General Gaming Marvel's Midnight Suns ("its a fucking card battle game basically lol" - Firewithin) - Information Thread, update: "Blood Storm" DLC to release on May 11, Switch version cancelled

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

[LionFranco]

I hope the gameplay looks as cool as the video, guess we will find out next week.

[skillzdadirecta]

I like that the player character is one that YOU create. Recognized a lot of characters in that trailer.

[Hurricane Game]

I'm so excited for this! I love Xcom 2, still play it today.

[skillzdadirecta]

I wonder how they will handle permadeath in this game.

[Zaku3]

20 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I wonder how they will handle permadeath in this game.

 

No perma death.

[skillzdadirecta]

1 minute ago, Zaku3 said:

 

No perma death.

Hmmm... "Perma knockout" then?

[Zaku3]

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Hmmm... "Perma knockout" then?

 

The kotaku article I skimmed didnt mention anything. So I assume knocked out and then available for the next mission.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Midnight Suns is a Marvel RPG from the XCOM team that plays 'nothing like XCOM' | PC Gamer

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Build friendships with heroes such as Wolverine, Iron Man, Dr Strange, and Captain Marvel in a tactical RPG from Firaxis.

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“When we were first designing combat in Marvel’s Midnight Suns, we quickly realized that the mechanics of XCOM wouldn’t work in this game," he said. "In XCOM, you take a group of soldiers and they are outmanned and outgunned by the alien threat. In Marvel’s Midnight Suns, you are a superhero and you should feel like the coolest person on the battlefield. Those mechanics from XCOM that were designed for that game didn’t translate to Marvel’s Midnight Suns, and we can say that combat in this game is completely different.”

 

As one example, a 2K rep suggested that it doesn't make sense for heroes to miss punches, which means that hit chance percentages are probably out. Solomon also said that combat "plays much, much faster" than in the XCOM games. It's all a bit hard to explain without showing it, I'm told, so we should get some clarity when the gameplay trailer premieres next week.

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

5 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I like that the player character is one that YOU create. Recognized a lot of characters in that trailer.

 

I think Jeff Grub speculated this for a couple of weeks.

[BloodyHell]

14 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Hmmm... "Perma knockout" then?

They said there is no permanent death/ko. They are fine after the battle.

 

You know Marvel would never allow firraxxis to just let heroes die.

[number305]

2 hours ago, BloodyHell said:

They said there is no permanent death/ko. They are fine after the battle.

 

You know Marvel would never allow firraxxis to just let heroes die.

 

This is similar to XCOM: Chimera Squad.  I would assume this game and Chimera Squad will have several similarities.  It is a good game... give it a shot if you haven't.

 

Characters in Chimera Squad can get knocked out during a mission and can require time in a training room to heal before they can be deployed again.  They can also acquire negative traits from being injured that also require training room time to eliminate that also takes them out of commission for a while.  The training room can also be used on healthy characters to add new positive traits.  

[BloodyHell]

1 minute ago, number305 said:

 

This is similar to XCOM: Chimera Squad.  I would assume this game and Chimera Squad will have several similarities.  It is a good game... give it a shot if you haven't.

 

Characters in Chimera Squad can get knocked out during a mission and can require time in a training room to heal before they can be deployed again.  They can also acquire negative traits from being injured that also require training room time to eliminate that also takes them out of commission for a while.  The training room can also be used on healthy characters to add new positive traits.  

Awesome, ill definitely check out Chimera Squad. I love xcom.

[Keyser_Soze]

Unfortunately the Saint's Row trailer did not deliver a crappy cover song for @Commissar SFLUFAN

However, this trailer made up for it and then some!

[Firewithin]

i think they are supposed to be showing gameplay today in a few hours or so?

[Firewithin]

 

its a fucking card battle game basically lol

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

6 minutes ago, Firewithin said:

 

its a fucking card battle game basically lol

 

 

That's...definitely not quite what pretty much everyone was expecting.  At all.

[Kal-El814]

I did think they said there’d be no mechanics shared between this and X-Com but still…

[Brian]

I think it looks pretty good. It gives the vibe of XCOM to me. The devs had to find a way to remove random chance since it is dealing with super heroes so they introduced cards which is the randomness to the game. I trust Firaxis

[skillzdadirecta]

I just feel bad for all of the people who are going to buy this expecting a typical Marvel beat em up game and getting a card battle tactical game instead.

[Mercury33]

Couldn’t even finish the trailer. 

[jaethos]

I was super interested after the reveal last week, now I'm very not interested. I don't like card battle games.

[Keyser_Soze]

Why is it the character models, especially the faces, are looking better in the mobile games than the console games?

[Keyser_Soze]

Here's a better video that goes more in depth with the gameplay

 

 

I really have no issues with the card system but why even get Firaxis on board if you're just going to plop all the characters into some flat arena? Seems like it would get old after the first battle.

[crispy4000]

I'll never dismiss a card battle game out of turn again after Slay the Spire.

[Dre801]

Meh.  I would have been happy with just X-Com with a Marvel skin.

[johnny]

21 hours ago, Firewithin said:

 

its a fucking card battle game basically lol

unbelievable bamboozling 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

 

Midnight Suns gameplay stream gently responds to complaints about cards | PC Gamer

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Here's our first detailed look at the turn-based Marvel superhero combat of Midnight Suns.

 

[Brian]

I still think this looks great and I am playing this Day 1 on the Deck. 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

[jaethos]

As long as it remains card based, I remain uninterested.

[Pikachu]

 

[Keyser_Soze]

Coming October 7th if you want to get excited from the non gameplay trailer.

[johnny]

can congress make a law stating that card based video games are only allowed to release on mobile platforms

[Keyser_Soze]

Here's some actual gameplay