12/15/2023 0 Comments Xcom 2 no voices![]() 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. ![]() 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.īy 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. With that thematic change also comes a boatload of mechanical ones, some more successful than others. ![]()
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