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+Anax ofRhodes Yeah it sure looks like it. Really looking forward to this November. :)

From Xfiles? No I think its the guy who voices Optimus prime.

+jeremyvsgames Luckily my girlfriend is also hooked on xcom. Sometimes too much, if you know what I mean... =)

+Wistbacka I don't envy you.  I managed to do an impossible playthrough and an ironman playthrough as part of my efforts to get 100% achievement completion in Steam.  I did it, but my wife was not impressed.  Something tells me that doing 100% of the achievements in XCOM 2 might cost me a marriage so I might pass this time.  :)

I was like that the same way when i watched the discussion video from IGN. I was like "the fuck?" cuz i always beated the game with no defeats.

+GITMASTERZ according to research, some of the aliens might just be allies or even slaves of the ethereals, it is 100% logical for the whole thing to be a test by the ethereals to see if humans are worth enslaving or just remove them for being useless for some master universal takeover they are planning.P.S I am not an alien nor mind controlled by one just so you know.

+Andrés Pétur Axelsson Right. I was wondering why we needed another overseer when you are the commander of the whole project already.

I always wondering the first time why he was like this in the game, always hiding in the shadows and never showing his face. The best thing is however is that it fits perfectly for xcom 2 cuz it's set up like homefront :)

+Dingus Joe I dunno about that man, I mean I still had one hell of a time and that is what games is all about in the end. :)

+yohopirateWe don't talk about Destiny here...

+Dingus Joe Don't worryMankind's destiny to rule the galaxy

+Dingus Joe Hey, it's no so bad! It could just be that Spore came along and offered us 10 million for the planet?

+Dingus Joe Think about it...this means we never truly LOST if XCom 2 gives this ending a chance to bounce back.

+Justiciar Well shit... there goes my smile,

+CykeOk Just saw that interview, seems like my original theory was right with XCOM losing within the first ten months of the war. I got confused with Jake Solomon saying something to the effect of "XCOM didn't lose, they just never stopped fighting." No, Jake, we lost, there's no weaving around that fact.

+RM From what I gathered from what Jake Solomon said, he implied that XCOM won however gradually lost support and was forced underground. Besides, the ending in this video cannot be canon since the Council Spokesman returns as heard in the trailer, leaving the only other canon ending to be the XCOM base defence cut scene which cannot be possible since that leads to XCOM's destruction.

+RM Hey RM, after reading the latest interviews and checking the sources for the statements about the Volunteer, I believe you are correct.Jake Solomon's statements that the Volunteer survived the Temple Ship destruction (by teleporting out using psychic power) are from Nov 2014. That would likely be before the plot and setting for XCOM2 was finalized.So we can look at them as alternate timelines. If you finish the XCOM1 campaign, humanity beats back the invaders in entirety, and scores a victory, and even the Volunteer survives. That's effectively the (happy) endpoint of that timeline.However, as we now know from the latest developer interviews, XCOM2 does NOT continue from the victory timeline. Instead, it follows on from a loss in XCOM1 (XCOM being defeated somewhere around March to May in the in-game calendar, I reckon).That also explains why the aliens have set up shop on Earth to experiment on humans; since the XCOM project did not last long enough for The New One (Volunteer) to arise, the aliens have to mess around with humans to artificially induce and identify a New One.

+Justiciar You're going have to cite that, because the latest IGN article with Jake Solomon has him directly stating they lost. Never made it past conventional weapons, the aliens came in overwhelming numbers and force, basically everybody's first attempt at Impossible Ironman etc etc. //www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/11/xcom-2s-bleak-future-why-impossible-iron-man-mode-is-canon-ign-first

Also, if you listen to the end game dialogue, it sounds like they're preparing for.. an external threat.. or something. They may be "bad guys", but they're trying to prepare all their races for even badder guys that are out there somewhere.If this is true, the XCOM franchise is gonna be in it for the long run!

+Dingus Joe Yup, our victory in the original game is canon.Don't forget that early in the game, Dr. Shen says that the aliens are so advanced that they could easily come full force and conquer Earth, and we would lose. The fact that they did not use a full scale attack means that they have different goals.As we later find out, they believe that humans are the best race they have encountered, their real goal is to find (or create) a perfect race, and the invasion was also a test. The Volunteer's victory shows that we passed.Now they've forced the Earth's governments into surrender, they're pretending to be benevolent, and they've moved in and started the next stage of their plan. And I guess in XCOM2 it's time to kick them out :D

+Justiciar That's a relief, at least our actions were not totally in vain.

+Justiciar Ah good, I was worried there for a second. At least they didn't lose because they were incompetent.

+ChuckPalomo Well, I've got some good news for you. This ending isn't canon according to lead designer Jake Solomon. Apparently, after XCOM destroyed the temple ship (which your Volunteer teleported out of using his/her (presumably) psionic powers), the aliens kept attacking and XCOM never stopped fighting, however as time went on countries were more enticed to surrender and XCOM kept losing support until they were forced underground, which brings us to XCOM 2 and the current situation.

+Dingus Joe God I hate it when they pull this kind of crap.

+Dingus Joe I dunno about you...but I know that I'll do one last Ironman Impossible playthrough right before XCOM 2 comes out.And I'll make sure to go down swinging!

Goddamnit. Goddamnit.Jesus died for nothing.(Jesus Medina was my Volunteer on my first run.)

+Ninjat126 Well, according to the facts, we lost the war within the timespan of 10 months. I've not tried speed running research and equipment but by the looks of it, we didn't get much past laser weaponry. Titan power armour? That's gone.Time to get your tactical genius back on.

+Dingus Joe Hey, cheer up.At least we still have all that gear we horded!

lol before i could record this though i lost my entire squad like 10 times i only beat this on a fluke easily the hardest level to beat without the right research. also this video was recorded on my normal, i have a letsplay on my channel where i play on classic and tons more die.

LOL its the same way i finished my game- with a sniper. the shot was crucial, if i had missed the shot my squad would have been wiped out by my own heavy armed with plasma launcher. finished it with 1 try

After I got that scene I got a few seconds of the doc walking down a hallway. I thought it was the start of a new cutscene, but it skipped. Is there additional stuff after that?

I found it ironic that the game assigned you the nickname spike i almost changed it to rarity but i figured spike was close enough without it being overly obvious

Without anyone to report how the Volunteer saved mankind, I guess everyone's going to assume Dr. Vahlen was just being overdramatic about the black hole thing.

I somehow managed to win after my Volunteer headshot'd the Uber Ethedreal... Sadly all my other Squad members died from the Ethedreals Rift ._.

not to my knowledge I really hoped that there would be I even waited until after the credits but nothing happened.

I want an XCOM: Enemy Unknown 2. Where you travel to the Aliens home planet and try to destroy their planet :D

*saltues from timeline x-1251* So long as they come the X-com will exist to risk everything to stop them.

Just finished my game too, fantastic. I managed to keep all my soldiers alive till the end too!

That is XCOM for yeah - the Kobayashi Maru of the gaming world.

At least we get XCOM: Enemy Within soon, CANT WAIT!

game over ending is much more better

oh ye the aussie won

As someone who's married to a Russian. I can safely say that Russians aren't as gungho as people think, but for the sake of the shear fun and entertainment. All I can picture Mental Fuck saying each time he launches a rocket is "Dasvidaniya motherfucker!"  (or if you want it in proper Russian: "Dasvidaniya ublyudok!"

Sooo ridiculous!

+buğra altuntaş Ya I think that would be better, actually establishing that shit got fucked after we won.

+Chakrit Watkins it would be better if a bigger party of aliens showed up after we destroyed the temple ship(remember the ethereals talking about a danger? no?) and they destroyed all of our shit and now we are back to conventional weapons with nothing but a ship. I think that would make sense

It would be kind of boring though if the story was just "we won and for some reason they are back" this is much more interesting and allows for some interesting new gameplay ideas

+zachary barrios they blew them up with their ships

+Corporal BigglesworthAnytime, anywhere!

+Pappy Tron Fuck you, man!

Hm. Yeah. 

+Kurt Henderson I think you have to keep in mind what XCOM is really about. In these games, you aren't supposed to do everything at once, but be discreet about it. Maybe what you'd see instead is that when you are gaining influence in a city or country, you see more people not following the systems rather than actually conforming to the aliens system. Rather than rebelling, they'd likely be slowly changing from the conforming ways that the aliens set on us.That way when the conversion happens in an area, it can be all the cities converting at once so it's easier to defend, because defending a single city against basically the entire world is retarded. You know what I'm saying?

True, but it would be cool if you could like ..control rebelling citizens or whatever, or incite full-scale rebellions in Cities and conquer the City, and then make Soldiers in the City and gain men that way. Like in Godfather II, right, you take a place and make guards, and then you could maybe send those guards to other rackets, I can't exactly remember. Maybe not play the huge battles, but make it so you can initiate them. Sure, play the tiny Covert Ops with like 4 dudes, but really give the game the feel of having a rebellion take place. I dunno, am I ranting, or is this a good idea?

Actually, now the 4-6v18 makes loads more sense as they don't have nearly as many soldiers.

I'm sure E3 will have some i game footage to show us. But don't expect it to look too much different to enemy within for example.

+TheSibertek War is the terrorism of the rich.

Not terrorism. You're trying to rally a resistance against a force bent on the enslavement of humanity. Terrorism is where a group is intentionally causing mass terror through destruction, hence the name. Here, you'll be fighting to uncover the alien agenda to the populace while salvaging resources, recruiting soldiers and striking against the oppressive Advent.

There is a strict formula to be followed for this to work out well, it seems. It is critical to get the UFO mission before only 20 days are left till the council report. I've been trying to make this work for the past 10 games at least, restarting from scratch every single time, and it seems that 25 days are the minimum for the abduction, while 20 is the minimum for UFO. Otherwise there appears to be a lack of time or funds for satellites or the uplink facility... I love the challenge though :)

--mission till the second report came and i lost the game i had all the randomizing second wave options , red fog and for the greater good enabled , although i don't like the random dmg output coupling in with my soldiers only making 1 out of 4 shots while the aliens make 3 out of 4 shots and have a much higher damage output to randomize on often resulting in 1 shot kills on my half covered soldiers from across the map.... how would anyone recommend i play this game at it's hardest difficulty?

ooooh so that's why i wasn't able to build a workshop , cause i didn't get any extra engineers...... so was this done with any second wave settings or just plain impossible? cause i just had my first go at it (after beating normal difficulty with little trouble (which is my only previous xcom experience i've had) , didn't need to save reload or anything , and only lost 1 country to chaos from that) , and first i lost the first mission , then i beat it with 1 survivor and lost every other----

great explanation. I've figured this out as well. I attempted this strategy on my own second attempt at my Let's Play Impossible Ironman. I did not get the crashed ship until the 15th or March, so I was only able to build 2 satellites. In the next two months I deployed 5 and then 6 in the third month, only loosing the initial 2 countries in the first month. Now if I can only figure out a good strategy for capturing aliens ( failed to capture the Outsider in my last 3 crashed UFO attempts.)

Hi Costin, I know this is really late, but I realised that the random event generator is really not random at all. I saved after completing the opening mission and the first abduction mission but before scanning for activities. No matter how many times I reload my save, the event date the next mission occurs NEVER changes. Only the rewards are randomized. Do you recommend restarting a whole new game then?

I've found a good strategy to capturing aliens is to use the heavie's suppression ability. You moved your support guy with the arc thrower in to position, suppress with the heavy, then when the next turn comes around if none of your people are too close the alien will end it's turn without doing anything. Then all you do is move in your support and stun away.

Yes I do, as far as I know about XCOM it doesn't work to reload a save to change what missions you will get or what actions the aliens will take. I think if you save just before the first mission end, say just before killing the last enemy and then reload you should get different abductions missions....I think.

After my 9th or so attempt I finally got through the first mission 1 casualty, Got a Alien panic mission then abduction then waited waited waited.. finally got a UFO mission and bought the satellites. 20 days til council report, 20 days 1 hour til my satellites are built. LMAO fml.

Xcom was trolling me earlier with 4 snipers on one mission......... I was like -_- what i'ma gonna do. So basically snipers= riflemen with the snapshot ability. I just do what I always do when playing America in Company of heros......FUCKING RIFE SPAM XD

omfg i just got this game got really far and just had like 8 nations leave and i didnt know how to make satelites now i gotta start over...i had full laser weapons and majors....fml

LOL at least you got that far! 1/3 the time my team gets destroyed first mission, and then if I do win none of the times so far have I had an abduction mission before march 8th.

You have 165 credits if you start at Europe. But it is 275 credits if you start at North America. Get it for extra money at the first month to build all the stuff.

I don't think you can do it on classic as you won't have to kill as much aliens and therefore can't sell as much to get enough cash... bummer...

maybe i'll try turning off all the negative second wave options , i can't beat the first mission at all now ;_; ..............

Thanks so much for your reply. I appreciate the tip! I'll remember to try it. Now back to my Impossible journey:P

I don't always get it. I have many playthroughs where it failed to show up, but those all ended in failure.

You can try without them, certainly, but it's best to get at least 2 satellites for the first month.

Thank you. This was hugely helpful. I really appreciate the time you put in.

Not sure if really tactical or simply exploiting the game's mechanics...

snapshot over squadsight? Can't take the rest of the guide seriously

excellent explanation I'll remember that when i play again

Very helpful video, thanks a lot!!

Hmm, good point there.