XCOM: Chimera Squad - humans and aliens team up

dear god the fucking cringe

 

Excellent turn based combat , as good if not better than xcom2 , it seems they inspired themselves from "this is the police" , its about the same thing, you have a much smaller team and cant afford to lose anyone. Some missions are surprisingly hard, just finished first faction it was lot more challenging than usual.Really a good surprise and its not only cause of the quarantine.
However that's a game i cannot recommend to codexers, the members of the prestigious place who nominated disco as best rpg of the year . This one has lot of gameplay, you wont like that , it focus on tactical combat and the writing is not pretentious , quite often humoristic even. No more ol' xcom grimdark, no grey eminence leading you, just a friendly coach and a team of misfit aliens and humans.

 

LMAO Steam is blocking me from posting a negative review about the game. Fucking hilarious.




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Weird how when you have to extract your team and someone is left behind (bleeding out or similar), it's still a success.

 

Most of the bad reviews has been canceled also.

 

The littlest bit of voice modulation would vastly improve all of the Alien VO.

 

There is also the robot you make. So it's not technically all premade characters. I can easily see XCOM3 working like a Jagged Alliance game where you've got both. But with created characters being a more generic kind of soilder with the same skill trees and classes, (like the previous games) and unique premade characters that are basically their own classes.

 

Have they improved the combat at all from the previous games?

 

LoL what an sjw garbage buahahahahaha. At this point i love seeing old franchises getting raped by this retardation lol.

 

I dunno about improved, they just added some mechanics and streamlined a lot of stuff from XCOM2

 

LoL video from the shill.

 

Yeah. It's the same, but different. If you hate XCOM combat, this won't change your mind, but it's not same old same old either.

 

also weird how you get intel from captives on extractions

 

I mean as far as X-com spinoffs go it sounds like absolute solid gold compared to the likes of Interceptor, Enforcer, the Bureau, etc. It at least has more of a connection to the thing it's spun off from in that it's still turn based tactics.

Also wonder if someone will mod the writing and change the tone of the game. Hiiiiiiilarious alien bantz does sound obnoxious and either trying to go for gritty cop drama and tensions among the team, or going for essentially playing Advent after the collapse of the ethereals would be more interesting. Would take an extraordinary amount of autism to rewrite a turn based tactics game from scratch, but I guess it's possible. Quick fix might be neutering in-mission bantz and replacing voices with general Xcom 2 voice packs which if it's as moddable as Xcom 2 is would be easy I'd assume.

Also just notice it's $8 at Humble so fuck it, think I'll grab it. Doubt the ayys will bug me enough to ruin it and $8's pretty fucking cheap for what sounds like an interesting enough spinoff, especially one with mod potential. Although I won't play it yet since I'm more interested in diving in on Gears Tactics, and that'll give modders some time to see if they'll improve this. $8 though is closer to the fucking chief alien DLC for Xcom 2. Still confused as to why they launched this so cheap but I guess it's working on me.

 

That's the first case I've seen in this game of an alien saying something that would never be be said by a human, apart from superficial biological references. "Aliens" my ass.

 

I've been meaning to play this for a while. I got about an hour into it and it didn't seem bad. Does it get worse?

 

Not really, but I wouldn't say it gets better either. And then continues that way. It's still better than Enforcer and Interceptor but as far as mole-poppers go it's not all that great. Even if it lets you tastefully rape some aliens which is sorely lacking in Xcom 2 and was only implied in Xcom EU.

 

This game is making me feel like every time I watch Demolition Man. It's good silly fun, but there's always that nagging feeling of "There's no way the world has become like that in such a short amount of time" at the back of my head.

 

My bad, Yosharian. Didn't keep up with the thread.

 

The minute I saw the Steam thumbnail advertisement and the "bi-sexual lighting" I thought oh boy here we go... Just what Nu-XCOM needs, more diversity!

Sounds like gameplay is pretty shit anyway so I can give this a big old pass. Hilarious they are selling it 50% off day one, I guess they knew it was a turd?

Sad, as I ended up liking XCOM2 with the Chosen expansion, and was pretty hyped for 3.

 

They asked low price because this is obviously a mobile game that was changed last minute to be PC and added cheap voiceovers.

 

I don't really see the similarities beyond common non-specific elements like turn-based tactical missions. If anything, XCOM: Chimera Squad being a spinoff budget title that has been reduced in scope reminds me a little of This is the Police's own spinoff Rebel Cops. There is a recently released game that does seem similar to This is the Police called 112 Operator. It's an emergency services dispatcher where players must direct limited resources across a city grid and complete multiple-choice events in the form of calls (voice acted in this case, and some are highly amusing). No noir element though, sadly.

 

Game's not bad so far. The gameplay is something different and for $8 I'm not going to complain. You get some new concepts to play around with, turn ordering is now based entirely on sequencing correctly, there's some nifty gimmicks in play, thematically it looks cool, XCOM's animations/music are fine tuned, and I'm a fan of the aliens aspect in that it gives you a new toolbox of things to play around with. It's not overly complicated by any means, but it's fresh enough.

Story/writing is in fact tremendously worse than what I was prepared for, but I give them credit for at least leaning way, way, way into it. I get the sense that they were going for that like 80s cop/sci-fi vibe mixed with Tumblr shenanigans and, yeah, I'd say they got what they were aiming for. Just that, you know, the fundamental thought behind it is simply not going to be appealing to many; so in some regard I might be biased cause I'm not that audience in the slightest. I think the biggest error with it is neither the quality nor the theme, but just that XCOM2 had a pretty dark tone for the series as a whole so it's like you snap from that to this fluffy stuff - and even in the series' own world it seems way too fast/out of touch. I also might be biased as I do a lot of writing myself and can recognize story beats and character beats, and there's a certain point with some games/movies/etc. where if it's too trite I can predict pretty much what the characters will say (not how they'll say it, but exactly what they'll say, a notable difference) and, yeah, it's just not especially witty let me put it that way. But, again, I do give them credit for going full hog with it.