Hive got a feeling.
As the timeline advances, it increases the number and aggressiveness of the Aliens roaming each environment.
Above all, you’ll want to watch out for exclamation marks.
- it’ll power you out of a corner like Ripley hijacking the APC.
prompt whenever you meddle with something especially plot-sensitive).
The trick is not to take too much punishment before you have to.
I’ve plunged right into the steaming guts of this one.
Let’s back up a little to avoid the acid.
Unlike in XCOM, the game asks you to reload a save when you lose a whole squad.
The strategy aspect is a touch underwhelming.
It’s as spare and utilitarian as the boxy grey architecture of the Otago itself.
On standard difficulty, at least, it’s harder to paint yourself into a corner than in XCOM.
The golden rule of any horror movie is don’t split up, right?
Sadly, a few things hold Dark Descent back.
One is that it could really do with a wider variety of dialogue lines for your marines.
After 20 hours with the game, I fear the phrase “come on squad!”
has become a permanent feature of my internal soundscape.
Aliens: Dark Descent accessibility options
Invertible camera.
Optional dynamic tutorials for skills and mechanics.
Subtitles with choice of text sizes.
Color vision prefs: deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia.
Adjustable dialogue and music volume.
Choice of continuous or step-based camera rotation.
Adjustable camera rotation and movement speed.
Choice of slow-mo or complete time pause when using Skill menu.
Certain character states reduce accuracy, for example, or slow the regeneration of command points.
But it’s not what I was hoping for.
They’re enforcers before they are bughunters, operating hand-in-glove with one of sci-fi’s best-known villainous corporations.
I’d much rather Tindalos had spent the associated dev resources fleshing out the xenomorphs even further.
Some critic I can’t remember once described Hamlet as a text made up entirely of quotations.
State of the badass art?
Near as damn it.
