Conquering the Pure: A Phoenix Point Strategy Guide
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Beating the Pure in Phoenix Point requires a multi-pronged approach: develop weapons that deal significant damage and shred armor, conduct specific research focused on the Pandoran structures and creatures, and, most importantly, focus your tactical and strategic decisions to counter their strengths while exploiting their weaknesses. This guide will explore in detail how to achieve victory against these formidable foes, providing you with the knowledge and strategies necessary to save humanity.
Understanding the Pure
The Pure are arguably one of the most challenging enemy types you’ll encounter in Phoenix Point. They are often heavily armored, capable of dealing immense damage, and can unleash devastating attacks that can quickly turn the tide of battle. Therefore, understanding their strengths, weaknesses, and behavior is crucial for developing effective counter-strategies.
Key Considerations:
- High Armor: The Pure’s greatest asset is their substantial armor, which significantly reduces the effectiveness of standard weapons.
- Powerful Attacks: They possess a range of powerful attacks that can inflict high damage, disable limbs, and even kill your soldiers outright.
- Rapid Adaptation: Like all Pandorans, the Pure evolve and adapt to your tactics, making it essential to stay ahead of the curve and continually refine your strategies.
- Variety: Different types of Pure exist, each with unique abilities and attack patterns. Be prepared to face variations that require specific countermeasures.
Tactical Strategies Against the Pure
Prioritize Armor Shredding
Given the Pure’s high armor values, weapons capable of shredding armor are essential.
- Hel II Cannon: As noted, heavy weapons such as the Hel II Cannon are ideal for fighting Pure. The combination of incredible damage and armor shredding makes for near-guaranteed limb disables and overall killing power.
- Acid Weapons: Acid weapons, particularly those provided by Synedrion, are highly effective at shredding armor over time.
- Explosives: Explosives like grenades and rocket launchers can also shred armor, especially when targeted at clustered enemies.
- Skills: The Demolitionist’s “Rage Burst” skill combined with a grenade launcher is a particularly effective strategy to deal with Pure.
Limb Targeting and Disabling
Disabling limbs is a critical tactic for reducing the Pure’s offensive capabilities.
- Snipers: Utilize snipers with high accuracy and damage to target specific limbs.
- Paralysis: Weapons and abilities that inflict paralysis can temporarily disable the Pure, providing a window of opportunity to deal damage or reposition your soldiers.
- Mind Control Mitigation: Sirens can mind control your troops to turn against you. Prioritize eliminating sirens that can control the Pure, and protect your troops against being mind controlled with skills like Will.
Positioning and Cover
Effective positioning and cover are crucial for mitigating the Pure’s damage output.
- High Ground: Utilize elevated positions to gain a tactical advantage and increase accuracy.
- Full Cover: Always prioritize full cover to minimize the chance of being hit by enemy attacks.
- Flanking Maneuvers: Employ flanking maneuvers to attack the Pure from the sides or rear, bypassing their armor and disrupting their formations.
Utilizing Vehicles
Vehicles offer increased firepower and survivability, making them valuable assets in battles against the Pure.
- Armadillo APC: The Armadillo APC, with its heavy armor and multiple weapon slots, can provide significant fire support and protect your soldiers from enemy fire.
- Mutogs: Trained Mutogs offer great utility due to their high speed and bite attacks, which can cripple limbs and shred armor.
Strategic Considerations
Research and Development
Investing in specific research projects is crucial for developing advanced weapons, armor, and technologies that can effectively counter the Pure.
- Pandoran Research: Prioritize research into Pandoran biology and technology to uncover their weaknesses and develop targeted countermeasures. Research the different Pandoran structures (nest, lair, citadel), and do all the research that start with vivisection of a live Siren and Scylla.
- Faction Alliances: Develop alliances with factions like Synedrion to gain access to advanced technologies, such as Mist Repellers and acid weapons. Siding with Synedrion will give you weapons that will grant your soldiers’ silenced attacks, paralysis damage, and weapons with more power and range than anything the other factions can give you.
Base Defense
Strengthening your base defenses is essential for protecting against Pandoran attacks.
- Mist Repellers: Construct Mist Repellers to push back the mist and prevent Pandoran bases from spawning near your bases.
- Defensive Structures: Build defensive structures such as turrets and barricades to provide additional firepower and protection.
Global Strategy
Effectively managing your resources, expanding your operations, and maintaining relations with the various factions are crucial for long-term survival.
- Resource Management: Carefully manage your resources to ensure you have enough materials to produce weapons, armor, and other essential items.
- Haven Defense: Protect Havens from Pandoran attacks to maintain relations with the various factions and gain access to their resources and support. You can become allied with all factions at the same time. In the course of the game, each faction will offer a series of Diplomacy missions. Completing these missions will allow you to improve relations with them.
Achieving Victory
Ultimately, defeating the Pure in Phoenix Point requires a combination of tactical skill, strategic planning, and technological advancement. By understanding their strengths and weaknesses, developing effective counter-strategies, and making smart decisions on both the battlefield and the geoscape, you can overcome this formidable threat and secure the future of humanity. To reach the Phoenix project ending, you need to perform their missions, like the Symes research.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What weapons are most effective against the Pure?
Weapons that deal high damage and shred armor, such as the Hel II Cannon, acid weapons, and explosives, are most effective against the Pure.
2. How do I counter the Siren’s mind control ability?
Disabling a Siren’s head is all it takes to wipe out their entire pool of Will Points, and without that, they can’t Mind Control anyone or use Instill Frenzy. Do this as soon as you see a Siren; Sniper Rifles were made for this. Skills and equipment that increase Willpower can also help resist mind control.
3. Is it possible to capture a Scylla?
Just do a citadel attack: Paralyze the Scylla with the Athena Sniper Rifle, and escape from the map. Mission will count as victory and Scylla considered as captured (like any other alien paralyzed).
4. How do I deal with the mist?
The only way to reverse the spread of mist is to build a Mist Repeller structure within a base. The technology to build Repellers can only be sourced from Synedrion.
5. How do I improve relations with the different factions?
In the course of the game, each faction will offer a series of Diplomacy missions. Completing these missions will allow you to improve relations with them.
6. What is the best difficulty setting for Phoenix Point?
The difficulty curve in Phoenix Point is such that the game is easy at the beginning and progressively gets harder. If you are new to tactical games, start on a lower difficulty.
7. Can I stop the mist from spreading?
Pandorans will only build their bases under mist cover, but those bases’ operating range to threaten Havens and the player’s own bases with attack can extend out of the mist.
8. What is the maximum squad size in Phoenix Point?
The maximum squad size is 8 soldiers. Vehicles and Mutogs count as 1 soldier, but they take 3 seats in the transportation aircraft.
9. What is the best way to deal with Sirens?
The Siren is by far the most dangerous single unit in Phoenix Point, particularly when you come up against multiple at once. The siren should be dealt with by using headshots with Sniper Rifles or similar weapons.
10. How accurate are weapons in Phoenix Point?
Each weapon has an inherent Accuracy depending on its Effective Range, defined as the range at which the weapon is likely to hit a human-sized target 50% of the time.
11. How many endings does Phoenix Point have?
There are five endings in Phoenix Point.
12. What is the maximum level a soldier can reach?
Soldiers can reach a max Level 7.
13. How does stealth work in Phoenix Point?
Stealth is an attribute for units, reflected as a percentage rather than an integer, that modifies the effective Perception attribute for units of a different side for spotting checks to locate that unit.
14. What are the best skills to multi-class?
Multi-classing a Heavy into a Sniper probably makes for the strongest unit type in Phoenix Point, full stop. Rage Burst is powerful with anything, but on a tremendously accurate sniper rifle, you can eradicate even the toughest enemies (including Scyllas) from a safe distance. Consider the implications for learning through games when playing. The GamesLearningSociety.org offers great insights on this aspect.
15. How long does it take to beat Phoenix Point?
The estimated time to complete all 47 Phoenix Point achievements is 200-300 hours.