Overwatch

You're moving around a grid system with cover.

You have four different... units that are on your map each of those units have special abilities that cost either advantage or ap and you combine them in various ways to like shoot the enemy melee the enemy use special uh moves on the enemy, or you can deploy Overwatch.

So Overwatch is a big part of this where you're basically having somebody cover a cone on the map, and if people move into that cone, you'll fire upon them.

And then another big component of this is hit percentage.

So this is based on distance and the weapon that you're using.

And then suddenly my plan is like, okay, if I can get that character out of overwatch, how can I like pivot my strategy where I'm moving my squad to, I don't know.

It's just a nice something to kind of mix things up.

And I think it makes the pacing of each match feel a little faster when you have that little moment of urgency where it's like, okay, I'm under Overwatch.

It's really dangerous.

This every mission, it was just... tell get in there like she would just blindly run into the middle of the biggest concentration of bad guys there were because by the time you get the lightsaber throw and you can attack twice with your lightsaber and you can give her an extra an extra action every turn um it just she was just a killing machine it felt so good to have a really physically satisfying melee character in this kind of game because it kind of flips the way i was used to playing x-com on its head to being like, well, aren't I clever setting all these very distant Overwatch things with snipers and keeping everybody safe? It's like, no, I've got a Jedi.

She's got two lightsabers.

I'm going to sprint at these bad guys and just mow three or four guys down in one turn, and it's going to be the most fun I can possibly have in a game like this.

Did we get a flamethrower in case he gets a little antsy?

I think the idea is I will provide Overwatch from a derelict barn and I'll be ready to take a shot whenever you give me the signal.

Okay.

The signal, you whistling.

Quick spoiler for Star Wars Zero Company.

If you're sick of the Coil motherfuckers once they get their powers, the best way to deal with them is to simply take everybody else off the board and leave the strong ones there and then just do Overwatch on them over and over.

Because if you hit them with Overwatch, it doesn't trigger a lot of their powers.

And triggering their powers is what fucks you up.

Because I would have my guys attack the Coil guy and then he would take some damage.

Like, this is the building.

Take this building over, whatever, do Overwatch here.

You have the exact specific order.

It's not the existential freedom we face in our everyday lives.