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Phoenix Point’s Festering Skies DLC and free Behemoth update are out nowGiant enemy crab and several quality-of-life tweaks
Giant enemy crab and several quality-of-life tweaks
Name aside, the Behemoth does seem cool. He stomps across the game’s Geoscape, launching aerial raids, and hides in the ocean between attacks. You, naturally, havenew tools and missionsthrough which you fight back.
Phoenix Point: Festering Skies - Release Trailer | Available NowWatch on YouTube
Phoenix Point: Festering Skies - Release Trailer | Available Now
The DLC is the first released since Phoenix Point made the jump from the Epic Games Store to Steam, with the Year One Edition. It’s available nowon Steamand costs £7.19/$10/€8.19.
If you don’t fancy parting with money today, thefree Behemoth updateis maybe of more interest. It introduces new quality-of-life features and balance changes to the game.
For example, they’ve re-balanced the toughness of objects, so that shots “take into account a better calculation of the size and material type” when deciding whether the object gets destroyed. They’ve also added a visualisation of enemy perception range, so you can tell if you’re about to be spotted when trying to move sneakily. The link above lists some other balance tweaks, too.
I looked up the definition of “behemoth” to see what its roots were, and according to Wikipedia, in “later Jewish tradition [the Behemoth] would become food for the righteous.” I will consider this a better name for Phoenix Point’s biggest enemy, then, if the DLC ends with the player tipping him into a city-sized pot of butter.
