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When they completely run out of luck, they will get shot, but then your luck goes up a bit, so that you hit again right away. вЂњEvery character has a maximum level of luck,вЂќ Kacper explained, вЂњbut whenever they get shot at and donвЂ™t get hit, they start to run out of luck. EveryoneвЂ™s luck runs out some day, and in Hard West thatвЂ™s a core gameplay idea.

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The real Wild West was full of characters and people not only skilled with a gun, but lucky enough to not get hit by the return fire. On the other side of the gunfight, the best way to avoid getting yourself killed is to not get hit by bullets in the first place. Combine spotting shadows with a card that lets you ricochet bullets off metal objects in the game and you can even shoot people around corners. ThatвЂ™s pretty clever in and of itself, but an even better parlour trick is to be able to shoot through permeable cover and kill an enemy without a direct line of sight, having been able to figure out where to shoot just from seeing their shadow cast on the floor. ThereвЂ™s interactive cover, for example, that lets you pull up wooden lids on a box or kick over a table to let you hide behind full cover in a gunfight. ItвЂ™s the same canvas, but the picture is completely different.вЂќ Even the base gameplay is different because of the tweaks with the cover system and the luck system.

They sort of expect it to just be a reskin, and they come out from the presentations surprised by how much it differs. вЂњI think from a lot of the feedback that people appreciate the differences. What I wanted to do was to build on that, learn from what they did and expand it in a different direction. вЂњPersonally, IвЂ™m a huge fan of XCOM, so I think that going in a completely different direction would be somewhat disrespectful to what they achieved, because itвЂ™s an awesome game and in many ways flawless. вЂњItвЂ™s hard not to be perceived through the lens of XCOM when youвЂ™re making a tactical game,вЂ™ he admitted. ItвЂ™s an inevitable comparison that Kacper is happy to talk about, though. However, thereвЂ™s lots of nice little touches that push it beyond being just an XCOM clone.

The turn-based combat gets all of the basics right, with each character afforded two action points to move and then either attack or move again.

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