XCOM: Chimera Squad - humans and aliens team up

[eXalted]

So, an Xcom without the emergent narrative in your head part. At
least it's only $10 right now.



XPiratez has me now. Can't believe this is mod by one person only.

 

[Mazisky]

So, an Xcom without the emergent narrative in your head part. At
least it's only $10 right now.



XPiratez has me now. Can't believe this is mod by one person only.

This Chimera Squad stays at Xcom 2 like Thronebreaker stays at the Witcher 3.

 

[lightbane]

I like how not only how hideously ugly is the last character trailer, but the guy is pretty much brainwashed/convinced to fight for the Chimera Squad in no uncertain terms. But it is totally fine guys, he joined the good guys (even if he had no choice in the matter), this is not a subtle ADVENT's police state propaganda, totes.

 

[Infinitron]

Watch the Agent Profile for Patchwork, one of the playable Agents in XCOM: Chimera Squad. Subscribe to the XCOM channel for more gameplay videos and upcoming profiles on new agents: http://2kgam.es/XCOMYT

Patchwork lost her entire family during the invasion and suffered three traumatic amputations. She ended up in an ADVENT orphanage, where she was fitted with prosthetic limbs and trotted out as propaganda, proof of the aliens’ benevolence. Brilliantly intelligent, her aptitude with technology was rivaled only by her curiosity. After discovering evidence of ADVENT atrocities, she engineered her own rescue by XCOM and joined their cause.

Patchwork’s specialty is all-caps TECH. She is a valuable combatant against robotic enemies, a master hacker of security systems, and an expert in the strategic application of deadly electric shocks.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

These backstories sure are getting more slight. Her's is: I got robot limbs.

This also might make her the lamest take on RoboCop there's ever been. You'd think if you were going with the idea of making everyone a unique personality the idea would be to make everyone interesting.

 

[Taxnomore]

At least we still have anime for a dose of normalcy.

 

[Galdred]

So, they got rid of generated characters, and permadeath. Does it mean that missions are also preset?

 

[lightbane]

These backstories sure are getting more slight. Her's is: I got robot limbs.

Also: Nurse Vipers! And a black doctor, of course. Can't have enough diversity points.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Watch the Agent Profile for Patchwork, one of the playable Agents in XCOM: Chimera Squad. Subscribe to the XCOM channel for more gameplay videos and upcoming profiles on new agents: http://2kgam.es/XCOMYT

Patchwork lost her entire family during the invasion and suffered three traumatic amputations. She ended up in an ADVENT orphanage, where she was fitted with prosthetic limbs and trotted out as propaganda, proof of the aliens’ benevolence. Brilliantly intelligent, her aptitude with technology was rivaled only by her curiosity. After discovering evidence of ADVENT atrocities, she engineered her own rescue by XCOM and joined their cause.

Patchwork’s specialty is all-caps TECH. She is a valuable combatant against robotic enemies, a master hacker of security systems, and an expert in the strategic application of deadly electric shocks.

Wait, if she lost her entire family to the aliens and was made a cripple by them, why is she working with aliens? Shouldn't she have massive chip on her shoulder? What is this writing?

Re(ee) Snake Girls :
I blame monster musume. That had a snake girl...except she was human above the waist so it was almost fine. This though is scaley territory. Which is basically furry except with reptiles and therefore extra heresy

 

[Infinitron]

Wait, if she lost her entire family to the aliens and was made a cripple by them, why is she working with aliens? Shouldn't she have massive chip on her shoulder? What is this writing?

OK I hate to ruin the parade but this isn't as great an argument as people think. If she's on the Chimera Squad, she must be the kind of person who doesn't hold grudges. There might be hundreds of millions of people whose families were killed by the aliens, but the Chimera Squad only needs to select from the ones willing to let it go.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Wait, if she lost her entire family to the aliens and was made a cripple by them, why is she working with aliens? Shouldn't she have massive chip on her shoulder? What is this writing?

OK I hate to ruin the parade but this isn't as great an argument as people think. If she's on the Chimera Squad, she must be the kind of person who doesn't hold grudges. There might be hundreds of millions of people whose families were killed by the aliens, but the Chimera Squad only needs to select from the ones willing to let it go.

Who wouldn't hold a grudge against them?
She lost her entire family and lost her limbs to them. I find not having some level of grievance towards the invaders to be highly improbable and unrealistic. This was 5 years ago too. That is way too short of an amount of time to simply get over it.
I understand where you're coming from, and logically yes, if one is on a task force such as the chimera squad then one would expect its members to be tolerant. The problem though is that someone with her past shouldn't be that tolerant because of the gravity of what was done to her.

 

[Empary]

They should set it further in the future, to dodge those retardisms

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

They should set it further in the future, to dodge those retardisms

Yeah, it should be 15-20 years into the future, not a mere 5.

 

[Saduj]

OK I hate to ruin the parade but this isn't as great an argument as people think. If she's on the Chimera Squad, she must be the kind of person who doesn't hold grudges. There might be hundreds of millions of people whose families were killed by the aliens, but the Chimera Squad only needs to select from the ones willing to let it go.

I could buy that kind of story for a social worker but this is someone who is also supposed to be highly effective in combat. She forgives her family's murderers but has no problem killing people who are motivated by the exact kind of tragedy she herself has experienced? The only way such a character works for me is as a psychopath who is doing her best work her way up the ranks of what she expects to be the winning side of the conflict.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Watch the Agent Profile for Patchwork, one of the playable Agents in XCOM: Chimera Squad. Subscribe to the XCOM channel for more gameplay videos and upcoming profiles on new agents: http://2kgam.es/XCOMYT

Patchwork lost her entire family during the invasion and suffered three traumatic amputations. She ended up in an ADVENT orphanage, where she was fitted with prosthetic limbs and trotted out as propaganda, proof of the aliens’ benevolence. Brilliantly intelligent, her aptitude with technology was rivaled only by her curiosity. After discovering evidence of ADVENT atrocities, she engineered her own rescue by XCOM and joined their cause.

Patchwork’s specialty is all-caps TECH. She is a valuable combatant against robotic enemies, a master hacker of security systems, and an expert in the strategic application of deadly electric shocks.

ayo hol' up
how did she go from an orphanage to being a secret supersoldier leet hacker in the span of 5 years? was this an orphanage for adults or something?
ADVENT wasn't in the first nu-xcom, right? So that places her backstory after that.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

is this government funded propaganda?

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Trash Player]

Wait, if she lost her entire family to the aliens and was made a cripple by them, why is she working with aliens? Shouldn't she have massive chip on her shoulder? What is this writing?

OK I hate to ruin the parade but this isn't as great an argument as people think. If she's on the Chimera Squad, she must be the kind of person who doesn't hold grudges. There might be hundreds of millions of people whose families were killed by the aliens, but the Chimera Squad only needs to select from the ones willing to let it go.

Who wouldn't hold a grudge against them?
She lost her entire family and lost her limbs to them. I find not having some level of grievance towards the invaders to be highly improbable and unrealistic. This was 5 years ago too. That is way too short of an amount of time to simply get over it.
I understand where you're coming from, and logically yes, if one is on a task force such as the chimera squad then one would expect its members to be tolerant. The problem though is that someone with her past shouldn't be that tolerant because of the gravity of what was done to her.

Well, the trailer doesn't really specify how she got maimed, just during the invasion. It can even be a freak accident.

 

[Infinitron]

Watch the Agent Profile for Shelter, one of the playable Agents in XCOM: Chimera Squad. Subscribe to the XCOM channel for more gameplay videos and upcoming profiles on new agents: http://2kgam.es/XCOMYT

Shelter was separated from his family during the invasion, then processed into a resettlement camp. When he started showing signs of psionic aptitude, he was shipped off to an ADVENT research facility for human-born psions. ADVENT forced him to use his abilities to harm others, and he ultimately fled their control.

Now part of XCOM’s Chimera Squad, Shelter prefers to use his psionic powers defensively. He buffs his allies, relocates both friend and foe, and can even create a psionic clone with those same abilities.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Obvious lie.

 

[Mazisky]

I had an interesting thought: do you remember before the Xcom 2 announce, all that marketing stuff with mysterious website about abductions, etc? It lasted a couple of months before they finally announced Xcom2.

I think this game may be just marketing stuff for the Xcom 3 announce.

 

[Alienman]

More and more I feel we are going to play the bad dudes (which actually makes this title much more interesting).

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Wait, if she lost her entire family to the aliens and was made a cripple by them, why is she working with aliens? Shouldn't she have massive chip on her shoulder? What is this writing?

OK I hate to ruin the parade but this isn't as great an argument as people think. If she's on the Chimera Squad, she must be the kind of person who doesn't hold grudges. There might be hundreds of millions of people whose families were killed by the aliens, but the Chimera Squad only needs to select from the ones willing to let it go.

Who wouldn't hold a grudge against them?
She lost her entire family and lost her limbs to them. I find not having some level of grievance towards the invaders to be highly improbable and unrealistic. This was 5 years ago too. That is way too short of an amount of time to simply get over it.
I understand where you're coming from, and logically yes, if one is on a task force such as the chimera squad then one would expect its members to be tolerant. The problem though is that someone with her past shouldn't be that tolerant because of the gravity of what was done to her.

Maybe she won't work with some of them?

It seems pretty stupid to think she must hate all aliens because some aliens killed her parents. But, it does also seem dumb that she'd be cool with working with the one alien (Verge) they said was an early key figure in the invasion of Earth...even if at some point he started helping humans because of a side effect of mind controlling them.

Some maybe some of Chimera Squad work better and worse with one another, and maybe some won't work with each other.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

More and more I feel we are going to play the bad dudes (which actually makes this title much more interesting).

Some of the stuff they've released, especially that bit about propaganda, does seem like this game will end like this:

 

[baud]

More and more I feel we are going to play the bad dudes (which actually makes this title much more interesting).

I think it's too ballsy for a big-name studio/publisher, especially if the devs keep that a secret until the release. I mean remember the heat Obsidian got for the tagline 'Evil Has Won' of Tyranny