Losing an Agent results in the failure of the mission. If an Agent takes too much damage during combat, they will be temporarily disabled and another Agent will need to stabilize them before they die. by using Axiom to smash a piece of cover being used by an enemy to allow another Agent a clear shot). Players can use an Agent's abilities to enable another Agent in the timeline (e.g. Decisions about which orders to give Agents will rely on the players ability to predict enemy actions. Torque might be able to slither into a vent that no other Agent can access).Ĭombat in Chimera Squad takes place in one single timeline, displayed on the player's screen. This can be done by breaking through windows, barging through doors, sneaking up on the enemy, or utilizing paths accessible only to certain Agents (e.g. This allows players to plan how Agents will enter combat through breach points. At the beginning of each encounter is a new gameplay element called "Breach Mode". If too many Sectors fall into anarchy, then the Chimera Squad has failed to meet its objective and their mission is lost.Įach Operation is divided into Encounters. Tactical Operations take place in various sectors of City 31, and each Sector will be measured by its current state of unrest. XCOM: Chimera Squad focuses on the Chimera Squad's role as a peacekeeping force throughout City 31. It focuses on the efforts of Chimera Squad, a special division of XCOM sent to City 31 to protect the peace and go against armed criminals the local police can't handle. XCOM: Chimera Squad is the fourth game in the modern XCOM timeline it takes place 5 years after XCOM 2. Lead Chimera Squad through a new experience that innovates on XCOM's turn-based legacy, utilizing strategy, teamwork, and new breach-and-clear gameplay to complete your mission objectives.
Deploy targeted team members to investigate and combat the dangers that pervade the districts of City 31. Your agents are unique: each of them equipped with special tactical abilities and driven by a different motivation for joining Chimera Squad. Chimera Squad, an elite force of human and alien agents, must work together to destroy the underground threats driving the city toward chaos. However, not all of Earth's inhabitants support interspecies alliance. Welcome to City 31, a model of peace in a post-invasion world. Now, five years after the events of XCOM 2, humans and aliens are working together to forge a civilization of cooperation and coexistence. But when the Overlords fled the planet, they left their former soldiers behind. It seems this one's only for Windows, Mac, and Linux, not pocket telephones at all.XCOM: Chimera Squad delivers an all-new story and turn-based tactical combat experience in the XCOM universe.Īfter years of alien rule, humanity won the war for Earth. That last part will apply to DEADline ( DEADline) too, as it's arriving via Steam Early Access this autumn.
Having never played the original Breach & Clear, I'll refer you to dear Parko's Eurogamer review of the iOS version, which he found fun but unfinished at launch. The announcement says it also "adds real-time strategy elements to the tactical combat," though that term's used nowadays to refer to everything from real-time combat to base-building to so who even knows? Along the way, they'll engage in tactical shooty-shoots, level up, complete quests, collect weapons and equipment, and generally kill lots of zombies. The sequel sees a special forces squad moving through a city to the source of the zombies (sorry, people affected by "infectious parasitic worms"). Zombies! Because they're DEAD, do you see? Hold your frothing for one moment: is the top-down tactical genre overrun with zombies? Might this be the one place not yet swarming with lively corpses? Could zombies be good targets for tacticising? As a hint, I'll tell you that it's officially stylised DEADline.
Can you guess what's new in sequel Breach & Clear: Deadline? Tricky, I know. It's a turn-based tactical game about squads breaching and clearing. A pleasingly self-descriptive name, Breach & Clear.
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