History VideoGame / Piratez

* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: What's the best solution to deal with a heavy laser wielding trooper in a powered armor? Hit them with your sword! (Or better a [[DropTheHammer hammer]].) A decent blade powered by Uber muscles will crack through armor more effectively than all but the heaviest of firearms.

* DropTheHammer: One of your starting weapons is a nice sledgehammer. Once upon a time this was a very strong (but slow) early melee weapon, but the addition of the enemy getting an evade check makes it chancy to try to sledgehammer them anywhere but in the back lest your swing go wild and smash someone standing next to you. Hammers are still pretty close to the top of the food chain for busting down walls until you get access to better tools like Pickaxes and Fusion Torches.

* BoobsOfSteel: Not only your entire pirate crew (except Slave Soldiers and an occasional Ogre), but actually most if not all females who carry weapons in the game.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Applies to every enemy faction, and in practice to your pirates too. In addition to that, several weapons have damage scaling that increases with the wielder's rank.

* BreastPlate: Some of the lighter outfits do this or BareYourMidriff, most notably the Tac Vest, which is basically a one-piece Kevlar swimsuit. Other armors do cover less, but most of those actually don't offer any armor benefits at all. Your girls are mutants, after all, and a naked Uber's tough mutant skin leaves her still better armored than most purebloods.

* BareYourMidriff: Some armors are designed to show off the girls' six-packs.

* BoobsOfSteel: Not only your entire pirate crew (except Slave Soldiers), but actually most if not all females who carry weapons in the game.

* ChurchOfHappyology: The Hubbologists, from Franchise/{{Fallout}}, appear here as an extremely rare enemy type; as in that game, they're a thinly-veiled parody of Scientologists.

* ChurchOfHappyology: The Hubbologists, from Franchise/Fallout, appear here as an extremely rare enemy type; as in that game, they're a thinly-veiled parody of Scientologists.

* DisposableSexWorker: Averted. Hos are considered ordinary citizens, and, therefore, you'll get an infamy penalty for killing them. As one of the level descriptions put it, killing civilians in general makes the public think that you "lack class."

* CommonplaceRare: Apples. You need large amounts of them to make the most profitable early-game good, and will need more as you scale up production; and they can only be found at random, not purchased or grown yourself. While you ''can'' sometimes find them in large numbers, doing so is entirely up to the RNG, and even if you're lucky you're still certain to run short of them if you expand rapidly.

** ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': You start the game with a Tiny Drill which seemingly has no purpose. Later in game, it turns out that [[spoiler:it can be combined with the Menacing Hull waiting in your hangar, resulting in one of four possible designs of the Menace class warship]].

** The entire race of Star Gods, collectively. They are invisible, have attacks that bypass armor and are generally designed to be as confusing and hard to attack as possible. The Star Gods are essentially Ethereals, the master race from the original X-COM, they were infamous for their ability to mess with your minds even back then, and now they took several new levels in this skill.

* SquishyWizard: No Gal will ever actually be ''squishy'' by human standards - even completely naked, their skin is as tough as basic human armor - but since they gain bonuses to Voodoo when wearing less, Voodoo-focused Gals tend to be comparatively much more lightly-armored than others. Endgame armor can avert this using things like forcefields (especially for the Grey Codex, which specializes in destructive voodoo users), but all forcefields are critically weak to at least one type of damage, and even the best such armor is notably more flimsy than comparable endgame armor for weapon-focused gals.

* AwesomeButImpractical: At one point, you get the ability to build tanks. Not the automated track drones, or even the automated flying drones; you can build real tanks the size of troop transport, with huge cannons and anti-gravity engines. Unfortunately, being a SkyPirate, you have no practical use for them, as they are horribly slow when compared to supersonic aircraft you normally hunt. Therefore their only real use is to be sold for cash. As a way of ''making money'', on the other hand, they are BoringButPractical; if you wish, researching them allows you to switch from the exciting but unpredictable income from piracy to making most of your money as an arms supplier manufacturing and selling tanks.

* AwesomeButImpractical: At one point, you get the ability to build tanks. Not the automated track drones, or even the automated flying drones; you can build real tanks the size of troop transport, with huge cannons and anti-gravity engines. Unfortunately, being a SkyPirate, you have no practical use for them, as they are horribly slow when compared to supersonic aircraft you normally hunt. Therefore their only real use is to be sold for cash.

** Heavily implied between the Captain and [[spoiler:Dr. X]].

* AliensAreBastards: Downplayed compared to the original game; the aliens ''were'' bastards and came as conquerers, and earth is now their backwater colony, but most of the ''active'' aggression you face falls under HumansAreBastards instead. Played straighter with some of the lingering terror from the depths enemies and other pockets of alien monstrosity left on earth.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Applies to every enemy faction, and in practice to your pirates too.