Deploy Cerebral Control Collars Attempt to mind control unit, becoming an Indentured after battle.Ground Commander All heavy ground units gain 10% extra damage when the hero is leading the army.Alternatively, target living friendly cyborg gets healed for 35 HP. Reassemble Target dead friendly cyborg gets revived with 50% health.Strategic Operations Support +6 Strategic Ops Strength on the sector where the hero is present.Modular Extension Allows hero to wear one additional mod.War Cry Friendly units within 2 hexes gain 20% increased damage for 3 turns.Plasma Surge The Hero surges forward into another location, dealing 10 Thermal damage to all adjacent units when it lands.Counter Attack Melee Overwatch can no longer be cancelled by Stagger, and will never miss.Juggernaut Allows Hero to walk through obstacles and destroy them.

Void Bullets Ranged attacks ignore 50% of cover and line of sight penalties.

Phase Shift Teleport to a hex within 5 ranges, leaving enough AP to do a single attack.

Leveling Up a Level 9 Xenoplague Dvar Hero

Pilots (mix with other functions pending vehicle type).Support (Healers, buffers and debuffers).Melee (charge into the heat of battle wearing strong protection to unleash hell).Ranged (including snipers, nimble flanking skirmishers).Abilities need to be carefully matched with equipment, which makes the upgrade process fun. Heroes often gravitate towards a particular role, especially early in the game. A Hero gets skills from its race, secret tech and a global pool of upgrades shared by all heroes. More importantly we like hero upgrade skills coming from a variety of sources. the melee path, the ranged path and the vehicle path) but quickly found that this was too limited and that heroes looked too much alike even with mutually exclusive skill choices. For the sake of trying something different form AoW3 we experimented with a hero upgrade system in which heroes choose upgrades within pre-set rigid paths with pre-requisites (i.e. Elija comes pre-equipped with a nasty grenade attack and SMGįor Planetfall we developed an open ended hero upgrade system where you are able to mix and match hero abilities.

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