So, there are no female recruits?

[Cat]

Just looking for confirmation.

[Fowk]

Probalby. Its set in the 60's. Female recruits weren't a thing back then.

[Sockettoum]

I saw a video on the game in witch someone who worked on the game said no on women recruits. Because of the time period I'm assuming.

[trashlord]

No. Unlikely to affect gameplay, in case you were worried.

[Enad]

There are no female agents, due to the time period.

[Lizardus]

le feminazi face

[MMRBurglar]

In the 60's America women soldiers wasn't offen seen or allowed so XCOM follows suit.

[MAXPFerra]

All of the above are true; you can find more about it in recent previews. They are planning to add women and other features in futures iterations of the game; let us hope they do great to see it happen.

[LyricalMage]

in the Giant bomb preview they mention that because of the time period its mostly male but being a progressive organisation they do hire women and you will see them in game.

[Cat]

Thanks for the answer.

[KnightofSpades]

Yea no female recruits bothers me a bit. I mean I get the whole 60's theme for accuracy, no women soldiers. But the fact that the organization itself is not even real and its just for game-sake, they could of added female agents.

[toblat170]

Originally posted by Jixo:

But the fact that the organization itself is not even real and its just for game-sake, they could of added female agents.

I think you're right. Since it's all fiction, they should have added a romanceable helicopter pilot. I mean, it has been done before, so why not?

[Lost Question]

Originally posted by Jixo:

Yea no female recruits bothers me a bit. I mean I get the whole 60's theme for accuracy, no women soldiers. But the fact that the organization itself is not even real and its just for game-sake, they could of added female agents.

there is a single female agent, its agent weaver. with that said you dont get to recrute or use any female agents

[Caex]

it's set in the 60s, only recently were wemon even allowed on the battlefield. sure you could make the argument that wemon lied about their sex in order to join, that may fly in ww1, but now, please, been through it all. there's no way a girl would slip past saying she was a dude... why? we shower together that's why. in the 60s, there were pretty much no wemon in the front line military. heck they wernt even allowed on subs till recently either.

it's not about political correctness (or rather the correct term being publicly comfertable) it's about history. back then, wemon wernt in the thick of it. it was largely belived that if a woman was wounded in the field of battle the casualties would be higher than if a male was wounded due to more men trying to save her than they would if it was just another guy. sad thing is they backed it up with scocal studies and were rather scientific about it. we may not like the results of the time, but hey, we dont have to like it, it's history. i rarely find someone now adays who agrees with thet nazi regiem on any level.

one more bit, same feeling was there with field agents for goverment jobs given they were technicaly a psudo extension of the military.

[LuizPSC]

Well, the women at least in Russia are to busy blowing stuff in air raids:

http://clockworkvaudeville.tumblr.com/post/64184161593/freedominwickedness-101st-analborne

[Pulsei]

The game is supposed to be sexist, it is supposed to create that 60's athmosphere in which women are in a man's world, and if you ask any of the female characters they will say almost that exact same thing to you. It does a good job of replicating the time period if you ask me.