2751

Sigh…well i bought and played all the knock offs (except rage because WTF), I guess its time to revist the classic, thats still the best of the best.

2752

Personally I find 1.13 to be too much. I prefer using Stracciatella, which provides a vanilla version of the game with higher resolution support.

What I’d really love though, is to have mouse-wheel zoom in support like the Beamdog enhanced editions. To me, that’s the thing I want most in any isometric game that gets too tiny at high res.

2753

Huh, Gears Tactics coming out, and now…

“With XCOM: Chimera Squad , we felt there were exciting gameplay opportunities yet to be discovered within the XCOM universe,” said Mark Nauta, Lead Designer at Firaxis Games. “Gameplay like Breach Mode, interleaved turn order, and the introduction of agents as fully fleshed-out characters will revolutionize how the game plays while still retaining the combat experience that makes the XCOM series so loved by gaming communities around the world.”

XCOM: Chimera Squad includes the following 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 : Players will shape the battlefield to their advantage with a new combat phase that injects squads right into action. They will strategically assign agents to different entry points and coordinate their assault plans with a range of Breach-specific skills;
  • Interleaved Turns : An automatic initiative system will slot 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 so;
  • Suspenseful Strategy Layer : Outside of combat, players will manage the operations of a high-tech HQ, where they 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.

As part of 2K’s XCOM franchise sale that will celebrate the support of its global community, XCOM: Chimera Squad will be available at launch as a single digital download for Windows PC on Steam at the special limited-time introductory price of $9.99. It will be available at its suggested retail price of $19.99 on May 1, 2020.

2754

50% off introductory pricing? Weird.

2755

Joy is unbounded. What great news amongst the misery! Will definitely get this and Gears.

Judging by the trailer EUR 9.99 is a steal…

Gameplay overview

2756

Who are we to question? ;-)

2757

I have never pre-ordered so fast in my life!

2758

I already preordered, obviously, but there are definitely some things about this I suspect aren’t for me.

I hope and assume that Jake has been working on a real XCOM game, but this will certainly be an interesting diversion. I can’t believe it’s only $10, that’s crazy. Also crazy what this does to the canon. It’s only supposed to take place 5 years after XCOM2.

2759

I thought we killed all of the aliens at the end of XCOM 2?

2760

I take it the X-COM and XCOM canons are separate?

Ha ha – same. I don’t know why, but the timing (pandemic quarantine) and price along with the urgency to purchase before a price hike triggered the buy impulse. I’d pay an extra $5 if I could play it right now!

2761

At the very least, Skirmishers are aliens.

2762

Well, they are on our side.

2763

The Elders are dead, but the various aliens they enslaved or created didn’t all drop dead. It doesn’t seem unreasonable some would have surrendered or otherwise gone peaceful, although being part of an elite squad 5 years later seems like it might be a bit of a stretch ;)

2764

I preordered and after I paid, did I see the site I was preordering on had playstation3 in its url. Did I preorder the ps3 version? because I don’t have a fucking ps3 :/

2765

What are you talking about? :)

2766

Well I clicked thru the preorder link someone posted and then I received a confirmation mail where the link goes to https://secure.xsolla.com/paystation3/desktop/status/?access…
In that screen it tells me I preordered xcom chimera, but not on what system or whatever. It’s just a tenner, but dang.

2767

This reminds me a lot of X-Com Apocalypse where you were limited to a single city. Instead of having to appease countries, you had to deal with corporations.

But for $10, yeah, I pre-ordered as well.

2768

It say ‘Pay Station’ mate :D

2769

Boughten. Xcom 2 is my most played steam game. I just keep coming back to it. I am currently farthest in a commander run than I ever have been.

2770

I was thinking that too. In this one you have sections of the city growing in unrest. You need to tamp that down.

So if X-COM Apoc could have served as an abstract inspiration for this, I wonder if there could be some interesting variant on Terror from the Deep in the future? Maybe the aliens still have a foothold deep beneath the waves?