Basically they guarantee the game will sell X amount of copies. (According to a r/pcgaming thread it was somewhere in the millions for phoenix point) But Epic also compensates for lost sales at the end of their exclusivity contract. Not only does Epic seem to give a bunch of money up front. I'm not excited about what the future holds.
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It also shows a worrying sign that Epic is willing to spend God knows how much money in order to get exclusives and directly hurt the PC gaming community. It has forever damaged my belief in crowdfunding. There might have been some defense for Metro Exodus going to Epic, but this was a crowdfunded game built on the dollars of the community, a community that was lied to, used, and then discarded. Phoenix Point offered a 'free year of DLC' to make it up to the backers, but to me, the damage has been done.
Thousands of people have committed and FUNDED this project to get a Steam or gog key, but neither company cared about that. The fact that Phoenix Point did it KNOWING they were betraying every single backer - which is the entire reason the game was funded in the first place - is astonishing.
The fact that Epic felt no qualms about convincing Phoenix Point to screw all their backers shows how little they think of the community. It is the antithesis of everything PC gaming represents. I've been interested in buying this game for awhile, but I have no interest in exclusivity with PC gaming. To top it off, they are only giving backers until April 12 to lock in a refund. They are requiring anyone who wants a refund to submit their banking info to transferwise, a third party, which many backers are uncomfortable with. They also never addressed that they have broken promises made two years ago to give Steam and gog keys (the FAQ still falsely states you can get a Steam or gog key).
In the AMA, they admitted that they approached Epic, that they had the game fully funded and could afford to release it WITHOUT Epic's help, and that they could not easily refund backer's money because people had submitted information over 2 years ago. Since then, Phoenix has tried to paint this in as positive a light as possible, but it feels 100% like greed. The post had a lot of negative comments and then disappeared (maybe I'm bad at searching). On the research side - there are some useful techs early on but, unlike XCom, you don't need to rush everything since most things you get are side-grades and small improvements, not big increases in power.ĭefending heavens and destroying Pandoran structures give you a lot of rewards (resources, skill points, faction diplomacy) so they should be prioritized.I'd like to first point out that I found out about Phoenix Point (a crowdfunded game made by the original x-com guys) going exclusive on Reddit. You should try to reverse engineer them before you run out of ammo. Going for the 1-2 raids against each faction for their aircraft also has the benefit of getting you some of the more useful weapons (Synedrion sniper rifle, AR and pistol, New Jericho Heavy Machine Gun, Anu shotguns) and enough ammo to last you for a few more missions. One important tip - you can bring several aircraft to a mission and select which soldiers should participate. Don't stop recruiting and building more teams until you can cover each area with one (4 should do, 5 can be even better). Then, as soon as you have a second team try to get a path to the other land mass (the Americas if you start in Europe or Asia or the reverse) and activating one or two useful bases along the way. To do that prioritize recruiting and acquiring new aircraft (stealing from Synedrion or New Jericho, the Anu blimp is too slow). The biggest advice I could give is expand as fast as possible in the early game.
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