Zombicide: Invader - Kickstarter on April 10!

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**Theophony**

Due to funds I had to late pledge on green horde, so I wait

. I hope it’s all sorts of campy art style.

**DaveC**

CMON have trademarked Xenocide so that might indicate a move away from Zombies for this release

https://trademarks.justia.com/874/88/xenocide-87488225.html

**PsychoticStorm**

So in the Xenoshyft universe? would be interesting.

Hope they keep dark age out of the sculpts, since they said dark age is in the same universe.

**ncshooter426**

If CMON could just keep WoK going...I'd be very happy. Love their weird sculpts and the gameplay, seems to be dropping off the radar though :(

**Pacific**

Gimgamgoo wrote:More Zombicide?
Seems this game is more for the speculators to buy all the expensive pseudo characters at $20 each, then hit ebay with them in the hopes of making money..

On the other hand I think it's perfectly reasonable for people who play and enjoy the game to sell stuff onto eBay. I could never hope to paint and use all of the extra characters and zombies you get with even the basic pledge level. But I've sold a lot of the ones I like less on and pretty much paid for the KS with them.

Mymearan wrote:I really love their models, but couldn’t care less for the gameplay of Zombicide. It’s simplistic and boring to me. I wish they would leave the gameplay system behind and come up with something completely new for their zombie games. I really love the idea of wading through hordes of zombies a la Dawn of the Dead, but the Zombicide take just isn’t very exciting. Wishful thinking I guess.

That's very subjective though! I don't think I've had as much fun with a board game, some friends and beers on a Friday evening. There are other options for deeper games (perhaps This is not a Test?) I've not tried Project Z so not sure what that's like.

ecurtz wrote:
JoeRugby wrote:
How were the minis quality from the last zombiecide?

In my opinion CMoN makes the best PVC minis of anyone, but they are still PVC, so you get bent bits here and there.

I was less happy with the design consistency in the last Zombicide though, a few of the sculpts almost seemed like they were from a different game. Of course that's less of an issue when there are 50 heroes to choose from.

Definitely agree about the cast quality. Know what you mean about the design aesthetic not always being the same, I wonder if that's a result of all of the artist sets. When I play we sometimes limit the characters to a boxset (e.g. all of the Adrian Smith characters, Pepe, or extra hero pack etc) for that very reason.

**Skorne**

This just on Twitter:

April 10 at 3pm EST

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Humans came to PK-L7 in search of high powered fuel. They found it with Xenium, a dark, oily compound deep below the planet’s surface. But they found something else too. The Xenos attack was brutal and unrelenting, and they’re still coming. On April 10 at 3pm EST, Zombicide: Invader is coming to Kickstarter. Follow the CMON and Guillotine Games Facebook pages for regular updates on the Survivors, Xenos, Equipment, and Environments of this interstellar battle for life, and look for our interview with the Zombicide: Invader design team later this week. Grab a weapon, barricade the doors, and prepare to be invaded.

the facebook version has the above text as well as the image

**DaveC**

More info - so they are zombie aliens

https://cmon.com/news/zombicide-invader-kickstarter-announced

Zombicide: Invader is a cooperative game where 1 to 6 players face Xenos, an unfathomable swarm of infected Xenos controlled by the game itself. Each player takes on the role of 1 to 6 Survivors in a sci-fi setting being overwhelmed by these Xenos. The goal is simple: choose a Mission, complete its objectives, kill as many Xenos as possible, and (most importantly) survive!

Survivors will fight Xenos, rescue each other, recover vital data, unveil dark secrets, and much more! Survivors can be Civilians or Soldiers, each with specialized Skills. They all play together as a team, trading Equipment, and covering each other. They use whatever weapons they can get to kill Xenos and slow the invasion. The better the weapon, the higher the body count, but the more Xenos will appear, attracted by the onslaught! Survivors must also be mindful of their location as conventional weapons work fine indoors, but the planet’s oxygen-starved surface, they’ll need to arm themselves with more specialized weaponry… Lasers, anyone?

Most of the time, Xenos are predictable, but there are a lot of them and they use nasty tactics not encountered in previous Zombicide games. Only through cooperation can players achieve the Mission objectives and win.

**Barzam**

Xenoshyft had some really cool designs. I'm hoping for some crossover with it in Zombicide Invader. It looks like this is launching on my birthday, too. Cool gift, CMON.

**highlord tamburlaine**

Looks like an Adrian Smith box instead of Guiton's art. Interesting. He is the house artist these days, after all...

Very space marine-ish as well. Naturally with no helmets....

**PsychoticStorm**

I really dislike Andrian Smiths art over Guillotine's art and worse they go with the stupid archaic fridges with legs armour design only Andrian Smith would envision.

Sigh, hopes fall dramatically at the moment...

**highlord tamburlaine**

Makes me wonder if Smith will do all the stretch goal artwork as well then. Maybe we'll get another art book for our efforts at least.

So are we going to be placing any gentleman's bets as to whether old Sedition Wars sculpts make there way over? Perhaps as guest Invaders?

Ooh... Guest Invaders. That'd be a neat idea.

**JohnHwangDD**

Wow, those are not good. I don't like the aliens or the survivors. And they're not zombie-like at all. Hard pass from the visuals alone.

**DaveC**

I have to agree Adrian Smith's artwork just doesn't fit the established Zombicide style. It looks like he has just rehashed the others in a sci-fi setting. I think this is the first Zombicide fully done under CMON ownership so they might be putting their own style on it - but if it ain't broke!

So long as the minis are good I can forgive a misstep with the art although it will be interesting to see the new tile designs. I'm actually glad they've avoided helmets in the artwork, to many helmeted guys just all end looking very samey and lack character - that said bring on Issac Clarke and Doomguy

**highlord tamburlaine**

Oh yeah, we'll most certainly need Doom Guy.

Also Barbarella.

**MrDwhitey**

I'm fine with this art direction, but I can understand why others are not.

That's all I got so far.

**JohnHwangDD**

The artwork for The Others was much better, and the monsters more coherent. This is just a visual mess.

**ecurtz**

Yeah, that cover art (especially the two big aliens) is terrible. I hope it isn't final. The regular generic alien design is ok, but the rest...

**JohnHwangDD**

The basic alien is only OK by comparison to the other two. The big white alien is bad. And the infantry are boring not Terminators

**PsychoticStorm**

The artwork direction is not only extremely underwhelming, but contrary to anything I expected.

Were can we post negative feedback about it? not that it will change anything.

**highlord tamburlaine**

Have they shown full art/ models for the cover stuff already?

Some of you guys are quick to pass judgement but I can't get a good look at things from where I'm at.

**ecurtz**

I think the one on the left is related to this guy.

**PsychoticStorm**

highlord tamburlaine wrote:
Have they shown full art/ models for the cover stuff already?

Some of you guys are quick to pass judgement but I can't get a good look at things from where I'm at.

Well it is Andrian Smith so it is by design bad and boxy, on top of that its a major deviation to what unified the franchise the artwork.

I feel bad about it, was expecting a modern fluid design maybe inspired by Xenoshift and got the others with proto space marine terminators.

**H.B.M.C.**

Ok... so it's Zombicide in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace.

What makes this something other than a new skin for an existing game?

**Papa-Schlumpf**

Isn´t this "The Others II: Electric Boogaloo"?

The tentacles are there and the northmen and overall national diversity is there. Also the artwork in part looks the same.
As game wise, Nemesis got this niche already covered pretty good. People will just go for the plastic pile of this, aren´t they?

**JohnHwangDD**

PsychoticStorm wrote:
The artwork direction is not only extremely underwhelming, but contrary to anything I expected.

Were can we post negative feedback about it? not that it will change anything.

Aliens are not zombies. It's like the art team forgot that they were doing a zombie game, much less a Zombicide game. This should have been space virus-infected crewmen in spacesuits, instead of not-Others rejects. Even not-Aliens or not-Predator would have been better. But not-Others in spaaace? Who was asking for that?

When the KS launches, don't pledge. It won't change anything, but voting with your wallet works.

**Dark Severance**

The real question is... In space, can anyone hear you scream? I mean is there another aggro mechanic going to be used other noise, since well space.

**tre manor**

........... wow...... uuhhh. if they did not say this was a zombiecide game I woudl never in a million years think there was any connection. Adrian Smith's art is great but a HUGE part of Zombicide's charm was it's over the top comics style campy-ness.

yikes.

**Barzam**

Naturally that artwork got posted while I was writing my post, so I completely missed it. I'm a bit disappointed they didn't go for Xenoshyft aesthetics. Xenoshyft would have totally worked, too. They could've have space bugs that use human and alien hosts as nests, creating zombies in the process. Oh well.

All that being said, I don't hate what they're showing. It looks lije something out of the early 90s. Like it could've been the cover of some shareware pc game. 90s this thing up and play with a heavy metal soundtrack and it could be pretty fun.

**Pacific**

Am I the only one that thinks that's a bloody awesome piece of artwork?!

Perhaps for the same reason that other people don't like it - reminds me a lot of some of Adrian Smith's 40k art.

It sounds like there will be some interesting new mechanics with the game, and at least this will hopefully be more of a step away from the norm than Green Tide.
Looking forward to more!