My take in the Action Point System

[Wormerine]

@BoredEngineer

@Wormerine

It seems that you feel about FiraXCOM similar way I feel about Dragon Age: Origins - not being willing to acknowledge the good it has done, due to personal disappointment with the game.

It just annoys me in some of the gamedesign choices that where made. And I’m not taking about being too different to X-Com. I mean things like how classes and character focus drive you into a spiral of fails. Or how so many things in the game are meta abilities and arbitrary rules, the concept of pods. I can’t even play it anymore without mods.
Dragon Age: Origins - I actually really like it, unlike what came after it. I remember it as really fun fantasy RPG where playing as a good guy had more negative consequences compared to being selfish

But it was a “dumbed down” RPG, instead of spiritual successor of Baldur’s Gate i have been waiting for. Though an NPC trying to sell me DLC in my camp was what really left a bitter taste.

Luckily Obsidian with Pillars of Eternity has nicely scratched that itch nicely.