Goal Bonus for alternate play styles

[jknut]

While I really like the turn goal and bonus, it encourages a fast and nimble play style.

It would be nice to have 2 different goals for preferred play style:

Goal Option 1: "Fast & Nimble" - current system that is turn based
Goal Option 2: "Destructive & Controlling" - based on Xenos killed and TP controlled at one time (for example, 2 or 3 TPs controlled at one time during playthrough and 50 Xenos killed... it will have to be changed based on level)

"Fast & Nimble" would encourage mostly ranged attacks with highly mobile units and Engineers who can quickly convert a TP.

"Destructive & Controlling" would encourage more melee use and TP defending.

I think a Splinter Cell game had something similar where you get still get awards based on different play styles (eg. Stealth or Full-out Assault).

[Cory Trese]

Short Answer: Sure, we'll have lots of Awards/Achievements for different play styles.

Longer Answer: But those cannot be core -- certainly, we must provide strong guidance for the general player to measure against. And that's the game -- moving fast, killing quick, never getting bogged down.

[drspendlove]

Perhaps on future levels (not existing ones so you don't modify RQ progress for the main campaign) you could add a bonus for "no dead templars" +5% XP & RP. If you did this, you'd want to change the language for difficulties and settings that aren't using permadeath to "incapacitated templars".