That's XCOM, baby! Once more!

Loyal · 06-01-2015, 08:34 PM

After a rather transparent teaser/ARG over the last week via www.adventfuture.org, XCOM 2's been officially announced, slated to be released this November. It's set to be a PC exclusive this time around, so hopefully with their resources focused it'll be a liiittle more stable than Enemy Unknown.

So far we're looking at a new fifth class, what looks like Arc Thrower drones, Snakemen (or should I say, women?) shedding their Thin Men disguises, honest-to-god common melee weaponry for the player, and procedurally generated maps so we don't keep running into that one construction site with the pit in the middle, or that long highway with three pieces of usable cover, over and over again.

Grandmaster_Skweeb · 06-01-2015, 09:17 PM

edit: read the premise on the website, my suspicion on aliens pushing earth's shit in was validated. Gonna kick some alien overlord's naughty place in once again!

Kinda reminds me a little of xcom apocalypse but much less retro-futurism.

Aerozord · 06-01-2015, 09:57 PM

I could go for some more xcom, plus this might spring up a DLC sale and I've been eying it for awhile now

Loyal · 06-01-2015, 10:05 PM

Yeah, the website's not totally clear on what happened, but either EU's playable campaign was a failure, which would be fitting for XCOM... or we did succeed in pushing them back, only for the aliens to come back in overwhelming force with, say, more than one Temple Ship.

Like Shen says, if they were truly intent on conquering us, there's not much we could do to stop them.

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plus this might spring up a DLC sale and I've been eying it for awhile now

Funny you should mention that.

Aerozord · 06-01-2015, 10:25 PM

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Funny you should mention that.

hmm, if I get the package deal but already have the core game can I get a code to gift it to someone? Just the package is about the same price as getting the DLC I dont have

Arcanum · 06-02-2015, 12:09 AM

You could try buying it as a gift and hope it adds each individual thing to your inventory instead of a single bundle item.

Otherwise no you won't get a key 'cause Steam doesn't give keys for duplicate games when buying a bundle.

Grandmaster_Skweeb · 06-02-2015, 02:10 AM

Private Soldierman has 97% chance to hit with sword. Private Soldierman has missed.

gettin those xcom flashbacks already.

Solid Snake · 06-02-2015, 06:40 PM

So is that city in the beginning some sort of territory controlled by the aliens where humans have been herded to live or something?

Loyal · 06-02-2015, 07:35 PM

The aliens, using the ADVENT Administration as a front, have built a number of seemingly utopian cities. They promise safety and security to all, and gene-therapy treatments for nearly any disease imaginable, both physical and mental. People live in these cities, and it seems to be a propaganda machine to get people to think that life under alien rule is actually a good thing.

If XCOM is correct, the cities are also used as staging grounds for some insidious, yet-to-be-specified experimentation on humanity. The human-Sectoid hybrid in the trailer gives a decent idea of what's going on there. And perhaps, instead of being a nod to the old Thin Men and XCOM games as we would first think, the Viper snakewomen are also at least partially a byproduct of this experimentation, seeing how they're far closer to terrestrial life than any other creature in the Aliens' employ. ~~and have boobs~~

Solid Snake · 06-02-2015, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Loyal

The aliens, using the ADVENT Administration as a front, have built a number of seemingly utopian cities. They promise safety and security to all, and gene-therapy treatments for nearly any disease imaginable, both physical and mental. People live in these cities, and it seems to be a propaganda machine to get people to think that life under alien rule is actually a good thing.

...Yeah, this is where they lose me.

I haven't beaten XCOM, but so far in Enemy Unknown the entire point of the game is "Aliens don't even bother talking with us before deciding to completely eradicate us off the face of everything, completely destroy major population centers, kill everyone."

After killing millions upon millions if not billions of people, how could the aliens possibly convince humans they're allies?

06-01-2015, 09:17 PM	#2
Grandmaster_Skweeb Doesn't care anymore Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,429	edit: read the premise on the website, my suspicion on aliens pushing earth's shit in was validated. Gonna kick some alien overlord's naughty place in once again! Kinda reminds me a little of xcom apocalypse but much less retro-futurism. Last edited by Grandmaster_Skweeb; 06-01-2015 at 09:27 PM.

06-01-2015, 09:57 PM	#3
Aerozord So we are clear Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Former murder capital of the world Posts: 13,824	I could go for some more xcom, plus this might spring up a DLC sale and I've been eying it for awhile now __________________ "don't hate me for being a heterosexual white guy disparaging slacktivism, hate me for all those murders I've done."

06-02-2015, 12:09 AM	#6
Arcanum Strike the Earth! Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 3,185	You could try buying it as a gift and hope it adds each individual thing to your inventory instead of a single bundle item. Otherwise no you won't get a key 'cause Steam doesn't give keys for duplicate games when buying a bundle. __________________ POS Almighty has spoken.

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Solid Snake Erotic Esquire Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,563	So is that city in the beginning some sort of territory controlled by the aliens where humans have been herded to live or something? __________________ *WARNING:* Snek's all up in this thread. Be prepared to read massive walls of text.

06-02-2015, 02:10 AM	#7
Grandmaster_Skweeb Doesn't care anymore Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 2,429	Private Soldierman has 97% chance to hit with sword. Private Soldierman has missed. gettin those xcom flashbacks already.