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XCOM Chimera Squad Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Much like it’s titular team of aliens and humans, XCOM: Chimera Squad is made up of a bunch of disparate parts merged into one package – sometimes less than gracefully. This XCOM spin-off is a full-length game set five years after the events of XCOM 2, but it’s by no means an XCOM 3. Instead, it feels more like a beta of sorts for that eventual sequel, setting up how its world has changed in the aftermath of the liberation of Earth and testing the waters with some radical alterations to traditional mechanics, but not in a way that amounts to a particularly polished whole. Rather than fighting an alien invasion or leading a resistance movement, Chimera Squad is basically “XCOM: Cops,” which is still quite compelling despite the lower stakes. Advent is defeated, Earth is saved, and humans and aliens are figuring out how to live in harmony – well, most of them, at least. The light but well-written story has you controlling XCOM’s diverse Chimera Squad as you take to the streets of the massive City 31 to track down a series of shadowy syndicates looking to disturb that fragile peace. With that thematic change also comes a boatload of mechanical ones, some more successful than others.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Missions have been broken into bite-sized chunks, your soldiers’ turns are interwoven with the enemy’s using a new initiative system, and you now start battles with a sudden breach directly into the fray instead of a slow tactical advance. Some of these changes are just different from what we’ve come to expect from Firaxis’ XCOM rather than better or worse, but the focus generally seems to have shifted more toward smaller-scale tactics over long-term strategic decisions, which left Chimera Squad feeling thinner overall. One of Chimera Squad’s largest departures from previous games is that the 11 possible members of your team are unique, predetermined characters with names, distinct personalities, and excellent voice acting. There’s the lovably naive Cherub, an unindoctrinated Advent hybrid clone equipped with a holoshield; the charmingly sarcastic Terminal, a human medic with a high regard for everyone’s safety except her own; and one of my personal favorites, Torque, a deadly viper who’s more accustomed to eating humans than begrudgingly fighting alongside them. By the end of the 20+ hour campaign you’ll have a full team of eight (with only four used during any given mission), and they are all as different on the battlefield as they are off it.

Interleaved Turns.

Each one is essentially their own class, with unique but universally awesome abilities that can range from Terminal’s healing to the psychic manipulation of the endearingly monotone sectoid Verge to Torque using her tongue to pull an enemy across the map before wrapping around and crushing them to death. No matter who you use, nearly every character feels like they have some overpowered ability from the get-go. It breaks the usual rules and progression of XCOM, in which fresh recruits are sent into battle and only the strong (or lucky) survive long enough to learn new tricks, in favor of putting exciting and powerful tools at your fingertips immediately. And I don’t mean “overpowered” as a bad thing here – there’s still plenty of challenge, and the strength of these abilities makes every character valuable and distinct right away. I felt encouraged to mess around with different team compositions and combos even after finding my favorites – also, it just rules to have aliens in XCOM armor on your squad. My main disappointment in the story is that the character of each of your soldiers is only really given time to shine through mid-mission quips and some extremely entertaining but brief dialogue interactions while back at base.Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX

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Despite leveling up with some basic ability progression, the fairly simple story of cracking skulls as an XCOM SWAT team doesn’t make room for any actual character development, leaving the members of your squad as the exact same two-dimensional (if interesting) characters you first meet the whole way through. I actually felt strangely less attached to any of these vibrant personalities than I did my randomly generated but highly customizable soldiers in previous XCOM games. Those blank slates didn’t have well-scripted backstories, but they did have loads of natural story growth – moments where their unexpected heroics on the battlefield shaped my interpretation of who they were, which I could then reflect in their loadout and outfit. With such immutable soldiers and no opportunities offered to see them grow like in Fire Emblem or other RPGs (and visual customization limited only to a single armor tint option), it’s easy to enjoy them but difficult to get attached. Another reason I got more emotionally invested in my past XCOM soldiers is due to one of Chimera Squad’s only outright negative changes: taking damage is almost meaningless now. Because everyone has a name and your squad is finite, permadeath has been entirely removed and the post-mission impact of damage as a whole has been lessened.

Breach Mode.

Soldiers don’t need any time to recover between missions, so you can generally be more reckless without much consequence, significantly lowering the stakes of putting your most valuable players in harm’s way. If someone goes down or takes too much damage during a mission they can potentially get a “scar” that will weaken them until you fix it – slightly lowering things like health or mobility – but I only ever had scars occur three times in my entire 22-hour campaign, and spending time to fix them only took those soldiers out of the field for the equivalent of a mission or two at most. It’s not a good replacement for mortality, and is indicative of the general lack of depth between-mission management now has. Deciding which missions to take and which to skip will affect the Unrest level of City 31’s nine districts, which can lose you the campaign entirely if it gets out of hand. It’s an amusing meta-puzzle to manage, but the Intel Team system that accompanies it seems like of a slapped-on Band Aid to replace base customization. You can use a resource called Intel to build and upgrade Intel Teams in each district, which in turn increase the resources you receive each week… but that’s about it. The only strategy and decision making here is really “what resource do I want more of?” but since the answer is usually all of them all the time, the best response is basically “yes.”Spacebase DF-9

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The excellent visual style and compelling story setup of the politics behind XCOM’s struggle in a post-occupation world does keep the conflict of managing City 31’s panicking population engaging throughout. It’s just that everything you’re asked to do outside of a fight is paper thin, making Chimera Squad feel like nothing more than a testbed for Firaxis to experiment with new gameplay concepts and setup its next big story, while the actual “campaign” structure around those experiments is just a rickety scaffolding to keep it together. Chimera Squad takes place several years after XCOM 2 and its expansions. The alien invaders were driven away, and humanity is now free to live alongside the aliens and hybrids who remained after the war. City 31 is one such mixed-species community, a metropolis of humans, hybrids, and aliens living together in relative harmony. When that harmony is disrupted by a terrorist attack, XCOM’s Chimera Squad is sent in to assist the city’s police as a strike force designed to deal with violent threats. The scope is smaller than either previous XCOM game, which is why this game isn’t called XCOM 3. You aren’t fighting alien invaders across the planet, you’re fighting criminal factions through a city. The stakes aren’t nearly as high, and neither are the scales of the fights or the resource and technology requirements of your campaign.

Re-Envisioned Tactical Combat.

You aren’t trying to piece together every advantage you can get from downed and captured aliens and their weapons; rather you’re gathering intelligence and balancing resources while incrementally improved equipment is introduced through a far less sprawling development curve. The XCOM: Chimera Squad’s reduced scope is most apparent in two places: your squad and the maps where they fight. Instead of managing an entire army of fully customizable soldiers from different countries, your squad consists of a growing handful of premade, fully-voiced characters. There’s Cherub, the shield-toting hybrid who works best as the point man when rushing into the scene; Godmother, the XCOM veteran sent in to help oversee the development of Chimera Squad’s younger faces; Torque, the sharp-tongue snake alien who can yank enemies toward her and bind them; and several more. Since each character has a specific design and skill tree, you can’t customize much more than armor color, compared with the full names/origins/visual design options offered by the previous XCOM games. Unfortunately, that personality is generally flat and boring, like cheap cartoon characters.

The chatter between squadmates has all of the tension and depth of the 1980s G.I. Joe cartoon. The smaller number of more specifically focused characters translates into a smaller squad size overall, which works thanks to the game’s smaller map size. You won’t find big, sprawling war zones in XCOM: Chimera Squad. Maps are generally limited to one street or building, which itself is broken up into individual encounters. For each encounter, you decide which squad members breach at certain points in the map based on their equipment and skills. You can rush in through the front door, blow a hole in the wall with a breach charge, unlock a high-security side door with a keycard, or even send Torque in through a vent to sneak in from behind. Different breach points provide different levels of risk to your squad and can confer benefits, such as more accurate shots. They can also confer penalties, such as getting the attention of every nearby enemy. It all depends on the type and location of the point. When you breach, your squad rushes in and can open fire on enemies caught off-guard, rush into cover to avoid return fire, or employ extra skills that can further change the balance of the fight.

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The breach mechanic replaces the stealth maneuver-and-strike mechanic at the start of XCOM 2’s maps. Once an encounter is cleared and the room is secure, your squad moves on to the next encounter with a new set of breach options. Since each squad member is unique, they aren’t quite as disposable as they were in the previous XCOM games. Deaths aren’t acceptable at all; when a squad member goes down, the character starts bleeding out instead of simply dying. You have a limited number of turns to reach the fallen agent and stabilize them before they die. If you stabilize them, you can keep fighting (though the downed agent is out of the battle, and gains a penalty “scar” that negatively affects stats and must be removed through training between missions). If the fighter bleed outs, or a nearby explosion kills them while they’re on the ground, you fail the mission and need to start over. No one in Chimera Squad is expendable. This makes the game feels more forgiving and lowers the stakes in each mission (and encourages saving and reloading regularly), but it doesn’t significantly diminish the general turn-by-turn tactical challenge the series is known for. In other words, it’s still very easy to get caught out of cover and overrun.The Dwarves

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