Marvel's Midnight Suns (Firaxis)

It can't be worse than than the Avengers game right? Riiiiigggghhhhhtttt????

Gameplay on Wednesday anyway, really looking forward to seeing how it plays. One aspect I'm not liking the sound of is spending time with the characters to build a relationship XCom 2 had you develop bonds through the battlefield where as with this, "you can decide to read a book by the fire with Dr. Strange or do some weights with Wolverine to build relationships with characters doing things they like. I hope it's just a case of been giving a certain amount of time to manage your day and clicking what how you want to spend instead of actually doing those activities.

The building a new character sounds great and it will be class to team up with Blade, Wolverine and hopefully Spiderman. They've nailed their look anyway.

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Game starts with attack on the Sanctum

- 3 team mates

- 10-15min average battles

- Multiple card times (basic, attack, support) that are in a deck that gets shuffled at the start of a battle

- Players will be able to play 3 cards each round (some cards will allow you to get more cards out in a round if you kill an enemy with it)

- Every hero has their own set of cards

- Blade is DPS (has bleed, life leech cards), Ghost Rider is a wild card ( his attacks can dmg himself and his teammates), Captain America is dps/tank, Strange is support (power to draw a different cards and boost card effects)

- Mission types: Protection missions, rescue targets, Capture VIP

- Hunter has light and dark powers (light is support/heal)

- You can change up your deck before each fight

- There are overpowered cards called "Heroics cards" that do deal massive dmg and offer bonus effects (iron man has aoe for everyone on screen (small dmg), Strange has massive dmg to one enemy plus applying debuff) these use currency resource called "heroism"

- You can use the environment to deal dmg

- The Abbey is your HQ located inside a pocket dimension. Here you can talk to Tony to make new weapons for you that unlock new cards, Train with Blade to upgrade cards

- if you have duplicate of a card you can mix them to make an upgraded version

- Talking to characters in the hub unlocks passive abilities and combos with that character

- Each hero has a legendary ability called "The Midnight Sun" only once you built that character's midnight suit which require you to max your friendship with a character

Yeah, I'm not all the way there yet. The reasons i loved xcom 2 was that there was perma death for your squad and you were against the odds where as with this, you are made to feel all powerful, as you should be really but don't know how it will feel to play through like this. I definitely want to play it though.

If this game wasn't made by Firaxis alarm bells would be ringing looking at the gameplay; it looks a bit flat which is why I can see why they have the card mechanics in there. XCOM style games lose something when you remove the need to use cover & do extensive research. I kinda wish they just did X-Men as the Xavier Institute would make much more sense in terms of building bonds with fellow heroes (all of that feels more Persona like than what they usually do) and you can always justify an X-Men team them up with Blade Ironman or Ghost Rider too. But the Avengers are still a bigger priority to Marvel right now.

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Very interesting, i either what the revamp consists of. People saying the card system could be gone but i doubt they would take out something so big in the space of a few months.