoenix Point… but all is not lost for humanity. To help counter the threat of this new foe, Phoenix is able to leverage a new beneficial experiment, a human-Pandoran hybrid soldier: THE MUTOID.
Mutoids are a new soldier type that will help turn the tide against the Pandoran menace. Grown by Phoenix, Mutoids soldiers are unique in that they are created entirely out of Mutagens and their abilities can be acquired from any class known to the player. This adds considerable flexibility in how the player develops their soldiers, allowing them to combine existing abilities in new and exciting ways.
Due to its hybrid nature, the Mutoid can adopt certain Pandoran abilities as well, such as the Siren’s acid spit or a Scylla’s immunity to mind control, among many others. Discovered via creature autopsies, players can mix and match these passive and active abilities from Arthrons, Tritons, Sirens, and even the Acheron itself to forge lethal operatives for the battlefield.
But with great power… comes some limitations. Mutoids can only select a single human and Pandoran skill at each level, hit a max rank earlier than human operatives, and require Mutagen resources in order to heal and grow in power with new abilities. And the more Mutagens you spend on your Mutoids, the less you’ll have for other soldier mutations, ‘breeding’ Mutog war beasts or fighting back against the new game mechanic in DLC 4, Corruption.
Corruption is a new state that affects soldiers when encountering the Acheron or engaging in battles within the Mist. Its initial effects appear somewhat benign, slowly impacting the maximum willpower of a soldier while offering a small damage boost in trade, but as more encounters or attacks stack up, one can find themselves with operatives unable to properly use their abilities or even keep their sanity together in the field. Thankfully, players can leverage those precious Mutagens to temporarily cure their soldier’s Corrupted status, while working their way through the core DLC story for more permanent eradication of its source. This is where the Mutoid shines as its genetic make-up makes it inherently immune to Corruption, encouraging players to mix up their squads to best counter this new condition.
HYPNOS UPDATE: (A link for further info)
https://discord.com/channels/322630986431201283/322651439132311552/889903567878651934
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