There is a faceless holding cats with a cute face.

[Mazisky]

You can tell by that alone how the writers are changed for the worse.

The franchise is completely ruined, but at least people can make memes on reddit.

Good Job Firaxis i guess

https://i.redd.it/b3n6rn7tw8v41.jpg

[Rachel Wulf]

so you're gonna say that, but not link the picture?

[Roderick]

Originally posted by Mazisky:

You can tell by that alone how the writers are changed for the worse.

The franchise is completely ruined

Why ruined? What did you expect? War is over and lots of aliens where left free of mind control? There are only two possibilities: ongoing war to exterminate all aliens or somehow living together.

[ThunderDragon117]

Don't see how it's ruined, but I for one am enjoying the hilarity that is coming from the devs obviously taking dumb ideas and saying ♥♥♥♥ it let's put it in. Like, nothing about this screams you need to take this seriously.

[Molotov]

Clearly just a jokey easter egg. Meanwhile drama queens like you are actually ruining real life

[Rachel Wulf]

i mean, that's no worse to me, than the Sectoid Magical Girl or Sectoid MLP Easter egg.

[Gaaius]

Originally posted by Mazisky:

You can tell by that alone how the writers are changed for the worse.

no i cant
and the franchise isnt ruind
This game actually breathes more life into the XCOM universe

[spiritplumber]

If you actually played the game and read the lore, you would see that aliens are being given dogs and cats (mostly cats) to evaluate their capacity for empathy. There's a bit of dialogue about that, and it also shows up in Axiom's bio.

[TheRandomGuy]

Not the worst easter egg

You clearly haven't seen all the sectoid art.

So far we have

- Flaming Hot Rod Sectoid on side of car
- My Little Sectoid / Sectoid Centaur w/ Tattoo on Butt plastered onto side of Van
- Sailor Moon Sectoid / Anime Sectoid on ad in one map.
- Sectoid Alex Jones in the Intro, granted he could also be O'Reily too, but he gives me way more of an Alex Jones vibe.

Outside of Sectoids, we also have

The infamous Viper Strip Club

A Radio ad for "BIG CRUNCH - The Cereal that Writhes!" narrated by a gruff voice - Muton probably.

Another Radio Ad for Not-Dogs, a Hot-Dog substitute made for Alien and Human consumption.

This whole game is chock full of easter eggs, you just have to look for them.

[Rachel Wulf]

Originally posted by Gaaius:

Originally posted by Mazisky:

You can tell by that alone how the writers are changed for the worse.

no i cant
and the franchise isnt ruind
This game actually breathes more life into the XCOM universe

honestly, the only real difference seems to be that there are MORE memes and jokes than the previous games.

[Jackdaw Mask]

Have you guys seen XCOM 2's dlc?

No seriously :D XCOM 2's dlc is consistently silly in aesthetic

[[TAG]Alblaka]

Originally posted by Sierra 117:

Don't see how it's ruined, but I for one am enjoying the hilarity that is coming from the devs obviously taking dumb ideas and saying ♥♥♥♥ it let's put it in. Like, nothing about this screams you need to take this seriously.

"Burger Palace. New name, new [...], same good taste!"

[.O.]

While I agree that chimera squad overall has a lighter tone than XCOM 2, it's not by much. XCOM 2 was always silly and cheesy from launch. It became even sillier and cheesier with WotC. I mean you get to take photos in WotC...

[Jackdaw Mask]

Just to remind on xcom 2's dlc... One of them was mad max outfits, one of them was "kill goofy super boss aliens for goofy gear also throwing axes and harpoon guns" and one of them was "save Bradford's sweater" also Tygan burger memes. The goofy radio guy got his own spotlight

Like even ignoring the whole thing about how XCOM franchise has always felt like cartoon, XCOM 2's dlc tone goes all over the place and even war of the chosen makes things more super heroics with the new units.

Chimera's squad's sense of humor is present in xcom 2 yeah. The way I see it some people like xcom being more serious(it has been semi dark at least due to the whole "enemies are mind controlled slaves and etherreals are planning to genocide humans" thing) than it has been so either they ignored all silly stuff from before or have forgotten about it due to games now being years old.

[Roderick]

Originally posted by .O.:

While I agree that chimera squad overall has a lighter tone than XCOM 2, it's not by much. XCOM 2 was always silly and cheesy from launch. It became even sillier and cheesier with WotC. I mean you get to take photos in WotC...

Don't forgett the running gags through all newer XCOM games... even in Chimera Sqaud there is a refernce to Advent Burgers.

[danp164]

Damn youngins forgetting all about the original Xcom's They were full of tongue in cheek jokes, just check out the dashboard stickers on the interceptors in Xcom interceptor.