Strategy help plz?

[GrandMajora]

North and south America are covered in mist by about 2/3 with very few havens left. I have most of Europe, africa and Asia covered and protected. Should I just let N&S America go, or try to save them? On my 15th run thru and haven't come close to beating this game yet. Any suggestions?

[kiloromeo]

I believe you may be better of defending what you already cover and then go for story-missions. You should be able to complete defending just part of the World.

How far are you into Story-mission and Game-date?

If you haven't been to Antartica yet and will have to go later, you may need to activate/protect southernmost base in South America.

[kiloromeo]

Also what population %?

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by kiloromeo:

Also what population %?

The population is currently at 59%

Game Date Is 09.03.2477

Objectives are:

1 - Bionic Fortress

2 - Corruption of Mind

3 - Scorpion

Not sure if research helps advance the story or not, but...

4 - Siren Autopsy

5 - Pandoran Citadel

6 - Pandoran Virus

7 - Command Fortress

I have 100% diplomacy on all factions

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Trying to use my Australian base to access Antarctica, instead of South America.

[kiloromeo]

Different research for different endings.

What usually goes wrong in your previous runs?

If you have too few Research-facilities you might run out of time/population.

[EvilJoshy]

You should be fine letting america go. When i killed behemoth i had like 22% left by the time i finished.

[ulzgoroth]

Being covered in mist isn't disastrous, especially if you've got Mist Repeller tech. But if most of the Havens are gone I suppose it might not be worth bothering.

When you say "Pandoran Virus" on the research list, do you mean "Pandoran Virus Infection" or "Pandoravirus"? They're very different things. And if you don't know that research helps advance the story...yes. It does. Research is really the main story blocker. Pandoravirus is a keystone storyline research without which you can't do a lot of things and cannot win the game. For most endings you need to run through all the 'follow Symes' trail' research and missions, and you probably want to do so expeditiously even though some of them have no concrete benefit in themselves.

Phoenix Point, even more so with Festering Skies, isn't a game where achieving strategic dominance first and doing the plot second works well.

[Darknoble]

Does Advancing the main story in this game increase the level of difficulty and increase this ingame dooms day clock?

[Tasi]

Originally posted by Darknoble:

Does Advancing the main story in this game increase the level of difficulty and increase this ingame dooms day clock?

Difficulty increases with pandoran evolution. The speed of evolution itself is driven by:

• time (higher difficulty gives faster pandoran evolution)
  
• every successful mission against pandorans (not against other humans)

So to your question: kind of. To advance the main story you have to fight at least one successful mission against lair and citadel and since those missions are against pandorans they slightly increase pandoran evolution (but one or two missions doesn't increase the evolution that much).

[Darknoble]

Originally posted by Tasi:

Originally posted by Darknoble:

Does Advancing the main story in this game increase the level of difficulty and increase this ingame dooms day clock?

Difficulty increases with pandoran evolution. The speed of evolution itself is driven by:

• time (higher difficulty gives faster pandoran evolution)
  
• every successful mission against pandorans (not against other humans)

So to your question: kind of. To advance the main story you have to fight at least one successful mission against lair and citadel and since those missions are against pandorans they slightly increase pandoran evolution (but one or two missions doesn't increase the evolution that much).

Thank you

[Darknoble]

Hey have another question.... Is ok to take over a base in a red zone after you destroyed its infestation? Does the Red zone area ever decrease when you clear out the infestation?

[Sheesh]

TLDR: yes, and unrelated.

The red zone is mist. Missions in area covered by mist are slightly more dangerous since you'll have mist pockets which reduce visibility, pandorans can hide inside.
Eventually you'll discover mist repellers which are built in bases and 'grow' a circle around your base which is freed of mist (progress grows akin to satellite uplinks).
Pandoran installations (nests/lairs/citadels) can only spawn in mist, but can attack everything inside their range, mist or not.
I *think* mist over havens reduces their food production, thus increasing starvation and dropping the population census (doom clock) faster, so you'll probably want some repellers if you can afford them.
Hope that helps.

[Darknoble]

thanks