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Well, there's me biting my tongue. Not like I hadn't already preordered it.  2 days remain
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Apr 23, 2020 02:35
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Your strategic game-over bar will now represent how loose of a cannon the Chief thinks you are
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Apr 23, 2020 02:40
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But what if you're also a drat good xcop?
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Apr 23, 2020 02:44
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Chronojam posted:But what if you're also a drat good xcop? That’s for the expac Chimera Vice where you hunt down illicit advent burgers
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Apr 23, 2020 02:51
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Are they sending out review codes or nothing until after launch?
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Apr 23, 2020 03:18
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Mordja posted:Are they sending out review codes or nothing until after launch?
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Apr 23, 2020 03:23
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from the article seems like you can switch to permadeath in hardcore mode.
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Apr 23, 2020 03:24
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Eej posted:It's hard to emote with glowing, iris-less eyes and if they're going for the approach of "the Aliens were enslaved and are people too just like us" it makes sense Mutons were canonically on heroic amounts of combat drugs whenever they met XCOM. Maybe their original look was the alien equivalent of the crackhead stare. What I want to know is where the hell “City 31” came from. ADVENT had nice naming schemes for their cities, so if we weren’t going to keep those we could at least choose something less sterile than a drat number.
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Apr 23, 2020 03:56
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I'm starting to wonder if ordering through their website was a mistake in terms of being able to preload or not.
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Apr 23, 2020 04:08
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Probably a Half Life 2 nod in some inscrutable way
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Apr 23, 2020 04:09
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Is the game unlocking at midnight on steam?
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Apr 23, 2020 04:14
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So I have never preordered anything before as I usually find it to be a bad idea, but I bought it on Steam. Will the game preload automatically or do I have to make a setting change somewhere?
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Apr 23, 2020 04:22
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There’s a button specifically for it on the game’s page in your library when it’s enabled.
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Apr 23, 2020 04:29
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Eau de MacGowan posted:Is the game unlocking at midnight on steam? Steam says 23 something hours, so midnight tomorrow?
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Apr 23, 2020 05:13
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Chairchucker posted:I'm starting to wonder if ordering through their website was a mistake in terms of being able to preload or not. Orders through Steam can't preload either. I'm gradually growing in confidence that the timer that says it isn't going to unlock until like 20:00 PDT tomorrow isn't lying.
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Apr 23, 2020 06:55
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so uh what the gently caress is going on here?
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Apr 23, 2020 08:16
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Midnight is a magical time.
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Apr 23, 2020 08:22
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It'll come when it's ready, I'm sure.
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Apr 23, 2020 08:23
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Cuntellectual posted:Warning: This game is canon.
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Apr 23, 2020 08:31
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Now for them to combine Disco Elysium and Chimera Squad to make the best game of all time.
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Apr 23, 2020 09:52
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Following the adventures of a drunken amnesiac muton that loves to disco.
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Apr 23, 2020 10:35
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skaianDestiny posted:https://www.gameinformer.com/exclusive-interview/2020/04/22/firaxis-on-how-chimera-squad-ties-into-the-larger-xcom-universe I'm all for interleved turns, especially if the player gets access to abilities that lets them manipulate it. As long as Firaxis avoids anything like a "speed" stat determining turn order this is cool. I'm less cool on fixed characters. A smattering of them that I can use or ignore? Sure. I understand what they want to do with more story elements but one of the biggest allures of the XCOMs, new and old and off-brand (xenonauts) is creating your own characters/inserting your friends. Also I'm still bitter about some of the custom characters they shoved into Enemy Within (Zhang, you just merced a sectoid with a 9mm. Why did you throw it away?) That being said I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy this game and hope XCOM 3/Apocalypse of the Deeps will have the old roster of "whatever you want" though.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:31
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Following the adventures of a drunken amnesiac muton that loves to disco. Ngl, I would play the poo poo out of a game where you are a pectiod police officer who has become addicted to our lovely earth vices and you have to try to do police work while your psychic powers are having a field day over the unknowable effects of human drugs on your system.
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Apr 23, 2020 11:54
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So, I just wanna say, as much as Grimy's Loot mod can really clutter up loot tables, my god but it can produce some fun toys. My Sniper in my current run has been nicknamed "Death Touch" because of her Sniper Rifle that came out of an Ethereal Reliquary. It cannot Crit, and it only has one shot per clip, but in exchange for that, it deals 230% damage. As a Gauss Rifle, this weapon is currently dealing 19-25 damage in the hands of my Brigadier-rank LW2-classes Sharpshooter. (She took the Brig-rank talent that increases primary weapon damage by 4) With Deadeye, this turns into 28-38 damage. She is my "delete" button, and thanks to Death From Above, as long as I can find her height elevation, after she deletes something, I can use the bonus action to reload for next turn! Just for a bit of overkill, I replaced one of the dead slots (crit-enhancing mods on a weapon that can't crit) with a Repeater, and the other dead slot with an Autoloader. So far, she has Executed a Custodian, and a Berserker Omega. Where it gets extra funny is that I have the "More Bondmate Benefits" mod that adds back some of the Bond benefits that got cut out, like Bondmate Return Fire. I've paired her with my Stormrider (the recent melee-only class by Iridar), which results in entertaining moments where my Stormrider will get shot, then the camera will zoom out just a little bit, but not quite enough, as a shot flies in from off-screen a mile away and erase the poor shmuck who dared to attack her best buddy. Extra funny because I always forget it's a thing, until it happens.
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Apr 23, 2020 12:16
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Tellaris posted:Ngl, I would play the poo poo out of a game where you are a pectiod police officer who has become addicted to our lovely earth vices and you have to try to do police work while your psychic powers are having a field day over the unknowable effects of human drugs on your system. Your various powers argue with you like Disco Elysium skills.
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Apr 23, 2020 12:19
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Yeah Chimera for $10 was a no brainier for me: that's like a single coffee order for me. Even if it sucks I'll like it for another dose of XCOM. I'm also interested in how the character dynamics are gonna work. Like, my soldiers have always had little stories I've made in my head, but having them play out with voice work could be cool. I wouldn't say no to some light RPG elements either! In other news I'm fully into my newest WotC playthrough. I set it on Commander cause it's been a little while, but so far (at the risk of jinxing myself) it's kinda....easy? I remember why I stopped playing my last playthrough though: it was the Chosen assault mission. All the adds overwhelmed me, I missed a few key shots, so I quit and stopped caring haha. I'm sure I'll get slapped down like that again sooner than later.
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Apr 23, 2020 12:25
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Hwurmp posted:Your strategic game-over bar will now represent how loose of a cannon the Chief thinks you are "Damnit Chimera Squad you went too far when you were breaking up that illegal Elerium trade ring!" "I guess you had a pretty good view of it from the strategic layer, Chief."
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Apr 23, 2020 12:41
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Did they say anything if the missions are procedurally generated or are all of the encounters hand crafted?
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Apr 23, 2020 12:42
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Don't talk to me about procedure I've got scumbags to bust 
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Apr 23, 2020 13:02
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Samovar posted:Now for them to combine Disco Elysium and Chimera Squad to make the best game of all time. “Cuno gets a plasma rifle”.
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Apr 23, 2020 13:02
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Alkydere posted:I'm less cool on fixed characters. A smattering of them that I can use or ignore? Sure. I understand what they want to do with more story elements but one of the biggest allures of the XCOMs, new and old and off-brand (xenonauts) is creating your own characters/inserting your friends. Also I'm still bitter about some of the custom characters they shoved into Enemy Within (Zhang, you just merced a sectoid with a 9mm. Why did you throw it away?) Same. It's fine for a spinoff, but preset characters would ruin the franchise for me if it wound up in a mainline XCOM 3.
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Apr 23, 2020 13:14
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:“Cuno gets a plasma rifle”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoYCVLh2qI
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Apr 23, 2020 13:22
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beautiful 
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Apr 23, 2020 13:24
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BlazetheInferno posted:Where it gets extra funny is that I have the "More Bondmate Benefits" mod that adds back some of the Bond benefits that got cut out, like Bondmate Return Fire. I've paired her with my Stormrider (the recent melee-only class by Iridar), which results in entertaining moments where my Stormrider will get shot, then the camera will zoom out just a little bit, but not quite enough, as a shot flies in from off-screen a mile away and erase the poor shmuck who dared to attack her best buddy. Extra funny because I always forget it's a thing, until it happens. The Avenging Angel.
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Apr 23, 2020 13:32
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Review embargo is up. ChristopherOdd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkP4XmHASi0 RPS: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/04/23/xcom-chimera-squad-review/ Beaglerush is uploading his video right now.
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Apr 23, 2020 14:24
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I'm not reading/watching those because I'm going to be patient and wait for the game to drop, but from a cursory look at the RPS article it sounds like yep, it's a 20$ game with some weird stuff to it, and not a perfect experience. I'm cool with that, and need the game to drop RIGHT NOW
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Apr 23, 2020 14:34
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Fintilgin posted:Same. It's fine for a spinoff, but preset characters would ruin the franchise for me if it wound up in a mainline XCOM 3. It won't? I don't know why people think they are. It's following the same rules as the legacy pack from xcom 2 and that was received in a positive light as a light side thing to do.
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Apr 23, 2020 14:41
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm not reading/watching those because I'm going to be patient and wait for the game to drop, but from a cursory look at the RPS article it sounds like yep, it's a 20$ game with some weird stuff to it, and not a perfect experience. I'm cool with that, and need the game to drop RIGHT NOW
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Apr 23, 2020 14:42
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More reviews coming in, scores mostly ranging between 7s and 8s. Sounds like some changes work, some don't but for  ...
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Apr 23, 2020 15:21
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Game seems tight, like XCOM: Into The Breach. It's not where I want the series going overall, but it seems awesome.
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Apr 23, 2020 15:28
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