XCOM: Chimera Squad announced for PC
By Mike de Leon
Posted on April 14, 2020
Publisher 2K Games announced an all-new title to the XCOM tactical series is coming in a few short weeks. XCOM: Chimera Squad will be released digitally for PC via Steam on April 24, 2020, ith a limited-time piece of $9.99. The price will increase to $19.99 on May 1, 2020.
“We’re inspired by our passionate community and excited by the opportunity to create a dynamic, innovative, and unique XCOM experience for both fans of our games and new players in XCOM: Chimera Squad.”
-President at Firaxis Games, Steve Martin
Chimera Squad takes place five years after the events of XCOM 2, as a new cooperative civilization has been forged by the humans, hybrids, and aliens. As you may expect, not everyone is happy about Earth having multiple dominant species. A mysterious organization threatens the peace of City 31, destroying all the efforts of keeping the interspecies alliance together. As the Chimera Squad, a mix of elite forces across all races, you must hunt down the underground threats and save the city.
Set five years after the events of XCOM 2, humans, hybrids, and aliens are now working together to forge a civilization of cooperation and co-existence. However, not all of Earth's inhabitants support the interspecies alliance. City 31, a model of peace in a post-invasion world, is opposed by mysterious groups whose agendas threaten to shatter this delicate interspecies alliance. Chimera Squad, an elite force of human, hybrid, and alien agents must work together to destroy the underground threats driving the city toward chaos.
The following overview is from the Steam page:
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.
