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Gears Tactics World Premiere Trailer | April 28th 2020 Release on PC, "Later" on Console
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Visuals are top form, love how Gears this looks.
Those XCOM mods make me burn for this:
I never even beat XCOM2 but this makes me want to reinstall it and just play it as a Halo game haha.
Do we know if the PC version will have controller support day one? Otherwise I'll wait for the Xbox version.
Didn't expect that, but good to hear and the game looks promising as well :)
Didn't expect that, but good to hear and the game looks promising as well :)
You know, it just occurred to me that both of Firaxis' main game series have serious competition now. Civilization is being taken on by Aplitude/Sega's Humankind and XCOM is being taken on by Gears Tactics.
I hope both games are worthy competitors, not that Firaxis ever needs a kick in the butt.
True, though it doesn't have the budget and marketing muscle of a major publisher behind it, so it's likely going to remain indie-level popular unless it goes big for some reason.
I guess I can reveal I'm working on this game :) all the comments here and elsewhere are making my day
This looks great, but I'm a little turned off by the 40 hour campaign length. I was hoping for something shorter.
I always wanted a "Halo Tactics" and a Gears of War RTS but it was the opposite.
You mean "Halo Laser Squad?" I've pitched something similar several times based on linear and ballistic sandbox weapons so that you use isometrics for height and splash damage calculations as well as line of sight. Still turn based, but with a metagame of saving power ups to use as amplifier/defenders per turn (bubble shield, turrets, active camo etc). Oh and a very rigid hurry up clock to make it feel more tense and pressured.
One of my first ever jobs as an adult was taking screenshots of Laser Squad on the Amstrad CPC464 (and actually typing and debugging entire user-submitted BASIC games). I loved that game.
That would work.
Or just contract out Firaxis and have them do Xcom Presents: Halo ODST Gamma Squad
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Either way good luck on the game!
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Congrats on the great trailer. And good luck with the game. I'll play it for sure when it releases on PC.
Yeah congrats to Sean Noonan and 0xBADC0FFEE , the game looks fantastic.
Speaking of looks, here's some 4k screens:
Speaking of looks, here's some 4k screens:
Jesus, this looks incredible.
Like, I'm actually kind of blown away - as much as I love the Firaxis XCOM games, they weren't ever really lookers like this is. And the systems seem cool too... man, I'm hyped.
Like, I'm actually kind of blown away - as much as I love the Firaxis XCOM games, they weren't ever really lookers like this is. And the systems seem cool too... man, I'm hyped.
Yep, i was thinking they'd stick with a smaller-scaled XCOM-like game set in the Gears universe but what has been shown so far looks even more than promising. If i finally get into these types of strategy games, it might legit end up being my GOTY :D
Thanks <3
Can't wait to get this to Gears and Tactics fans alike.
" Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game set 12 years before the first Gears of War. Cities on the planet Sera are beginning to fall to the monstrous threat rising from underground – the Locust Horde. With the government in disarray, a squad of survivors emerge as humanity's last hope. Play as Gabe Diaz, recruiting, equipping and commanding your squads on a desperate mission to hunt down the relentless and powerful leader of the Locust army: Ukkon, the evil mastermind who makes monsters. Against all odds and fighting for survival, outsmart your enemy in uniquely brutal, turn-based tactical combat. Experience the intensity of one of the most-acclaimed video game sagas in an exciting new way. "
I figured it'd be coming to console. Tactical strategy games can be done on controller, pretty easy.
I find it really weird that the Gears series has the super console-controller focused mainline games, and now the super PC-mouse focused tactics game (games?).
I find it really weird that the Gears series has the super console-controller focused mainline games, and now the super PC-mouse focused tactics game (games?).
1. This is the best looking strategy game ever
2. If they make good touch screen controls, this will be an Xcloud showpiece
2. If they make good touch screen controls, this will be an Xcloud showpiece
In a way, I suppose it is.
It's a little annoying to me, someone who struggles to get into normal Gears and Halo games, but is also awful at strategy/tactics games. And a large part of Microsoft's catalog since they started bringing games to PC, until very recently, has either been those old-guard games that play far removed from anything I'm used to, and strategy games, which seems to kinda be Microsoft's quick answer to what a "PC game" is. It'd be nice if they made, say, a Halo spinoff that played like a retro FPS, with a much looser weapon limit and all that.
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honestly expected this to be way smaller in scale/budget im pretty damn impressed with the visuals.
God I would fucking love Halo Xcom. Please. Please.
That... looks fantastic.