XCOM: Chimera Squad - humans and aliens team up

[Mark Richard]

Figured by the premise this was going to be 50 years in the future, but according to the gameplay footage, the liberation of earth happened a mere five years ago. There's posters and shop signs adorned with alien advertisements that include, at best guess, an upcoming Muton boxing/UFC match and a Viper model selling some kind of perfume or drink. Chimera squad are tasked with enforcing the rule of law, yet some of their own members are former oppressors.

Are we sure the humans won? It sounds like in this world you have every chance of getting pulled over for speeding by a Muton cop, who turns out to have killed your wife and children during the occupation. What an awkward conversation that would be. I wonder if he'd let you off with a warning? That should even things out.

Premise is exactly the same as with Apocalypse - humans won but a lot of sectoid hybrids left, so they had to integrate with the society. Here, it seems a lot of aliens got stranded on Earth.

Apocalypse was set 50 years after the previous game, hence the amusing scenario. This isn't a case of judging a race by the crimes of their ancestors, the actual guy who killed your family is right there! And he's sponsored by coca-cola!

 

[thesheeep]

the actual guy who killed your family is right there! And he's sponsored by coca-cola!

He was being remote-controlled by brainwavy evil guys, though.
Hard to blame that on him.

Then again, even if he wasn't, Nestle would likely still sponsor him...

 

[Turuko]

looks like a rushed mobile port
bet it has lootboxes

sudden announcement + days before the gears tactics game is pretty lol

they're feeding off their marketing

 

[BarbequeMasta]

Switching to every unit having it's own intiative is good.
Everything else is degenerate fucking bullshit, RIP XCOM, maybe the long war devs can continue your legacy...

 

[Justicar]

This game got Far cry new dawned.

 

[ArchAngel]

Switching to ervry unit having it's own intiative is good.
Everything else is degenerate fucking bullshit, RIP XCOM, maybe the long war devs can continue your legacy...

This is not the main Xcom game, just a side project. The main design guy behind nuXcom games didn't even work on this.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

Switching to ervry unit having it's own intiative is good.
Everything else is degenerate fucking bullshit, RIP XCOM, maybe the long war devs can continue your legacy...

This is not the main Xcom game, just a side project. The main design guy behind nuXcom games didn't even work on this.

That's good, I hope this shit doesnt ruin XCOM 3 then.

 

[Mazisky]

Switching to ervry unit having it's own intiative is good.
Everything else is degenerate fucking bullshit, RIP XCOM, maybe the long war devs can continue your legacy...

This is not the main Xcom game, just a side project. The main design guy behind nuXcom games didn't even work on this.

That's good, I hope this shit doesnt ruin XCOM 3 then.

It won't. This is like Far Cry blood dragon. They gave the junior developers the lead of this side project just to have fun. The main team is working on Xcom 3 since years.

 

[Zombra]

Just heard about this. XCOM meets Shadow Watch? Not gonna lie, that sounds great. I haven't watched the trailers yet though.

 

[Space Satan]

The other solution is xenocide which I don't think they would be capable of doing. And I'm saying in terms of means not morality.
Those freed from mind control/influence aliens still have access to their guns, resources, still can easily group up.
It would end with a massive "civil" war. Which in its own right could've been a subject for a cool game.
Like reverse XCOM 2, but now you are fighting the "resitance".

In Apocalypse, you CAN support the xenocide by declining to save sectoids, who were used as a food for Alien Queen.
And the ending of War of the Chosen showed that aliens gladly turned themselves in because they were literally all slaves to some psionic shit

 

[BarbequeMasta]

Mind controlled or not, If I can't murder all the alien shit faces in XCOM 3, am not getting it.

 

[Silva]

Codex turned into a bunch of old faggots. Game looks great and I'm hyped as fuck.

 

[Zombra]

I thought I hated XCOM 1/2 aesthetics, I thought it to be way too cartoony and goofy compared to the broody vibe of the original. I never dreamt it could get even worse. Much worse.

First thing I will look for is a texture mod to get rid of Muton pupils. That one fix will take away 90% of the "Muppet Factor".

 

[Mazisky]

At least they ensured full mod support like Xcom 2, so the game may have potential.

 

[baud]

At least they ensured full mod support like Xcom 2, so the game may have potential.

Well, if at least there's a mod that would allow me to roll with a full human squad and slaughter some aliens, maybe.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm not sure what's worse, xeno scum or xeno sympathizers.

 

[Saduj]

Would be funny if, immediately after the end of the final mission, a cut scene shows the aliens on your squad shooting their unsuspecting human teammates in the face. Then an ending slide explains that the "friendly alien" charade was just a plot to eliminate the humans who would be most likely to lead the resistance during the next invasion (with your team contributing greatly to that effort), setting the stage for the Xcom 3: People Are Suckers.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Come to think of it, is Xcom shown to be an entity in this? Bradford's presumably still beheading ayys with a machete and releasing videos of it, but none of the troops have Xcom symbols/logos anywhere on them, and if you watch the gameplay trailer it carefully says you're Chimera Squad rather than directly associated with Xcom. Wouldn't be surprised if you have to hunt down some Xcom members beheading grays. Didn't carefully rewatch everything once I thought of this so maybe there is a direct Xcom association somewhere in there though, rather than just being the police.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

Codex turned into a bunch of old faggots. Game looks great and I'm hyped as fuck.

This game fans jack off to snake boobs fan art and we're the faggots?

 

[Silva]

At least they ensured full mod support like Xcom 2, so the game may have potential.

Well, if at least there's a mod that would allow me to roll with a full human squad and slaughter some aliens, maybe.

Sweden mod. Christians and muslims squad hunting down anti-rape protesters.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Come to think of it, is Xcom shown to be an entity in this? Bradford's presumably still beheading ayys with a machete and releasing videos of it, but none of the troops have Xcom symbols/logos anywhere on them, and if you watch the gameplay trailer it carefully says you're Chimera Squad rather than directly associated with Xcom. Wouldn't be surprised if you have to hunt down some Xcom members beheading grays. Didn't carefully rewatch everything once I thought of this so maybe there is a direct Xcom association somewhere in there though, rather than just being the police.

 

[BarbequeMasta]

so we're fucked.

 

[AdamReith]

Game is an in-universe psyop by alien overlords to accept their new masters?

 

[Mazisky]

It's nice that even if this is a small game like Invisible Inc., they managed to feature a strategic layer also.

 

[Zombra]

Come to think of it, is Xcom shown to be an entity in this? Bradford's presumably still beheading ayys with a machete and releasing videos of it, but none of the troops have Xcom symbols/logos anywhere on them, and if you watch the gameplay trailer it carefully says you're Chimera Squad rather than directly associated with Xcom. Wouldn't be surprised if you have to hunt down some Xcom members beheading grays. Didn't carefully rewatch everything once I thought of this so maybe there is a direct Xcom association somewhere in there though, rather than just being the police.

I almost wonder if it started out for them to be official XCOM then later went in the direction of a private force, and this was just an edit they forgot to make. Obviously this is the same universe but how much cooler would it be for Chimera to be an independent task force. I mean even the big coat of arms doesn't say XCOM anywhere on it. I'd like to think that there's more nuance to the story than "Yeah XCOM straight up employs aliens now".