XCOM: Chimera Squad

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[toku]

looks hot man but its xcom

[thisismyusername]

DATS X-COM 3 BABY.



$10 too? In if the reviews are good (since the launch discount holds post-launch)

[Akala]

same. not huge on having aliens in squad, although I guess it allows more options?

[toku]

It looks really solid. Small scale/stakes x-com. That's cool to me. My biggest worry is it's probably short? Again though, 10 bucks.

[toku]

https://www.twitch.tv/beagsandjam
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/600460225

[thisismyusername]

There's no pre-load.

It's 18gigs, I know but still...

[BIONIC]

Being a console Xcom fan 

[thisismyusername]

Playing X-com on console...

[thisismyusername]

In any case mod support is day one apparently (workshop already has an upload ) so folks will probably work on a "Long War" style mod for this.

That aside, I'm enjoying it. Breaching is surprisingly a fun mechanic, since with the multiple options, you have banes and boons to choose. "First one through the breach gets marked, but at this location (other point) the first one through gains +15% aim, thereby able to hit a target from outside their range easier."

I do wish the game stated what Unrest will do when hit by max. I don't recall them talking about it in the tutorial other than "just try to prevent unrest lol" which is something I'm surprised that 2K/Firaxis, a AAA company, isn't able to fix before launch.

[BIONIC]

Xcom plays perfectly fine with a controller 

[thisismyusername]

Playing X-com on console...

Playing X-com on controller...

[Thirty-Ought-Six]

I played Xcom, Xcom2, and Divinity OS2 on PC, and I preferred all of them with a controller over kb/mouse.

[thisismyusername]

Playing X-com on PC with controller.

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If you don't know by now, I'm fucking with you guys. I don't care how you play it, but lack of mods really hurts console X-com.

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I'm not sure how to handle having only 6 members of the 8 so far and only having 1 slot for research. I'm used to X-com 1/2 where I can just stack a shit ton of scientists and have advanced weapons early game.

[StealthFan]

this game is dope. very fun.

[toku]

Playing X-com on PC with controller.

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If you don't know by now, I'm fucking with you guys. I don't care how you play it, but lack of mods really hurts console X-com.

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I'm not sure how to handle having only 6 members of the 8 so far and only having 1 slot for research. I'm used to X-com 1/2 where I can just stack a shit ton of scientists and have advanced weapons early game.

time to learn tactics!

[thisismyusername]

Fuck that, I'm researching the guns as fast as possible. I haven't even researched defense which will probably bite me in the ass soon.

The snake is so tsundere.

The Muton and "Godmother" units just decimate nearly everything with the starting shotgun so far, so it's going to be interesting to see how many folks they put the fuck to sleep with tranq rounds equipped with the better shotguns.

[thisismyusername]

The first "boss" of the former X-COM faction.

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Having to shutdown the teleporter while dealing with like 6 enemies and the boss that keeps popping up, hitting one of your teammates and then popping back down to where they can't fire on him.

First of the three factions done.

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So since that battle is won, the games map is now going to have 2 for Anarchy increase, 1 for situations increase (to 2) and keep the same mission ignored +2 anger for the district. Thankfully, I have level 1 security (the middle one that lowers 2 anger or whatever it's called on Fridays) and using the "lower anger in a district" and "freeze anger in district" abilities means I just now need to research getting the security teams on the map to level 2/3 to get a MASSIVE information boost (since I monopolized the map with that) and lower anger while continuing to research "Master Work" guns by getting Elerium and money for the Master Work guns ASAP.

The laser sight and scope are pretty devastating otherwise. Get the Muton and "Godmother" units with the shotguns upclose or mid-range and it's GG for most enemies so far.

[Mr Gilhaney]

I play xcom on my ipad. 

[thisismyusername]

I play xcom on my ipad. 

Playing the horrible Chinese port of X-com on mobile... This one is sincere:

[kingv]

X-com? More like Chi-Com hurddurrr!

Glad peeps are liking this. I will probably cop it.

[thisismyusername]

Second of the three big-bads down. Finally nearly done with Masterwork of all the base weapons.  Still haven't researched armor. Team I'm trying to level up to cap so I can drop them and level the last 2-3 for my main-team are a little behind, so I'm nearly dead in some missions as my medic/Torque is maxed so I have her training right now to get her stats buffed.

Games really good (IMO), but it sorely needed some balance in regards to training/research/Spec Ops speed-ups if you are past your 4-squad limit. You're capped to 8 (of the 11) members in your team in the game, and 4 of them are basically sitting "idle" otherwise unless you research a certain topic that'll let you FINALLY use all 4 instead of 3 for side-stuff.

X-com? More like Chi-Com hurddurrr!

Glad peeps are liking this. I will probably cop it.

My dude, the 2K China port of X-com is horrible. Disappearing walls, disappearing cursor/movement. I suffered the Velveta port of that and would not recommend that (or the mobile) port to anyone, ever.

[kingv]

This is pretty good but I'm getting a ton of crashes.

[toku]

This is pretty good but I'm getting a ton of crashes.

part of the classic day 1 xcom experience

[thisismyusername]

This is pretty good but I'm getting a ton of crashes.

Better than it eating your fucking loadout.

Yes, I'm mad. Even if it wasn't Epic weapons (THANK FUCK).

Thankfully, it's a noted problem. But still: Really fucking annoying and the only way around it is to use credits (which I'm poor in right now so I had to cheat it) and buy an additional android/robot to get around. Problem is, this won't work with pistol users. So RIP there.

To enable the console:

You must first add the following as a command line parameter to XCOM :
-allowconsole (if you add "-autodebug" too you can start a game with almost all items )

Right-click the XCOM 2 shortcut (might need to make a copy of the Xcom.exe to do this), select Properties and add it at the end of the "Target"-field so that it looks something like this: \XCOM Chimera Squad\Binaries\Win64\xcom.exe" -allowconsole -autodebug

Press tilde/~ in game to get the console (obviously).

useful cheats :


giveMeTonsOfResources [amount of ALL the resources you want: The three on the bar. You can't get just credits it seems. :/ So I went with like 100-200 to not break it]

This will break the enjoyment ones

GiveFieldTeam x

PromoteAllMax

giveAllItems xxxx

unlockAllResearch

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[thisismyusername]

Holy shit, these last story missions.

Don't be fast-forwarding through the story, I guess. I still have/had some research to do and training to do. My anarchy meter never filled because I was pretty fast with missions. But these last few, don't go in with Tranq rounds. Go in with damage and intent to kill. You'll know what I mean when the final of the three investigations are done.

[thisismyusername]

Finished.

It was good fun for $10. But the imitative system needs a lot of work. It becomes more useful later in the game, but when you're able to 1-2 shot 2-4 enemies of like 6 in the breach mode, there's very little reason to care about it.

[toku]

if you guys are going xcom crazy phantom doctrine is on sale 80% off:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/559100/Phantom_Doctrine/

[thisismyusername]

if you guys are going xcom crazy phantom doctrine is on sale 80% off:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/559100/Phantom_Doctrine/

Shark gave me that for free before this sale. But my impressions are "it's alright, but it's really not worth the cash/time." Which is a shame, as Cold War X-com was right up my alley. But the fact it doesn't explain ANY of it's systems (and there's a manual patched into the game now but no tutorials/etc) really hurts it.

[toku]

Yeah I've only ever heard mixed impressions but at that discount I figured some might be willing to chance it.