#XCOM Hybrids

[etherealvoidechoes]

The things an old soldier will put up with allow a comrade to sleep peacefully, even if that means overheating for a little while by a fire.

[fsaxjack]

Fuck, Marry, Kill (XCOM Edition)

Sectoid, Sectoid Commander, Sectoid-Human Hybrid

Rules:

Assume free will and sapience

Assume hole

Will not use psionics on you non-consensually

They will find a way to please you if that's what you want

[xcommatriarch]

One of the best things about Victor is the fact he's so... versatile in terms of design. I mean, take xcom as his main habitat - and he's a perfect (not so) little Thin Man. Take that bad boy and yeet it in any other AU or even original universe - and hey, he's totally at home in there too. Ah, the perks of being a snakelike humanoid creature.

(What the hell do I call his species outside of xcom though... an alien? A hybrid?? Who are you, my son???)

[msvblight]

Okay, might be a little fanfiction-brained of me but I think that in Xcom it would be so thematically fitting for Bradford to marry a Hybrid.

A way of showing him coming to terms with life after ADVENT. Setting aside his hatred of aliens to find love in the new world.

[itswalky]

Did you ever play the original Xcom before making Roomies!? Because both the game and your webcomic have the idea of aliens abducitng humans to create hybrids.

No, I've never played Xcom. The abductees thing sprung from wanting to cameo the Aliens early in Roomies! via an abduction sequence, and things tumbled from there.

oh and later drawing everyone jumping off a building because it looked cool and realized wait that'd kill them OH WELL UH UH i guess abductees have superpowers, better draw somebody carrying jason down in the next strip

[companionwolf]

🎆Fireworks: for the self insert ask game, with any or all your self inserts.

🎆Fireworks: Do you/your self-insert have any powers or abilities? If so, what are they and how do they manifest?

Me as myself entirely--

With Central (main isekai verse): In the XCOM 2 isekai verse, I end up with Psionics (space magic essentially) and am bonded to Asaru (he's the Ethereal who is lampshaded to be helping XCOM; in my verse, my getting involved makes him not very happy about the entire situation).

Me as slightly modified--

With the Trunk Buddies (sorta isekai): In this verse I'm still me and so consider myself a Friendly; I end up trapped in a Green Box (secret storage of Delta Green supplies) after a desperate ritual gone wrong-- it left me transformed into a wolf human hybrid monster. I've got a few (undetermined) special abilities, but cons outweigh pros.

Me as a S/I--

With Parker (isekai-ish): I (as Misha) technically welded the Microphone before, as I am... Also Parker and came from my own seperate alternate reality, but it doesn't work anymore (although I still have it in my possession); I also have vague knowledge of what's coming and going to happen until the end of Season 24 (due to Misha being me -- he's a brain copy, essentially. It's all somewhat complicated.)

Everyone else, I don't have any special powers or abilities. I'm just me lmao. That may change eventually though.

[thetruenightzedge]

A Hidden-based XCOM style hybrid base builder + turn based strategy game would fix me

[playitvison]

Victory Banner: Official Trailer of the Ad

Introducing the Victory Flag, II-Set Second World War II-established real-time strategy and a third-person shooter hybrid. It allows the gameplay between tactics and ground action. You will secure the trenches, you will rescue the injured allies, you will create Commons and more. You can play as a sniper, medicine or tank operator – and all soldiers have a name and a story, La Xcom, in an effort…

[mars2oliverwood]

Tira - The Herd - Charlotte Veldhuizen

Now I'm not usually into ground animals, but Charlotte somehow turned this familiar concept and make it wonderful even to me. I just love the large creatures at the back, something about them is super unique and nothing like I've seen before. They have little antennas on the top, they have grasshopper like front arms, which then has giraffe like back arms and the rest looks like a mix between a zebra and a rhino. I also love that the leader has a white fluffy top body, but then has a contrasting dark skin with streaks of white on its back.

The little creatures are also really cool, they sort of look exposed like they don't have any skin, just sticking out muscles. looks like a hybrid between the Berserker from XCOM 2, a dog, and a crab.

[etherealvoidechoes]

Thinking about the whole “volunteer” aspect of the ADVENT army peacekeepers and like to imagine those that volunteer and don’t get shipped off to be converted or stripped down into goo, are mind controlled and moved to some place where they get “hooked” into the system to control a peacekeeper to do their “job” for the day.

The peacekeeper will roughly match how the person looks minus what’s under the helmet. A bit of a security blanket if they ever cross paths with family and friends.

Once their shift is over, they’re moved back to the wherever and simulate “clocking out” before being released from the mind control.

And false memories get implanted.

[blackcola99]

Game Strategi yang Membutuhkan Pemikiran Cepat dan Perencanaan Matang

Game Strategi yang Membutuhkan Pemikiran Cepat dan Perencanaan Matang

Game strategi telah lama menjadi genre favorit bagi pemain yang menyukai tantangan otak. Tidak hanya membutuhkan keterampilan taktis, tetapi juga kecepatan berpikir untuk mengambil keputusan penting dalam waktu singkat. Artikel ini akan membahas daya tarik genre ini dan memberikan beberapa rekomendasi game strategi yang keren untuk Anda coba.

1. Keseruan Berpikir Cepat di Tengah Pertempuran

Dalam game strategi, waktu adalah segalanya. Contohnya, StarCraft II menantang pemain untuk mengelola sumber daya, membangun pasukan, dan menyerang musuh dalam tempo yang cepat. Game ini memberikan pengalaman yang mendalam bagi penggemar strategi real-time. Jika Anda mencari rekomendasi game strategi yang keren, StarCraft II adalah salah satu pilihan terbaik.

2. Perencanaan Matang untuk Menguasai Permainan

Selain kecepatan, strategi yang matang adalah kunci utama. Dalam Civilization VI, Anda akan memimpin sebuah peradaban dari zaman kuno hingga era modern. Perencanaan dalam pengembangan teknologi, diplomasi, dan militer menjadi elemen penting untuk mencapai kemenangan. Bagi Anda yang menyukai permainan dengan tempo lebih lambat namun menantang, ini adalah salah satu rekomendasi game strategi yang keren.

3. Multiplayer yang Menantang Pemikiran Strategis

Game strategi juga menarik karena menawarkan mode multiplayer, di mana Anda bisa mengadu kecerdasan melawan pemain lain. Age of Empires IV adalah contoh sempurna dari game dengan mekanisme strategi kompleks yang membuat setiap pertandingan unik. Tidak heran jika game ini masuk dalam daftar rekomendasi game strategi yang keren yang wajib dicoba oleh pecinta genre ini.

4. Genre Hybrid: Gabungan Strategi dan Elemen Lain

Beberapa game strategi menggabungkan elemen lain, seperti RPG atau simulasi. Misalnya, XCOM 2 menawarkan kombinasi antara taktik berbasis giliran dan manajemen markas. Permainan ini tidak hanya menuntut perencanaan pertempuran, tetapi juga pengelolaan sumber daya dan pengembangan teknologi. Jika Anda mencari pengalaman yang berbeda, XCOM 2 adalah salah satu rekomendasi game strategi yang keren.

5. Keseruan Mengatur Sumber Daya dan Pasukan

Manajemen sumber daya menjadi aspek penting dalam game strategi. Dalam Total War: Three Kingdoms, Anda harus mengelola ekonomi, memimpin pasukan di medan perang, dan menjaga stabilitas wilayah. Kombinasi elemen ini memberikan tantangan yang sangat menarik dan menjadikan game ini salah satu rekomendasi game strategi yang keren untuk dicoba.

Penutup

Game strategi menawarkan berbagai pengalaman, mulai dari pertempuran cepat hingga perencanaan jangka panjang yang matang. Baik Anda penggemar real-time strategy seperti StarCraft II atau turn-based strategy seperti Civilization VI, genre ini selalu menghadirkan tantangan yang menyegarkan. Dengan banyaknya rekomendasi game strategi yang keren di luar sana, pastikan Anda mencoba beberapa di antaranya untuk mengasah kemampuan berpikir dan perencanaan Anda!

[xcommatriarch]

.........oh no. How much do you think Jake gossips about the rest of the Resistance in barely-masked language ie; "Stanford" (in particular, about Moxrider, and other couples in the Resistance, and individuals aside from the Commander/totally-not-the-Commander) and how often does he get chewed out/physically threatened for it XD

Let's say, Middle Official Stanford is really good at teaching others not to spill the tea on air, if said others make little to no effort to censor themselves. Especially when said others lose all common sense and start gossiping about the XCOM Commander, whoever they may be, being in a relationship with XCOM's token ethereal hybrid. I mean, the gossip did end up beneficial for keeping the Commander's identity protected and not associated with Ensoi's undercover persona after all... Jake still got punched in the gut for it.

(Bradford wanted to do this for so long, you have no idea)

If you think that stopped Jake from being a gossip machine - lol, nope! But he did make an effort to be more subtle about the people he's gossiping about. Moxrider in particular is his OTP, he is the main shipper, he is writing fanfiction and that is not a joke. Neither Dragunova nor Mox are called by their names, or even factions, but, really... When Jake starts yapping about forbidden romance on the battlefield, Romeo and Juliet style, we all know who he has in mind.

Still, sometimes he's just too damn goofy and obvious, even when he tries not to. Remember that "penmanship" incident? The next note with the same request he gets is written more neatly, clearly by someone else, and instead of a name it's signed with "Jake, for the love of god, shut the fuck up, or I'm telling Brad-Stanford". His dumb ass reads that part aloud too.

He quickly gets accustomed to hearing Bradford growling "Jake..." whenever the Avenger communicates with him, before officer sighs heavily and tries his goddamn best to politely tell Jake to keep his mouth shut, or that punch won't be the last, he swears to god, how can Jake be this fucking stupid despite being a radio host for so long, FUCK. Jake, although threatened, thanks the universe that Bradford can't see his shit-eating grin right now.

Cue the sheer horror he feels when he sees not only Bradford, but the entire squad of the officer, Chit-Chat, Dr. Tygan and a couple of soldiers rapidly approaching the shack he's living in/streaming from. Oh, that's not good, that is NOT good. He fucked up big time, it seems, hell, Bradford is fully armed, too!

^ and then they push Victor forward and tell Jake that's his new radio buddy for some time. Yes, he's exactly who he looks like. Yes. Ye- Jake, shut up and listen. We leave him here to keep an eye on you, and we expect you to keep an eye on him as well. Good? Good.

The amount of gossip lowers down significantly after that, much to Bradford's delight. Though, it turns into Jake being all lovey-dovey on air, but, eh... you win some, you lose some.

[knightoflodis]

Every time you have mentioned Xenos Rampant recently my brain has jumped to either XCom or Xenonauts (which is a spiritual successor to the original 1990s X-Com UFO Defense). XCom 2 DLC has the Lost which are basically zombies and you can easily have a battle between XCom forces and the half human hybrids the Advent while they are also fighting off the lost.

Xenos Rampant sounds very versatile for recreating fun sci-fi concepts/battles.

100%, I would like to do a zombie based Xenos Rampant game, along the lines of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. 

You’ve got survivors surrounded by the zombies, then you’ve got one special forces group that is working to rescue the survivors; getting them out of the area via transport or just securing them, and then another special forces group that is tasked to eliminate the survivors.

[playitvison]

Xcom and Hunt Showdown are inspiring a new strategy game and the extraction of Shooter Hybrid

Ice Code, the Hard West 2 and Rogue Waters Games last year, manufactured a position for itself in tactical combat design with historical settings filled with supernova. Hard West is held and completed in Western American in the nineteenth century, chased by demonic creatures, while Rogue Waters offer strategic pirates in the monster seas. Now, the studio continues in a similar context with the…

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

More worldbuilding has been completed - the brainworms are my friends.

I present the original seven founding members of the Astral Confederation:

1) the Terran Alliance (formed out of the Western Alliance and the broader United Nations in 2117, after the final holdouts - Switzerland and Austria - accepted membership)

2) the Martian Congressional Republic (formed via peaceful succession from UN control in 2079)

3) the Sovereign Colony of Gagarin (the first human extrasolar colony, founded in 2053 in the Alpha Centauri system, succeeded from Terran Alliance control in 2143)

4) the Va'ruun Matriarchy (the aformmentioned Xenomorph Asari. Va'ruun translates to "Those Who Serve" in their native tongue, first encountered by humans in 2135) - yes I pulled the term from Starfield it sounds cool and alien.

5) the Wargen Overpack (a timocratic society of uplifted Earth wolves - another project of the Va'ruun's creators. The official "reunion" ceremony between humanity and the Wargen, held in 2148, was described by many as "a week-long Vegas penthouse party held across two planets simultaneously" - their faction aesthetic can be described as "what if Gears of War was werewolves")

6) the Chanzeth Horde (the aforementioned Krogan/Sangheili hybrids - essentially, what if Krogan with the honor and general society of the Sangheili? First contact with humanity - 2155)

7) the Lamian Assembly (essentially - what if the XCOM Vipers had the society of the Turians from Mass Effect? - first encountered by humanity in 2151)

Flags (mostly pulled from r/vexillology or off Google images):

Astral Confederation (symbolism: eight points on the star for the eight points of their guiding philosophy (exactly what those are is TBD). The orbit with seven planets represents the seven founding members. The white on top represents peace above all, and the blue represents space/sky, the places they wish to explore together.

The Terran Alliance

The Martian Congressional Republic

The Sovereign Colony of Gagarin

So I'm worldbuilding an "original" sci-fi universe (read: just stealing and ripping off stuff from other universes I find cool). There will ofc be a main human faction, but as far as aliens go, I've had the idea to mash up species and/or factions from different universes for fun. First two ideas:

[doolallymagpie]

…canonwelding the Tzun to the Sectoids and the Colonists actually makes sense