Firaxis' Jake Solomon says even he gets frustrated when he misses a shot in XCOM

We chat to XCOM 2 and Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon about which type of turn-based tactics game is most fun to make.

July 5, 2022 · 1 min · 78 words · Dean Brown

I felt the ghosts of everybody everywhere looking over my shoulder," he says.

This isn’t a reaction to XCOM, mind.

You’re playing as a group of superheroes after all, and superheroes don’t miss.

A soldier closes in on an alien in XCOM 2

And you really cant do things wrong in Midnight Suns.

you’re free to do them better, but an attack card is an attack card.

[…] Its not like straight out wrong.

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I can’t wait to play it in full when it launches on October 7th.