Tactical ability confirmation: Electric Reinforcement over the battlefield

About this game

Developer: Snapshot Games · Publisher: Snapshot Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Battle / Tactics

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What to study

Phoenix Point prices its tactics in willpower as well as action points, and this frame makes that economy impossible to miss: the Electric Reinforcement card states its 1 AP / 6 WP cost above the confirm button, the squad bar shows the acting soldier at a full 6/6 WP, and the weapon panel beside it prices the shot itself at 30x4 with shred. Nothing here is a generic 'ability button', every choice carries two budgets, a range (20 tiles), a duration (1 turn) and a stacking rule, all stated before the player commits. The hologram rendering of the squad inside the preview is the game's honesty about area effects: you see exactly who the buff touches before you pay for it. Frame at about 0:11 in the Gameplay Trailer (Steam; scene-change survivor v0_0003).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

quest-tracker end-turn-button modal-panel action-bar squad-portraits stat-panel status-row cost-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Action bar Portrait

Screen inventory

• the OBJECTIVES list sits top left in plain text, KILL ALL ENEMIES, KEY STRUCTURES PROTECTED 100%, and the END TURN button sits top right beside the settings gear: the mission's win conditions and the turn's end are the frame's two fixed points
• the centre is held by a dark confirmation card for ELECTRIC REINFORCEMENT: 'Give yourself and allies within 20 tiles a bonus of 20 armour for 1 turn. This effect does not stack.' with its price stated as COST, ACTION POINTS: 1, WILL POINTS: 6, and B CANCEL / A CONFIRM at the foot, the ability is a purchase, priced in two currencies, before it is an effect
• the squad lives bottom left as six portraits under the name 7 ZUZANA KRUGER, HP 260/260, WP 6/6, each portrait carrying a level number and a weapon icon, so the whole squad's readiness is one glance
• the weapon panel bottom right names the VDM DEFENDER and tabulates it like a datasheet: DAMAGE 30x4, SHRED 1x4, MAGAZINES 0, AMMO 40/40, burst count and shred are given the same weight as damage
• the battlefield itself is read through the card: soldiers and the target structure render as pale holograms inside the ability's preview, with a 260-point health bar over the structure and red rings under each figure, so aiming the buff is also reading who is in range

Top 3 colors

#291d21 24%#15141b 23%#2f2b34 15%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Snapshot Games, Phoenix Point screenshot: Steam trailer (Gameplay Trailer), Snapshot Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Snapshot Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-28. verified 2026-10-28: scene-change survivor candidates/v0_0003.png @ 10.67s in the Gameplay Trailer, MD5 dd0472fc9568d9d99f5063437504d314, from the verified-clean Steam download (37,837,561 B, MD5 e02aef06ea8bf3594d1b7bfc95cb92e4; full decode to null with -xerror exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the OBJECTIVES list, the full Electric Reinforcement card with AP/WP costs, the six-portrait squad bar and the VDM Defender stats all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

not verified in Phase 1; Phase 2 to confirm before ingest

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