Marvel's Midnight Suns News

It may not be Xcom 3, but Firaxis' new strategy RPG game Marvel's Midnight Suns still came out of the gates swinging after we got treated to our first glimpse of gameplay earlier this week.

Naturally, there are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the game, but some of them at least may have been answered thanks to an NME interview with Firaxis. Chiefly, the studio confirmed that Midnight Suns will not have any microtransactions. "This is meant to be a single-player tactics RPG," creative director Jake Solomon told the site. When pressed on whether this ruled out cosmetic DLC options or similar add-ons, he confirmed ""Right, no. That's not what we're aiming for here."

What this means regarding larger expansions or other forms of post-launch content is currently unclear, though. XCOM: Chimera Squad, the most recent non-Civilization game to come out of Firaxis, didn't receive any post-launch content. While this doesn't indicate anything concrete with regards to the studios' intentions for Midnight Suns, it does suggest a precedent.

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Firaxis announces Marvel: Midnight Suns, a "tactics RPG"

Today, we got a much more substantial look at Marvel: Midnight Suns, the long-rumoured superhero strategy game from the XCOM and Civilization devs at Firaxis. In some ways, it is the Marvel XCOM that we expected, but there's more to it than that - you can trace inspirations to deckbuilding games, Mass Effect, and even Into the Breach.

Combat is turn-based, and your characters will have their abilities dealt out like a hand of cards, giving you a selection of combat options to choose from at any time. Some abilities just deal damage, while others provide buffs or detrimental effects to enemies. Still others will knock enemies around in the environment, allowing you to set up chain reactions by, say, tossing a bad guy into an explosive barrel, reminiscent of the excellent indie strategy game, Into the Breach.

You play as the Hunter, an original character that you can customise how you like, and you'll enter battle with a team of familiar Marvel heroes drawn from teams like the Avengers, X-Men, and Runaways. Between missions, a place simply called 'the abbey' will serve as the Normandy does in Mass Effect, letting you build (platonic) relationships with your fellow heroes.

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Firaxis announces Marvel: Midnight Suns, a "tactics RPG"

Civilization VI and XCOM: Enemy Unknown developer Firaxis just announced its long-rumoured Marvel strategy game this week, Marvel: Midnight Suns. However, while the team have confirmed there will be the opportunity to build relationships, there's bad news for anyone hoping to get intimate with Iron Man - you can't.

Firaxis and Marvel announced the XCOM-like with superheroes at Gamescom Opening Night Live earlier this week, confirming it as a "tactical RPG" that explores the more supernatural side of the Marvel universe. In an interview with IGN, creative director Jake Solomon - who also worked on the XCOM series - confirmed that Midnight Suns players would be able to build relationships with established Marvel characters and become "very, very, very good friends".

While in the game's Abbey base, players will be able to choose to hang around with heroes such as Captain Marvel or Wolverine and build a relationship with them via various activities, Persona-like. However, things won't get quite to the romantic level. "Trust me, if I could romance Blade, I would," Solomon admits.

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