There are not many different enemy types and after playing through a handful of maps, everything starts to blend together. However, for the most part, each map tends to play similarly. Thanks, Lily.Įach grouping plays out very differently. More importantly, it turns out there is a colorblind mode that I did not have on, which explained why I had no idea that particular Vek was so powerful. Turns out the purple Vek are, like, way more powerful. I didn’t make a move for a good five minutes I was in shock. When Lily, the first pilot to go through multiple timelines, got one-shotted and died, I just stopped what I was doing.

I also found myself forming a strong bond between pilots that would go from timeline to timeline. As if it weren’t bad enough to lose the game’s most valuable resource, seeing “146 CASUALTIES” on top of that is just salt in the wound. But each hit to a building also results in mass casualties to the citizens of the planet, which the game is not afraid to remind you of, by showing exactly how many people died because you let the aliens hit that building. When enough buildings are hit and the Power Grid hits zero, the timeline is lost to the Vek. The main objective in each mission is to protect the buildings, as damaged buildings result in a loss to the game’s main resource: the Power Grid. There is also a lot done to make these endless timelines feel…important.

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