#1971 project helios upgrade#

The only way to win these encounters (except for in level 6, which will get a paragraph all of its own!) is to kill the enemies. As such, this causes you to adopt a much more aggressive playstyle than usual for these type of games. At the end of each pair of turns – yours and the enemies’ – the cold will also attack friend and foe alike, and if a character is on low health this will usually finish them off. What is a little different is the cold, which plays a part in the battle just as much as the characters. So far, so normal, at least as far as the turn-based bits of 1971 Project Helios goes. These guys are squishier than the tanky melee lot, and letting enemies get close to them is usually a very bad idea. We have Domi, who can throw grenades (although if there are no guns, how he can find a seemingly endless supply of bombs is beyond me), there are a few guys that use firearms, be that pistols or rifles (Hanna and Alexei among others) and then we have Ame, whose weapon of choice is a dog. As the game is set in a post-apocalyptic world, firearms are in fairly short supply, so there are a few variations on the ranged theme. It plays out in the usual way too: you can move, then attack, attack then move, or stay put and attack and then use another ability.Ĭharacters are split into two basic types: you have the melee characters, who have to get up close and personal to do damage, but make up for it by being very much stronger than the other class, ranged. A character can move, attack, enter an overwatch state, heal their allies and so on. Every character has a set number of action points that can be spent in any manner you choose. If you’ve played XCOM or any of the other myriad of turn-based strategy games, you’ll feel right at home here. It is here where the other half of the game comes in – the combat. This is half of the game then, exploring the areas and finding all the things but as you explore, you will come across enemies who don’t want you stamping all over their turf. As you can imagine, in later levels the ability to hurt enemies without having to attack is incredibly useful.

If you equip him with a sharpening tool, it upgrades the Bleed skill so the damage lasts an extra turn. As an example, a guy called Renzo has an ability of Bleed, which does damage over time.

#1971 project helios upgrade#

These items allow your characters to either equip new skills in their respective skill trees, or to upgrade existing skills. These range from Fulgor charges, which allow you to revive fallen comrades, through to comparatively everyday items like telescopic sights or Fulgor infused oil. Exploring the levels fully is certainly recommended, as the place is just littered with not only collectable documents, but also useful items to pick up.

These can range from simply finding a key and escaping, to meeting up with certain characters, some of whom can be added to your party. This does add a good tension to the group dynamic, as everyone wants Margaret, but not for the same reasons.ġ971 Project Helios plays out as a third-person isometric-style affair, with the up-to-four characters that you choose for each level running about the place trying to achieve the various objectives every level throws at you. Of course, these two groups cross paths and decide to work together to find the scientist, and what happens after that will have to be sorted out at that time. In the meantime another party – led by Wilhelm – are also looking for Margaret, in order to bring her back to Nova, the lab she ran before she was taken. Anyways, in the confusion Margaret escapes or is kidnapped, and in return Emile’s family are also taken hostage until Margaret is recovered. Now Fulgor, as it turns out, is very useful stuff, and like very useful stuff everywhere in video games, it is in very short supply. It turns out that the cargo was in fact a woman – a scientist by the name of Margaret Blythe – who was working on a way of mending the world, which seemed to involve a substance called Fulgor. The convoy that Emile and Hanna – our two starting characters – was carrying included some very valuable cargo cargo that the duo had been hired by an anonymous employer to obtain. As the game opens, we are found in charge of a group of people who are about to go and raid a convoy, little knowing the chain of events that are going to be set in motion. Violent storms lash the place and extreme temperatures can kill. Now the world is a frozen lump of ice, and being outdoors for any length of time is a death sentence.

In 1942, meteors crashed into the Earth, causing a new age to begin, pretty much ruining everyone’s entire year. 1971 Project Helios is set in a world where things have taken a decidedly apocalyptic turn.