XCOM: Chimera Squad

[6souls]

New campaign coming out, currently 50% off for steam. I see no mention of a console release. Has an actual plot and characters, seems interesting.



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After years of alien rule, humanity won the war for Earth. But when the Overlords fled the planet, they left their former soldiers behind. Now, five years after the events of XCOM 2, humans and aliens are working together to forge a civilization of cooperation and coexistence.

Welcome to City 31, a model of peace in a post-invasion world. However, not all of Earth’s inhabitants support interspecies alliance. Chimera Squad, an elite force of human and alien agents, must work together to destroy the underground threats driving the city toward chaos.

Your agents are unique: each of them equipped with special tactical abilities and driven by a different motivation for joining Chimera Squad. Deploy targeted team members to investigate and combat the dangers that pervade the districts of City 31. Lead Chimera Squad through a new experience that innovates on XCOM‘s turn-based legacy, utilizing strategy, teamwork, and new breach-and-clear gameplay to complete your mission objectives.

The future of City 31 depends on you.

Key Features

• Unique Alien and Human Agents – Each of the 11 agents have their own distinct personality and tactical abilities, including species-specific attacks like the Viper’s tongue pull.

• Specialized and Complementary Classes – Execute devastating combos by teaming the right agents and utilizing cooperative actions. The difference between mission success and failure can depend wholly on team composition.

• Re-Envisioned Tactical Combat – Missions are structured as a series of discrete, explosive encounters, keeping the action intense and unpredictable.

• Breach Mode – Shape the battlefield to your advantage with a new combat phase that injects your squad right into action. Strategically assign your agents to different entry points and coordinate their assault with a range of Breach-specific skills.

• Interleaved Turns – An automatic initiative system slots individual agents and enemies into an alternating turn order, creating new strategic possibilities based on what unit is queued to act next—and what unit is at the greatest risk when they do.

• Suspenseful Strategy Layer – Outside of combat, manage the operations of a high-tech HQ, where you must prioritize competing tasks, investigations, and agent assignments in the face of a ticking clock: the constantly rising unrest in the city’s various districts, driving City 31 closer and closer to total anarchy.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/8...Chimera_Squad/

[Salodin]

Made a new thread cause it's actually/officially a stand-alone game and not an expansion to XCOM 1/2.

Playing it now and it's not bad. Takes a lot of getting used to, but the new systems are actually interesting and they're giving you a lot of ways to manage your city and squad that are reminiscent of the world map in OG XCOM, but still has a few new twists to keep things fresh. For some reason though I feel like the visuals took a step back, almost as if this was made to be a high end mobile game and they instead upped the resolution a bit and released it on PC. It's noticeable, but not enough to take away from the game. It's currently $10, and it's a steal at that price. Give it a shot!

[Tyrath]

I'm annoyed that a regular run of the game doesn't let you get all squad members.

Other than that I'm having a blast.