The dynamically generated comics covers are emblematic of the way this game can be janky and even dangerously close to maximum derpitude, but they manage to salvage a dorky and endearing little feature out of it. The comics are an extension – they might actually be a direct copy, come to think of it – of the propaganda posters in XCOM 2. After a mission, based on the mission parameters, a comic book cover is dynamically generated. More often than not, it’s going to look silly, but you can tell what they’re going for. Here’s the mission I just played:
Risible, right? Well, if you care, you can use these covers as artwork to hang around your base. But perhaps you take some pride in your base and you don’t want that derpy looking clip-art jumble hovering over you. In which case, here’s how that “Edit Photo” button in the lower left corner can help:
Still kinda derpy, still obviously a rudimentary clip art program, but it was trivially easy for me to tweak what had been created, stick that thought bubble into the mix, and add it to my collection. Here are a couple of others I’ve made, by which I mean I’ve iterated on what was dynamically generated to make it look better. This one shows off one of the better filter effects on the character models:
Here’s another one I kind of like, again just tweaking the elements I was provided.
You can get a lot more elaborate with arranging, posing, and rotating the character models, which I don’t think you could do in XCOM? Unfortunately, you can’t write your own text, so you’re stuck tabbing through random, random, random, random, random, random until you find something that seems to fit. I guess otherwise all the posters would be dick jokes and 420 references and Captain Marvel/Hunter slashfic, and we can’t have that, since this is a multiplayer game with a playerbase composed mostly of minors. Oh, wait, no it isn’t. Maybe because it’s a Disney property? I dunno. Frankly, I’m okay with not having to think up what my superhero is going to say or what I’m going to title this issue.
So I’d encourage everyone to post some of their better Midnight Suns comics covers, but only if you also talk about the game! For each comic book cover you post, you must also add some observation about the gameplay! Otherwise, Caretaker will come in here and scold you.