X-COM (Video Game): Difference between revisions

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* [[Heroic BSOD]]/[[Thousand-Yard Stare]]: It's possible for your soldiers to become gravely "shaken" if they've encountered too many close calls in missions or sufficiently injured. This reduces their overall willpower, making them much more prone to panicking and losing focus on the battlefield. On the other hand, they can [[I Got Better|get better]] by being involved in victorious deployments and generally keeping them healthy long enough. ''War of the Chosen'' is also slated to further expound on the effects of "shaken" soldiers on the field and on themselves.

** Dr. Tygan gets one upon realizing that his research back in his days working for ADVENT {{spoiler|was used to "refine" the human victims of the Avatar Project}}.

* [[Hopeless War]]: How Bradford remembers the events of ''Enemy Unknown/Within'', wryly remaking how the [[Alien Invasion]] was still seen as a war back then.

* [[Human Aliens]]: {{spoiler|The Avatars are stated as being the ultimate fusion of human and Ethereal.}}

* [[Human Resources]]: {{spoiler|The true purpose of the Avatar Project is to create the ultimate human-alien hybrid race with which the Ethereals can transfer their consciousness into. With humanity serving as fuel and raw materials for said Avatars under the guise of gene clinics and promises of transcendence.}}

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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Dr. Vahlen's fate is still up in the air. All that's known is that she went missing after the aliens won and that [[Sequel Hook|there are various clues scatted about in English and broken German]]. Averted however with Dr. Shen, who died trying to secure the future of XCOM sometime before the events of the game itself.

** The mission that starts off the ''Alien Hunters'' DLC not only confirms that Dr. Vahlen is still out there {{spoiler|but that her attempts to reverse-engineer the aliens themselves had [[Gone Horribly Right]] in the form of the "[[Boss in Mook Clothing|Rulers]]."}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Downplayed for the most part. The Informant, aka the former Council spokesman will only get disappointed if you ''really'' screw up, as otherwise he's very lenient even in the face of failure. Justified in that, given XCOM's current state, you could only do so much.

** On the other hand, fail a mission or ignore a request, and the Resistance forces in a region will go dark, prompting XCOM to once more seek them out and regain their trust.

** Averted within XCOM, though. While Bradford, Tygan and Shen won't call you out for poor performance, they noticeably grow more disillusioned, shaken and hopeless.

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: The canon ending of EU/EW is that the aliens won.

* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]: XCOM's new function is to run around causing trouble for the alien government. Whether it's terrorism or fighting for freedom is a matter of interpretation.