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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)

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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a remake of X-COM (note the lack of hyphen) developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K. It was released on PC / Xbox 360 / Playstation 3 on October 9 2012, Mac OS X on April 25 2013, iOS on June 20 2013, Linux in June 2014, and PlayStation Vita on March 22 2016.In the year 2015, Earth comes under attack by alien forces. In response, a secretive Council of Nations activates the XCOM project, a Multinational Team tasked with fighting the alien invaders and researching their technology to protect humanity. The player takes the role of the Commander of XCOM, and with the help of various NPC advisors, guides XCOM to victory (or defeat) by managing the whole organization, including base building, research, manufacturing and sending fighters to intercept UFOs. The main focus of the game, however, is on the ground combat, where the player takes control of a small squad of soldiers and fights turn-based battles against the aliens.In combat, the player commands up to six soldiers who can level up and specialize in four different classes (Assault, Support, Heavy, and Sniper) with unique weapons, equipment, and abilities. Each soldier gets two actions per turn, though using any action other than 'move' normally ends that unit's turn. Every soldier is equipped with one primary weapon, one pistol (Heavies get a Rocket Launcher instead), and an additional piece of equipment that the player decides (such as a grenade or medikit).Outside of combat, the player manages the XCOM base, where you're forced to choose which upgrade projects to research, what weapons/items to build, what new facilities to build, and which alien threats to go after with your limited resources. Players also have to monitor the panic in various countries; if it gets too high, the country might withdraw their funding from the XCOM project (and if too many leave, it's an automatic Game Over).For Downloadable Content there's two: Slingshot, was released in December 2012. It added additional soldier customization options, a series of inter-connected Council missions in China with a unique soldier, and earlier access to certain technologies/upgrades. Second Wave, was released in January 2013 for free. It added 16 previously Dummied Out difficulty modifiers, including options that make the game more like the original X-COM, or even more extreme.An expansion, XCOM: Enemy Within, was released in November 2013. It added new enemy types, maps, items and customization options, the ability to genetically enhance XCOM troopers, a new XCOM unit called the Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit Trooper and a new alien resource called Meld. It also introduces a new enemy faction: EXALT, a human paramilitary group acquiring alien technology to Take Over the World. Unlike the aliens, EXALT resorts to cloak and dagger tactics, such as increasing panic and stealing XCOM's resources, forcing the player to use intel gathering and counter intelligence ops to bring them down. Finally, it added a second mission chain like Slingshot, and indeed it had originally been designed as one.The XCOM: Long War Game Mod adds significantly more content to the game. It was first released in 2013.A Sequel, XCOM 2, was released on February 5, 2016.A character page is under construction here. Please add all character- and class-specific tropes there!
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_109b036e	comment	The Ethereals are Abusive Precursors to the other alien species, having uplifted them all to use as proxy soldiers, tools and psionic sustenance.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_10b6b5f7	comment	Cherry Tapping: Often necessary to capture aliens alive. While the most fragile of them can be taken down with just the Arc Thrower, the stronger ones need to be weakened first, which often necessitates that the squad pull its punches and intentionally use weak attacks to get them just low enough on health for it to work. The standard-issue sidearm pistols you start the game with (the weakest kind of firearm available) are often ideal for chipping away until a foe is at just the right number of hitpoints.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_11204355	type	Coup de GrÃ¢ce Cutscene
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_11204355	comment	Coup de GrÃ¢ce Cutscene: If the cinematic camera triggers for an attack that kills someone, especially the Chryssalids' and Berserkers' melee attacks. In Enemy Within, killing a Berserker, Mechtoid or Sectopod with the MEC Trooper's Kinetic Strike Module brings up a unique cutscene where the MEC Trooper beats them down.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: Meld, in Enemy Within, is an alien substance made of techno-organic nanomachines that can combine different organic components, or interface organic physiology with machines. It can be used by XCOM to genetically modify soldiers to enhance their abilities, or to convert them into cybernetic MEC troopers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_12184cca	comment	Self-Insert: The Hero Units include Firaxis staff and Ken Levine from 2K Games.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Nobody in your ground teams is truly safe from death. A single lucky plasma bolt can send your favorite and greatest soldier to an early grave, and if you're playing on Ironman, those soldiers are gone permanently. Played with in Enemy Within. The Secondary Heart gene modification ensures that your soldiers will always be critically wounded instead of dying when they lose all of their HP; however, anybody who doesn't have it is out of luck, even moreso now that the officer training that gives a chance (based on their rank) for your soldiers to be able to do so by default has been removed.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_127027b1	type	Shop Fodder
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_127027b1	comment	Shop Fodder: Damaged ship components and alien bioexperimentation equipmentlistAlien Entertainment, Surgery tables and Stasis Tanks and the like. Vendor Trash items are clearly labelled in your inventory as "having no use for research projects". In Enemy Within, EXALT weapons are only cosmetically different from your own, including the basic ballistic weapons. Laser guns (especially sniper and heavy lasers) are a good addition to XCOM's inventory if you're too strapped for credits to make more of your own, but you already have an infinite supply of statistically identical weapons to their ballistic hardware, so you might as well make some money, but don't get too excited: they're only worth at most 3 credits each. Sometimes the Council asks for a batch of EXALT weapons, though, and they pay nicely for them. The raid on their HQ also yields a lot of vendor trash items like artwork, ancient artifacts and intel (that XCOM already has), and after the raid succeeds, the weapons can be freely sold. After you're done with all your research and Foundry projects, weapon fragments can be sold freely for a little bit of pocket change.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: One of the structures you can build is named after X-COM's original creators, the Gollop brothers (Julian and Nick). It is also mentioned that said structure was designed by a "pair of brilliant young brothers". The Thin Men's facial features are based on Sid Meier himself. Some of the Hero Units are based on Firaxis or 2K staff.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_128e4ba8	comment	LMGs in general, especially when using the Heavy's "Suppression" ability. Assault Rifles in general also spam rounds with the Support's "Rifle Suppression" ability, even if they normally only fire a few rounds when shooting normally. S.H.I.V.s (and MEC Troopers in Enemy Within) also start off with a bullet spewing minigun, and the S.H.I.V. can use it to suppress an enemy.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_12f667aa	type	We Have Ways of Making You Talk
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_12f667aa	comment	Not a character, but a continent: South America's continent bonus is called "We Have Ways", allowing XCOM to perform Autopsies or Interrogations instantly. Pain is the universal language!
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_13f5b1b	type	Instant-Win Condition
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_13f5b1b	comment	Instant-Win Condition: The last mission. The second you defeat the Uber-Ethereal, you win the game. You don't have to rescue all the civilians on Terror missions; if you just kill all the aliens, it still counts as a victory. Some people will just save one civvy, then let the aliens come to them, in order to avoid losing soldiers for no great benefitnote The biggest and best benefit of completing a Terror mission is the panic reduction it will give to the entire region, instead of just the single country. The more civilians you save, the better the reduction. However, if you fail to save any civilians, even if the mission is otherwise successful, it will raise panic instead of lowering it, which could be catastrophic. It's almost always better to take a few risks to maximize the number of civilians saved, but panic can be reduced by other means as well.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1429b411	type	Hybrid-Overkill Avoidance
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1429b411	comment	Hybrid-Overkill Avoidance: MEC Troopers in Enemy Within can't receive gene mods or take the Psionic test. Gene-modded soldiers, if augmented into MEC Troopers, lose all their gene mods, and psionic-gifted soldiers can't be augmented at all. In addition to that, if you're running with the "Mind Hates Matter" Second Wave option, gene-modded soldiers can't be tested for psionics and psionics can't undergo genetic modding.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Some of the trailers for Enemy Within spoil the attack on XCOM HQ.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_14848fa3	comment	Your soldiers are recruited from all over the world, but they all speak perfect American English. Adding unique accents for every single member nation would probably be overkill for the developers, of course, which is why they went with this instead. In Enemy Within, this has been changed: you can customize your troops to speak in one of sevennote English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Polish languages, whether it's their country's native tongue or otherwise.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: This game isn't necessarily darker than the original game in tone, and it even retains and modernises some of its 'action figure' aesthetics. That said, it also does take steps to make its presentation and art style a lot more grounded, perhaps best seen by the many Alien redesigns, or how XCOM's base is now a reasonably plausible industrial complex.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1527d90d	comment	Thin Men on Classic and Impossible difficulty. They have a base 75 Aim and 10 Crit with another 10 of each added due to their light plasma rifles. Combine this with being the second enemy you will likely see in a game makes them infamously difficult to fight and very likely the main source of your Memorial Wall entries.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_15430b2f	type	Randomized Damage Attack
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_15430b2f	comment	Randomized Damage Attack: The whole schtick of the "Damage Roulette" Second Wave option. Any form of damage that isn't an explosive, psionic or MEC subsystem will deal between 1 damage and 150% of the weapon's base damage. A Critical Hit deals the base damage plus the randomized damage.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_15adb9a8	type	Never Split the Party
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_15adb9a8	comment	Never Split the Party: Letting a Squadsight Sniper hang back all alone or sending a lone soldier to flank some enemies worked in the vanilla game, but not anymore. Enemy Within invokes this trope with the Seekers, which latch onto isolated soldiers and will strangle them to death if another soldier doesn't rescue them in time.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_164583e3	type	Purely Aesthetic Gender
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_164583e3	comment	Purely Aesthetic Gender: Squad members' gender is determined by coin flip and has no bearing on gameplay; unless players go out of their way to avoid it, most squads will therefore end up with a roughly 50/50 gender split. There is, however, an achievement ('Flight of the Valkyries') available for winning a mission with an all-female squad, which you may just get because your best (or only) soldiers are all females.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_17761744	type	Heal Thyself
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_17761744	comment	Heal Thyself: Played with. While healing items and regeneration abilities immediately replenish the lost HP, the soldier will still need infirmary time if they lost health points not added by their armor.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_17975d1b	type	Unstable Equilibrium
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_17975d1b	comment	Unstable Equilibrium: Early-game is typically the hardest part of the game. You've got no territory, little income, inexperienced soldiers, no technology and the aliens outnumber you. Later on, you have the option of getting goodies that even the aliens wish they had and soldiers with Improbable Aiming Skills who can mow down aliens like Rambo even with basic ballistic weapons and snipers who can pop the aliens' heads from across the map. Then psi powers enter the game, and the rules change... and again, once you have one or more psi troopers of your own. By the time you get the first Council request for plasma weaponry with a profit of over 1,000 credits, you're set for the rest of the game money-wise and will only have to grind some for alloys and Elerium to fuel Firestorm and plasma weaponry production and the later Foundry upgrades. Some veteran XCOM players call this the "snowball effect": at first, your chances of victory seem very low, as low as a snowball's chance in hell, but as you gain momentum from research, development and more advantages, the snowball quickly gets bigger as it rolls until you're overpowering your previously unstoppable enemies. Another, shorter term example can be found in missions themselves. Having a squad member (or multiple) panic puts them out of commission for at least one full turn, making it harder to take out the enemies that caused the panic in the first place. Having a squad member downed (either critically wounded, stabilized but not revived, or outright dead) makes the entire mission harder, as every remaining turn will force you to exercise less firepower (and lose limited usage skills and equipment as they're unavailable for other soldiers to pick up and use). If you start with a squad of 4 - 6 and get down to just 1 or 2 soldiers, your chances of success drop so dramatically that you're better off restarting or hightailing it back to the Skyranger to abort. This is especially notable on Terror missions (or any early game mission with Chryssalids, really), as losing a soldier to a Chryssalid's bite (not the poison) will turn it into a durable and strong zombie that can eventually turn into another Chryssalid, potentially causing a downward spiral into Total Party Kill if you're not careful. In the late game, just replace Chryssalids and their ability to reproduce with Sectopods and the sheer firepower that they tote and that you need to bring one down. Panic causes every mission to potentially be this on higher levels. Panic can be triggered by many things, such as seeing an ally hurt or killed, but also from being shot or blown up or attacked in general. This can easily cause 'panic chains', where one ally panicking triggers a second to panic which triggers a third to panic etc. Panic soldiers can also sometimes shoot allies, and since your soldiers usually are not positioned to cover themselves against their allies and are very close a panic soldier is far more likely to successfully hit an ally then the enemy is. This can do damage or kill other soldiers, which can also trigger another panic. The end result is a single unit panic can result in most of your team panicking and then being left vulnerable for the enemy to next turn, allowing the enemy to potentially land hits or kills next turn, which can of course trigger a new chain of panic. If all this wasn't bad enough, high difficulty games tend towards a variant of Rocket-Tag Gameplay where the priority is to avoid attacks because most can be a One-Hit Kill. This all combines to missions tending towards one of two outcomes: either you move in quick and kill the enemy before it can hit you, clearing the fight without any damage, or the enemy lands a hit on you, often scoring a kill, and the resulting panic and lost firepower means you suffer large casualties or TPK. There is little middle ground. Later on, when you have access to the panic-nullifying Neural Damping and soldiers trained under the enhanced Will gains from the Iron Will upgrade from the Officer Training School, it's harder to lose control to panic unless you're taking several rookies to earn promotions and their colonel nanny gets unfortunately splatted.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The research in xenobiology kicks off after the team is able to sequence and analyse the alien specimens' genome. This is given a nod, as the personnel remarks how lucky they were to be able to sequence it using their existing methods. Naturally, this is pure fiction. All existing genetic sequencing methods rely on exploiting quirks of the unique chemistry of the ACTG-based DNA strands and their natural polymerisation mechanisms (such as during cell division), often by using a pool of "labelled" nucleobases that make it visible if the genetic strand at any given position is an A, C, T or G, or by using methods that cause a premature end of polymerisation if a specific nucleobase is integrated. Needless to say, it would be extremely unlikely for alien genetic material to be literally identical on a chemical level with ours. Even more, if sequencing did work, actually annotating the genome, i.e. matching genes to actual function, is a process that takes years of research and experimentation even for normal Earth organisms. Similarly, there is no way the team would be able to conclusively say that any given feature in an alien body is the result of genetic modification as opposed to being a different species, or having undergone physiological treatment or simply lifestyle. Earth biology is so diverse in the variety of forms it can produce from the same template even within the same species that there's no way anyone could make a blanket statement on something alien being genetically engineered with that little data. Furthermore, the 'Genetics Lab' and everything associated with it. The idea that the aliens would use genetically modified troops is not far-fetched. However, using genetic modification to change the physical abilities of existing, adult soldiers completely ignores what DNA is actually for in the body. That kind of technology (which is to say, selectively modifying the genetic content of only specific adult somatic cells, such as for gene therapy) is still decades away from us in the real world, if it's possible at all.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The tooltip for "Autopsy Required"note Only shows up when looking at the Target Info of an alien that hasn't been autopsied yet starts off with "Enemy unknown".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: As it turns out, the XCOM project as a whole. The Ethereals invaded to motivate the creation of the project so they could weaponize the inherent versatility and Determinator outlook of the human race so we'd be useful enough to adopt as part of their alien empire and help them with something that's coming. Assuming you win, it worked too well.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_19d06ef7	comment	An Officer Training School ability added in Enemy Within is "Lead By Example", which raises all soldiers' Will scores to that of the squad leader's when they're in close proximity to said leader, while those with higher Will scores aren't affected. It also adds the "Neural Damping" gene mod, that makes the soldier immune to panicking as well as only being stunned by a Mind Control attempt; unfortunately, it's not available for MEC Troopers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1a24cb20	type	Modular Difficulty
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1a24cb20	comment	Modular Difficulty: The game and its expansion Enemy Within feature a variety of options in addition to the difficulty levels, including "Ironman Mode" (prevents save scumming), and the "Second Wave" options, which range from giving rookies highly variable stats to randomizing damage and funding. These options are unlocked based on the difficulty levels of campaigns you've completed previously.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1a8b9a47	type	Rule of Fun
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1a8b9a47	comment	Rule of Fun: Weapons have been noticeably nerfed from their real-life effective ranges, but playing a game on the scale of hundreds of meters wouldn't be as fun. It would also be much harder to program and design.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: One wrong click, and you sent a soldier out of cover with a Sectopod warming its laser cannon in anticipation, and your remaining two soldiers have no moves that can affect the enemy's hit chance. If the Sectopod is the only enemy, just have them run out of cover as well, standing two tiles apart from each other. When presented with a delicious cluster of enemies stacked too far away to hit with one laser blast, the Sectopod will use its first turn to charge Cluster Bomb, ending its turn and giving you a free move to escape. Sometimes, if you're very confident in your air defense network, it can be wise to completely ignore an alien UFO contact. If you do that, be sure to purchase some of the Interceptor modules and prepare for the battleship that will come for you. The reason is that a battleship can be quite lucrative if you manage to take one down and secure the remains, and they're quite rare (especially on lower difficulties) unless you let the game drag on for quite a while. Have a soldier about to be killed by a wounded Chryssalid? Throw a grenade at them. If the Chryssalid has only three HP it'll be killed no matter what, and even if the damage kills your guy you don't have to worry about him becoming a zombie.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1ba09c9d	type	Human Resources
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1ba09c9d	comment	Human Resources: The aliens are kidnapping humans for their own mysterious purposes, but you can turn this around on them. Many items you can create through Engineering or the Foundry require you to use up the bodies of aliens (you're ripping out their cybernetic implants or other useful material). After taking out the first Alien Base, you get a number of "Alien Food" canisters in your "Grey Market" inventory. They have no research function and can be sold freely, but the description indicates the slurry within has DNA markers consistent with humans.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1ba5dc68	type	The Greys
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1ba5dc68	comment	The Greys: The Sectoids are back of course. By way of the Dover Demon and Deus Ex, by the looks of things.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1c398324	comment	" Site Recon" in Enemy Within takes place in the aftermath of one. A fishing village has been completely overtaken by zombies (and the Chryssalids that made them). At the end of the mission, the whole town is flattened by an airstrike.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: As your soldiers do well, they get new abilities and get promoted up through the ranks. Anyone who has reached Colonel is a true badass.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1d364dbd	type	Heavily Armored Mook
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1d364dbd	comment	Heavily Armored Mook: Elite Mutons and Berserkers both have heavy armor, but the biggest example is the Sectopod, which has a whopping 50% damage reduction and 60% critical hit resistance. Anything less than plasma weaponry is about as effective as hitting it with tennis balls.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: With the DLC packs, soldiers get an option to wear these into battle. The added beret just enhances the coolness.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: One of the Escort Missions has a politician who (supposedly) is in collusion with the aliens as the escortee. Subverted in the game over cutscene. The Council decides to join forces with the aliens, but it is then revealed that this is because they are being mind controlled. EXALT in the Enemy Within expansion is an entire faction of these, believing that the aliens will uplift humanity and take steps to sabotage XCOM's efforts to defeat them at every turn. While they aren't wrong about why the aliens are here, they are actively opposing the only faction that the aliens have an interest in.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1f19f198	type	Back-to-Back Badasses
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1f19f198	comment	Or worse, when you've moved forward so quickly that you overextend and wind up with aliens behind you - but you aren't sure where they are, and you're standing in the middle of an alien base with Mutons and Chryssalids coming from god-knows-where. You have two options - split the party, or wander around hunting for the last enemies on the map. Or pull a six-way Back-to-Back Badasses Last Stand, because twenty turns in, the aliens have their fog of war removed so you don't wind up chasing the last alien all over the map. Bonus points if they all make it out alive.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1fe13afb	type	Dirt Forcefield
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_1fe13afb	comment	Dirt Forcefield: Played with. Your troops can run in the dirt or in muddy water, get wounded several times by aliens, survive explosions that blow walls apart, and walk in scenes of abominable carnage where walls have been repainted with litres of human and/or alien blood, but whatever they do, they will (mostly) look pristine and immaculate. Dirt, dust, and sweat never touch them. However, if they take more damage than their armor can handle, blood splatters will immediately appear on their uniform. Played straight for the aliens, including species like Chryssalids and Berserkers, whose greatest hobby is ripping people apart with bare hands/claws/blades.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2044af1	type	Faceless Goons
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2044af1	comment	Faceless Goons: You can have your own squad of them, provided you have the Downloadable Content.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: When the aliens directly attack XCOM HQ in Enemy Within, they explicit only try it once. Vahlen posits that they used too much power trying to mind control half the base personnel, which is why they don't try it again. Completing Operation Progeny reveals that she is correct.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: The Muton Elites serve as this for the Ethereals. Whenever you see an Ethereal, he'll always have a Muton Elite or two as his personal guard, and any mission with an Ethereal around will involve multiple Elites as a roaming alien squad.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The in-game News Reports depict a grim picture of the world as panic starts to rise. Economic collapse, unchecked rioting, destroyed infrastructure, and starvation become common reports later in the game.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Averted for the most part. The Council is made up of most of the G20 countries and a few others that give you money and support to keep everyone alive. That said, countries will bail if they feel they would be better off on their own. Several news blurbs mention how many rival political and intellectual groups are blaming the alien attacks on each other. This is why Zhang defects to XCOM during the special Council missions included in Slingshot. He realized that the Triads squabbling for money and power is kinda pointless when the Aliens are attacking everyone. Finally played straight with Enemy Within. EXALT is another human faction that seeks to use the alien's "gifts" to empower themselves and directly opposes XCOM.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_225d4412	type	PlayedStraight
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_225d4412	comment	In Enemy Within, Played Straight by EXALT. They're a secret society of paramilitary operatives working in the shadows and masquerading as ordinary citizens. Each one of them is fanatically loyal to the cause and won't stop at anything to take the aliens' gifts and Take Over the World. The organization is also shown to be very old and very wealthy, their base having a lot of fancy decorations and priceless art. Their insignia even has the stereotypical Illuminati "eye"!
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_22725d56	type	Nom de Guerre
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_22725d56	comment	Nom de Guerre: Bradford's is "Central", the Skyranger is "Big Sky" and your squad is "Strike-One". Also, any soldier that makes it to Sergeant earns one, though the player can change it to whatever they prefer. They're randomly assigned, though each class has their own list of available nicknames.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_22759a15	type	Aliens Steal Cattle
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_22759a15	comment	Aliens Steal Cattle: Some raids on Abductor-class alien ships will have quite a few slaughtered cattle scattered around the storage pods.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_230c2632	type	Glowing Eyes
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_230c2632	comment	Glowing Eyes: Using a psi ability causes the user's eyes to glow a sinister, deep purple.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2462a9ba	type	Multi-Armed and Dangerous
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2462a9ba	comment	Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Ethereals have four arms now, though unlike other examples, this is probably more for Rule of Cool than anything else, since they attack only with psychic powers and don't even carry a weapon.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2473b050	type	Fast-Roping
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2473b050	comment	Fast-Roping: Used in the intro of a couple of story missions in Enemy Unknown, and an uncommon entrance during certain regular missions in Enemy Within.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2536f695	type	Game-Breaker
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2536f695	comment	The Sniper class is decently fast but can't fire their sniper rifle at all after moving, unless a specific class perk is taken, and also has lower base health progression than the other classes. Considering their weapons have the highest accuracy and base critical rate, and that they can have an array of severely overpowered perksnote for example: shoot twice in one turn, perform a headshot for ramped up crit chances, shoot an enemy from almost any distance as long as an ally can see them. Most especially with the In The Zone ability, where killing a flanked or exposed enemy does not count as an action, meaning you can clear out 3 or 4 Chryssalids and still move and take action in one turn, it's entirely possible to kill or severely wound some of the strongest enemies from across the map.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: When a Berserker manages to score a killing blow. The poor soldier is gut-stabbed and then hammer-fisted into the ground as they double over, and then the alien continues to savagely beat them for a few more seconds. In Enemy Within, MEC troopers can get in on the action if they choose the Kinetic Strike Module on their MEC suit. There is even a special animation when used to kill Mechtoids, Berserkers and Sectopods, and this trope is definitely involved. The animation used when killing a Berserker with a MEC rocket-punch is especially awesome â€“ the Berserker initially goes for this, but gets brutally shown that it's facing a physically stronger enemy for the first time when the MEC shoves it off them and delivers the Module's alien-mulching uppercut when the Berserker gets up for more.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	type	Palette Swap
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	comment	In Enemy Within, EXALT weapons are recovered after missions and can be used by your own soldiers. However, they're mechanically identical to your own weapon counterparts and are meant to be sold to the Council once you decide you have enough. Their only use in equipping your soldiers is a personal aesthetic preference over the X-COM gear. However, Elites' laser hardware are a way to get usable laser weaponry without having to spend your research dollars for it. Played straight with the unique gene mods on most of their Elite units, which are "Iron Skin" (Elite Heavies)note reduces damage by 25%, "Regen Pheromones" (Elite Medics)note regenerates the health of the Medic and nearby friendlies by 1 every turn and "Adrenaline Rush" (Elite Operatives)note increases Aim and Critical Chance by 10% with every injury., and curiously, the Medics' Medikits. EXALT Elite units also carry alien grenades, which self-destruct into fragments upon death as with aliens, but are recoverable if the EXALT is stunned, despite their ensuing suicide.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The Sectopod has two: a fusion lance for burning your dudes to a fine, fine ash, and a plasma beam for the reaction shots. The Battleship UFO has one, which can be researched for your Firestorms if you salvage an intact Fusion Core. They're also used for Blaster Launchers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_26605b45	type	Turn-Based Combat
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_26605b45	comment	Turn-Based Combat: The game implements the One Side, One Turn variation with Square Grid movement. Each unit has two actions, move and attack (although you can't move after attacking). Orders are given to each unit individually and resolved immediately, and you can switch between units that still have actions at any time. The system has both Delayed Actions (the reaction shot that replaces a usual attack and is triggered by an enemy coming into range) and Attacks of Opportunity (the Assault class' free close range attack).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_26a3246d	type	Doing Research
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_26a3246d	comment	Doing Research: Very important throughout the whole game, as new aliens with different abilities and equipment show up as the invasion progresses. Performing an Alien Autopsy will provide more info when the alien is examined on the battlefield.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: With a side of Genius Bonus. The Council of Nations is represented by a bald man wearing a suit sitting in the shadows. In the original game, the Funding screen and the end-of-month summary was displayed on a background with a very similar man holding a briefcase full of money. The pre-order bonus and the Elite Soldier Pack includes a blonde dude with a humongous flat-top, as well as a TF2 Hat depicting the same hairstyle. In the original game, the sprites for male X-COM soldier had this same haircut, and this was one of the four available in-game art for male soldiers. The basic weapon for Interceptors are Avalanche Missiles, which were the best terrestrial interceptor weapons available in the original game. Manufacturing your first laser or plasma rifle has a cutscene where it's used on cardboard cutouts of the original Sectoid (for laser) and Muton (for plasma). The Thin Men are very strongly implied to be genetically-altered Snakemen. Even better, the original game implied that the Snakemen had a very dangerous and deadly poison, though it never made it into the game. One of the Thin Men's most dangerous attacks is hitting you with a cloud of deadly poison. The Floater Autopsy report is codenamed "Crimson Cape", a reference to these aliens' appearance in the original. The final mission is always named "Operation Avenger". In UFO Defense, the Avenger was the transport ship X-Com had to build to reach the final mission on Mars. The Elerium research project is codenamed "Project E-115", a reference to the original game where Elerium was referred to as the 115th element on the periodic table*unfortunately, it was named Moscovium. The short musical cue that plays when a round of psi training is completed is from the original's Geoscape theme. The Achievement for building your first Firestorm is called "Ride the Lightning", which might refer to the much-maligned aircraft of the same name from the original. Muton Elites and Berserkers are red, just like "Mr. Angry Red Suit" who was never fought in the original. An arcade machine in the base's recreation room has the original game running. Leaving the game overview in the Situation Room screen has Bradford spout off some idle chatter every so often... with some subtle references to the original game. In Enemy Within's "Site Recon" Council Mission, Bradford remarks that at least the grounded ship the Chryssalids are spawning from wasn't a cruise liner. Terror From the Deep has very long cruise ship Terror missions, which are generally very stressful and tend to result in extreme death rates. One of the UFO Retrieval Maps added in Enemy Within is modeled after the classic 1994 X-COM farmhouse terrain, complete with barn. Zooming way in (usually during a cinematic action shot) in the "video rental store" part of one map will show a mohawk-wearing X-COM soldier from the original game, wearing that game's version of the Alloy Armor with cheekbone-helmet.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: Mutons have some sort of breathing apparatus and some of the DLC helmets for your soldiers can count as well. However, neither protects against poison cloud attacks. For XCOM soldiers to have poison immunity, one must wear Titan Armor (Ghost and Archangel as well in Enemy Within), carry a Medikit or carry a Respirator Implant (Enemy Within-only).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_27ae4a75	type	Poisonous Person
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_27ae4a75	comment	Poisonous Person: The Thin Men: they're highly toxic and can spit poison clouds at your group. They also create a poison cloud when they die. Their toxins can be refined by XCOM into gas grenades. Chryssalids can poison those who manage to survive their melee strikes.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_28c502f6	type	Tactical Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_28c502f6	comment	Robots are immune to psi-powers, so it's good tactics to send your S.H.I.V.s against psi-users. However, Ethereals can use their unique "Psionic Lance" and "Rift" psychic powers, which do increased damage the lower the target's Will is. Since robots have 0 Will, these psychic abilities can one-hit kill any of your S.H.I.V.s.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2902d076	type	Support Party Member
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2902d076	comment	All active items work similarly. The medikit gets one use (three with a Field Medic Support), four when he gets Deep Pocket in Enemy Within), grenades can only be used once (twice with the Grenadier Perk from the Heavy, or the Deep Pocket support ability in Enemy Within), the Arc Thrower can only be used twice (thrice with the Support ability Deep Pockets), the support Smoke Grenade can only be used once, twice with the Smoke And Mirrors ability (thrice in Enemy Within). It had to be noted it applies only during missions, as the squad gets resupplied for free between missions.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a	type	Adam Smith Hates Your Guts
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a	comment	Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: In Enemy Within, the prices of constructing plasma weapons have been jacked up to encourage capturing them from the aliens. This doesn't apply to interceptor armaments, meaning a regular plasma rifle now costs about four times the price of a heavy ship-borne plasma cannon. Then again, the plasma rifle research notes do say that reducing the weapon's size so a human could comfortably hold it was troublesome in the project.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2a542c7d	comment	Beam Spam: You get the option for this with with the Scatter Laser, Heavy Lasers and SHIVs and Interceptors/Firestorms equipped with Laser Cannons. The aircraft version of the Laser Cannon has as its trump card the ability to hit harder than Avalanche missiles at a very high fire rate, essential for tougher UFOs that can shake off an engagement faster. Plasma weapons typically fire few high-power shots, but there are two exceptions: Outsiders firing their Light Plasma Rifles shoot in long six-shot bursts, and Heavies with Heavy Plasma LMGs fire in fast eight-round bursts.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Any Squaddie (any operative with a couple of missions or a kill under their belt, at least until you get the upgrade that gives the rank for free) is one. The customization of the troops grinds it in. Moreso when they reach Sergeant, which is when your battle-hardened troopers earn themselves a custom, randomly-generated nickname (that you can then customize yourself, if you wish). Even the highest ranking of your soldiers can qualify as Mauve Shirts. All it takes is a couple of well placed shots, a single Chryssalid or Muton Berserker, or an Ethereal mind controlling one of your finest soldiers into shooting their buddies and even your most trusted and powerful soldiers can die. Made worse on Ironman mode, wherein you can't reload your saves and those guys are gone for good.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2b42db02	type	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2b42db02	comment	The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The Council, of course, complete with a mysterious man with his face framed in shadow who signs off by saying: And although their entire style and word choice fulfills every Conspiracy Theorist's nightmare, they are in effect Reasonable Authority Figures who only complain if you slack off against the aliens. If you do exceptionally well (A rating), they make a point of pointing out how well things are going:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	Is there a single Muton Berserker left on the map? Can one of your soldiers use Mind Control? Now take the Berserker, move it to an open area with no cover, then have your squad line up in firing range, turn on Overwatch, and wait for the Mind Control to wear off. Cue More Dakka. Better yet, in Enemy Within. Is that Berserker close to one of your MEC units? Does it have the "Kinetic Strike Module"? Punch it clear across the map. It gets even better if it's an EXALT agent. You can punch them into cars so hard the cars explode.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: A lot of the abilities your troopers receive as they gain promotions involve choices between this and Boring, but Practical. Alloy S.H.I.V.s and potentially MEC Troopers can be used as partial and full-cover, respectively, but the usefulness of this function is mainly against weaker aliens. Due to the prevalence of grenade-happy enemies in the late game, who will always use one if two or more soldiers clump together, having a soldier take cover behind their S.H.I.V. or MEC compatriot practically waves a "Throw Grenade Here" sign at the aliens. PSI Panic. For some reason, the target almost always shoots at your soldiers when it panics (it almost never shoots at its allies or retreats, unlike your own panicked soldiers), so it's usually easier to kill it outright. Snipers have choose between Squadsight and Snap Shot early on. Squadsight lets them fire their sniper rifles at any alien any member of your squad can see, provided the sniper's line-of-effect to that alien isn't blocked. Snap Shot lets them fire their sniper rifles after moving, but at a significant -20 Penalty to Aim. And sniper rifles gain an Aim Penalty for being within less than 10 tiles of the target. Further throwing the benefit into Squadsight's favor, are the Sergeant rank options of Gunslinger and Damn Good Ground. Gunslinger gives +2 damage with Pistols. Combined with all the foundry projects, they will do damage comparable to the same tier Assault Rifle in the hands of a sniper, and with good accuracy, making the purpose of Snap Shot almost pointless. Damn Good ground, gives a +10 bonus to Aim and Defense, which combines with the default +20 Aim for having the high ground on an enemy. Combined with Archangel armor, Snipers in open environments can just fly up and rain death down upon any alien that pops their head outside of a building, while remaining almost completely safe at the mission's drop zone. Enemy Within however, changes this up to push the issue into making both options look tempting. Squadsight is nerfed to be unable to score critical hits with such aided shots without the use of the Sniper's Headshot ability being activated. Snap Shot in the meantime, was buffed by reducing the Aim penalty to only -10. The addition of the new Seeker alien unit, means leaving your sniper in the back without any means of preventing strangulation, is very risky until appropriate items, melds, or armor is developed. Later, they have to choose between Double Tap and In The Zone. Double Tap lets you shoot twice, every time, if your first action was to shoot. In The Zone lets you shoot as many times in one turn as you like, provided every shot kills a flanked or out-of-cover alien. In The Zone could wipe a whole map of aliens in a single turn, but this requires a fair amount of setup and least a little luck to pull off. Assault abilities tend to come in two flavors: Increase damage or increase suvivability. You can give them abilities that let them shoot twice in a single action, increase damage and critical chance the closer they are to enemies or with more enemies visible, or give them increased HP from heavier armors and decrease the enemies chance to hit the more of them are around. Basically a choice between mitigating the risk of their high-risk, high-reward playstyle, or increasing the reward.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2c1f1138	type	He Who Fights Monsters
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2c1f1138	comment	He Who Fights Monsters: Dr. Shen wonders if using the aliens' technology, which turned living beings into living weapons and tools, might not cause humanity to go down the same path. Even more pronounced in Enemy Within, where Meld allows the technology to be applied directly to no-longer-fully-human soldiers. However, in Enemy Within Shen is more open to using alien technology to alter humans â€“ his original voice line, expressing horror at the mutilation of the Floaters, is changed to one that expresses disquiet but doesn't rule out the creation of MEC cyborgs.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2c67783f	type	Pinned Down
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2c67783f	comment	Pinned Down: The "Suppression" ability available to Heavies, Supports, and some aliens. It penalizes the target's accuracy and allows the suppressor to take a free reaction shot if the target moves.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2f253c94	comment	Thin Men are able to hop right up to the tops of buildings to gain instant height advantage and the Aim bonus that comes with it. Yet another reason they are so nasty despite being physically frail.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2f948e12	type	Throwing the Distraction
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_2f948e12	comment	Mimic Beacons send out decoy noises to draw enemies into your kill zone.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_30bf3ff4	type	Beef Gate
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_30bf3ff4	comment	Beef Gate: The game throws several of these at you to ensure you're not resting on your Research laurels. You should have Laser weapons by the first Terror Mission so you can reliably two-shot Chryssalids, Carapace Armor by the Mutons to resist their firepower, and so on. A few of these thresholds can be extended with sound tacticsnote especially on Marathon mode, when you're guaranteed to face Chryssalids and Mutons with only bog-standard armor and ballistic weapons, though high rank soldiers' abilities help, but Berserks and Cyberdiscs with Drones are a hard wall to hit for a strike team with only basic equipment. Woe is you if you build the Hyperwave Relay without at least one Firestorm in your Hangar. This makes the Overseer craft appear regularly, and it eats up the regular Interceptors like candy with its dual-weapon defense system and extremely fast speed. You have to get busy building Firestorms, STAT. Meanwhile, as you build it (or wait for missions to even get the parts to build it with, the Overseer keeps appearing on radar, and you have no choice but to ignore it. This makes panic rise and your monthly rating go down the toilet, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3130e2c6	type	Uplifted Animal
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3130e2c6	comment	Uplifted Animal: Most of the aliens that serve the Ethereals have been conquered and uplifted or altered to some degree in their search for "gifted" species. The Chryssalids are the most striking example, since they began as feral animals... and didn't really evolve from that state.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: Grenades and rocket launchers are extremely effective at completely blowing the stuffing out of the aliens. The downside is that they blow up any salvageable material (including Weapon Fragments, if you kill an alien with them) in their blast radius, but hey, if you get the opportunity to completely waste a group of weak enemies, then by all means, annihilate them! Better than losing your squad. Also, melee-only aliens like the Chryssalids don't provide Weapon Fragments in the first place, so feel free to blow them to pieces. They also tend to be bunched up when initially encountered. You can also use them to just blow up the aliens' cover, allowing your other troopers to shoot them without an accuracy penalty. Using them to soften up a group of very tough enemies is also viable, as Weapon Fragments are only lost if they're killed with explosives (or if explosions hit their dead bodies and dropped hardware).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_33287e20	type	One Bullet Clips
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_33287e20	comment	One Bullet Clips: Another change from the original games, ammunition is no longer tracked as separate items and soldiers can reload at will. Pistols never run dry, however.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Your troops normally don't wear helmets, and they aren't even available without Downloadable Content. It gets especially noticeable when they're wearing Titan armor, which has an isolated filtration system that protects against poison clouds and a built-in cooling system to protect against flames, both of which should require a helmet or at least a mask. The Elite Soldier Pack, Slingshot and Enemy Within DLCs add helmets, but only as cosmetic customization options.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	type	Game-Breaking Bug
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	comment	Game-Breaking Bug: On Ironman, bugs that would normally be of the "annoying but minor" variety (since you can just reload the game if they screw you up too badly) can reach gamebreaking status if they happen at the wrong time, and campaign enders if on Ironman. The flight movement interface is... iffy, to say the least. It's possible to get soldiers and S.H.I.V.s trapped inside objects where they can't move to escape, which in gameplay terms is like killing them (at least for the mission). If they turn out to be the sole survivor, you can't save them at all; you must abort, restart or use the console to teleport the unit to a valid square. The same goes for the aliens. A Floater, Drone or Seeker may fly up and clip into the ceiling and out of sight of all soldiers; the alien itself will either be able to attack with impunity or incapable of seeing your troops in return. This tends to happen in the bridge of a Battleship, and in most cases can only be fixed by firing a blind airburst rocket in hopes that it kills the ayy. If it's a healthy Heavy Floater, though, if you don't have an extra rocket, you're softlocked. Using "Disabling Shot" on an alien in Overwatch has a chance to produce the exact opposite effect. They won't be disabled at all the next turn, and then get unlimited Overwatch shots, shooting at a target each tile it moves, which can often doom that soldier. The infamous "teleporting alien" bug, which can drop pods right into the middle of your unprepared team. If you're on Ironman and get a nasty group popping up in the middle of your team (such as a Sectopod), you've pretty much lost the mission unless you're really lucky. Using a smoke grenade in the final level on the area overlooking the two Sectopods can cause the game to freeze if the Sectopods are still alive. Covering Fire triggers reaction fire when a soldier uses the Skeleton Suit/Ghost Armor's grapple hook. For bizarre reasons, the grappler will be sent flying far in a random direction after the reaction shot is done, frequently straight into the ground, into mid-air or even outside the map boundaries. For this reason, it's better not to grapple in front of an EXALT Medic of any tier or Mind Controlled Support, otherwise get ready to abort the mission, count that soldier out of the battle, or use the console to teleport them to a valid position. In Enemy Within, if a soldier with the Neural Damping gene mod has been set on Overwatch and is knocked unconscious due an attempt at Mind Control, the game engine will keep the Overwatch flag up on them. If an enemy moves within the KO'd soldier's line of sight, they'll technically still try to fire at enemies, but can't due to the stun. This softlocks the game. On the PC version, its possible for the launcher to never show up at all when you try to play the game, especially on the Steam version. This makes the game unplayable.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: High ranking units on both sides are nastier than their lower ranking counterparts.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_34ffa400	type	Bonus Dungeon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_34ffa400	comment	Bonus Dungeon: Taking down and salvaging a Fusion Core from a Battleship-class UFO isn't necessary to complete the game, but you do get some sweet technology for doing so, including the Blaster Launcher.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Downplayed: Dr. Vahlen, the head of Research, is definitely a lot more gung-ho about SCIENCE! than Dr. Shen, though she does persist on personally overseeing any interrogation attempts.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_354f7d1c	type	TheresNoKillLikeOverkill
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_354f7d1c	comment	Is there one little Sectoid left on the map? Have an Assault with Ghost Armor and an Alloy Cannon? It WILL bring a smile to your face when you decorate the wall/tree/car/bulkhead that Sectoid is hiding behind with its innards.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_36249acd	type	Lethal Joke Character
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_36249acd	comment	Lethal Joke Character: South America's "We Have Ways" bonus is kind of laughable in regular gameplay, because once you get plenty of scientists you'll be completing autopsies and interrogations in a single day. But turn on the "Marathon" option in Second Wave, and suddenly South America's bonus becomes critical, because all research times are increased several times over, and you can't afford to waste most of a month on autopsies and interrogations. Not to mention that the research credits from interrogations greatly reduce the lengthy research times on advanced technology, which is the difference between spending an entire month unlocking a new technology and only a dozen days working on it. Doubly so when starting in South America (even though the continent otherwise requires only two satellites), making a hell of a difference in the early game. As for characters, the base security personnel in Enemy Within are expected to be nothing more than RedShirts. However, with the "Tactical Rigging" Foundry upgrade, they'll all have two grenades at their disposal, meaning the large squad size (up to eight compared to the usual maximum of six) and extra grenades can actually be quite the benefit.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_373283c9	comment	This Cannot Be!: The Uber-Ethereal when you kill him. Shades of What the Hell, Hero? as well. He believed that humans would willingly join the Ethereals to fight whatever bigger threat they were preparing for, and killing him destroyed their only source of information.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3734c311	type	Onesie Armor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3734c311	comment	Onesie Armor: In this game and XCOM 2 body armor is one single piece statwise, though various protective vests may be worn under it for additional protection as a utility item, and purely cosmetic Character Customization allows you to individually change headgear or body armor
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_38c98481	type	Ranged Emergency Weapon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_38c98481	comment	Ranged Emergency Weapon: In the base game, pistols will probably rarely be used by anyone who isn't a sniper. Even with a Plasma pistol with all the Foundry upgrades, a pistol will only manage Scratch Damage against late game enemies. Snipers can take the Gunslinger perk to increase pistol damage. Heavies, on the other hand, don't even bother carrying pistols, preferring a rocket launcher instead.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_392ccbc9	type	Close-Range Combatant
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_392ccbc9	comment	The first Terror mission, due to the heavy concentration of powerful melee enemies with lots of health. Before, successful tactics tended to involve getting into a good formation and creeping forward, staying in cover, and trying to take out the enemy from afar. Now, cover is useless, the enemy is too fast to stay far away from them for long, and you can't afford to dilly-dally lest they convert too many civilians into zombies, so your only hope is to kill them before they kill you. It can be a rude awakening if you've invested too much in long-range Snipers and not enough in close-range Assaults.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Out of all of the aliens that get interrogated, the Thin Man is the only one who doesn't panic. He glowers at the zappy-arms and starts walking towards the glass as if he's about to say something, but the shutters close on him before he says anything. The Ethereal attempts this, standing aloof and dignified in the containment before it starts, but loses its composure as soon as the robot arms move in. Unlike their lesser cannon fodder, the Ethereals never expected humanity to capture them, after all.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	The Tactical Rigging Foundry upgrade from Enemy Within. Enables all soldiers from that point on to carry two items, in case you don't want to choose between two equally Boring, but Practical items, and puts the health-increasing items on the table for flimsier soldiers with choice items already like Medikits for Supports, Reaper Rounds for Assaults without Scatter Lasers, the S.C.O.P.E. for Snipers and Grenades for Heavies. Especially useful for covert operatives, who can't use armor.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_39ed1c8a	comment	And although their entire style and word choice fulfills every Conspiracy Theorist's nightmare, they are in effect Reasonable Authority Figures who only complain if you slack off against the aliens. If you do exceptionally well (A rating), they make a point of pointing out how well things are going:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3a90dc63	type	Aliens Are Bastards
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3a90dc63	comment	Aliens Are Bastards: The aliens, as you'd expect from an X-Com game. They're cruel and violent and launch an all-out war against humanity without explanation, with abductions, terrorism and Human Resources all on the table.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Gas Grenades poison enemies and force them to avoid the poison clouds (and their aim is terrible when they're poisoned).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3b856be9	type	The Enemy Weapons Are Better
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3b856be9	comment	The Enemy Weapons Are Better: Stunning heavily armed enemies with the Arc Thrower is the way you get Plasma hardware of your own; in fact, Enemy Within actively encourages you to do this by jacking up the credits and material costs of manufacturing Plasma weapons of all kinds, so stunning Sectoids and Mutons isn't an absurd proposition even after you've interrogated previous captives. EXALT's lasers can also apply if your beam weapons production has taken a backseat, though they're unusable if you haven't researched the principles behind each weapon type.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3bf3244e	type	Good Weapon, Evil Weapon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3bf3244e	comment	Good Weapon, Evil Weapon: The dimorphism between XCOM's and EXALT's weapons becomes more pronounced later on in the tech trees. At first, EXALT starts with black-tinted ballistic weapons, compared to the khaki camo your soldiers default to. For the lasers, they're black to your light gray and shaped more like typical guns repurposed to fire lasers than your own laser guns. Subverted in that XCOM can equip EXALT's weaponry to no ill effect â€“ functionally, they're the exact equivalent to your own hardware.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d1f2cae	type	Barrier-Busting Blow
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d1f2cae	comment	Barrier-Busting Blow: Berserkers are fond of pulling this. If there is a full-sized wall between them and an XCOM soldier, they will charge through the wall and deal an insane amount of damage. Unless the soldier is wearing endgame armor, you'd better make a spot on the Memorial Wall. MECs armed with the Kinetic Strike Module can do this as well, and much better than Berserkers, hitting for a whopping 12 points of damage (or 18, with upgrades; enough to instakill a Muton Elite). Even better, it's one of the first modules you can get on a basic MEC suit; nothing that you come across can take that much damage until you get to Cyberdiscs and Berserkers (the Mechtoid can take it, but only just, and they're pretty rare in the early game).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Save for few examples, aliens in Terror! missions will often target civilians even when there are soldiers about to shoot them.note It should be noted that the aliens that do this are the dumb or entirely mindless species that were explicitly created as terror weapons without survival instincts of their own. Anything with half a brain will instead try to stop XCOM from preventing more civilian deaths. So, as far as obedience to their orders is concerned, every alien on Terror! missions has their priorities very much in order.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d585167	type	Damage-Increasing Debuff
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d585167	comment	Rockets. Since the Heavy Class is carrying a light machine gun (the heaviest weapon in the game), he is already very burdened, so he can only carry one rocket, with no way to resupply during a battle. Well, technically, if he takes the right promotion perks, he can use two rockets and a special shredder rocket (which causes less damage but inflict a Damage-Increasing Debuff), still, with a maximum of three rockets, make them count.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Powered Armor: The Titan Armor, which comes with immunity to fire and poison and grants a huge bonus to health. You also get an achievement called "Man No More" once you build one. The Archangel Armor is basically the same, but with a built-in jetpack and slightly less health. The MEC suits technically count as powered armor, as they are worn like regular armor by the cyborg MEC troopers. However, they're so big they move into Mini-Mecha territory.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d699462	comment	In a meta sense, the game's overall difficulty (even on the lower settings), led to the question "What if XCOM got curb-stomped before they even invented laser weapons?" This is the premise of XCOM 2.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d7ff013	type	How Dare You Die on Me!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d7ff013	comment	How Dare You Die on Me!: One of the upgrades from the Officer Training School is "Don't Die On Me", which increases the chances that soldiers will simply be critically wounded when their HP drops to 0. The chances go up as they become higher ranked. No longer present in Enemy Within, since there are gene mods that do the same thing, only better (the critical injury is guaranteed to preclude immediate death instead of being a chance of happening, and there's no Will penalty).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: The language of the aliens sounds like Satan's autodial, complete with Voice of the Legion. The Chryssalids and Mutons add insectile chittering and roaring, and monstrous bellows, respectively. EXALT's encrypted radio chatter also sounds extremely alien and unrecognizable as human speech.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: Subverted the first time and played straight the second time. Bradford thinks the aliens are done after you destroy their base... which quickly turns out to be an outpost of the main force. The Temple Ship's destruction does cripple the aliens, but given how its destruction involves the deaths of most of the aliens' command staff and their leader, as well as how they were using it to supply their ships, that makes perfect sense.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3e9403d8	type	Fighter-Launching Sequence
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3e9403d8	comment	Fighter-Launching Sequence: When an Interceptor, a Firestorm or the Skyranger is launched, we are treated to a cutscene of its launch. The cutscene is longer the first time it's done. Each subsequent time, only the last part of the cutscene is played.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7	type	Take That, Audience!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3ea462d7	comment	Take That, Audience!: Dr. Shen wonders if the aliens do dissections for fun, and then muses "At least they're not playing computer games..."
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Unsurprising, given how many laser and plasma weapons are getting thrown around. Typically, they have to be set on fire first before that happens, which also gives both the XCOM troopers and aliens one turn to get away from it, though explosives and the Collateral Damage MEC skill will immediately cause it to blow up. Furthermore, stray missed shots from plasma and laser weapons can set vehicles alight, even from across the map, leading to seemingly inexplicable explosions a turn or so after a unit with laser or plasma misses a shot.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_40680cf6	type	Stupidity Is the Only Option
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_40680cf6	comment	Stupidity Is the Only Option: The tutorial involves the initial squad charging into unknown territory and subsequently getting ambushed while investigating a German soldier acting oddly. Because of the structure of the tutorial, it happens while trying to disarm the (armed, unresponsive) German soldier by sending one man to him in plain view before the team establishes Overwatch. Even if you know your mind control ability is only temporary, you can't have your squad shoot or stun your mind controlled subject until he breaks free, unless you use up your limited amount of explosives. Having the aliens kill it for you gives your squad a Will penalty for the rest of the mission, since it's marked as a teammate while mind controlled, so that's out too. It gets ridiculous when one of your squad panics because a mind-controlled Sectoid gets blown up. The Will penalty was removed in a patch, but you still can't preemptively apply a shotgun slug or Arc Thrower to their head. Of course, this also means that the aliens can't do so when they have your forces mind controlled.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Sure, you stopped the invasion, but at the cost of high civilian and military casualties (likely including some of your own troops) and the loss of the Volunteer (they're confirmed by Jake Solomon to not be dead, but they're still MIA), the most powerful psionic on Earth.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_40da7cc9	type	Urban Warfare
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_40da7cc9	comment	Urban Warfare: All alien abductions and Terror missions take place inside major population centers. Enemy Within adds Covert Operations against EXALT and even a few urban UFO crashes to the list.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: A Sniper may do this to the Uber-Ethereal mid-speech.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: EXALT Headquarters turns out to be located in a fancy skyscraper penthouse. Every Council Nation has at least several of those.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Surprisingly, not usually used by the aliens, but by the human EXALT. Their fanaticism and superior numbers means that when they want an objective, many members will dash out into the open to get there faster, knowing that you can't kill them all before they start flanking your guys.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_421e0f6a	type	Mysterious Waif
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_421e0f6a	comment	Mysterious Waif: "Portent", an optional subplot of Enemy Within follows Annette Durand, an unusual, psionically gifted individual with a mysterious past. The aliens considered her such a threat that they were willing to strafe a dam while the truck carrying her was crossing it, and then send ground troops onto the stricken structure to keep XCOM from rescuing her. EXALT is just as That's because she was used as an Amplifier Artifact that enabled the aliens to Mind Control XCOM's personnel inside their own base in an attempt to destroy XCOM.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_42632336	type	Mecha-Mooks
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_42632336	comment	Mecha-Mooks: Played with: the Drones are definitely these. They are numerous and die in one hit, but have the ability to repair their bigger brethren. The Cyberdiscs and Sectopods, however, are vastly more dangerous, as they are bristling with firepower and very heavily armored. Seekers are squid-like robots with a built-in plasma pistol and cloaking device, and a six-pack of Combat Tentacles they use to strangle unlucky soldiers with. On the players side, SHIV unmanned tanks can take the place of a Heavy trooper.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed. Your squad members have infinite ammo supplies, but they have to regularly reload their primary weapons. Ammo is not tracked 'per shot', but in chunks dependent on the weaponnote by default, rifles and shotguns have 4 chunks, LMG's have 3, and MEC Trooper weapons have only 2 - and certain abilities (such as Suppression, Flush and Collateral Damage) use up more ammo than a normal attack. Played straight with pistols, that never need to be reloaded at all.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	type	No Fair Cheating
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	comment	No Fair Cheating: Turning one of your squad into a Hero Unit will disable achievements for that particular campaign.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Your soldiers are recruited from all over the world, but they all speak perfect American English. Adding unique accents for every single member nation would probably be overkill for the developers, of course, which is why they went with this instead. In Enemy Within, this has been changed: you can customize your troops to speak in one of sevennote English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Polish languages, whether it's their country's native tongue or otherwise. No matter where EXALT's main base is located, the voice over for the ending cutscene is still an American-accented man referring to a radio/news station with an American naming pattern. Dr Vahlen is supposed to be a German scientist and usually speaks in a Gratuitous German accent, but half of the time, she changes to overly enunciated RP. Apparently, her character had originally been meant to be British. note German schools teach British ("Oxford") English, not American English. While the predominantly American English in entertainment "overwrites" this in most people, it may be different in the European scientific community. Also, British universities are popular for studying abroad.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_43bda213	type	A Taste of Power
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_43bda213	comment	A Taste of Power: Used in the demo, where in the second mission, all your squad members have a couple of promotions each and several pieces of equipment like Medikits, unlike in the full game, which has a squad of Rookies with 1 Heavy and just frag grenades. They face Floaters and Thin Men during the mission too, not just Sectoids.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_450a63b5	type	Player Nudge
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_450a63b5	comment	Player Nudge: The game occasionally tells you the general direction some of the aliens are hiding in, so you're not left clueless for long.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: Separate canon from the classic games.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4536fd29	comment	Energy Weapon: The second tier of weaponry available to XCOM is laser hardware. They're not as powerful as their plasma counterparts in most cases, but they're a step up from regular ballistic weapons and much cheaper to build than anything that fires plasma. In Enemy Within, lasers are the go-to of EXALT Elites.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: Although neither EU nor EW natively support modding, knowledgable players quickly provided countless mods that tweak or rebalance the gameplay, fix bugs and annoying mechanics, add more customization options for your soldiers, or even overhaul the entire game. It's also fairly easy to adjust pretty much anything to your liking on your own by fiddling with the various INI files, which are simple, well-commented text files.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4612ec70	type	No Transhumanism Allowed
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4612ec70	comment	No Transhumanism Allowed: Doctor Shen has shades of this on Psi abilities. Then again, it's completely new territory and the only other users/examples are the invading aliens, so his hesitation is understandable. He's proven wrong, as the strongest human Psi user ever, The Volunteer, pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Earth. He also questions if something as cybernetically enhanced as the Floaters can even be considered a true lifeform anymore, saying "if that is humanity's future, I want no part of it". The Uber-Ethereal reveals in the final mission that the Floaters were a failed project to create a resilient psionic species, and decided to rip out their organic parts to make them better weapons for the Ethereals' purposes. Averted in Enemy Within, as soldiers can now be enhanced with Bio-Augmentation and Cybernetics. The expansion even changes Shen's voice line â€“ instead of saying "I want no part of it", he expresses determination to proceed with cybernetic modification, albeit without sacrificing the MEC troopers' humanity. His stance actually gets rather amusing: his dialogue expressing concerns over things like Floaters and Psionic research remains, but when you sign up a trooper for MEC augmentation, he rather cheerfully informs you that "a chop here, a chop there, and soon we'll have a soldier the likes of which the world has never seen". However, EXALT's bio-augmentations are taken to a level even Vahlen refuses to go. It shows when EXALT's gene-modded Elite troops have a sickly greyish pallor to their skin (and Heavies have a dirty yellow sheen), while boosted XCOM soldiers at most emit a small burst of vapor or energy at times.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_47d43a43	type	Viral Unlockable
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_47d43a43	comment	Viral Unlockable: The achievement "Bubonic" is unlocked by playing an online game with someone else who already had the achievement unlocked.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Thin Men are only nominally human-looking. Their proportions put them right in the Uncanny Valley, they've got reptilian eyes under their sunglasses and they've got green scales showing right around the collar line on their necks, like their human makeup is wearing off. They never fool your XCOM team. Openly carrying light plasma rifles and attacking the XCOM team on sight doesn't help either. But, you'll encounter only Thin Men in some of the Council missions, so their disguise may work on the civilian population.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_48f7d7a3	type	Sleeves Are for Wimps
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_48f7d7a3	comment	Sleeves Are for Wimps: The gene-modded troopers in Enemy Within wear lighter suits with no armor or clothing over their arms. No matter what armor or customizations, their arms will still be exposed. At most the armor's deco can be customized to include shoulder pauldrons and elbow pads. Elite EXALT operatives can be identified by their rolled-up sleeves, which also exposes their tattoos.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_492d19c	type	Playing Games at Work
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_492d19c	comment	Playing Games at Work: You can hear Bradford complain about someone doing this in the Situation Room:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Some of the new maps in Enemy Within are breathtakingly desolated. "Portent", the first map in the Operation Progeny storyline, stands out in particular.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4a10e526	type	You Have Researched Breathing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4a10e526	comment	You Have Researched Breathing: Your supposedly elite soldiers need promotions just to acquire basic abilities that any real life soldier fresh out of basic training has, such as the ability to carry multiple grenades or use a first aid kit more than once in a mission. The use of suppressing fire to prevent an enemy from maneuvering or returning fire is one of the fundamentals of infantry tactics, but only two classes of XCOM soldiers are capable of doing this, and those classes must gain multiple promotions first. In Enemy Within, one of the "superhuman" gene mods you can install into your soldiers is depth perception.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall/Take That, Audience!: The peanut gallery regarding the alien entertainment device you find during the assault on the alien base: When searching for the EXALT base, one possible clue is: "The EXALT base is in a country you can play as in Civilization V." Similar example: when staying in the Situation Room long enough, one of Bradford's possible lines is: In Enemy Within, a possible line from a MEC trooper after getting a kill goes as follows:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4b96273c	type	Monty Haul
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4b96273c	comment	Monty Haul: Completing the Slingshot Downloadable Content nets you an intact alien battleship possibly less than two months into the game, which yields a tremendous amount of alloys and Elerium, plus an earlier route to endgame weapons. Chances are, you'll have to try extra hard to even come close to running out of resources again. On the other hand, you'll be facing said Battleship's guards, albeit toned down. Fighting Mutons and Chryssalids with only Ballistic or Laser weapons, Kevlar or Alloy armor, and a small team of somewhat inexperienced troops can make it all into a sequence of Brutal Bonus Levels, even on easier difficulties, though still worth the huge payout. However, the real prize besides the Fusion cores is not the Elerium and Alloys... it's the corpses and interrogations. If you stun the Muton and capture him, then destroy the Drone, Cyberdisk, and Chryssalid without blowing them up, you can shave literally months off of the research and Foundry trees. Operation Progeny plays it straight for its final mission. You get 3 Lieutenant-ranked soldiers who are guaranteed to be psychic for a mission that was easier than the previous one.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: The vanilla game downplayed this trope with the Arc Thrower, which was only useful at stunning weakened enemies, repairing your drones or hacking enemy ones. Enemy Within turns that around with the MEC Trooper's "Electropulse" Tactical Subsystem, a close-range electric attack that fries any unit unlucky enough to be within a few tiles of the MEC, in addition to shutting down robotic units for a whole turn.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4cbc7f95	type	Blasting It Out of Their Hands
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4cbc7f95	comment	Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Higher level Snipers can do this with "Disabling Shot", forcing the target to waste a turn reloading the weapon to unjam it. The shot deals very little damage and has a flat 10% penalty on chance to land. Naturally, this only works for aliens with guns, and the guns of said aliens; other abilities like grenades or EXALT's rocket launchers will still work as usual.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4d54bb0d	type	Spiteful A.I.
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4d54bb0d	comment	Spiteful A.I.: During Terror missions, enemies will often attack civilians instead of your soldiers if they're in a situation where they only have one move before your squad ventilates them. Sometimes, they'll do it even when they're in a secure position and your soldiers make easier targets.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4dcfdb68	type	It's the Only Way to Be Sure
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4dcfdb68	comment	It's the Only Way to Be Sure: A unique Council mission in Enemy Within called "Site Recon" has you investigate "unusual activity" in a fishing village in Newfoundland, Canada. When it turns out that the "unusual activity" is a hive of Chryssalids using a whale and sharks as incubators for more Chryssalids, Bradford decides to call in an airstrike to wipe the place off the map.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4ee487f2	type	Evil Makes You Ugly
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4ee487f2	comment	Evil Makes You Ugly: EXALT genetic modifications exceed even Dr. Vahlen's ethical limits, and it shows. Elite EXALT operatives display deep wrinkles, sunken eyes and some even have greenish skin discolorations. Their regular operatives aren't in much better shape either.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: The Ethereals to humans. As it turns out, the Ethereals have been experimenting on other species, modifying them genetically and mechanically in hopes for them to be able to obtain the Gift but none of them succeed.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5049f19d	type	Do Well, But Not Perfect
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5049f19d	comment	Do Well, But Not Perfect: Early on, if you capture too many enemies to steal their Plasma weapons and grenades for your troops to use you'll not have enough weapon fragments to advance your research. As such, you'll have to kill at least half of the enemies in every mission to ensure you keep them stockpiled. Enemy Within throws an additional wrinkle that you can't just build a squillion Plasma Rifles, Plasma Sniper Rifles, Heavy Plasma Guns and Alloy Cannons without running out of money and weapon fragments fast, so you now have more incentive to keep capturing enemies throughout the game and step it up in the late game once most weapons are researched. In Enemy Within, the new medals system includes one, the Defender's Medal", that you can't unlock without allowing at least one of your troops to be killed or S.H.I.V.s to be destroyed. This means those who don't want to let any soldiers die can't acquire every medal.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_504e271f	type	But Thou Must!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_504e271f	comment	But Thou Must!: The tutorial mission helps you familiarize yourself with most of the mechanics of the game by taking your hand and telling you exactly what to do, guiding you to have all but one of your squad horrifically murdered. If you should play the tutorial again, there is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent this course of events, and the best you can do is skip the tutorial altogether*which is actually a bad idea on Classic or Impossible difficulty, since completing the tutorial gets you a free satellite, which would otherwise cost 100 credits and take 20 days to build.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Though not stated directly to the aliens, Assault class soldiers will issue one when you activate their "Run & Gun" skill. Made even more badass if accompanied by the Ghost Armor's invisibility and wrapped up with a provided Post-Mortem One-Liner: Sonetimes soldiers will utter "Good night.", in different tones of voice, when stunning an alien with the Arc Thrower. Psionic troopers can also break out a bone-chilling one, or an Evil Laugh, when using their psionic abilities:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_50f848cc	type	Technology Porn
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_50f848cc	comment	Technology Porn: Once you complete certain research projects, construct a building for the first time or manufacture certain weapons or vehicles for the first time.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Every time a soldier successfully stuns an alien. There is also a hilarious variant if the stun attempt goes wrong and the alien is still standing afterwards:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_520680ca	type	Not Wearing Tights
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_520680ca	comment	Not Wearing Tights: Played with. XCOM operatives are never called superheroes, but by late game, you can have soldiers decked out in brightly colored, form-fitting armor that for all intents and purposes resemble superhero tights, armed with incredible psychic powers. And Enemy Within takes it a step further with access to genetic and cybernetic modification.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Averted, though lampshaded: Dr. Vahlen can't believe she's using the word "Zombie". You can lean on her hesitance.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_52c8abce	type	You Lose at Zero Trust
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_52c8abce	comment	You Lose at Zero Trust: Nations have a Panic Meter that goes from 1 to 5. When it hits 5, they are in grave danger of pulling their funding from the XCOM project by the end of the month (if you fail a Terror mission in their country or incorrectly accuse them of harboring EXALT HQ in Enemy Within, they pull funding immediately, even if they have less than 5 panic), as they decide to redirect their funding to keep their own people under control. You lose the game when you lose eight nations total (half of the founding nations, in other words), regardless of the panic levels in the other nations, as the Council of Nations decides that the project is a failure. This will happen a whole lot more often on harder difficulties.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The game's opening begins with civilians watching as alien-built abduction devices fall to Earth as meteors. The game's final cutscene depicts the blasted remains of the destroyed Temple Ship falling to Earth as shooting stars while Earth's citizens look up in wonder.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_533bc7ae	type	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_533bc7ae	comment	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: In Enemy Within, MEC Troopers have a Machine Monotone and replace their combat banter with matter-of-fact acknowledgements. They also lose any psychic powers they had or might have been able to get. The upside? They get to run around in a Mini-Mecha with a BFG for an assault rifle and any other goodies you might have put on said giant robot.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539179db	comment	Synchronization: Sectoids may Mind Merge with other Sectoids to boost their comrade's abilities. If you can kill the Sectoid that initiated the Mind Merge, the psychic feedback will kill their friend.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539a77a5	type	Silicon-Based Life
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539a77a5	comment	When Dr. Vahlen autopsies the Cyberdisk, she notes that while it appears to be a machine, its internals are arranged in a manner similar to organs in a living creature and it possesses what amounts to a circulatory system with plasma instead of blood. She states in her notes that she is unsure if it is a robot or a silicon-based cybernetic life form.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	type	Empowered Badass Normal
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_539ae07a	comment	Empowered Badass Normal: Your super-soldiers, who started off as mere rookies and can now Mind Rape aliens to death, leap over entire buildings with their genetic enhancements, or operate a Mini-Mecha that Rocket Punches aliens to death.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_53ecf83f	type	Lensman Arms Race
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_53ecf83f	comment	Lensman Arms Race: Between XCOM and the aliens. At the beginning of the game, XCOM has ballistic weapons, mostly ineffective armor, and little else, while the aliens field the much weaker Sectoids and Thin Men, armed with plasma pistols and light plasma rifles at worst. By the time XCOM has started to field advanced equipment in the form of laser weapons and armor forged from the alien alloys, the aliens up the ante with Mutons and Floaters, some armed with full-sized Plasma Rifles. When XCOM finally gets to highly advanced equipment like plasma weapons of their own, incredibly advanced armor and psionics, the aliens are fielding Elite Mutons, Heavy Floaters, Sectopods, and Heavy Plasma cannons. This also takes place between XCOM and EXALT in Enemy Within, as both sides gradually advance from ballistics to more advanced weaponry. EXALT also gains the ability to gene modify their operatives, just like XCOM. They don't get a MEC equivalent and can't advance past laser weaponry, but they do have their own unique gene mods that are beyond XCOM's ethical limits and more effective as a result.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_53fe2316	type	Bridge Bunnies
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_53fe2316	comment	Bridge Bunnies: Gender inverted. All bridge personnel seen in the base view are male, though there is one unseen French speaking woman in the tutorial.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5405b144	type	Scratch Damage
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5405b144	comment	Damage-wise, explosive grenades pale in comparison to the advanced tech you can have later on, but they remain a method for destroying cover and opening sightlines, mopping up weak or nearly dead enemies, or weakening a capture target just enough to use the Arc Thrower reliably on. With Damage Rulette in play, their fixed damage is handy when you don't want to risk a standard shot dealing only Scratch Damage.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_54804ea9	type	Always on Duty
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_54804ea9	comment	Always on Duty: Heavily implied for your soldiers. They're always available to go at a moment's notice when it's time to scramble the Skyranger for a mission, unless they're in the infirmary, being genetic modified, on a covert op or undergoing PSI testing. You can send the same squad on mission after mission, sometimes hours apart, without your soldiers getting time off. Taken to its logical conclusion, they live at the base, never take leave, and don't even go into town for a night out since the potential consequences for not being available when needed, which could happen at any given time, include the loss of Earth to the aliens.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5534431f	type	Money for Nothing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5534431f	comment	Money for Nothing: Once you manage to get satellites over the majority of the funding nations, you will be rolling in Credits. The bottleneck then becomes Alien Alloys, Elerium and Weapon Fragments, all of which need to be taken from the aliens.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_558245a7	comment	The other variant is Operations: Ashes and Temples, where you defend the Delta section of XCOM's headquarters against multiple waves of alien invaders some time after you destroy the alien base. There are four waves of enemies and you start with your three highest units on the soldier's list, with more coming as reinforcements, and there are also Base Defense troops (essentially slightly worse rookies that always have frag grenades) to assist your squad.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_55ca2d34	type	Emergent Narrative
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_55ca2d34	comment	Emergent Narrative: The game is unusual in that its procedurally generated individuals (your alien-busting squad) are not artificially intelligent. However, they are just individuated enough (through appearance, names, nationalities, and, eventually, classes, call signs, and Psychic Powers) and their battles are sufficiently random that most players become emotionally invested in their advancement and survival, and have at least one story to tell about that one soldier who survived against all odds again and again to save the day in the final mission.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_56863152	type	Operation: [Blank]
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_56863152	comment	All the research project codenames for the various plasma weapons and the Alloy Cannon are various types of birds.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_57775436	type	Mutual Disadvantage
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_57775436	comment	Mutual Disadvantage: It is possible to place a soldier in a position which has them flanking an enemy (negating their cover bonus and significantly increasing their chance of scoring a Critical Hit) whilst simultaneously having them be flanked by that enemy. Risky, but sometimes worth it. This is the Assault class' specialty, since their basic "Run & Gun" ability allows them to shoot after moving twice/dashing, allowing them to jump right behind the cover the aliens are in and pumping them full of buckshot/lasers/alloy shards in the same turn before they can act. They can also have the "Lightning Reflexes" ability, which forces the first reaction shot fired at them in a turn to miss.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_57a70347	type	Homing Boulders
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_57a70347	comment	Purely visual, but some of the miss animations have the shots hitting, but failing to penetrate the target's armor.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_585da3f0	type	Ambiguous Robots
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_585da3f0	comment	Ambiguous Robots: When Dr. Vahlen autopsies the Cyberdisk, she notes that while it appears to be a machine, its internals are arranged in a manner similar to organs in a living creature and it possesses what amounts to a circulatory system with plasma instead of blood. She states in her notes that she is unsure if it is a robot or a silicon-based cybernetic life form. The Outsiders are referred to as "energy constructs" and "organic technology", but what they are exactly is anyone's guess. Unlike the rest of the aliens, their presence is never explained; they're also the only aliens who don't make an appearance in the Temple Ship mission.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_587515b3	type	And the Rest
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_587515b3	comment	And the Rest: Care must be taken to not rely too much one one squad. If you have a squad of Colonels that all get injured by a Sectopod's cluster bombs, they're going to be laid up in the infirmary for days, maybe weeks. And if that Abduction Alarm goes off, and you only have rookies on your bench (especially late in the game), you're in for a very bad day.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_59df21f1	type	Let's Play
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_59df21f1	comment	To GuavaMoment's Let's Play of the X-COM series. One of the hero units is Otto Zander, the hero of the series. This can also carry certain unfortunate, unintended implications for people unfamiliar with the Let's Play, as Otto Zander was also the name of a prominent Nazi. (It should be noted that the name choice was intentional in said LP, considering the character development Otto underwent...)
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5a4c636e	type	Aggressive Play Incentive
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5a4c636e	comment	Aggressive Play Incentive: After Enemy Unknown was criticized for rewarding overly cautious play, the Enemy Within expansion added a new resource, Meld, that comes in containers that self-destruct if not recovered within a certain amount of turns. It's extremely useful, but whether it's worth the risk to the soldiers is up to the player to decide.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5a62c428	type	Exaggerated
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5a62c428	comment	Exaggerated in Enemy Within. When a soldier misses a shot, they start by blatantly aiming their weapon several degrees off of their target, fire every projectile to the exact same spot, and only then report that they "missed".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5ab0da17	type	Punch-Packing Pistol
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5ab0da17	comment	Punch-Packing Pistol: Foundry projects can increase the critical chance of pistols in general by 20% and their damage by 1 point; sadly the aim-improving project is bugged and doesn't work. A Sniper (or any lucky soldier if you're using Training Roulette) with Gunslinger deals 2 more damage when attacking with a pistol. The Plasma Pistol by itself rivals a ballistic assault rifle in raw firepower, dealing up to 4 damage; combined with those projects and Gunslinger, it's equivalent to a Laser Rifle that doesn't have to be reloaded.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	type	Disc-One Nuke
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5b81ca8d	comment	When the "Training Roulette" modifier is on. For every Bullet Swarm Assault or Damn Good Ground Heavy you find yourself blessed with, you'll get a Squadsight Sniper with Grenadier and Revive.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5b84f2a	type	Transhuman
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5b84f2a	comment	Transhuman: In Enemy Within, you can use Meld to enhance your soldiers beyond the limitations of the human body. This can be accomplished either by granting them genetic augmentations that grant them advantages of the invading aliens (second hearts, psychic defenses, improved depth perception), or transforming them into cyborgs.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: The camera shakes slightly during cinematic shots when your soldier bashes through a door or jumps through a window, and it's mostly noticeable when the shaking persists until your turn finishes.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5c300c3b	type	The Berserker
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5c300c3b	comment	The Berserker: Mutons have Blood Call, and ability that boosts other Mutons, and makes them act more aggressively with their movements and fire. The aptly-named Berserker, an extremely durable breed of Muton that has the ability to charge through walls to get to your soldiers. They also get a small free-action move towards any soldier that hits it. Fortunately, they charge blindly rather than stick to cover. A clever commander can exploit this, forcing them to trigger Overwatches and step into your other soldiers' line of sight.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5c65fc1a	type	Roar Before Beating
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5c65fc1a	comment	Roar Before Beating: Floaters and Mutons.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f	type	Save Scumming
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f	comment	Save Scumming: Just as practical and common a technique as in the original, much to the chagrin of some members of the fanbase. That said, you can't just reload a game to change the outcome: The 'seed'*The core number the RNG uses to determine what happens doesn't change when reloading a saved game. In layman's terms, Soldier A misses a 98% shot, he'll always miss that shot if you keep reloading from that specific save. You'll have to move another soldier, maybe have him fire, or just skip Soldier A's turn for a better probability. Averted in Ironman modenote Added in since it was a popular Self-Imposed Challenge in the original games, which entirely prevents this. That being said, even in Ironman, most fans consider it perfectly legal to create backups of your saves in the event of a Game-Breaking Bug. Even on Ironman though, the game only saves at the beginning of your turn, meaning you can still get scumming by quitting the entire game and coming back. A do-over of even one turn can be golden on higher difficulties. One of the new Second Wave options added to Enemy Within is explicitly called this, which removes the locked seed mentioned above, allowing a player to reload his game till he gets the desired outcome.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5d1eb74d	type	Dump Stat
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5d1eb74d	comment	Dump Stat: There's little need to acquire additional scientists most of the time. Research gets done over time and can often by sped up simply by doing Council Missions. There's literally no need to build a Laboratory in Enemy Unknown. Science gets nerfed in Enemy Within, as more scientists are required to get research done swiftly, and a Laboratory can counter EXALT sabotage as well, but it's still far more prudent to focus on Engineers or money instead.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5eca52dc	type	Distress Call
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5eca52dc	comment	The tutorial mission, "Operation Devil's Moon", has Delta Squad sent in to assist a German recon team that sent out a Distress Call. It ends with only one XCOM survivor.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5ecdd585	type	Renegade Splinter Faction
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5ecdd585	comment	Renegade Splinter Faction: It's hinted that EXALT is made up of remnants of the original 1960s XCOM, having gone rogue at some point after the first invasion and now collaborating with the aliens instead of fighting them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5ed1b6d3	type	Limited Loadout
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5ed1b6d3	comment	Limited Loadout: Every one of your troops gets a primary weapon (the type of which is determined by their class), a secondary weapon (a pistol unless they're a Heavy, in which case they get a rocket launcher instead) and a slot for extra utility items like Medikits or the Arc Thrower. Supports can unlock an extra utility slot once they reach Major prior to Enemy Within, which instead has a Foundry project called "Tactical Rigging" that affects all classes but MEC Troopers, who never get any inventory slots.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Before the game's release, combing through the numerous preview videos and the demo revealed a lot of information ostensibly kept secret, such as (seemingly) the full roster of aliens, plot-important videos and details about autopsied alien invaders. If not careful, it's very easy to spoil yourself without trying. Given that this is a remake of a much earlier game, there was little expectation that these things would stay unknown to most players from the start.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5f965a35	type	Out-of-Turn Interaction
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5f965a35	comment	Out-of-Turn Interaction: Reaction shots such as Overwatch lets units attack out of turn, and are triggered in response to enemy actions.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: Your squad's A.I. will always use the straightest possible path to get to a given location, often causing them to smash windows en route unnecessarily. And of course, you can use rockets and grenades to create convenient 'shortcuts'. Similarly, it's not uncommon for characters to smash open adjacent windows in preparation to... fire in a completely different direction. Maybe it's just fun? Explosives and the MEC's Power Fist are great ways of creating doors where there are none.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5fff364d	type	Combat Medic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_5fff364d	comment	Combat Medic: Any soldier you give a Medikit can qualify, though the Support class' abilities make them best suited for this role. Thanks to the "Training Roulette" modifier in Enemy Within, any soldier has the potential to gain the "Field Medic", "Deep Pockets", "Revive" and "Savior" abilities, letting them heal as well as properly-specced Support Colonels in normal games. Even better if it's a Squadsight-build Sniper, who's unlikely to need to use medkits on themself.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Chryssalids can easily cause one if left unchecked during Terror missions, due to those 18 tasty civilians running around. " Site Recon" in Enemy Within takes place in the aftermath of one. A fishing village has been completely overtaken by zombies (and the Chryssalids that made them). At the end of the mission, the whole town is flattened by an airstrike.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Though the alien AI is quite intelligent and generally plays by the same rules, they do get a few one-sided advantages. Enemy units get a free move to nearby cover (In Enemy Within, Cyberdisks, Mechtoids and Sectopods will go into Overwatch instead, while Seekers cloak before moving) when they are first spotted by one of your soldiers, unless said soldier is hidden by terrain or cloaking. This is to guarantee they can get into cover so they won't be easy kills, but they still get the free move even when it's already their turn, though they will be unable to do anything else for that turn either way. Needless to say, your soldiers don't get the same luxury, but luckily, they still trigger Overwatch. This can be partially circumvented using the Ghost Armor, or, in Enemy Within, the Mimetic Skin gene mod or the Ghost Grenade. Any of these allows the cloaked unit to discover alien pods without automatically granting them their move to cover. Now, if you have a Heavy or grenade-launching MEC-trooper in range, you can remove those annoying packs of floaters and thin men in their entirety as they stand about, or give a Squadsight Sniper a free shot to pick off a dangerous unit standing out of cover. Melee aliens won't use it to get into cover, because they cannot take cover; they use it to get closer, even if they used their turn to get into visual range. If you're extremely unlucky, you'll spot them on the final move of your turn, and they use their free move to get very cozy with their next victim. Cue 'ALIEN ACTIVITY'. An unfortunate bug can cause aliens to spawn right within your group entirely without reason or warning. This is due to the fact that enemy 'patrols' in the fog of war are nothing more than the groups of aliens sitting in a small group, waiting several turns, and then instantly teleporting to a different location on the map instead of actually moving around like they should. Fixed as of Enemy Within: aliens now move around the map as they should, with defined, consistent positions every turn. You can even manipulate their movement with the Mimic Beacon to draw unseen enemies to a specific area of your choice. In general, alien units follow the same rules you do: they can move twice, move once and shoot, shoot to end their turn, or move and set up Overwatch. Sectopods, being giant, massively armed war machines, can shoot twice and still catch your soldiers with reaction fire (but only if they don't move) in a single turn. Combined with their massive HP totals (more than any other unit in the game) and extremely high defense (-30% to be hit), they're incredible devastating when you encounter them, breaking the rules you've been following for the whole game. And the final mission throws TWO of them at you at once! Fortunately this is why the Volunteer was given the "Rift". The AI is always aware of where your units are. Even if you move a unit between two points that no enemy unit can see, they will be able to reposition on their turn in an exact manner as to get a shot on the unit. As of EW, whenever possible aliens will pass within four tiles of stealthed units that they cannot possibly be aware of, provoking abilities like CQC for assaults. If you split your team to try to flank a pod (say, attack from two different doors to a room), its members will always move on activation in a way that maximizes their cover from all units. Enemies like Thin Men seem to have the uncanny ability to run exactly the right distance to enter your field of view (and subsequently, theirs) to fire on your troops without provoking overwatch shots, since overwatch only triggers when an already-visible enemy exits its current tile. A strange case can be seen in Terror missions. Depending on sound cues, line of sight quirks and cloaking (especially notable in Enemy Within due to the early game option of Mimetic Skin), you might be able to "know" where untriggered and non-patrolling enemy pods are in relation to civilians, yet civilians can still die seemingly at random. That's because civilians in the fog of war have a chance of dying (and even getting zombified should Chryssalids be present) if enemies are merely present even if not actually attacking, and the higher you set the difficulty, the more civilians die each turn. Normally this AI shortcut would not be too noticeable, but there are cases where your entire squad could be covering all routes of entry for an enemy yet a civilian mysteriously dies in the fog of war behind a wall or something. Can be particularly nasty if a zombie sneaks up on you from behind this way.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_60f37373	type	Attack Reflector
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_60f37373	comment	Attack Reflector: Ethereals can reflect your attacks with their mental powers, though the reflected attack only does 2 damage regardless of what was fired at the Ethereal.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_610afe0a	type	Flechette Storm
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_610afe0a	comment	Needle Grenades cover a wide radius but don't go through cover (useful if you don't want to shred cover you intend to take, or have a guy hiding right behind a chest-high wall next to a bunch of Thin Men).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: The German Recon team from the tutorial. Most you will find on the street, disemboweled. The last one will be in the warehouse, giving Creepy Monotone shouts of "Hilfe", mind-controlled by a psionic alien. He cannot be saved and kills himself and one of your guys with a hand grenade if you come close.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The aliens certainly seem to work off this mentality, as does EXALT in Enemy Within. Losing several high-ranking troopers midway through the game can make you do it as well. Throwing dozens of rookies into the meat-grinder can yield a handful of solid squadmembers via Darwin.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_61f452ca	type	Sinister Shades
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_61f452ca	comment	Sinister Shades: Thin Men wear these in order to hide their Hellish Pupils.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_62259825	type	Nintendo Hard
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_62259825	comment	Nintendo Hard: Classic and Impossible. For bonus points, Classic (or Impossible) and Ironman mode. And if that weren't enough, players can make the game even harder with the Second Wave optionsnote including, but not limited to: changing damage of non-explosive attacks to range between 1 and half again the weapon's usual maximum, randomizing rookie starting stats, randomizing soldier level up stats (which can produce things like an Assault who can snipe with a shotgun and a Sniper who can't hit the broad side of a barn without a S.C.O.P.E. item), requiring a live capture to unlock psionics, and significantly increasing the time requirement for research and development (from days to weeks or even months in some extreme cases). The random number seed is preserved... meaning that save-scumming won't let you "do over" that shot you just missed. If you missed it the first time, you'll miss it every single time you reload. The "Save Scum" Second Wave option completely negates this, should you pick it. At any difficulty, keeping a perfect roster of funding nations is difficult, especially when you are still scrambling to build satellites. It only gets easier when you have enough satellite coverage and aerial firepower to reliably take down abductor ships.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The fact that the Uber-Ethereal mentions needing humanity uplifted for something did not go unnoticed by players. In a meta sense, the game's overall difficulty (even on the lower settings), led to the question "What if XCOM got curb-stomped before they even invented laser weapons?" This is the premise of XCOM 2.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Take a good look at the map coordinates during the cutscenes showing the first downed UFO and the Alien Base's location. They actually point to 2K Games' Corporate Headquarters in California and Firaxis' Game Studio in Maryland, respectively. If you look carefully at the ending cutscene of the final mission, you can see that the Volunteer disappears in a purple flash right before the Temple Ship explodes. This appeared so briefly that virtually everyone thought the Volunteer died until Jake Solomon pointed this out on Twitter.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: Meld, cybernetic nanobots with both organic and mechanical components. They operate by allowing unprecedented synergy between organic tissue and mechanical parts (or between two incompatible organic tissues) down to the cellular level. It's the main material used in both genetic and cybernetic enhancements. As long as they're not killed with explosives, Mechtoids and Heavy Floaters yield 5 Meld when killed.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: Dr. Vahlen asserts that the hulls of alien ships must be at least an order of magnitude stronger than any currently-known material. They are easily destroyed by garden-variety hand grenades. She also seems to neglect that interceptors are capable of shooting the UFOs down with conventional earth weaponry. Someone on Reddit tried to put the game's logic in a realistic context. The Sectopod is described as being 10 meters, or FOUR FUCKING STORIES TALL. While certainly the largest unit in the game, its model is no more than twice the height of your human units. XCOM 2 makes it clear that Vahlen meant when they're standing up: the Sectopods in this game don't (or can't) do it. The first mission of the Slingshot DLC has you escort and extract Shaojie Zhang, a member of the Triads who wants to defect and is carrying some vital intel with him. Bradford will warn you that both the aliens and Zhang's former superiors will want to come after him at the start of the mission, but human enemies wouldn't get introduced until Enemy Within, meaning all you face are the aliens. Zhang becomes a permanent member of XCOM if the mission is successful, but the remaining two Slingshot missions deal with the threat of an alien battleship, while the Triads never get mentioned again. Speaking of Zhang, his introductory cutscene shows him adeptly killing a Sectoid with a pistol. He is guaranteed to always become a Heavy upon joining XCOM, the only non-MEC class incapable of using a pistol.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6363937b	type	Cyanide Pill
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6363937b	comment	A captured EXALT soldier deprived of his Cyanide Syringe states that "XCOM is nothing but puppets..." He is, however, part of an organization that is trying to help the aliens conquer Earth because of the potential benefits of siding with them. Ironically, however, he's right about XCOM, since XCOM is unwittingly part of the Ethereals' uplifting agenda.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_637ef67	comment	New Game Plus: Second Wave mode. Initially only available via mods, it was officially added to the game in the January 7, 2013 patch for PC, while consoles got it as free Downloadable Content.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Played With to hell and back. The standard armor your soldiers start out with adds a whopping 1 health, but better armor adds more hitpoints, can potentially increase their defense rating to equal that provided by low cover even while standing in the open, and tend to have other special abilitiesnote Carapace Armor adds 4 health; Skeleton Suit adds 3 health, 10% defense and a grappling hook; Titan armor adds a monstrous 10 health; Ghost Armor adds 6 health, 20% defense, a grappling hook and invisibility; Archangel Armor adds 8 health and a limited flight ability, and Psi Armor adds 6 health and a +20 Will boost to boost psionic abilities and defense. For the aliens, it's a zig-zag game. Their heavily-armored regular Mutonsnote 8 Health on normal, 10 on Classic and Impossible will always have less health than the physically frail Sectoid Commandersnote 10 Health on normal, 14 on Classic and Impossible. However, the even heavier-armored Muton Elitesnote 14 health on normal, 18 on Classic and Impossible will outdo the Commanders. Then the Ethereals, who are dressed in robes and have bodies so atrophied they can only move thanks to their psionics, has the exact same health as a heavily armored Berserkernote 25 health on Impossible, 20 below that, which can take more hits than the Elites. Finally, the Sectopods, which are effectively walking tanks, have the largest health pool of any aliennote 30 health on normal. The Sectopods also get an upgrade in Enemy Within: their armor, in addition to giving them monstrous health, also reduces all damage by 50%, effectively doubling their health to 60. Enemy Within again zig-zags back and forth. MEC Troopers, which are Cyborg torsos inside armored mechanical chassis, have some of the highest health pools in the game. However, genetically modified soldiers only have a sleeveless vest with combat leggings, and putting on better armor only changes the breastplate and boots while giving them the same bonuses as the full set worn by a regular soldier. Additional shoulder pads and leggings are only cosmetic options.note You can use a Game Mod like Sleeve Genie to remove the sleeveless look and restore the soldier's look to the deco option 1 of the armor they're wearing. Basic EXALT units tend to be about as or more durable than their XCOM equivalents while wearing only a nice suit, sometimes with a Kevlar vest over it. On the other hand, their Elites wear better body armor and have higher health as a result.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6400a34	comment	Arm Cannon: Plasma Pistols as used by the Sectoids. They get converted to a more conventional layout if you manage to capture one intact and have already researched enough plasma technology to know how to modify it safely.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Regular soldiers without any fancy psionics, cybernetics and/or bio-augmentations, once they gain enough experience. All they have are their skills, guns, and armor.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6439de78	comment	Doctor Shen has shades of this on Psi abilities. Then again, it's completely new territory and the only other users/examples are the invading aliens, so his hesitation is understandable. He's proven wrong, as the strongest human Psi user ever, The Volunteer, pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Earth. He also questions if something as cybernetically enhanced as the Floaters can even be considered a true lifeform anymore, saying "if that is humanity's future, I want no part of it". The Uber-Ethereal reveals in the final mission that the Floaters were a failed project to create a resilient psionic species, and decided to rip out their organic parts to make them better weapons for the Ethereals' purposes.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_64536542	type	[Verb] This!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_64536542	comment	EXALT Elite Medics have an ability to automatically regenerate one health per turn, which also affects nearby allies. This ties into an achievement called "Regenerate This!", if you use an explosive device to kill them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_64cf3b3f	type	Damage Reduction
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_64cf3b3f	comment	Sectopods in Enemy Within, thanks to the new "Reinforced Armor" passive ability that halves all incoming damage save for Electro Pulse.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	type	Critical Existence Failure
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	comment	If a nation goes full-panic when it's already under one of your satellites, that means it brings you one step closer to losing the game and you've just lost a chunk of funding. That being said, there are strategies that gamble on losing seven out of eight nations while building up the military might to protect the rest.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_65c4d0fa	type	Changing Gameplay Priorities
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_65c4d0fa	comment	Changing Gameplay Priorities: Your first upgrade can be either weapons or armor. At this stage in the game, your weapons are still killing enemies in one shot, so upgrading armor is more important as the aliens can often kill you in one or two shots as well. By the late game, you need to upgrade your weapons to compensate for the increased health the aliens have. The first Terror mission, due to the heavy concentration of powerful melee enemies with lots of health. Before, successful tactics tended to involve getting into a good formation and creeping forward, staying in cover, and trying to take out the enemy from afar. Now, cover is useless, the enemy is too fast to stay far away from them for long, and you can't afford to dilly-dally lest they convert too many civilians into zombies, so your only hope is to kill them before they kill you. It can be a rude awakening if you've invested too much in long-range Snipers and not enough in close-range Assaults. The higher difficulties can require different tactics both in the field and in the base. On Impossible, chances are good that until you get some heavy duty armor, nearly any non-hunkered down damage will be a one hit kill (and even then non-critical attacks can still badly hurt or kill you). So in that case you can focus on maximizing your offensive research and equipment in the hopes of having unstoppable Glass Cannon soldiers until you can get decent armor. Enemies cannot attack (other than ones that can't use cover going on Overwatch) on the turn you discover them, so if you only tackle one pod at a time it is possible to kill every enemy without ever getting shot at or hurt. As for the base, you'll lack useful things like the Officer Training School, meaning you may have to rely on the initial four squad limit more than you'd have to otherwise, as an extra soldier or two can make a big difference. Furthermore, panic from abductions becomes significantly harder to control, likely putting multiple countries into full panic by the end of each month. Rushing satellite production (and the prerequisite uplinks, power, and engineers) can feel damn near necessary as you can only afford to lose seven countries at most, which is only two to three game months of not rescuing full panic countries before you lose. And if you are rushing satellites primarily to save panicked countries, chances are you won't be able to clear entire continents at once, meaning you very well many have to do the Alien Base Assault and EXALT HQ Assault missions sooner for their global panic reduction even to save countries that already have satellites over them. Tougher aliens and squishier soldiers on higher difficulties also make item priority shift from grenades to health-increasing items like the Nano-Fiber Vest and Chitin Plating. That way at least the New Meat should be able to survive more than a single burst of plasma. "Damage Roulette", a Second Wave option where every non-explosive, MEC subsystem or psionic attack is a Randomized Damage Attack, makes critical hits and explosives the only source of consistent damage. With this in mind, it's perfectly viable to field ballistic weapons with the Reaper Rounds instead of lasers when going against high-health targets like Cyberdiscs early on. This ends up modifying research and engineering priority from weapons to armor, since even normally ignorable non-crit shots can one-hit soldiers with decent healthnote such as a Thin Man dealing 9 damage non-crit against a 4HP squaddie with Carapace Armor for a total of 8 hit points if you're unlucky. In Enemy Within, the "can't crit on Squadsight unless on Headshot" penalty gives Snap Shot Snipers a more prominent role, as Headshot has a 1-turn cooldown. It also makes "Double Tap" and "Rapid Fire" more effective than against very high-health targets, just in case you need a certain alien dead and gone.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6602cad	type	Permanently Missable Content
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6602cad	comment	Permanently Missable Content: Certain aliens from early on in the game usually stop showing up after a few months, which can be problematic (though it won't render the game Unwinnable) if you haven't managed to capture them for interrogation. If you're lucky, though, they may occasionally pop up during Council missions or even regular ones. Hopefully, you've brought along an Arc Thrower. Slightly cushioned in Enemy Within, as the later game Mechtoids now appear with one or two Sectoids or a single Sectoid Commander in tow. Other enemies, like regular Floaters, still fall under this, though. Unique council missions, such as Confounding Light have to be accepted and completed within days of being offered, or else they will go away and never come back. Skipping or failing a unique council mission also causes the player to lose the opportunity to participate in all future missions in its quest chain.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6651bba7	type	Bio-Augmentation
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6651bba7	comment	Gene Mod Soldiers are genetically enhanced to have various superhuman abilities such as invisibility or the ability to detect enemy through walls. Gameplay-wise, they excel at sneaking around the battlefield while closing the distance to deal critical damage before the enemy even know what hits them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_66f69cd4	type	Invisibility Cloak
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_66f69cd4	comment	Ghost Grenades turn everyone in the area invisible for a turn, perfect for sneaking around enemy interception shots or patrols.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_68068108	comment	Psionic troopers can also break out a bone-chilling one, or an Evil Laugh, when using their psionic abilities:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_68186dcd	type	Double Tap
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_68186dcd	comment	Double Tap: While Snipers have an ability with that name, the credit actually goes to the Assault class's Rapid Fire ability, which shoots the enemy twice in quick succession.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec	type	EliteMook
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6838a3ec	comment	Elite Mook: Quite a few. Sectoids -> Sectoid Commandersnote far more health, innate 20% defense, higher Aim, one Alien Grenade and most importantly, Psychic Powers they can use on enemies Floaters -> Heavy Floatersnote Stronger armor, much better aim, innate 10% defense, heavier weapon and an Alien Grenade Mutons -> Muton Elitesnote Vastly increased aim and armor and Bombard to extend grenade throw range, but no Intimidation or Blood Call EXALT -> EXALT Elitesnote Laser weapons, higher stats and a plethora of gene mods
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_69a54df1	type	Chest Burster
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_69a54df1	comment	The Tutorial mission hints at all of the iconic alien species you'll encounter later: a soldier that has been torn open from the inside out by a Chest Burster, a zombie trapped under some rubble, and a psionically mind controlled soldier will all be warning signs to long time fans.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6a1b7aee	type	Precision Crash
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6a1b7aee	comment	Precision Crash: UFOs shot down by your Interceptors will always crash-land in the wilderness, inverting this trope. In the Enemy Within expansion they might end up in populated areas, but only in a Conveniently Empty Building.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4	type	MacGuffin Delivery Service
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4	comment	MacGuffin Delivery Service: How the aliens view the attack with your best psionic soldier on their Temple Ship. But since they still shoot on sight and never bother with any plan to get that soldier to join them, you will probably make them regret it. Alternatively: The Aliens wanted your best to be on that ship. Why? Its a test. Everything has been a test. This is the last to see if humanity has what it takes. To do what is left ambiguous.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6acf5c50	type	Trick Bomb
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6acf5c50	comment	Trick Bomb: The Support's Smoke Grenades, which can also be enhanced to double as a combat stim that buffs your troops, or just provide extra-thick concealment fog. Enemy Within introduces several new grenade types. Needle Grenades cover a wide radius but don't go through cover (useful if you don't want to shred cover you intend to take, or have a guy hiding right behind a chest-high wall next to a bunch of Thin Men). Ghost Grenades turn everyone in the area invisible for a turn, perfect for sneaking around enemy interception shots or patrols. Mimic Beacons send out decoy noises to draw enemies into your kill zone. Flashbangs greatly reduce enemy's movement and aim, as they stumble around blindly. Psionics are immune. Gas Grenades poison enemies and force them to avoid the poison clouds (and their aim is terrible when they're poisoned).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6ae137d5	type	Continue Your Mission, Dammit!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6ae137d5	comment	Continue Your Mission, Dammit!: If you're planning to unlock everything, you'd better be prepared for the Council to occasionally tell you to get the lead out on those story missions.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: A news blurb from a low-panic Argentina reports how dedicated football fans refused to leave their stadium despite reports of alien activity nearby during a particular grudge match.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Every XCOM ground mission gets a two-element codename (e.g. "Operation Defiant Empire"). Most are random, but story missions and special council missions tend to have Meaningful Names. Non-story missions may, however, end up with Word Salad Titles.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6c10c5d3	type	Secret War
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6c10c5d3	comment	Secret War: Zig-Zagged. There is zero doubt among humanity that aliens are invading, given that their actions are public and tend to result in quite a few civilian casualties, especially after the first Terror mission. However, XCOM itself is a secret organization which is never publicly acknowledged, referred or alluded to by any public figure. The reason for this is never specifically stated, but is likely a result of the Sadistic Choices that XCOM is forced to make: they cannot protect the entire world all at once, and therefore have to choose who to protect. A policy of "protecting who we can by decisions you're not privy to" does not engender public trust. This could also be an attempt to protect their HQ's location, resources, and strategic/tactical movements from overt discovery by the aliens (or any quislings hiding among the populace). This would be an especially prescient precaution given the psionic capabilities of the aliens. Played Straight in the conflict between XCOM and EXALT. Both are secret organizations working covertly to undermine each other, XCOM exposing and eliminating their opponents' cells and EXALT working to sabotage XCOM's efforts. As EXALT members are never taken alive and XCOM retains plausible deniability, their shadow war is never known to the world. When you successfully storm their headquarters and put them out of business, you are shown a news broadcast where the attack is covered up and framed as a minor fire in a building that was successfully put out by the firefighters, with an ironic comment about how reassuring it is that the emergency services still work well despite the alien invasion.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: Used in spirit, if not actually said outright. Several objectives in the game require that aliens be taken captive rather than killed, which presents its own set of challenges since the team must take care to soften a target up without killing it, then getting into range to use an Arc Thrower. However, the player may find themselves wanting to do this more often than is absolutely required, since it allows them to recover the enemy equipment intact, which is much less resource intensive than building their own. The only aliens that are required to complete the game are a Sectoid (or a Thin Man) and an Outsider. Live interrogations of aliens do not directly unlock new technology, but they cut research time in half for whole groups of technology topics; combine that with South America's "We Have Ways" for instant interrogations and you can cut months of research project time off if you regularly capture every new type of alien alive.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85	type	Welcome to Corneria
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6d07bf85	comment	Welcome to Corneria: The original game had this problem with Bradford's limited, often-repeating mission briefings, but Enemy Within rectified it somewhat by adding more descriptions.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	type	Marathon Level
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	comment	In Enemy Within's "Site Recon" Council Mission, Bradford remarks that at least the grounded ship the Chryssalids are spawning from wasn't a cruise liner. Terror From the Deep has very long cruise ship Terror missions, which are generally very stressful and tend to result in extreme death rates.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss Preview: You first see the Sectoid Commander during the tutorial mission. The next time you see it is when you're kicking down its front door during the Alien Base Assault.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	type	Cosmetic Award
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	comment	Blaster Launchers were downgraded from insanely powerful programmable guided missile launchers to merely flawlessly accurate and harder-hitting smart rocket launchers. The Blaster Launcher borders on a Cosmetic Award when compared to its predecessor, dealing out only a 50% increase in damage over the rocket launcher and the ability to shoot around corners (though the same limited view range) â€“ useful, but not a Game-Breaker in the slightest. You get it by downing and clearing a battleship, the hardest challenge in the game unless you complete the Gangplank mission of the Slingshot DLC.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: When your troops are reloading their weapons, they will occasionally exclaim "Rack, tap, bang". The correct phrase - tap, rack, bang - is the procedure for what to do in the event of a firearm malfunction (tap the bottom of the magazine hard, rack the action and resume shooting), and although technically correct, it's not used to describe a reload procedure.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: It would've been helpful if Dr Vahlen had clarified that an enemy's loot is only destroyed if the killing blow specifically was done with explosives.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6f8b835d	type	One Size Fits All
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_6f8b835d	comment	One Size Fits All: All the suits of armor you manufacture can be worn by any of your soldiers. If you unequip an armor to put it on another soldier, the armor will instantly adapt to the sex, body build and class of its new owner. This is especially noticeable because the armors are rendered differently on screen depending on those parameters.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_70321789	type	Video Game Remake
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_70321789	comment	Video Game Remake: The core gameplay is X Com UFO Defense updated with more modern hardware in mind. The overall geoscience and battlescape gameplay, as well as the need to adapt alien technology for human use is present with tweaks for a more streamlined experience. The plot is almost the same as well.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_721325ee	type	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_721325ee	comment	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: Impressively averted. While your units tend not to speak in cutscenes, changes like weapons and armor customization do carry over even during cutscenes.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72423e7d	type	Teleporting Keycard Squad
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72423e7d	comment	Teleporting Keycard Squad: Thin Men sometimes drop out of the sky after you complete some objectives in Council missions. The Slingshot Council missions have a Chyrssalid and several Mutons do the same, being air-launched from a Battleship. In Enemy Within, EXALT sometimes drop in from a helicopter during Covert Ops. On one pre-made map, an EXALT Sniper will fast-rope down onto the bucket of a large crane in the middle of the map, the instant you get within one turn of reaching the objective.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Implied with Dr. Shen's No Transhumanism Allowed stance on Psi Testing in Enemy Unknown. Exaggerated in Enemy Within with Gene Splicing and Cybernetics thrown on top of the pile. In a more meta example, explosives. Grenades and rockets are extremely powerful weapons that are available immediately, but destroy valuable alien equipment you could otherwise salvage; as a result, they are rarely used in Easy and Normal. On Classic or Impossible, explosives aren't just a good idea - they're pretty much mandatory.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72d2ac55	type	Clone Army
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72d2ac55	comment	Clone Army: The alien troops are collections of genetic and cybernetically modified clones from a variety of species under the control of the Ethereals. The game's customization, while good, is still somewhat lacking, meaning that your own forces can resemble this easily (or you can actually invoke it, giving them all the same face, hair, skin color, and voice.)
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72dd7026	type	What the Hell, Player?
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72dd7026	comment	What the Hell, Player? Dr. Vahlen gets pretty pissed off if you repeatedly capture aliens without an Alien Containment Facility to house them in. She also gets annoyed if you keep killing Outsiders instead of stunning them, regardless of whether you've already successfully captured one.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_72e0023f	comment	One of the achievementsSomeone Your Own Size in Enemy Within has the player invoke this, requiring you to kill a Berserker with a MEC Trooper's Kinetic Strike Module.*
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: The aliens' designs have been revamped and made generally more menacing. Floaters. They had absolutely horrible AI combined with the worst marksmanship of the aliens in the original game, as bad as some of your rookie troopers. Now, they can drop out from the sky right behind your squad's flank from almost anywhere on the map, use their unlimited flight time to their advantage to pin down your soldiers and lastly, have a significant facelift so they look like fearsome aliens with jetpacks and not a weird guy trying to look like Superman. Mutons are still green and purple, but they don't look like humans in muscle suits anymore. The are much wider-framed, appear to be wearing rebreathers, and have considerably more obvious armor. Chryssalids will still ruin your entire day if you aren't careful, just like in the original, but they're horrible blade-legged quadrupeds instead of people in lobster suits. Sectopods were already threatening-looking in UFO Defense, but that's kicked up a notch. Now their thundering footsteps are booming sounds, they constantly release steam or highly pressurized air even after destruction, and their motto is 'Stuff Blowing Up'.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0	type	LEGO Genetics
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_73f38fe0	comment	LEGO Genetics: Hand Waved with Meld, a substance that can bond and remove genetic material. Subverted with EXALT since they don't have access to Meld and their genetic modifications are crude and make their operatives look very sick.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_73f7b5a5	comment	Another, shorter term example can be found in missions themselves. Having a squad member (or multiple) panic puts them out of commission for at least one full turn, making it harder to take out the enemies that caused the panic in the first place. Having a squad member downed (either critically wounded, stabilized but not revived, or outright dead) makes the entire mission harder, as every remaining turn will force you to exercise less firepower (and lose limited usage skills and equipment as they're unavailable for other soldiers to pick up and use). If you start with a squad of 4 - 6 and get down to just 1 or 2 soldiers, your chances of success drop so dramatically that you're better off restarting or hightailing it back to the Skyranger to abort. This is especially notable on Terror missions (or any early game mission with Chryssalids, really), as losing a soldier to a Chryssalid's bite (not the poison) will turn it into a durable and strong zombie that can eventually turn into another Chryssalid, potentially causing a downward spiral into Total Party Kill if you're not careful. In the late game, just replace Chryssalids and their ability to reproduce with Sectopods and the sheer firepower that they tote and that you need to bring one down.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The tech levels for weapons. Ballistics are khaki, Lasers are red and Plasma is green. The option to change the color of soldiers' armor means that a player can manually do the same for his soldiers' classes, making them easy to identify at a glance. Alloy Cannons, despite being in the "Plasma" weapon category, are yellow, possibly because they're actually ballistic weapons and don't fire plasma. The Assault soldiers carrying them still have the green insignia, though.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_74150406	type	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_74150406	comment	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: A minor example in Enemy Within: reasearching Alien Materials or Weapon Fragments allows you to manufacture Reaper Rounds, which increase critical hit rate by 20% but double the weapon's aim penalty if used and naturally only work with conventional weapons. Since LMGs and rifles aren't subject to aim penalty and the said penalty only applies if you're using shotguns or sniper rifles outside of their optimal target range, they're useful early in the game to increase your potential damage output before you can research beam weapons. The Alloy Cannon is a more extreme example of this: according to its ingame description, while the weapon itself is just essentially a glorified shotgun, it needs to be made out of the same alien materials itself to prevent it from tearing itself to shreds when fired, while Reaper Rounds are implied to be experimental bullets with special casings.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Much easier compared to the original XCOM. Ammunition is never a matter you need to personally provision, and aircraft fuel is managed for you behind the scenes. About the only things you need to manage supply-wise are the quantity of XCOM-original advanced weapons/accessories that you research and produce, as all conventional human weapons/supplies are readily available. Any alien corpses, enemy weapons and recovered UFOs are instantly transported to your base upon completion of a mission, with no mention of just who is coming in behind you to dismantle the UFO, pack everything up and ship it back to your base â€“ sometimes from the other side of the planet â€“ on a moment's notice. You also don't have to worry about having proper storage facilities for alien corpses, power generators, Elerium, or anything else you recover. It's merely held for you until you're able or willing to use it for something. One less obvious logistics-related thing is that you need to make sure that you have an Interceptor available at every continent that can detect UFOs via satellites, or you won't be able to actually shoot them down once they're detected. Transferring any extra Interceptors to a new continent takes as much time as the delivery of a newly-purchased one.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7484b619	type	Herr Doktor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7484b619	comment	Dr Vahlen is supposed to be a German scientist and usually speaks in a Gratuitous German accent, but half of the time, she changes to overly enunciated RP. Apparently, her character had originally been meant to be British. note German schools teach British ("Oxford") English, not American English. While the predominantly American English in entertainment "overwrites" this in most people, it may be different in the European scientific community. Also, British universities are popular for studying abroad.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_74a7d2d	type	Creator's Culture Carryover
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_74a7d2d	comment	No matter where EXALT's main base is located, the voice over for the ending cutscene is still an American-accented man referring to a radio/news station with an American naming pattern.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_75f09f53	type	Morale Mechanic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_75f09f53	comment	Morale Mechanic: Soldiers with low Will scores are more prone to panicking, which can happen if the squad takes casualties or a Muton successfully intimidates them. Panicked soldiers will shoot at a random target (even their own teammates), run to a random and potentially dangerous location or hunker down. Regardless of which effect occurs, they cannot move or act during the next turn unless the debuff is removed with the "Psi-Inspiration" ability. Enemy Within also reduces their Aim while Panicked. However, stories abound of this backfiring; as panicked agents sometimes paste the enemy who frightened them. An Officer Training School ability added in Enemy Within is "Lead By Example", which raises all soldiers' Will scores to that of the squad leader's when they're in close proximity to said leader, while those with higher Will scores aren't affected. It also adds the "Neural Damping" gene mod, that makes the soldier immune to panicking as well as only being stunned by a Mind Control attempt; unfortunately, it's not available for MEC Troopers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: EXALT in Enemy Within. They're a pro-alien faction that opposes XCOM, and even though they're not in direct contact with any of the aliens, still seek to make things easier for them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_77666408	comment	Seekers are squid-like robots with a built-in plasma pistol and cloaking device, and a six-pack of Combat Tentacles they use to strangle unlucky soldiers with.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_776c2ba4	type	Send in the Search Team
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_776c2ba4	comment	Send in the Search Team: The tutorial mission, "Operation Devil's Moon", has Delta Squad sent in to assist a German recon team that sent out a Distress Call. It ends with only one XCOM survivor. "Site Recon" in Enemy Within has XCOM sent in to find out what happened to a Canadian fishing village that has gone dark, possibly due to alien activity, as well as the government response team sent to investigate. They're all zombies or Chryssalids now.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7789df57	type	Healing Shiv
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7789df57	comment	Healing Shiv: A Foundry project allows the Arc Thrower to heal any robotic allies (S.H.I.V.s, MEC troopers and hacked Drones), for the value of an upgraded Medkit (6 health). A soldier with Deep Pockets and Field Medic can extend a MEC trooper's survivability by 42 health points, or 58 if s/he also has Savior.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Countries that lose faith in XCOM due to high panic levels will withdraw their funding to focus on their own defense. After which, a swirling dark vortex emerges over the country. Not only that, running covert operations against EXALT in these areas puts you in a mission where you see a lot of destruction; which heavily implies that country is essentially overrun.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_78ea4397	type	V-Formation Team Shot
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_78ea4397	comment	V-Formation Team Shot: On the box art. Also, your team prior to deployment will stand like this, allowing you to review them and their gear, standing around, looking awesome, with appropriate rockin' music playing in the background. Contrast this with the after mission summary, especially when things go south.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7969f21e	type	No One Gets Left Behind
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7969f21e	comment	No One Gets Left Behind: Played straight by a Support class perk, which allows them to revive critically wounded allies (albeit with minimal health and a long time in sickbay after the mission). Can also be cruelly Subverted, however, by choosing to abort a mission; doing so results in any soldiers near the Skyranger boarding and leaving everyone else to die.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7a0c0889	type	I Need You Stronger
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7a0c0889	comment	I Need You Stronger: On a species-wide scale. The true purpose of the invasion is to test whether humans have the right combo of physical and psionic strength desired by the Ethereals, which is why the aliens gradually scale up the forces they're sending instead of curbstomping Earth with everything at once. Assuming you win, it works too well. XCOM 2, however, decides not to go with this and have the aliens curbstomping Earth with everything at once, in order to subjugate humans and use them for their Avatar Project.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: It's perfectly possible for a Colonel to have been critically injured so many times during their career that their Will is low to the point where they make rookies seem unshakeable by comparison.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7a59a6d6	type	Mass Hypnosis
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7a59a6d6	comment	Mass Hypnosis: In Enemy Within, the aliens forcibly mind control quite a few XCOM personnel into sabotaging internal security as the precursor to their assault on XCOM HQ. Bradford is forced to beat the crap out of a mind-controlled XCOM technician trying to assassinate him.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7ab2a0ff	type	One-Handed Shotgun Pump
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7ab2a0ff	comment	Assaults cycle their shotguns one-handed, by holding it by the pump and shaking it. They do that even with the considerably bulky Alloy Cannon.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	type	Point of No Return
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	comment	Point of No Return In the vanilla game, it's Merciful. The game warns you that the final step towards attacking the final ship will stop all progress anywhere else. In Enemy Within, Nasty. The aliens assault your headquarters a few weeks after the Alien Base Assault, and it's always your five highest-ranking soldiers that you control in the defense. However, the expansion comes with a helpful button that lets you unequip all the gear of those not in your currently selected squad. If you use it often and are not currently leveling your heavy-hitters, this will result in your best troopers fighting off Cyberdisks, Berserkers and even Sectopods (depending on how far you are in the game time) with basic weapons and armor. Hopefully you kept your saves up to date.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd	type	Boss in Mook Clothing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd	comment	Weaponized in gameplay mechanics; combatants that don't use cover receive permanent cover bonuses instead, so a Sectopod can stand in the open and watch as your entire squad fails to hit a car-sized target at less than 50 feet. Presumably their hands are shaking with terror at said car-sized target.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: One of the EXALT base location hints says that "It is/isn't in a country you can play in Civilization V," another game made by Firaxis. If it's not breaking the fourth wall, it confirms that Firaxis exists in this universe. One must wonder what their critically-acclaimed game released in 2012 must have been.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7b8b88f2	type	Raising the Steaks
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7b8b88f2	comment	Raising the Steaks: An unusual take. Chryssalids can implant their eggs in species besides humans, which would presumably create a zombie as well. The ones we see it demonstrated on are carcasses of sharks and large fishes, which new Chryssalids emerge from when you venture near, and they can use a whole whale as a breeding nest, which hatches a new bug each turn. This also explains the dead cows around Abductor ships.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7ba493b0	type	Always Accurate Attack
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7ba493b0	comment	Always Accurate Attack: Melee attacks have no chance to miss at all. That's really bad if a Chryssalid or Berserker is near an injured soldier, but at the same time excellent when your Stormtrooper-inaccurate MEC Trooper with a Kinetic Strike Module is right in the face of an injured Ethereal mind-controlling your best Assault.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Sectoids can use their telepathic abilities to boost the stats of their allies with an ability called Mind Merge: the target gets +10% to Aim and +1 HP for a turn. What you're not told until you figure it out for yourself is that killing the Sectoid that's boosting the other unit kills them both as a result of psychic backlash. In Enemy Within, it has different effects on Mechtoids, which gain a damage-reducing shield instead. Killing the Sectoid will only remove the shield and mildly damage the Mechtoid. Killing an alien who has mind-controlled one of your soldiers doesn't harm the soldier, who is placed under your control again. There is a sole exception to this rule: In the final mission on the Temple Ship, when you kill the Uber-Ethereal, he releases control of whatever soldier he has undoubtedly seized control of, and all of the other enemies in the room explode; including any soldiers that the other Ethereals have control of. The ending triggers immediately afterwards, with the only thing left of your soldier being a scorch mark on the ground. Oddly, this does not prevent said soldier from appearing as a fleeing squad member in the final cutscene.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686	type	Final Death Mode
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7cb1a686	comment	Classic and Impossible. For bonus points, Classic (or Impossible) and Ironman mode. And if that weren't enough, players can make the game even harder with the Second Wave optionsnote including, but not limited to: changing damage of non-explosive attacks to range between 1 and half again the weapon's usual maximum, randomizing rookie starting stats, randomizing soldier level up stats (which can produce things like an Assault who can snipe with a shotgun and a Sniper who can't hit the broad side of a barn without a S.C.O.P.E. item), requiring a live capture to unlock psionics, and significantly increasing the time requirement for research and development (from days to weeks or even months in some extreme cases).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7deb3fb1	type	Crutch Character
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7deb3fb1	comment	Crutch Character: The S.H.I.V.s are faster, tougher, better-armed and more accurate than Rookies, with mind control immunity and a variety of additional benefits to boot, but are outmatched by high-ranking soldiers. Nevertheless, their usefulness is such that many strategies for Classic and Impossible difficulties involve rushing to get them out the door ASAP. They're also extremely useful for Sectoid Commanders and above, as they can cheerfully laugh off almost everything the psionic enemies can throw at them aside from the Ethereals' "Psionic Lance" and "Rift", since S.H.I.V.s technically have 0 Will and will take, for example, a full 20 damage from Rift, which is a One-Hit Kill for even the Alloy and Hover ones. The Argentinian Heavy, the Sole Survivor of the tutorial mission. He's your first non-rookie, but he's nothing special in terms of stats.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	type	Virtual Paper Doll
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	comment	Virtual Paper Doll: You can customize your soldiers to a great degree, particularly in Enemy Within. Names, nicknames, physical appearance, armor color, voice, language, and hats are just some of the things that can be modified, which makes it all the more painful if they get killed.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7e8a8eac	type	Body Armor as Hit Points
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7e8a8eac	comment	Body Armor as Hit Points: The primary benefit of armor is added HP, though some models also reduce the enemy's chance to hit. Certain special items like Nano-fiber Vests or Chitin Plating also boost health. Additionally, a soldier who receives less damage than the health bonus given by their armor won't need a stay in the infirmary after the mission. In Enemy Within, it goes a step further, as soldiers with the proper genetic enhancement won't regenerate past the base hit point value (i.e. without armor). Medkits still allow you to restore the entire health bar, though.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: Between the Barracks and the Control Room is the Armory, which naturally sports one of these. It only displays ballistic weaponry, however.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7fb91c0d	type	Cooldown Manipulation
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7fb91c0d	comment	Cooldown Manipulation: Enemy Within lets you gene-splice soldiers with a neural feedback gene-mod; if an alien attacks them with psionic powers, all of the alien's abilities are put on cooldown. MEC Trooper conversions: taking too much damage during a mission causes a soldier to be wounded, which can result in lenghty hospital stays that can last up to 8+ days. However, you can still put any wounded soldiers through a MEC conversion, which only lasts 3 days, allowing you to get them back to action much quicker if you don't mind losing any gene-mods they might have. This can be especially useful on harder difficulty levels where high-ranked soldiers are hard to come by due to their vastly lowered survivability.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Soldiers with low Will scores are more prone to panicking, which can happen if the squad takes casualties or a Muton successfully intimidates them. Panicked soldiers will shoot at a random target (even their own teammates), run to a random and potentially dangerous location or hunker down. Regardless of which effect occurs, they cannot move or act during the next turn unless the debuff is removed with the "Psi-Inspiration" ability. Enemy Within also reduces their Aim while Panicked. However, stories abound of this backfiring; as panicked agents sometimes paste the enemy who frightened them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb	comment	Floaters. They had absolutely horrible AI combined with the worst marksmanship of the aliens in the original game, as bad as some of your rookie troopers. Now, they can drop out from the sky right behind your squad's flank from almost anywhere on the map, use their unlimited flight time to their advantage to pin down your soldiers and lastly, have a significant facelift so they look like fearsome aliens with jetpacks and not a weird guy trying to look like Superman.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: You can enhance your own soldiers into these, and come in 3 varieties: Gene Mod Soldiers are genetically enhanced to have various superhuman abilities such as invisibility or the ability to detect enemy through walls. Gameplay-wise, they excel at sneaking around the battlefield while closing the distance to deal critical damage before the enemy even know what hits them. MEC Troopers get their limbs cut off and augmented to properly interface with the MEC Suit. They lack the subtlety of biological soldiers (cannot take cover), but almost nothing can win against them in pure brute force combat. To put in perspective, they send Muton Berserkers flying with a punch, and two of them with upgraded Kinetic Strike Modules can pound a Sectopod from full HP to scrap in a single turn, with overkill damage to bootnote An upgraded Kinetic Strike module deals 18 damage and can be used twice per turn. A Sectopod effectively has 60 health due to its damage reduction. 2 MEC Troopers pounding on a Sectopod easily deals 72 damage, though you'll want to watch out for the following explosion. Psionic Soldiers are rare, and cannot be created on-demand. In exchange, they bring powerful psi abilities that can support allies or sow chaos among the enemy ranks such as Mind Rape or Mind Control. If you assign them as The Volunteer, they get the Rift power in addition to those. For extra fun, while Psionic Soldiers cannot be turned into MEC Troopers, they can be augmented by Gene Mods. Double the super, double the fun.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8125d8f6	type	Easy Level Trick
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8125d8f6	comment	Easy Level Trick: The Final Battle can be won in a very anticlimactic way by sending in a mimetic-skinned Sniper packing plasma heat and the Double Tap skill. There's cover aplenty to activate their cloak, the Uber-Ethereal is an easy target that won't do anything because they have no target in sight, and two good hits from a plasma sniper rifle are enough to kill them, starting and ending the battle in the same turn. Actually getting there in the first place is the tricky part, however, considering the Marathon Level that comes before.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_816a4e80	comment	The EMP Cannon research project's codename is "Ion". Ion cannons in the Star Wars universe function similarly to real-world EMP devices.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: A pair of mutually exclusive Assault class abilities have higher benefits for having multiple enemies in sight. "Tactical Sense" increases the Assault's Defense, while "Aggression" increases their critical hit chance instead. According to the game files, Easy and Normal difficulty allow a maximum of five alien units to be attacking you at a time. Classic and Impossible difficulty remove this restriction.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8344209e	type	BFG
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The MEC troopers in Enemy Within use their superhuman strength to carry comically enormous guns. The basic MEC weapon is a giant minigun wielded much like a rifle; as your technology advances, you can equip your MEC troopers with a railgun and, finally, a plasma-tech particle cannon that vaporizes in one shot anything smaller than a Mechtoid or Cyberdisc.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	comment	EMP: The EMP Cannon is a fighter-mounted weapon that can be used to shoot down a UFO without doing significant physical damage. It gives you the chance to recover as much usable alien tech and materials as possible, but using the weapon means the fighter has to get very close to the UFO, while dodging enemy plasma shots. More useful with the Firestorm, which can withstand a lot more hits than the regular Interceptor. It is powerful, though, and can shoot down a Battleship-class UFO in two-three hits.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8409a385	comment	The Hologlobe (a giant holographic globe) sits in the middle of the Mission Control in the XCOM headquarters. All missions available are shown on this, along with tracking the movements of UFOs, Interceptors, and the Skyranger. XCOM has a second Hologlobe in the Delta Sectionm as seen in the Base Defense.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Dr Vahlen and Dr Shen. Dr Vahlen is enthused by the potential discoveries that can be gleaned from examining the aliens, while Dr Shen is concerned and disgusted by what the aliens use the tech for and whether humanity might wind up treading the same path.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_84194ebf	type	24-Hour Armor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_84194ebf	comment	24-Hour Armor: A funny glitch in the core game: equip your soldiers with Titan Armor, and you can see them relaxing, eating and exercising in the Barracks with it still on. Enemy Within fixes this.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_84237bbd	type	ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_84237bbd	comment	There's also a Council mission with a highly Lovecraftian feel: All contact with a fishing village in Newfoundland is lost after a strange ship arrives, and your team is sent to investigate. They even bend the rules a little to make the comparison better as the mission features zombified townfolk, even though they should've turned into Chryssalids by the time you get there.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_844e261e	type	Super Spit
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_844e261e	comment	Super Spit: The Thin Men use this as a concealed weapon, hacking up clouds of poisonous gas from great distances to blind and choke any mammals trying to hide from them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_85557b38	comment	Snipers use an odd "wrap-around" posture when aiming their rifles. It's also halfway in Reality Is Unrealistic, as the posture does exist in real life... it's just that it's used when prone and using a bipod for extra stability.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_858dc9aa	type	Unwinnable
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_858dc9aa	comment	Certain aliens from early on in the game usually stop showing up after a few months, which can be problematic (though it won't render the game Unwinnable) if you haven't managed to capture them for interrogation. If you're lucky, though, they may occasionally pop up during Council missions or even regular ones. Hopefully, you've brought along an Arc Thrower. Slightly cushioned in Enemy Within, as the later game Mechtoids now appear with one or two Sectoids or a single Sectoid Commander in tow. Other enemies, like regular Floaters, still fall under this, though.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_85ac41e1	type	Grappling-Hook Pistol
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_85ac41e1	comment	Overwatch and Suppression can virtually lock a unit into place, letting aliens scuttle about to flank the poor soldier... what's this, the soldier is grappling away without a single reaction shot? Yep, apparently, nobody is paid enough to shoot a target moving that fast.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: One of the Large Scout ship maps has an empty, still-running truck belonging to someone who came to investigate and left a trail of flares leading to the ship. This isn't commented on, and nowhere in the map is this person's body, living or otherwise. Most of the Escort mission VIPs as well. Anna Sing, in particular, should be able to provide information on the Alien's abduction methodology, but nothing further is heard from her. You never find out what happens to the gassed people that you saved by completing an abduction mission. Same for the people trapped in the alien stasis tanks and surgery tables. Considering all the peculiarities of the Outsiders (they're beings of Pure Energy with a biology completely unlike any other alien, likely have a different origin, and are crucial to entering the alien base), you would expect them to have an important role in the game's plot, but after the skeleton key has been built, it is never seen or mentioned again. The EXALT supreme leader doesn't even show up in the game, has no model, and isn't there when you blow up his base. Neither the sequel nor The Bureau provides any clues.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b	type	Random Number God
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_869ffa6b	comment	Random Number God: Will actually help you in the lower difficultiesOn Easy and Normal, the RNG has a slight bias, boosting all XCOM actions by a small but significant amount (so a chance to hit of 50% might actually be 55%, with the RNG starting with a base of 5 and adding a random 1-100 to that), while Alien actions are reduced by a similar amount, but you'll still endure the full capriciousness of His/Her whims in ClassicNo one gets any boosts or drains and Impossible*XCOM gets all the penalties and the Aliens get all the boosts. Notably, Abduction, UFO and Terror site appearances are all controlled by separate number gods. While it is extremely rare, it is possible to have to face mission after mission immediately, with no chance to rest in between. For example, an abduction warning followed by a UFO followed by a Terror site followed by another abduction. This can happen regardless of the difficulty level.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Soldiers and special characters have many badass lines when activating their abilities and taking actions.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_874176be	comment	Psionic Soldiers are rare, and cannot be created on-demand. In exchange, they bring powerful psi abilities that can support allies or sow chaos among the enemy ranks such as Mind Rape or Mind Control. If you assign them as The Volunteer, they get the Rift power in addition to those. For extra fun, while Psionic Soldiers cannot be turned into MEC Troopers, they can be augmented by Gene Mods. Double the super, double the fun.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: A pair of them. The Hologlobe (a giant holographic globe) sits in the middle of the Mission Control in the XCOM headquarters. All missions available are shown on this, along with tracking the movements of UFOs, Interceptors, and the Skyranger. XCOM has a second Hologlobe in the Delta Sectionm as seen in the Base Defense. The raid on EXALT HQ in Enemy Within shows that EXALT has a Hologlobe of their own... the only difference being that it's red. When the mission is completed, this Hologlobe shorts and fizzles out, symbolizing the end of EXALT. The other is the world map in the Situation Room, which tracks the panic levels of all the contributing countries and keeps track of satellite coverage and council requests, as well as info on EXALT in Enemy Within.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8816272b	type	Blinded by the Light
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8816272b	comment	Flashbangs greatly reduce enemy's movement and aim, as they stumble around blindly. Psionics are immune.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: A team of experienced soldiers turn into this, mowing down the aliens with ease.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_892552b	type	Kung Fu-Proof Mook
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_892552b	comment	Kung Fu-Proof Mook: Chryssalids, Cyberdiscs and Sectopods are immune to Stunning, as well as Seekers and Mechtoids in Enemy Within. In addition, some enemies have the Hardened property, which drastically reduces the likelihood of a Critical Hit; more often than not, the reduction is big enough that you'll get a fat 0% chance to crit.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_89a6e211	type	Fishing for Mooks
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_89a6e211	comment	Fishing for Mooks: Enemy groups lurk in the Fog of War until encountered, at which point they attack, so a common strategy is to creep forward attempting to reveal and destroy enemy groups one at a time. The Expansion Pack adds a new resource called Meld that self-destructs if not collected quickly in order to reward players who eschew this strategy and explore more aggressively.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: The psionic aliens have the full range of fun little tricks from the original, as well as new ones. Unfortunately for them, two can play at that game. Which is exactly what the Ethereals want...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a6423b6	type	Cosplay
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a6423b6	comment	Cosplay: Played for Laughs in a news report from Japan as a cover-up. It reads, "Alleged alien abduction in downtown Tokyo has been blamed on costumed anime enthusiasts."
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a6d2168	type	Beat Them at Their Own Game
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a6d2168	comment	Beat Them at Their Own Game: Mind-controlling aliens are a nasty surprise, able to turn the tide of battle against the player in one turn. However, you can start producing your own psionics, and with a high-Will psi-soldier with Psi Armor and Mind Shield, you can start reliably mind-controlling those same aliens in return. There's even an achievementXavier for doing this to an Ethereal, the strongest alien psionic. One of the achievementsSomeone Your Own Size in Enemy Within has the player invoke this, requiring you to kill a Berserker with a MEC Trooper's Kinetic Strike Module. Another achievement*G'day! requires you to kill an EXALT Elite Sniper with one of your own snipers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a8c7344	type	Plasma Cannon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8a8c7344	comment	Plasma Cannon: In various forms, this is the standard-issue weapon for the aliens, and the best (and most expensive) weapons available to XCOM.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8aaa6f4f	type	Character Customization
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8aaa6f4f	comment	Character Customization: You can customize◊ the visual appearance and names of the soldiers. Every soldier. All of them. The Elite Soldier Pack also allows you to customize the colors of their armor and includes alternate looks for standard XCOM body armor and Carapace Armor. Slingshot and Enemy Within add various types of headgear, as well as alternate looks for the other available armors. It might have been even more involved at some point in development too, possibly having rookie soldiers with shiny untainted armor that would be altered as they rose through the ranks, adding some wear and tear and personal designs,◊ much like actual soldiers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: Slo-mo effects occur when a reaction shot is triggered.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8b0a127	type	Rocket-Tag Gameplay
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8b0a127	comment	Panic causes every mission to potentially be this on higher levels. Panic can be triggered by many things, such as seeing an ally hurt or killed, but also from being shot or blown up or attacked in general. This can easily cause 'panic chains', where one ally panicking triggers a second to panic which triggers a third to panic etc. Panic soldiers can also sometimes shoot allies, and since your soldiers usually are not positioned to cover themselves against their allies and are very close a panic soldier is far more likely to successfully hit an ally then the enemy is. This can do damage or kill other soldiers, which can also trigger another panic. The end result is a single unit panic can result in most of your team panicking and then being left vulnerable for the enemy to next turn, allowing the enemy to potentially land hits or kills next turn, which can of course trigger a new chain of panic. If all this wasn't bad enough, high difficulty games tend towards a variant of Rocket-Tag Gameplay where the priority is to avoid attacks because most can be a One-Hit Kill. This all combines to missions tending towards one of two outcomes: either you move in quick and kill the enemy before it can hit you, clearing the fight without any damage, or the enemy lands a hit on you, often scoring a kill, and the resulting panic and lost firepower means you suffer large casualties or TPK. There is little middle ground. Later on, when you have access to the panic-nullifying Neural Damping and soldiers trained under the enhanced Will gains from the Iron Will upgrade from the Officer Training School, it's harder to lose control to panic unless you're taking several rookies to earn promotions and their colonel nanny gets unfortunately splatted.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Averted, provided you fulfill the requests that Council Nations sometimes make. Providing Thin Man and Sectoid corpses allow for major breakthroughs in medical fields, Floater corpses enable advanced prosthetic limbs, Arc Throwers make quelling riots easier, reconstruction is hastened thanks to advanced new alloys being available, and militaries (and even civilians, in some cases) can field laser and plasma weapons, as well as advanced body armor and enhanced electronics.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f	type	Proud Warrior Race Guy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f	comment	Proud Warrior Race Guy: All of the Mutons. Shoot one without killing it or they gun down a XCOM soldier/unarmed civilian? The guy will likely come out of cover roaring and pounding his chest like no tomorrow, taunting you, probably scaring any rookie nearby. These guys clearly enjoy their job, and it's obvious why the Ethereals like having them as bodyguards.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: The Council and Bradford specifically calls EXALT "traitors" rather than just enemies. For once, it's justified as they're humans trying to help the aliens conquer humanity.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2	type	Flawed Prototype
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8cda3dc2	comment	Flawed Prototype: Almost every alien type you encounter throughout the game were enhanced by the Ethereals, but fell short of their expectations one way or another. Sectoids are gifted with psionic abilities, but are physically fragile and cowardly. Thin Men are highly intelligent, but cannot use the Gift. Cyberdiscs combine the strengths of organics and machines, but lack higher thinking. Floaters are merciless, mindless killing machines. Chrysalids were uplifted from primitive insects, but have become more of a liability than an asset. Mutons are possessed of overwhelming strength, but are lacking in intelligence or independent thought. Sectopods were built to supplement their forces, but serve little purpose otherwise. Drones and Outsiders are simply tools, and were apparently never supposed to be anything important.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8d3f3e8b	type	Levels Take Flight
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8d3f3e8b	comment	Levels Take Flight: The Battleship at the end of the Slingshot DLC and the Temple Ship involve you attacking them while they're still mid-flight. Despite being able to see the Earth sprawling below you, you're not at risk of falling.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8d4fcaa5	type	Self-Imposed Challenge
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8d4fcaa5	comment	Averted in Ironman modenote Added in since it was a popular Self-Imposed Challenge in the original games, which entirely prevents this. That being said, even in Ironman, most fans consider it perfectly legal to create backups of your saves in the event of a Game-Breaking Bug. Even on Ironman though, the game only saves at the beginning of your turn, meaning you can still get scumming by quitting the entire game and coming back. A do-over of even one turn can be golden on higher difficulties.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	comment	Non-Standard Game Over: If you fail the very first tactical mission by losing all four of your initial rookies, you don't get the option to return to base. The Council of Nations immediately decides that the XCOM project is a failure and shuts it down. You do get the option of restarting the mission, though. In Enemy Within, failing the XCOM Base Defense mission causes a game over, for obvious reasons. In the same vein as the first mission, you get to restart it if it goes too south. Even on Ironman.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	type	Ancient Conspiracy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8e5c862	comment	Ancient Conspiracy: EXALT is an ancient conspiracy stretching back centuries which seeks to use subversive, underhanded methods to Take Over the World. The alien invasion gives them the chance they need.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8fac4a3a	type	Superpower Lottery
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8fac4a3a	comment	Superpower Lottery: How receiving the Gift works. The game uses a complicated formula to determine if the soldier you enter for testing will emerge as Psionic, and can even be Save Scummed to get good results. When the "Training Roulette" modifier is on. For every Bullet Swarm Assault or Damn Good Ground Heavy you find yourself blessed with, you'll get a Squadsight Sniper with Grenadier and Revive.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8fe78cef	type	Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_8fe78cef	comment	Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: XCOM "interrogates" alien captives. We aren't shown the details (as a shutter closes when interrogation starts), but it involves two arms radiating some energy, getting information straight out of the alien's brain and lots of sedatives. Also, the subject never survives the process and you always get their corpse added to your stockpile after the interrogation. After the first Sectoid interrogation, Dr. Vahlen is asked how exactly they interrogated an alien who speaks a language nobody understands. She replies that they stuck probes into its brain and read what signals they could until it died. Yikes. Subverted with the Berserker Interogation, which apparently started with the brain-probing to figure out a way to calm the thing down, and then had it run a series of physical tests. Presumably, the risk of having a Berserker around meant it was simply killed afterwards. Likewise, the Heavy Floater Interrogation seems to involve figuring out how to puppet it mentally, then having it run tests, as neither has much in the way of actual knowledge desired by XCOM. Indeed, the research credits they give are related to their physical capabilities (Armor for Berserkers and Flight for Heavy Floaters). Not to mention South America's continent bonus - "We Have Ways", making both Interrogations and Autopsies instantaneous, banking on the reputation of certain South American dictatorships and their employment of these.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_90965cc7	type	Hive Mind
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_90965cc7	comment	You can gain them yourself, with 5 different powers available to your "gifted" soldiers: "Mindfray", a damaging attack that also debuffs the target, "Psi-Panic", a panic-inducing attack, "Psi-Inspiration", an ability that bolsters your allies' Will, "Telekinetic Field", a telekinetic defensive field, and good old "Mind Control". The Volunteer gains two, the "Rift", which deals massive AOE damage, and a link to the Ethereal Hive Mind. Sid Meier has all of them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_911b22d8	type	Suspicious Video-Game Generosity
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_911b22d8	comment	Suspicious Videogame Generosity: Selling all the non-research artefacts gained, the aftermath of the alien base assault in Enemy Within is likely to be a huge payoff compared to all previous missions combined.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9183215d	type	Last Disc Magic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9183215d	comment	In general, alien units follow the same rules you do: they can move twice, move once and shoot, shoot to end their turn, or move and set up Overwatch. Sectopods, being giant, massively armed war machines, can shoot twice and still catch your soldiers with reaction fire (but only if they don't move) in a single turn. Combined with their massive HP totals (more than any other unit in the game) and extremely high defense (-30% to be hit), they're incredible devastating when you encounter them, breaking the rules you've been following for the whole game. And the final mission throws TWO of them at you at once! Fortunately this is why the Volunteer was given the "Rift".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The Temple Ship's self destruct would cause a Planetary/Physical Annihilation level event. However the Volunteer pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to get it away from Earth in time.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: The Uber Ethereal mentions "Them" who promised his kind ascension, but ultimately failed to deliver. The Ethereals are Abusive Precursors to the other alien species, having uplifted them all to use as proxy soldiers, tools and psionic sustenance.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	type	Damage-Sponge Boss
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b	comment	Damage-Sponge Boss: Come Enemy Within, Sectopods have an effective 60 Health, incredible damage output, and don't bother using cover due to possessing a permanent full cover bonus. Have fun.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: Several character sheets of the aliens were released as promotional material and all of them included their sprite from the original game for comparison◊. What about the Thin Man, who was widely different from the Snake Man, you might ask? Why, the developers made an entirely new old-style sprite for him, of course◊.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The Heavy class packs some of the most powerful infantry weapons available to XCOM. However, they only have average movement speed and range, cannot fire their rocket launcher after doing nearly anything, and need to forego their movement in order to take advantage of Bullet Swarm and fire twice in a turn. On the Alien's side is the Sectopod. Like the Heavy, it can move a limited distance, but it favors standing still due to being able to fire twice in a single turn (which sets it up for a free overwatch as well). MEC troopers in Enemy Within are bigger and stronger than regular soldiers (and most aliens), but until you upgrade their leg servos they have similar limitations to the Heavy. A high-level, properly-specced Sniper is quite possibly the deadliest force on the battlefield, but can't move and fire their sniper rifle in the same turn without taking the Snap Shot perk, which deprives them of another very useful perk.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	EXALT troopers closely resemble Bureau operatives and have questionable AI.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9446f847	type	Death or Glory Attack
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9446f847	comment	Death or Glory Attack: A common tactic for players is sending a soldier out into the open in order to get a better shot or flank an enemy. Hopefully, the shots connect and the enemy will be too busy being dead to attack the exposed soldier. If it goes wrong, the alien is still alive at the end of the turn and retaliates, or you accidentally expose another group of aliens that proceed to cut down your trooper.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_94d2506d	type	Can't Catch Up
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_94d2506d	comment	Can't Catch Up: EXALT eventually goes this way. Though their operatives field superior gene mods, they never reverse-engineer plasma weaponry or advanced armor, staying stuck on the laser/carapace tech level.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Zombies will violently heave on their third turn. It's a helpful visual reminder to deal with it before you have to stop worrying about the zombie and more about that new Chryssalid.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_95265081	comment	Leeroy Jenkins: At first, the Assault's "Run & Gun" ability can seem like this... but pair it with their "Lightning Reflexes" ability, and suddenly they're sprinting up and triggering that alien's Overwatch to waste it, clearing the way for your squishier troops to come up and push through. You can invoke this as well. Got a dark room where you know aliens are? Send in a rookie trooper, with a Heavy standing by with a rocket. Cleanup on aisle seven!
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_954b3c7b	type	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_954b3c7b	comment	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: It is possible, with Titan Armor and Chitin Plating, to make a Major-ranked Assault tougher than an armored SHIV. Assaults gain an ability that gives them bonus health based on the armor they wear. With both the armor and plating equipped, an Assault can have up to 29 hitpoints, making them far more durable than even an Alloy SHIV, which can only have up to 18 hitpoints. Subverted with the inclusion of the MEC Trooper, which can have the same amount of hitpoints by using a Tier III "Paladin" MEC Suit with the "Shaped Armor" Foundry Project. Coupled with abilities that allows a MEC to reduce incoming damage and even repair damage taken, MECs can often soak up more damage than an Assault can.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_95ff52c7	type	Guns Do Not Work That Way
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_95ff52c7	comment	Guns Do Not Work That Way: XCOM operatives tend to be rather lax about gun handling. Assaults cycle their shotguns one-handed, by holding it by the pump and shaking it. They do that even with the considerably bulky Alloy Cannon. Heavies hold their machineguns properly until they have to shoot them, at which point they hip-fire it while holding the front end by the carrying handle. Snipers use an odd "wrap-around" posture when aiming their rifles. It's also halfway in Reality Is Unrealistic, as the posture does exist in real life... it's just that it's used when prone and using a bipod for extra stability.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_964ea66c	comment	Rookies cost about Â§10 (Easy/Normal) - Â§15 (Classic/Impossible) each, which is pretty cheap (except very early on in the game). If one pisses you off by repeatedly missing the alien they're standing next to, the options always exist of making them go check out the scary noise in the building on their own, or drawing fire, or just plain being used as bait.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: It's possible to invoke this if you're losing. In addition, the scene of XCOM HQ if you lose the Base Defense mission looks like XCOM, Bradford in particular, put up one hell of a fight before going down.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: No matter the situation, the fedora from Enemy Within looks out of place. Put it on a MEC Trooper for extra hilarity.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: In contrast to the original game, where the aliens were led by an "Alien Brain", the Ethereals, led by the Uber-Ethereal, are very much the bad guys here. They're the guiding intelligence behind the invasion and the various alien species are the other species that they conquered first, in an attempt to find/create a species that is both physically strong and psionically gifted. It's never made clear what what they need this for, but they do mention that it's in preparation for "what lies ahead".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Played for Laughs in a news blurb for a low-panic United Kingdom, where a famous footballer who missed the winning shot claimed he was "blinded" by UFO lights during his match. Also doubles as a Shout-Out to the first Men in Black, in particular where a flying UFO actually causes a baseball player to miss a critical fly ball.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_97c4763	type	The Professor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_97c4763	comment	The Professor: Dr. Shen, the head of Engineering. He occasionally wonders out loud if XCOM's technology will be repurposed for war with other humans if the aliens are fought off, though he quickly decides that we can jump that hurdle when it comes.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Members of EXALT in Enemy Within cannot be captured for interrogation like most aliens can. If you shock them with the Arc Thrower, they'll stab themselves with a syringe full of poison before they lose consciousness, so they don't risk revealing information damaging to their operations. Doing this the first time nets you an achievement, "Pain In The Neck".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_99a12edd	comment	MEC Troopers get their limbs cut off and augmented to properly interface with the MEC Suit. They lack the subtlety of biological soldiers (cannot take cover), but almost nothing can win against them in pure brute force combat. To put in perspective, they send Muton Berserkers flying with a punch, and two of them with upgraded Kinetic Strike Modules can pound a Sectopod from full HP to scrap in a single turn, with overkill damage to bootnote An upgraded Kinetic Strike module deals 18 damage and can be used twice per turn. A Sectopod effectively has 60 health due to its damage reduction. 2 MEC Troopers pounding on a Sectopod easily deals 72 damage, though you'll want to watch out for the following explosion.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9a117348	type	Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9a117348	comment	Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: The difficulty levels are called "Easy", "Normal", "Classic"*Prior to the European release and resulting patch, Classic was called XCOM and above that, "Impossible", with "Classic" being meant to be the closest to the original game's difficulty (that could be achieved with the game mechanics of the 2012 remake) and "Impossible" even more difficult than that. There is also another difficulty modifier called "Ironman Mode", where the game will only have one save file for that playthrough, and will save for the player after every action during combat, meaning that if you make a mistake there is no reloading to before it happened. Now try that on Classic difficulty...Some designers also mentioned that the "Impossible" difficulty is literally supposed to be Unwinnable by Design. For most players, it's just a question of how many missions they can complete before failure. According to the staff, beating Impossible difficulty on Ironman mode is only theoretically possible. Some players have managed to pull it off, though, and as if in retaliation, Firaxis released the Second Wave Downloadable Content, which includes gameplay modifiers even they thought were too cruel. This was taken further again in Enemy Within, with both Classic and Impossible difficulties getting a significant spike in toughness.When a Let's Player not only finished the game on Impossible Ironman, but did it without losing a single soldier, it was reported on various gaming news websites.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9a99d3df	type	Stealth Mentor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9a99d3df	comment	Stealth Mentor: One of the main reason of the Ethereal invasion is to prepare Earth for an upcoming larger invasion from an unknown enemy by sending their past subjects to be experimented on.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: Heavies in general qualify - their LMGs pack a lot of punch compared to the standard assault rifles used by Assaults and Supports, and their rockets are not only highly effective against clusters of early alien bad guys due to their high damage and wide area of effect, but they also deny the tougher enemies their cover, leaving them vulnerable to be picked off. Heavies with the "Holo Targeting" skill are fantastic babysitters for low-ranking squaddies with bad Aim, helping them get those vital kills. By mid-game, you'll still find Heavies fairly useful in the role of fire support, but it'll be your Snipers and Assaults getting the big kill counts. They come back into use in the late game where HEAT Ammo gives them bonuses against the increasingly-common robotic enemies, but are nowhere near the killing machines they once were, even when you get the Blaster Launcher. By choosing the appropriate abilities and equipment you could easily create highly specialized troopers of any class: supports that are great at healing and not very good at anything else, snipers that are great at long range with good positioning but terrible in close combat, and assaults that are great at close combat but very poor at a distance. There are also plenty of equipment useful in a very specific situation and pretty useless otherwise. Reaper ammunition is good before you get lasers, but are at most inventory filler for Council requests otherwise. A ghost grenade is just what you need if you have a few exposed troopers standing near each other by the end of the turn and your other troops are much harder to hit; in other situations, it's not even worth using even when you've brought it. Needle grenades are great for hurting plenty of enemies that do not have cover compared to where the grenade lands, otherwise it's a waste of Chryssalid corpses that you could be using for Chitin Plating. Nano-fiber vests add 2 HP to a soldier's health pool. Useful very early on, but a drop in a bucket later on. The Respirator Implant does its job better and also negates the poison from Chryssalids and Thin Men and the strangulation attack of Seekers. To a non-psionic, a mind shield is a great thing to have when facing psi attacks, but useless otherwise, especially if you have the right gene mods (Neural Damping, for example, negates mind control completely).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Mutons have been described like this, an alien SEAL Team Six to fight your own troops. For starters, they're equipped with Alien Grenades, and they will use them on groups of your XCOM troops. EXALT from Enemy Within: a pro-alien terrorist group that uses the same classes, equipment and abilities as XCOM and also reverse-engineers alien technology as the campaign goes onnote though for reasons unknown (probably resource limitations), they never progress beyond laser weaponry. They even have their own holo-globe, except red instead of blue like XCOM's version. Mechtoids, Sectoids mounted in a Mini-Mecha, are essentially the alien counterpart to your own MEC troopers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b66f7f5	type	Suspiciously Small Army
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b66f7f5	comment	Suspiciously Small Army: XCOM can only field 99 soldiers in total, which is barely more than two platoons at best, and then send a maximum of 6 soldiers to clear a city of aliens. It's established early on that XCOM is more of a black-ops unit tasked with assaulting key objectives, while leaving the heavy fighting to the rest of the Earth's militaries. Additionally, XCOM's mandate isn't to fight the war directly, but rather to win it, by identifying the aliens' weaknesses and exploiting them to stop the invasion. XCOM isn't a conventional military organization, but rather a very narrowly-focused, specialized unit, like a self-contained Delta Force.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b6cc16b	type	No Range Like Point-Blank Range
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b6cc16b	comment	No Range Like Point-Blank Range: The Assault class encourages this, especially in Enemy Within. Combining "Close and Personal" with "Rapid Fire" allows your soldier to run up to an alien, shoot them without losing an action, and then use "Rapid Fire" to shoot them twice more. If it's a Berserker and your soldier has "Close Combat Specialist," they can get off four shots in one turn if either the Berserker is drawn into the required range by another soldier or if they pull back slightly with "Run & Gun" before using "Rapid Fire".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	type	Difficult, but Awesome
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9b9397bb	comment	Difficult, but Awesome: The basic Shotgun for the Assaults. While the Assault Rifle would be a better choice in the lower difficulties, it is a must in Impossible, where an instant kill is worth its weight in gold, and the Assault Rifle cannot reliably provide that even with a flank. The Shotgun requires careful placement of your Assault so that he's as close to up in the face of one alien while protected from the rest, which requires knowledge of how the cover and concealment system works. Multiple high-rank MEC Troopers are this, due to how prohibitively expensive it is to field a single suit: 10 Meld to convert a soldier into a MEC Trooper, 40 Meld to build the basic MEC-1 Warden, 60 Meld to upgrade that into the MEC-2 Sentinel, and 100 Meld to upgrade that into the final MEC-3 Paladin. All told, it's a staggering 210 Meld to create and field a single fully upgraded MEC Trooper from scratch, which is a substantial amount, given that you can only collect 20 units of Meld during most missions until Heavy Floaters and Mechtoids start appearing in force. However, it's definitely worth it if you can collect enough Meld, as you get a Lightning Bruiser capable of taking on anything the aliens can throw at you if properly supported. Fully gene-modding a soldier is also this. Depending on the options you take, five gene mods can cost between 150 to 200 credits and 80 to 150 Meld. They'll also take 15 days to go from unmodded to fully modded. However, when that's done with, you have a superpowered badass on your hands who can form an absolutely deadly duo with your MEC or even regular troops. The Sniper's In The Zone ability can be this. Killing a target that has been flanked, out of cover or unable to take cover does not cost the Sniper an action, meaning that one Sniper can take down many aliens in a single turn. However, taking full advantage of this requires a lot of setup and luck.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Your Rookies at first. Piss poor aim, low health (and likely armor), and no special abilities mean that these unlucky guys can have an abysmal survival rate. Eventually becomes subverted as they grow in level and lethality.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9c1d1e31	type	Black Box
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9c1d1e31	comment	Black Box: Most of the technology that the Science and Engineering departments come up with is this. They have no idea how exactly it all worksnote Mostly because understanding the specifics isn't particularly necessary in the middle of the war; presumably, Vahlen plans to do more in-depth studies if XCOM wins the war., but they can replicate most of it.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: Fire is simply a barrier to non-Titan armored troops in Enemy Unknown, unless it spreads into the square they're standing in. Enemy Within, on the other hand, introduces MEC-mounted flamethrowers, as well as an incendiary bombing run in the ending cutscene of a certain Council mission. Amusingly, MEC troopers sometimes actually say "Killing it with fire" when using their flamethrowers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: Even if you don't have line-of-sight to an area and thus wouldn't know where the enemies are (or the enemy in question is cloaked), you cannot make a move order into a square that contains an enemy. This is visible on the map. The cinematic camera often spoils the outcome of direct attacks; while "Overwatch" and grenade attacks usually provide a cinematic cut regardless, a standard attack only ever does so if the hit is going to both connect and kill the enemy in the next few seconds, though kills can occasionally happen without the cinematic camera triggering (much more often in Enemy Within). This happens to the aliens on their shots as well, so if a firing alien gets a camera shot panning over them, the next camera shot will be of one of your troops getting killed or critically wounded. Strangely enough, the game can subvert this. When using an Arc Thrower, the cinematic shot may engage, but the shock fails to incapacitate the target as it usually occurs. Downplayed in Enemy Within: the cinematic camera activating is no longer a guarantee of a hit. Similarly, not seeing the cinematic camera activate doesn't mean you'll miss. The game seems to determine when a particular shot is appropriately dramatic (i.e. could turn the battle around if it's a hit or a miss) and uses the camera for those. The achievements for upcoming Downloadable Content are uploaded to the list of global achievements on Steam before the content is released. They can easily be picked out by being listed as 0.1% other players getting them (aside from the usual Nintendo Hard ones) and don't show up on the standalone list, and can spoil the presence of certain missions and/or enemies. Sectopods can launch missile barrages, but it takes them to charge for a turn to do so. When this happens, the camera centers on the machine, and then on the area it's about to bombard. The spoiler comes in the fact that the camera still moves in this fashion even when the Sectopod is outside visual range, so if you see this camera motion even if no Death-Machine is in sight, get the hell out of there. Minor one, but after completing Slingshot and researching the Fusion Lance, the game will say it's meant for the Firestorm even if the Firestorm hasn't been theorized yet. Meld is referred to by name by the game labels even before it is officially dubbed as such. Oddly Subverted in Enemy Within. When using Rapid Fire, if the first shot misses, there will be two "shot missed" indicators over the target, implying the next shot will be a miss as well... but then the next shot could still kill your target dead.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: The Plasma Pistol is easily the largest handgun in the game, and it's just as large as it is powerful. With all Foundry projects researched and on a soldier with Gunslinger, it easily rivals the Light Plasma Rifle.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Tutorial mission hints at all of the iconic alien species you'll encounter later: a soldier that has been torn open from the inside out by a Chest Burster, a zombie trapped under some rubble, and a psionically mind controlled soldier will all be warning signs to long time fans. Over the course of the first Operation Progeny mission, there's several to the entire EXALT faction. Bradford notes that the ambushed French soldiers were killed with ballistic weaponry, they're after a very special "cargo," and you extract someone who is implied to be an EXALT operative, who gives cryptic hints to his organization's ideology and opinions on XCOM. After playing through the entirety of Enemy Within, the opening quote by R. Buckminster Fuller sounds like pointless alarmism. Then you get to XCOM 2, and the true meaning of the quote becomes clear...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: One of the high-rank Assault's tricks. They automatically gain "Extra Conditioning" once they reach Major, which confers additional health depending on the armour they're loaded withlist+1 for standard Body Armor, +2 for medium armors (Skeleton Suit, and Ghost and Psi Armors), and +4 for heavy armors (Carapace, Titan and Archangel Armors). Give them Titan Armor and Chitin Plating, and they can soak up more damage than a Cyberdisks or Berserker on lower difficulties, and match a MEC-3 Paladin on Classic and Impossible. Upon reaching the Colonel rank, they have the option to get "Resilience", which makes them immune to Critical Hits. Heavies have the "Will To Survive" passive ability once they reach Major, which reduces all damage they take by 2 points while in any kind of cover, as long as they're not flanked. EXALT's Elite Heavies have the "Iron Skin" gene mod, which reduces all incoming damage by 25%. Good thing they only have 10 health. Sectopods in Enemy Within, thanks to the new "Reinforced Armor" passive ability that halves all incoming damage save for Electro Pulse. MEC troopers in Enemy Within can soak absurd amounts of damage if the right perks are chosen. An Assault made into a Mec gets Shock-Absorbent Armor (33% damage reduction from any attack made within 4 tiles, including grenades). Combine this with the Sergeant-rank ability "Damage Control" (-2 damage taken on any attack for 2 turns after being attacked), the Captain-rank ability "Repair Servos" (heals 2 HP per turn, up to 6 total per mission), and finally the Colonel-rank "Absorption Fields" (cannot take more than 33% of their max health in one attack), and you have a unit that can be attacked by three Berserkers at once and still have a little over a third of their health left.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: The camera lens frequently gets spattered with gore during autopsies.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9dfb8296	comment	One wrong click, and you sent a soldier out of cover with a Sectopod warming its laser cannon in anticipation, and your remaining two soldiers have no moves that can affect the enemy's hit chance. If the Sectopod is the only enemy, just have them run out of cover as well, standing two tiles apart from each other. When presented with a delicious cluster of enemies stacked too far away to hit with one laser blast, the Sectopod will use its first turn to charge Cluster Bomb, ending its turn and giving you a free move to escape.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: There's an achievement for clearing a UFO crash site with just one soldier*Specifically, you have to do it on Classic or Impossible, which only makes it worse. It's pretty tricky even with superior equipment and tactics, and you definitely shouldn't try it with a rookie soldier. A single Snapshot + In The Zone Sniper with the Mimetic Skin gene mod can really cause terrible amount of casualties on the enemy side.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9eb71c7c	type	Super-Toughness
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9eb71c7c	comment	The aptly-named Berserker, an extremely durable breed of Muton that has the ability to charge through walls to get to your soldiers. They also get a small free-action move towards any soldier that hits it. Fortunately, they charge blindly rather than stick to cover. A clever commander can exploit this, forcing them to trigger Overwatches and step into your other soldiers' line of sight.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9eca61c8	type	Production Foreshadowing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9eca61c8	comment	Production Foreshadowing: News blurbs from as early as the vanilla game mention how there are quite a few alien sympathizers in the world's population, advocating peaceful acceptance of Earth's conquering. EXALT from Enemy Within is an entire faction made out of these people.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9edbda07	comment	If enemy advancement outstrips your tech, it is possible to start facing Elite Mutons and Heavy Floaters while still using laser weapons and carapace armor. If this happens, you will likely get TPK after TPK. If you have full satellite coverage you can't get a game-over this way, because you won't have any panic penaltiesnote Satellite coverage prevents alien abductions from occurring within the borders of the covered country, so full satellite coverage functionally prevents abductions. UFOs only increase panic if they're not shot down, with the actual result of the ground mission not affecting panic in any significant way. The only concern is Terror missions, which need to be successful or the country immediately abandons the Council. So you're stuck in and endless loop of sending underequipped rookies against the toughest enemies in the game, and they can't level up because they keep getting wiped out, and you can't build them better equipment because you need resources you can only get from completing missions. This is especially a problem in Ironman mode, where you can't abuse Save Scumming to complete tough missions. The saving grace is that every so often you'll shoot down a Small Scout with only a few aliens or get a Council Mission with only Thin Mennote a specific one only has Sectoids, so you can, little by little, collect enough resources to build better equipmentnote Note that, even with underpowered and undertrained rookies leading a mission, every mission can be completed, regardless of who they are facing. It becomes more difficult, but strong strategies will always trump strong tech.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9f3857d5	type	Draw Aggro
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9f3857d5	comment	Draw Aggro: The enemy AI usually prioritizes easy-to-hit targets. One tactic is to place units with high HP, Damage Reduction skills, and/or a Healing Factor, such as a MEC trooper, in the front of the formation to attract enemy fire. Additionally, if the player knows that an enemy is in Overwatch (which grants a reaction shot if a target in range moves), they can move an Assault with the Lightning Reflexes skill (which forces the first reaction shot that targets them to miss) or a unit far enough away to be difficult to hit first, triggering the reaction shot so that other units can move into position safely.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9f9540ae	type	We Can Rebuild Him
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9f9540ae	comment	We Can Rebuild Him: Enemy Within offers some... possibilities, here. Got a really badly wounded soldier who won't be back in action for a month or more? Turn them into a MEC! Sure they're stuck as a Man in the Machine, but they'll recover in half the time (or less!) and they have shiny new robot limbs! Unfortunately, you can't rebuild a MEC Trooper (or any soldier for that matter) that was KIA. You can repair the MEC and place a new MEC trooper inside, though.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9fb11776	type	Non-Lethal Warfare
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9fb11776	comment	Non-Lethal Warfare: The Arc Thrower is your primary tool for capturing aliens. While useful for taking down aliens for interrogation, it's also essential for seizing any piece of handheld alien technology, which otherwise self-destructs upon the wielder's death. It also remains a useful tool throughout the mid-to-late game, as it's a lot cheaper - though much, much riskier - to stun aliens and jack their gear than assembling it yourself out of precious alloys and Elerium, even moreso in Enemy Within since the price of plasma weaponry is increased by 50% and the cost in Elerium and Alloys is doubled.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9fbe06a5	type	Badass in a Nice Suit
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: Thin Men (especially in higher difficulties) can mess you up to kingdom come in early game. All while wearing their fine navy blue suits. The EXALT operatives also wear business suits, because they're civilians in day jobs who take up terrorism on the weekend.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a05522e3	comment	The aliens have one too, using it as a gathering points for specimens from all the Alien Abductions they have been doing. The Disc-One Final Dungeon consists of raiding this base.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a0f6ab07	type	Nicknaming the Enemy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a0f6ab07	comment	Nicknaming the Enemy: Aliens in general are usually called ETs or X-rays during combat*the "X-Ray" naming is part of the long-standing US military "theme naming", where the first letter of the enemy nationality is used to come up with a nickname. So we get Germans becoming Gerries, Viet Cong becoming Charlies, and extraterrestrials becoming X-rays. Also, during the Autopsy cutscenes or reports, Dr. Vahlen mentions that several aliens' designations were originally nicknames the troopers came up with that stuck.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a18fda9c	type	Dumb Muscle
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a18fda9c	comment	Dumb Muscle: Mutons fit the trope to a tee. They're physically imposing and have strong tactical knowledge, but aside from that, they're thicker than an asphalt milkshake and have no effective independence or initiative, depending on their mental programming instead. Fittingly, they have a Will score so low that any psychic soldier will easily mop the floor with them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a19135a6	type	Mind Control
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a19135a6	comment	Can be done in-game to both organic aliens and your soldiers using psychic Mind Control.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a1b76006	comment	MEC Flamethrowers in Enemy Within can make any organic enemy panic. That includes Chryssalids, Berserkers and Ethereals. What's better, the panic state that this induces makes melee and psi enemies completely unable to do anything but skedaddle in a random direction, presumably because they're freaking out too hard over being set ablaze.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: XCOM 2 revealed that XCOM canonically lost the war, quite early on at that, meaning that if you managed to win, it doesn't really count. However, that really only counts as Cutting Off the Branches, and XCOM 2 also provided the in-universe explanation that a successful campaign was a simulation happening within the Commander's head while a prisoner of the aliens, so the game itself is still actually canon. On the other hand, Enemy Within and everything that came with it (namely EXALT and Meld, but also additional enemy types such as Mechtoids and Seekers) was simply retconned out of existence and is never referenced again, even when you'd expect it would be. The only exception (and even that is theoretical) is the base assault mission, failing which is hypothesised to be what actually led to XCOM's defeat.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: EXALT is apparently made of these. They've been vying to Take Over the World for decades, and the political instability plus technological advancement opportunities provided by the aliens gave them just the opportunity they needed.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a3c96809	type	Harmless Luminescence
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a3c96809	comment	Harmless Luminescence: Flashbangs will disorientate aliens and their allies, but will do nothing to your own soldiers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	comment	On Impossible difficulty, Thin Men. They appear before the first month is over, have 6 HP each (double what they have on Easy/Normal) and can do up to 6 damage on a non-critical hit. Given that most of your soldiers won't even have 6 HP at this point, nearly any successful shot from a Thin Man will result in a One-Hit Kill. They also often attack in groups and have very high aim, not to mention also being able to poison you. They are still threats on lower difficulties, but not to the same extent.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Enemy Within can be interpreted as referring to two of the major additions, namely Bio-Augmentation (Gene-mods use alien tissue, meaning the enemy is literally within) and/or EXALT (Human collaborators, the enemy within humanity's ranks).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: In Enemy Within, anyone killed by gunfire will be sent flying. If there's an easily destructible object (like a door) behind them, expect them to go flying hard enough to break it.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a52faac6	type	Benevolent Conspiracy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a52faac6	comment	Benevolent Conspiracy: The Council Of Nations, in spite of their nature as the Omniscient Council of Vagueness, is entirely well-intentioned. They fund and support XCOM in their efforts to protect Earth and save its citizenry from the Alien invasion, and there's no evidence that they're up to any shenanigans on the side. It is hinted that the aliens themselves, or at least the Ethereals, may see themselves as good conspirators. They seek to push humanity to the next level, so that they may attain psychic ability to prepare them for "what lies ahead", whatever that means. Averted with EXALT. There is nothing benevolent about their conspiracy, they're only in it for their own gains.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a547562c	type	Spy Catsuit
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a547562c	comment	Spy Catsuit: The Psi Armor is very form-fitting, even if it's more armored than most examples. Tone it in black to complete the effect.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a5a4c9a2	type	Majorly Awesome
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a5a4c9a2	comment	Majorly Awesome: Any soldier who makes it to Major, the second highest rank available, is certainly awesome.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: Quite a few. Many of them can cross over into Bragging Rights Reward as well. The Fusion Lance, able to down even Battleships in a couple of shots. The Blaster Launcher is incredibly powerful and probably the best example in terms of weapons held by humans. Not only do you get a base damage boost to rocket blasts, but shots can also be automatically guided to their target, meaning the Heavy wielding it doesn't even need to expose themselves to get line-of-sight as with the standard launcher. However, even building one of them has a hefty resource cost, as each requires two flight computers and a fusion core, the latter only available from late game battleships, apart from two potential freebies from the Slingshot DLC's council missions. The third tier of weapons, plasma, are the best you can get, and even includes weapons the aliens themselves don't have, like the Plasma Sniper and the Alloy Cannon. The Alloy Cannon in particular is the most damaging soldier weapon in the game, even more so if it gets a critical hit, outclassing the Heavy Plasma and even the Sectopod's chest cannon and plasma turret. Rapid Fire with it, if both shots manage to hit, will tear a nice and large hole into anything in the game.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a5fb0d24	type	Healing Factor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a5fb0d24	comment	Healing Factor: Many in Enemy Within. The "Adaptive Bone Marrow" Leg genemod allows your soldiers to heal two HP per turn once their actual health (the base value, what the armor gives doesn't count) is damaged, while also reducing their recovery time after the mission by a considerable amount. EXALT Elite Medics have an ability to automatically regenerate one health per turn, which also affects nearby allies. This ties into an achievement called "Regenerate This!", if you use an explosive device to kill them. MEC Troopers can choose the "Repair Servos" passive at Captain, which lets them repair 2HP per turn, up to a maximum of 6HP per mission. S.H.I.V.s can repair 2HP per turn after completing the "Sentinel Drone" Foundry Project. Unlike MECs, there's no limit to that, but if they tank a crit, it's disabled.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a70223	comment	Have four Heavies? Four civilians next to a truck you wanna use for cover? Now, sending in anyone to rescue them? Nah. Sending a rocket to blow it to hell along with the four civilians? Yes! Earning an Excellent rating? Check. Technically, you only need to save one civilian for the Terror Mission to be considered successful, provided you wipe out the aliens. So once you tagged that one cowering civvie, you can just go to town blowing everything up. Hell, you can shoot the civilians too if you want.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: How the applications of Meld are explained in Enemy Within. Each scientist describes the potential applications, while cuts of MEC suits and gene-augmented soldiers in action are played.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a74d419a	type	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a74d419a	comment	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: Par for the course, there being a war on and everything. Your base includes a laboratory full of scientists feverishly reverse-engineering captured alien tech and sending your soldiers into the field with hastily cobbled-together prototypes based on principles that aren't fully understood and concepts that were entirely unknown mere days before. They all work perfectly.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Averted, in stark contrast to the preceding titles' notorious reputation. Soldiers always shoot in the right direction and have a decent to-hit chance as long as they're within a reasonable range for the weapon they're holding. Most tellingly, grenades always go where they're supposed to. It makes you feel like you really are commanding the elite troopers that the original game claimed you were. Zig-Zagged for Heavies, who have a chance of missing with regular rocket launchers: instead of the missile veering off-course after being fired, they blatantly aim off-target and shout "Missile wide!" before even firing. However, they put the missiles exactly where they are supposed to go nine times out of ten; it's just really obvious on those rare occasions that they miss. One of their miss quotes for the rocket launcher implies an equipment failure, though ("Targeting system malfunctioning!"), which may explain how they know the missile will stray off course before even firing. In general, the class' Aim stat is noticeably lower than the other classes. Also played straight if your soldier is hit with Debuffs like "Mindfray" or being poisoned, especially if they're a rookie. Nothing like a soldier missing an enemy three meters away and being perforated the next turn. Weaponized in gameplay mechanics; combatants that don't use cover receive permanent cover bonuses instead, so a Sectopod can stand in the open and watch as your entire squad fails to hit a car-sized target at less than 50 feet. Presumably their hands are shaking with terror at said car-sized target. Exaggerated in Enemy Within. When a soldier misses a shot, they start by blatantly aiming their weapon several degrees off of their target, fire every projectile to the exact same spot, and only then report that they "missed".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Mutons in general, as well as Heavy Floaters. As of Enemy Within, Mechtoids, which are Sectoids piloting a Mini-Mecha. Sectopods are this in Enemy Unknown, but re-tooled to be a Boss in Mook Clothing in Enemy Within.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	type	Unusable Enemy Equipment
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a89efe3c	comment	Unusable Enemy Equipment: Alien weapons self-destruct when they're killed even if you don't use explosives (if you do, you won't get even the fragments). You can, however, capture intact alien weapons if you use an Arc Thrower on the enemy. You still can't swap them mid-mission, as flavor text explains they're not built with human ergonomics in mind and need retrofitting for human use. In Enemy Within, EXALT weapons are recovered after missions and can be used by your own soldiers. However, they're mechanically identical to your own weapon counterparts and are meant to be sold to the Council once you decide you have enough. Their only use in equipping your soldiers is a personal aesthetic preference over the X-COM gear. However, Elites' laser hardware are a way to get usable laser weaponry without having to spend your research dollars for it. Played straight with the unique gene mods on most of their Elite units, which are "Iron Skin" (Elite Heavies)note reduces damage by 25%, "Regen Pheromones" (Elite Medics)note regenerates the health of the Medic and nearby friendlies by 1 every turn and "Adrenaline Rush" (Elite Operatives)note increases Aim and Critical Chance by 10% with every injury., and curiously, the Medics' Medikits. EXALT Elite units also carry alien grenades, which self-destruct into fragments upon death as with aliens, but are recoverable if the EXALT is stunned, despite their ensuing suicide. Completely intact UFOs can't be commandeered after being secured, even if you've reverse-engineered their navigation, power and propulsion systems. They can only be dismantled for their components and raw materials. Then again, once you reach the late-game, you don't need a commandeered alien ship, as XCOM's Firestorm aircraft with fusion lances can handily win dogfights with anything the aliens send at you, even the mighty battleships.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: Your troops can freely blow up anything and everything during an Abduction or Terror mission with no consequences (other than potentially destroying cover you'll need later), and even accidentally killing civilians with poorly-aimed explosives will only net you a minor reduction in the mission rating. Since XCOM represents the only hope of defeating the aliens and protecting humanity, the Council of Nations is not worried about a few hundred thousand dollars worth of damage when the flip side is the possible extinction of the species.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: The tutorial mission ends with only Delta 2 from Argentina surviving. Losing three-quarters of your initial squad in the tutorial sets the tone for the rest of the game: it will not be easy. People will die. You can avoid that if you skip the tutorial, although you'll miss the chance at some early loot and a starting Heavy. Unless, of course, you use that first tactical mission to utterly annihilate every X-Ray you see and come out with zero casualties and four promoted rookies instead of just one.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Some of your soldiers' order confirmations veer into pretty silly territory.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	comment	Major-ranked Heavies can No-Sell weak attacks, like those of Sectoids and Drones, if they're in cover and not flanked. Additionally, Colonel-ranked Assaults can No-Sell critical hits.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ac2094ca	comment	Unlike the original game, you'll (probably) get attached to your soldiers this time, and not just treat them as Red Shirts. Especially the Argentinian Heavy from the tutorial. Go ahead, see if you don't at the very least change their nicknames based on the game's events.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9	comment	Jack of All Stats: The Support class has pretty average stats all-around, as do the assault rifles they wield.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad0a2b45	type	Pure Energy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad0a2b45	comment	Considering all the peculiarities of the Outsiders (they're beings of Pure Energy with a biology completely unlike any other alien, likely have a different origin, and are crucial to entering the alien base), you would expect them to have an important role in the game's plot, but after the skeleton key has been built, it is never seen or mentioned again.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When things start to go against you in battles, your soldiers can freak out, panicking and losing their turn. The lower the soldier's Will score, the more likely they'll panic when another soldier dies or is mind-controlled, when they take a hit, or when a Muton calls them out with their Intimidate ability. When they panic, they can shoot a random target (with an Aim penalty and randomly chosen from your other troopers, visible aliens and civilians), run for cover, hunker down or just run in general. Aliens (and EXALT soldiers in Enemy Within) can be forcibly panicked by Psi-Panic, and will act much the same way as a panicking XCOM soldier. They will not do so normally, however, though they will temporarily retreat and/or call for help if you quickly kill enough of them. In a metagame sense, you'll be saying this a lot when you encounter a new alien unit and they unleash an ability you haven't seen before. Additionally, every time you see Chryssalids (early-mid game) and Sectopods (all the time, especially if there's more than one). You'll also be saying it an awful lot when you send a trooper into a room to take cover and clear up the fog of war when raiding a landed or crashed UFO... and then it turns out he's running into the middle of a group of Mutons. One of the most common reasons for this is on your orders for the last soldier who hasn't acted yet. Dash forward without caution, and you may encounter a group of Chryssalids or a Berserker, who use their "enemy spotted" action to get as close to your troops as possible... then it's their actual turn to act. MEC Flamethrowers in Enemy Within can make any organic enemy panic. That includes Chryssalids, Berserkers and Ethereals. What's better, the panic state that this induces makes melee and psi enemies completely unable to do anything but skedaddle in a random direction, presumably because they're freaking out too hard over being set ablaze.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: The News Ticker, moreso if things are going badly.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad8df7ab	type	Don't Celebrate Just Yet
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad8df7ab	comment	Don't Celebrate Just Yet: When the Alien Base is taken out, XCOM command staff start cheering, shaking hands and high-fiving. Even Bradford smugly says the aliens are finished. Dr. Vahlen is the only one not celebrating. She warns that her research indicates this isn't over yet. Boy, is she ever right. At this point the aliens start sending their heavy artillery like Muton Elites and Sectopods. And it's even worse in Enemy Within, as taking the Alien Base triggers the chaotic XCOM Base Defense mission less than a month later.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Narrowly averted at the end of the game. As the Temple Ship is destroyed, it begins to form a black hole of sorts that could swallow the entire Earth whole. Luckily, the Volunteer stays behind to bring the ship as far from the planet as possible before that can happen.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Unfortunately Averted. Given the desperate situation XCOM finds itself in, you'd think they'd let an injured soldier back into the fight if there's a shortage of manpower and they aren't going to collapse the moment they step out of the Skyranger. However, soldiers cannot be released from the sickbay early, even if they lost only 1 health the previous mission and only have a few hours of bedrest remaining. Painful especially when it means you have to do that Terror mission with Squaddies while your Colonels twiddle their thumbs. The only exception to this is the XCOM Base Defense mission in Enemy Within, where injured soldiers will be used with chunks missing from their HP.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	comment	In Enemy Within, the three survivors rescued in "Furies", the final mission of Operation Progeny, are nicknamed "Alecto", "Megaera" and "Tisiphone", three of the Greek Erinyes, also known as the Furies. Two of them are actually twins, for extra points, the Saudis. The others are a French woman and an American man.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: It's hinted that EXALT is the remnants of the 1960s XCOM, which means they've gone from fighting the invaders to collaborating with them in hopes of taking over the world in the wake of the invasion.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_af6e7d83	type	Static Role, Exchangeable Character
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_af6e7d83	comment	Static Role, Exchangeable Character: "The Volunteer". To trigger the endgame, the player must send one of their organization's psychic soldiers into the Gollop Chamber to contact the Etherial Hivemind. This soldier becomes known as "the Volunteer" for the rest of the game, leads the assault on the final alien base, and must survive said assault because in the final cutscene, they perform a Heroic Sacrifice to save the Earth and humanity.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_af7bca24	type	Always Close
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_af7bca24	comment	Always Close: When your soldiers arrive at a bomb disposal mission site, you've got 4 turns to either disarm the bomb or lengthen the countdown by disabling its energy sources. To get to the mission site, it's entirely possible that your soldiers just boarded a jet in Europe and flew to Australia.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_afb23994	type	Bad Luck Mitigation Mechanic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_afb23994	comment	Bad Luck Mitigation Mechanic: On normal or lower difficulties, the game applies a +10% hit chance for each missed shot by a soldier until they hit. The reverse is applied to alien shots, applying a -10% chance for a hit for each successful hit until they miss.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_affa0e5d	type	Bling-Bling-BANG!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_affa0e5d	comment	Bling-Bling-BANG!: As of Enemy Within, changing a soldier's armor tint also changes their weapon's color. This can be realistic, as a soldier gets a woodland-color gun to match his woodland camouflage, but dressing your soldier in hot pink with yellow highlights will result in an equally ridiculous weapon. Although depending on the tint, a bug can make the weapon's color revert to the standard tint while in a mission.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: said word for word by Ethereal Collective regarding Floaters.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b15f2cdb	type	Expospeak
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b15f2cdb	comment	Expospeak: During the final mission, Strike One faces every enemy type there is in increasing order of lethality while the Uber-Ethereal regales the Volunteer with some exposition on how each of them was subjugated by the Ethereals, and why they ended up considered failures in their eyes. It mostly just confirms what Vahlen and the player already deduced by themselves over the course of the campaign, but it's a nice touch anyway.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: The Ethereals say this in response to something coming. They are not repentant about it, however: they did what they had to do because they could.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b252f072	type	Megaton Punch
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b252f072	comment	Megaton Punch: MECs with the Kinetic Strike Module can punch enemies in an adjacent tile hard enough to catapult them into nearby obstacles, and if that obstacle happens to be a car, it'll explode instantly. Dealing 18 points of guaranteed, unavoidable damage when fully upgraded, this is one of the most powerful and reliable attacks in XCOM's arsenal, one that few enemies can survive, and the ones that do won't survive the rest of Strike One's attention.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Downplayed. Your squad members have infinite ammo supplies, but they have to regularly reload their primary weapons. Ammo is not tracked 'per shot', but in chunks dependent on the weaponnote by default, rifles and shotguns have 4 chunks, LMG's have 3, and MEC Trooper weapons have only 2 - and certain abilities (such as Suppression, Flush and Collateral Damage) use up more ammo than a normal attack. Played straight with pistols, that never need to be reloaded at all. Played straight visually when using "Suppression". Until the turn is over, the soldier/alien using it won't stop firing, even if they've fired more standard shots than the magazine/powercell can normally allow. This is especially obvious with the "Training Roulette" Second Wave option from Enemy Within, where Sniper Rifles and Shotguns can be used to suppress enemies.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b2d59eb2	type	Grenade Spam
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b2d59eb2	comment	Grenade Spam: Possible in Enemy Within thanks to the new abilities, items and inventory system. A properly-specced Support could potentially bring in 3 smoke grenades and two pairs of different grenade types. A Heavy can bring 2 rockets, a shredder rocket, and 2 pairs of any grenade.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b3b1115f	type	My Rules Are Not Your Rules
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b3b1115f	comment	My Rules Are Not Your Rules: Aliens (and EXALT soldiers in Enemy Within) don't panic in the same way as XCOM soldiers unless psychically induced (or set on fire with the MEC Trooper's Flamethrower in Enemy Within). While they tend to withdraw if the rest of their group gets wiped out quickly, they won't lose their next turn or fire a panicked shot at a random target. Robots are immune to psi-powers, so it's good tactics to send your S.H.I.V.s against psi-users. However, Ethereals can use their unique "Psionic Lance" and "Rift" psychic powers, which do increased damage the lower the target's Will is. Since robots have 0 Will, these psychic abilities can one-hit kill any of your S.H.I.V.s. Aliens get to move out-of-turn upon being discovered, usually to take cover. XCOM's Red Shirts don't get to do so. However, they will also move without attacking if they discover you on their turn, so your soldiers won't get instantly wiped out if they're surprised.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	However, EXALT's bio-augmentations are taken to a level even Vahlen refuses to go. It shows when EXALT's gene-modded Elite troops have a sickly greyish pallor to their skin (and Heavies have a dirty yellow sheen), while boosted XCOM soldiers at most emit a small burst of vapor or energy at times.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: Quite a few, on both the enemy side and your side: When outside of a building, Floaters can launch to any other point on the map. You might think you're being clever by trying to bait them into an overwatch trap, but it's possible they'll just launch past the entire trap and go behind your defensive lines, causing you to scramble to kill them or at least move into new cover before they flank you. Chryssalids don't need to climb pipes or ladders like some other ground units and are instead able to leap straight up tall buildings In a Single Bound. This means that civilians and soldiers perched atop rooftops may not be as safe as they think they are. In Enemy Unknown, your soldiers' options for bypasses are quite contextual until the late game, generally involving either going around a windowless portion of a building containing an ambush, climbing onto a roof and then dropping down on the other side, using the grapple feature of certain armors or expending some of your limited supply of explosives to clear a new path. In the late game, you can instead just use Archangel Armor and Hover S.H.I.V.s for truly bypassing terrain restrictions, doubly so with the Advanced Flight Foundry project that doubles the flight fuel for both and can potentially allow someone to remain in the air for the entire mission even if they fly around a lot. In Enemy Within, you have quite a few more options: you can leap up tall buildings with the early Muscle Fiber Density gene mod, you can have a MEC with the jetboot modules skill rocket onto otherwise inaccessible ledges (potentially available even before Skeleton Suits), you can have a MEC use a Kinetic Strike Module punch or a Collateral Damage shot to blast through walls, or you could use the Mimetic Skin gene mod available much earlier than Ghost Armor to set up ambushes and more easily avoid triggering pods of enemies. Perhaps the most literal dungeon bypass can be found in the Site Recon mission in Enemy Within. Normally you'd have to trudge past a hive spawning Chryssalids and take quite a few turns to walk up the stairs of the ship and get to the transponder. Flight is an obvious bypass, but not one you're likely to have by the time the mission shows up. However, both Muscle Fiber Density and armor with grappling capabilities (most likely Skeleton Suit) could be available to you if you see this mission in the early to mid game. With either of those, you can just leap or grapple up to the top deck of the ship from its entrance and be very close to the transponder. Chryssalids are mobile enough that it's not fool-proof (you'll still probably want other soldiers close by to thin their spawn numbers), but it can at least save you multiple turns getting to the transponder otherwise. Subverted with the Slingshot DLC, that allows you to capture a fully intact Battleship in the first month of gameplay, netting you crazy amounts of resources and technology, including the Fusion Core. The time needed to research it at that point, with a small science team and no bonuses, is extremely prohibitive; never mind that the two uses for researching them, the Fusion Lance and the Blaster Launcher, both need a huge amount of extra research to be put to use.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: A subtle one to The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. William Carter, the protagonist of the game, is available here as a Hero unit, but he's inferior compared to the other XCOM Heroes, and even your regular soldiers can eventually surpass him in everything but health. Pretty much mirrors the fans' reaction. EXALT troopers closely resemble Bureau operatives and have questionable AI.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Civilians during terror missions. They consider the best response to rapidly approaching, murderous aliens to be as follows: bend your knees a little, stick your arms out, and slightly twist your upper body back and forth, and they only have the common sense to move away from the aliens when they're ridiculously outnumbered. Fortunately, the proximity of XCOM units suddenly reminds them they're capable of running away at such speed as to escape the map in one movement. Civilian units during escort missions, thankfully, are player-controlled. The Berserker charges at the first enemy he sees. Thereafter, he charges at whomever hits him. Position your team in a crossfire and you can have a hilarious game of monkey-in-the-middle with the big dope until he drops. Heavy Floaters will sometimes drop their grenade right on top of themselves.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b5e5d9e9	type	Uniqueness Rule
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b5e5d9e9	comment	Uniqueness Rule: Rockets. Since the Heavy Class is carrying a light machine gun (the heaviest weapon in the game), he is already very burdened, so he can only carry one rocket, with no way to resupply during a battle. Well, technically, if he takes the right promotion perks, he can use two rockets and a special shredder rocket (which causes less damage but inflict a Damage-Increasing Debuff), still, with a maximum of three rockets, make them count. All active items work similarly. The medikit gets one use (three with a Field Medic Support), four when he gets Deep Pocket in Enemy Within), grenades can only be used once (twice with the Grenadier Perk from the Heavy, or the Deep Pocket support ability in Enemy Within), the Arc Thrower can only be used twice (thrice with the Support ability Deep Pockets), the support Smoke Grenade can only be used once, twice with the Smoke And Mirrors ability (thrice in Enemy Within). It had to be noted it applies only during missions, as the squad gets resupplied for free between missions. In the expansion XCOM: Enemy Within, there is a scripted event involving an alien attack on your base (if you lose this mission, it's Non-Standard Game Over for you). The means the Mind Control the aliens use on some of your techs to get them to sabotage your base defenses is stated to be a one-off.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b6ae5569	type	Transforming Mecha
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b6ae5569	comment	Transforming Mecha: The Cyberdiscs can transform between a nigh-invulnerable but unarmed disc form and a vulnerable but heavily-armed floating insect-bot form.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b6baad83	type	Hero Unit
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b6baad83	comment	Hero Unit: You can give one of your soldiers a specific name to turn them into a powerful XCOM Hero, though this will lock out achievements for that playthrough. All Heroes have 20 Health and 100 Aim and Will, unless stated otherwise below. Sid Meier "Godfather": A Psionic Support Colonel with 200 Will and all Psionic powers available to human units, even the "Rift". Ken Levine "Big Daddy": A Sniper Colonel with 200 Aim. Joe Kelly "Archangel": A Heavy Colonel. Otto Zander "Unbreakable": An Assault Colonel with 100 Health. Chris Kluwe "Loate": A PC only Sniper Colonel. *Was added alongside the Second Wave due to defeating XCOM:EU's lead producer, Garth DeAngelis, in a XCOM:EU multiplayer match. William Carter "Old Timer": An Assault Colonel added in Enemy Within with a fedora and only 80 Will. On non "Cheat code" side, are the special characters added in via the Operation Slingshot DLC, and Enemy Within, which while not as brokenly OP as the above, are still a cut above the regular recruit, and won't disable achievements. From Operation Slingshot, there's Shaojie "Chilong" Zhangnote Chilong means "Hornless Dragon" or could be a mispelling of the Three Kingdom's hero Zilong who supposedly carried an infant to safety through a battle, after successfully escorting him as part of his special Council mission back to XCOM. He always starts off as Lieutenant rank Heavy with 9 HP, 75 Aim and 70 Will. At Colonel he has 11 HP, 80 Aim, and either 88 or 106 Will (depending on if the player has the Officer Training School passive "Iron Will" unlocked or not)note By Comparison, a standard Heavy on Normal difficulty at Colonel rank, will only have 9 HP, 75 Aim, and random will scores. These factors make Zhang not only the best "regular" Heavy in the game under normal circumstances, but also a prime candidate to test him to see if he becomes a Psionic, or in Enemy Within, a MEC soldier. Annette Durand from Enemy Within's Operation Progeny missions will always start off as a Sergeant-rank of a randomly selected class. Her HP is the same as everyone, her Aim score however, is a bit poorer than every class but the Heavy or a MEC trooper of the same rank (and just barely). What she does have however, is a starting Will score of 80, with a maximum potential of 128 Will at Colonel, and is always guaranteed to successfully test for Psionic powers. Needless to say, she becomes a prime candidate to make use of the more difficult powers, like Mind Control. The Furies which can be rescued as part of Operation Progeny, are similar to Annette. Except they all start at Lieutenant with pre-set classesnote a Sniper, a Support, and an Assault, with the first two both having comparable stats to a regular soldier of their classes, the third with a slightly worse Aim stat than other Assaults, good will scores in the low 70's, and guaranteed Psionic gift.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: There's a couple examples. A captured EXALT soldier deprived of his Cyanide Syringe states that "XCOM is nothing but puppets..." He is, however, part of an organization that is trying to help the aliens conquer Earth because of the potential benefits of siding with them. Ironically, however, he's right about XCOM, since XCOM is unwittingly part of the Ethereals' uplifting agenda. A particular line by Dr. Shen upon seeing the "Alien Entertainment" module for the first time during the base assault is strikingly hypocritical, but in a hilarious way. Also doubles as a Take That! to the player.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b71c764e	type	Demonic Spiders
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b71c764e	comment	Chryssalids are right bastards, which makes the options of torturing them oh so satisfying. Launch a proximity mine on top of a Chryssalid pod that either wasn't activated (MEC Troopers can launch grenades and mines beyond their sight range, and unactivated pods won't react to a scout that they can't see because of height advantage or concealment from Ghost Armor/Mimetic Skin) or is moving as one (usually in downed UFOs since there are no juicy, squishy civilians to go after, so they have to settle for the juicy XCOM meatbags). It's effective on every singe situation where this scenario pops up, as 'lids never have more than 8 health on any difficulty and mines deal exactly 8 damage, so it's a guaranteed kill on every single one within the blast radius. It's guilt-free, too: since 'lids don't drop weapon fragments or Meld, you're 100% free to wreck their faces with explosives. Good way to give that low-rank inaccurate MEC Trooper some combat experience, too. The Flamethrower is the earliest hard counter to Chryssalids: MECs can pick it as the very first level, a basic one will bring them down to 2 HP, and Jellied Elerium or "Absolutely Critical" enabled equals instant death if it touches the buggers. The cone of fire can cover an entire pod of them, too. The basic flamethrower also has the fun factor of making them panic. A whole squad with Archangel Armor utterly negates them, since they can't attack airborne targets at all and will do nothing but skitter around. If you're lucky enough that the Site Recon mission pops up after you get said armor and Advanced Flight engineered in the Foundry, an otherwise terrifying mission becomes a massive turkey shoot that you can use to level up the New Meat. Exploiting "Instant Death" Radius is pretty fun too. Just put your heavily armored Assault with Close Combat Specialist or S.H.I.V. with Sentinel Drone within their movement range, and watch as the reaction fire shreds the shredders. If they get close to an offense-oriented MEC Colonel, a claw-kick won't do much besides provoke a monstrously combat-capable cyborg with poison immunity and far too much HP for them to one-shot, and trigger a reaction shot from Reactive Targeting Sensors at a range that even the most aim-deficient MEC won't miss.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Dr. Vahlen and every scientist in the labs. They are all equally versed in biology and physics, everything short of engineering (which is the domain of the engineers, who are themselves downplayed examples as they can work into anything that fits under the umbrella of "engineering"). Which is presumably why they were hired in the first place. Averted, just once, in a cutscene where Dr. Vahlen is trying to explain what the Outsider Crystal does. She's at a loss for words but then Dr. Shen steps in and says, "perhaps this is outside your field of expertise." (It is an antenna.)
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b806516f	type	Chest of Medals
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b806516f	comment	Chest of Medals: Downplayed, but you can still give your soldiers up to 5 medals in Enemy Within, and they actually give them useful bonuses. There's also an achievement for giving all 5 medals to the Volunteer.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b89ed08a	comment	Also from Enemy Within, instead of guaranteeing critical hits, Ghost Armor's cloak now only gives a 30% chance increase, while the cloaks from the invisibility grenade don't offer any crit bonuses. Mimetic Skin and Ghost Armor don't mix as well as it may seem at first either, as Mimetic Skin precludes using the Ghost function; thankfully, the grapple function, extra mobility and innate defense are intact.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b905e88c	type	People Jars
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b905e88c	comment	People Jars: Genetically modifying a soldier requires them to step into a huge jar of Meld for 3 days per added gene mod. They're just fine once emerging, however.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: Two story missions and one optional mission. The assault on the alien base, which will be XCOM's first encounter with advanced psionic abilities. Not that it slows the alien invasion much. The final mission is an assault on the Temple Ship, pitting XCOM against the masterminds in charge of the alien invasion. Succeeding here stops the invasion in its tracks. Once you finally narrow down the location of EXALT's HQ, you can choose to storm it to eliminate them as a threat.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be	type	Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp"
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be	comment	Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": The game uses a quite typical Class and Level System for your soldiers. While it does call classes "classes", the game being a gritty military type game, calls "levels" Ranks (as in, military ranks from Rookie to Colonel) and levelling up is called "earning a promotion".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_babc974	comment	There is zero doubt among humanity that aliens are invading, given that their actions are public and tend to result in quite a few civilian casualties, especially after the first Terror mission. However, XCOM itself is a secret organization which is never publicly acknowledged, referred or alluded to by any public figure. The reason for this is never specifically stated, but is likely a result of the Sadistic Choices that XCOM is forced to make: they cannot protect the entire world all at once, and therefore have to choose who to protect. A policy of "protecting who we can by decisions you're not privy to" does not engender public trust. This could also be an attempt to protect their HQ's location, resources, and strategic/tactical movements from overt discovery by the aliens (or any quislings hiding among the populace). This would be an especially prescient precaution given the psionic capabilities of the aliens.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bc103f8b	comment	EXALT's Elite Heavies have the "Iron Skin" gene mod, which reduces all incoming damage by 25%. Good thing they only have 10 health.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bc8271df	type	In a Single Bound
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bc8271df	comment	In a Single Bound: Thin Men are able to hop right up to the tops of buildings to gain instant height advantage and the Aim bonus that comes with it. Yet another reason they are so nasty despite being physically frail. Even worse, the Chryssalids can do it too. Thanks to the Bio-Augmentation system added in Enemy Within, your soldiers can be augmented to do the same. For bonus points, the gene mod that allows it, "Muscle Fiber Density", is unlocked after autopsying a Thin Man. With the "Jetboot Module" Lieutenant-rank skill, even MEC troopers can get in on the fun. It has a 1-turn cooldown after activation, however.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bcba5ab	type	Sniper Pistol
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bcba5ab	comment	Sniper Pistol: A curious zigzag. A Sniper with Squadsight that's put on Overwatch is able to take reaction shots with their pistol from Squadsight distance, much farther away than they can normally fire their sidearm. Thus far, nobody could tell if that's a glitch or not.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bcd27e37	comment	Early-game is typically the hardest part of the game. You've got no territory, little income, inexperienced soldiers, no technology and the aliens outnumber you. Later on, you have the option of getting goodies that even the aliens wish they had and soldiers with Improbable Aiming Skills who can mow down aliens like Rambo even with basic ballistic weapons and snipers who can pop the aliens' heads from across the map. Then psi powers enter the game, and the rules change... and again, once you have one or more psi troopers of your own. By the time you get the first Council request for plasma weaponry with a profit of over 1,000 credits, you're set for the rest of the game money-wise and will only have to grind some for alloys and Elerium to fuel Firestorm and plasma weaponry production and the later Foundry upgrades. Some veteran XCOM players call this the "snowball effect": at first, your chances of victory seem very low, as low as a snowball's chance in hell, but as you gain momentum from research, development and more advantages, the snowball quickly gets bigger as it rolls until you're overpowering your previously unstoppable enemies.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bcf69f60	type	Short-Range Shotgun
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bcf69f60	comment	Short-Range Shotgun: For emphasis, pistols will be more accurate than them at greater ranges for the base weapons. Later shotgun variants have better range to close the gap a bit. A tip will even mention using the pistol to make shots against far away enemies if equipped with a shotgun. Even more pronounced if Reaper Rounds are in use, as the range penalty is doubled.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5	type	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bd2812b5	comment	The Uber Ethereal mentions "Them" who promised his kind ascension, but ultimately failed to deliver.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bd6b6284	type	Early-Bird Boss
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bd6b6284	comment	Early-Bird Boss: The Slingshot Downloadable Content pits you against Mutons with full-sized Plasma Rifles rather than the Light variant, usually well before you'd expect to have the weapons or armor needed to have a good chance against them. They also pack a grenade each. It's saying something that the game tosses a Chryssalid at you on lower difficulties instead of one of these Mutons in the DLC's first mission. However, if you know they're coming and plan accordingly, you can net one of those Plasma Rifles to research and reverse-engineer and the Muton himself to interrogate and cut down on the plasma research time by a LOT. Continuing the trend, you can encounter a Cyberdisk in the final mission of the DLC. It's very likely your first encounter with an enemy that can fly and has more than 10 health, with weaponry on par with the previous Mutons.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	After taking out the first Alien Base, you get a number of "Alien Food" canisters in your "Grey Market" inventory. They have no research function and can be sold freely, but the description indicates the slurry within has DNA markers consistent with humans.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf298865	type	Alien Autopsy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf298865	comment	Alien Autopsy: An important part of figuring out each alien type's capabilities, as well as unlocking new Foundry projects and items for Engineering to manufacture. In Enemy Within, it also unlocks new genetic augmentations. The MEC Trooper's "Vital-Point Targeting" passive ability also does 2 extra damage to any alien that has been autopsied.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf609406	comment	A whole squad with Archangel Armor utterly negates them, since they can't attack airborne targets at all and will do nothing but skitter around. If you're lucky enough that the Site Recon mission pops up after you get said armor and Advanced Flight engineered in the Foundry, an otherwise terrifying mission becomes a massive turkey shoot that you can use to level up the New Meat.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: As you lose your veteran soldiers, you'll need to bring in rookies to replace them. The problem is that rookies are much less capable, so there's a vital need to train them up - and the only way to do that is to send them on missions. The lucky ones get to tag along with the vets on a mission, which means that it's entirely likely that the first alien they'll see will be a Muton or Chryssalid. But if you have a Code Black with your vets, you may end up sending an entire squad of rookies on a mission that will definitely get some of them killed. But at least the survivors will be tougher for the experience.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf7473fb	type	Executive Suite Fight
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_bf7473fb	comment	Executive Suite Fight: EXALT's headquarters is in a luxurious penthouse on a skyscraper, so naturally the raid plays out like this trope.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: Two variant mission types in Enemy Within: One of the EXALT mission types, Covert Data Recovery, involves protecting a transmitter that is feeding XCOM intel on their operations. You have to defend an encoder, which is hiding the location of the transmitter, and if the encoder is disabled by EXALT, you have to defend the transmitter itself; you do that in traditional King Of The Hill fashion, by staying within a certain distance of the encoder/transmitter to block EXALT from "capturing" the equipment (i.e. being the only ones within the perimeter for a certain number of turns). Once you've killed all the EXALT waves, the mission is successful; if EXALT hacks both the encoder and the transmitter, or the transmitter is destroyed by any cover-destroying damage, the mission fails. If you manage to protect the transmitter and the encoder, the mission reward is more generous. The other variant is Operations: Ashes and Temples, where you defend the Delta section of XCOM's headquarters against multiple waves of alien invaders some time after you destroy the alien base. There are four waves of enemies and you start with your three highest units on the soldier's list, with more coming as reinforcements, and there are also Base Defense troops (essentially slightly worse rookies that always have frag grenades) to assist your squad. Furthermore, the entire game is basically an example of "hold the line", as the player is required to fend off endless waves of alien assaults until they can find and assault the alien command ship. This is particularly true early on, as the player is in a desperate struggle to keep the panic rating of council nations low and handle the constant alien abduction missions until they are all under satellite coverage.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c121be7b	type	Cycle of Hurting
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c121be7b	comment	Using "Disabling Shot" on an alien in Overwatch has a chance to produce the exact opposite effect. They won't be disabled at all the next turn, and then get unlimited Overwatch shots, shooting at a target each tile it moves, which can often doom that soldier.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Once in the vanilla game, and again in Enemy Within: During the game's conclusion, there's a double instance: The Volunteer is trying to get the Temple Ship into an orbit that won't destroy the world (running the fireball away from the target), while the remaining XCOM soldiers rush back to the Skyranger to escape the soon-to-be-debris Temple Ship. In Enemy Within, during the "Site Recon" Council mission, an airstrike will be called in (for very good reasons). You then have a limited number of turns to get your squad to the evac point: if you don't, they will be blown up by the resulting detonation. The loss of an XCOM squad isn't much compared to the possibility of a Chryssalid apocalypse.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c1469acd	type	Glassy Prison
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c1469acd	comment	Glassy Prison: Constructing one of these is an early objective, and you are treated to a brief cutscene of the captive alien inside it whenever your team brings in a sample of a new species alive.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c185022a	type	"Instant Death" Radius
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c185022a	comment	Exploiting "Instant Death" Radius is pretty fun too. Just put your heavily armored Assault with Close Combat Specialist or S.H.I.V. with Sentinel Drone within their movement range, and watch as the reaction fire shreds the shredders. If they get close to an offense-oriented MEC Colonel, a claw-kick won't do much besides provoke a monstrously combat-capable cyborg with poison immunity and far too much HP for them to one-shot, and trigger a reaction shot from Reactive Targeting Sensors at a range that even the most aim-deficient MEC won't miss.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c1d58ab0	type	Drop Ship
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c1d58ab0	comment	Drop Ship: The Skyranger is a crude one. Though it doesn't seem to actually go into space, the speed at which it moves around Earth does suggests that it's using sub-orbital spaceflight. In its role, however, it fits the trope like a glove.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: The Super Heavy Infantry Vehicle. The S.C.O.P.E. item. The game never mentions what that stands for, and it looks just like a fancy scope. XCOM itself is never explained in-game; it stands for eXtraterrestrial COMbat unit. Mechanized Exoskeletal Cybersuit, in Enemy Within. In Enemy Within, there's EXALT, which, like the S.C.O.P.E., never has its meaning mentioned.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c281a30c	type	Surpassed the Teacher
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c281a30c	comment	Surpassed the Teacher: The entire invasion was really a training program intended to uplift humanity to the point where we could serve as part of the Ethereals' army. Unfortunately, like most other alien invaders, they underestimated just how tough humans are. Assuming you win.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c32201f6	type	Good Colors, Evil Colors
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c32201f6	comment	EXALT from Enemy Within: a pro-alien terrorist group that uses the same classes, equipment and abilities as XCOM and also reverse-engineers alien technology as the campaign goes onnote though for reasons unknown (probably resource limitations), they never progress beyond laser weaponry. They even have their own holo-globe, except red instead of blue like XCOM's version.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c33c51b2	type	Outside-the-Box Tactic
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c33c51b2	comment	Outside-the-Box Tactic: Overwatch and Suppression can virtually lock a unit into place, letting aliens scuttle about to flank the poor soldier... what's this, the soldier is grappling away without a single reaction shot? Yep, apparently, nobody is paid enough to shoot a target moving that fast. Multiplayer-only, a Chryssalid killing a Sectoid who's Mind Merged with a human will zombify that human after the backlash kills them, pretty much giving you another Chryssalid free.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c3585f4a	comment	Sniper rifles have an inherent 25% crit chance that goes up with tech level up to 35% with plasma snipers, and Headshot, that inherently grants +30% crit chance, is a Squaddie-level skill. In Enemy Within, Snipers got a nerf: using Squadsight can't crit unless using Headshot, which has a 2-turn cooldown.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c513249	type	Harder Than Hard
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c513249	comment	In a more meta example, explosives. Grenades and rockets are extremely powerful weapons that are available immediately, but destroy valuable alien equipment you could otherwise salvage; as a result, they are rarely used in Easy and Normal. On Classic or Impossible, explosives aren't just a good idea - they're pretty much mandatory.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c57b21f9	type	Global Currency
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c57b21f9	comment	Global Currency: XCOM, no matter where in the world it's located, uses Credits instead of the national currency of any of its founding nations. This is presumably to make it easier to quantify and streamline the calculations of funding, supplies and logistics if a single unified currency is used instead of being forced to calculate exchange rates. And it also probably saves a lot of zeros—if that fully-autonomous treaded combat robot costs "Â§50" to make, you can bet "Â§1" is a heck of a lot of dollars or euros.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c5a1fb94	type	Hologram Projection Imperfection
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c5a1fb94	comment	Hologram Projection Imperfection: The aliens use plenty of holographic interfaces for the computers on their ships and bases. This becomes more obvious when a character shoots through them, the holograms "shatter" and break apart, only to reform again after the air above them clears.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c6102eb0	comment	Even the highest ranking of your soldiers can qualify as Mauve Shirts. All it takes is a couple of well placed shots, a single Chryssalid or Muton Berserker, or an Ethereal mind controlling one of your finest soldiers into shooting their buddies and even your most trusted and powerful soldiers can die. Made worse on Ironman mode, wherein you can't reload your saves and those guys are gone for good.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c62aee4c	type	From Zero to Hero
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c62aee4c	comment	From Zero to Hero: Every soldier in the game is recruited as a level 1 newbie with no special qualities, but in the final act, one of them will become the Volunteer, the most powerful human psychic on the planet who sacrifices themselves to thwart the ongoing alien invasion.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c63e7d67	type	Invoked
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c63e7d67	comment	Can easily be invoked in Terror missions, where civilians are often placed such that you must decide between rescuing them and risk leaving a squad member exposed, or leave them at risk and keep your squad members safe.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	comment	Pretentious Latin Motto: "Vigilo, Confido" (possible translations include "I am watchful, I am relied upon". Enemy Within adds "Mutare Ad Custodiam" (Change to Guard) and "Bellator In Machina" (Warrior in the Machine) for the Genetics and Cybernetics branches respectively.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c72af5a8	comment	The MEC suits technically count as powered armor, as they are worn like regular armor by the cyborg MEC troopers. However, they're so big they move into Mini-Mecha territory.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The box art is an homage to Laser Squad, Julian Gollop's precursor to the original X-COM: UFO Defense. Calling the infiltrator units Thin Men seems like a reference to a covert operative known only as the Thin Man in the film Metropolis. Clothes and hairdo are fairly similar (though the Thin Man in Metropolis does not wear glasses). You could possibly argue that there is some physical resemblance beyond thinness too. To GuavaMoment's Let's Play of the X-COM series. One of the hero units is Otto Zander, the hero of the series. This can also carry certain unfortunate, unintended implications for people unfamiliar with the Let's Play, as Otto Zander was also the name of a prominent Nazi. (It should be noted that the name choice was intentional in said LP, considering the character development Otto underwent...) Also several Achievements: The achievement for building the base all the way to the deepest level available is called "Drums in the Deep". Successfully mind-controlling an Ethereal unlocks "Xavier". Winning a mission with an all female squad unlocks "Flight Of The Valkyries". Staffing the research department with 80 scientists nets you "Oppenheimer". Researching every possible research project gets you "Edison". Building your first SHIV gets "You Have 5 Seconds to Comply." Capturing an Outsider gets you "The Gatekeeper". Winning your first multiplayer match earns "Meet New People. Then Kill Them." This is a reference to an unofficial US Special Forces motto. "Skunkworks", for completing every Foundry Project, refers to Lockheed Martin's aircraft R&D department (officially the Advanced Development Programs), which produced such warplanes as the SR-71, F-22 and F-35. "By Our Powers Combined!" in Enemy Within is earned by fielding a squad of MEC Troopers from all 4 different base classes. Also from Enemy Within, you earn "Rise of the Machines" for fielding a squad of at least 4 made up entirely of S.H.I.V.s and MEC Troopers. "Ours are the Furies", the achievement for completing the final mission of Operation Progeny, is a reference to A Song of Ice and Fire, where House Baratheon has the motto "Ours is the fury". Yet another from Enemy Within, which is tied to a new mission type (Covert Operations, which are intended to disrupt EXALT cells and gather clues as to where EXALT's main base is): killing three EXALT troopers with the covert operative assigned to the mission gets you "Remington... Max Remington". A soldier mind-controlling an enemy might say: Bradford occasionally delivers several lines when you're in the Situation Room. Some of them are: Using the Arc Thrower to stun an alien results in soldier dialog. Some of the random bits that play are: The Chryssalid autopsy research project is codenamed Ridley. Very appropriate. One of the Cyberdisc's abilities is the Death Blossom. The EMP Cannon research project's codename is "Ion". Ion cannons in the Star Wars universe function similarly to real-world EMP devices. One helmet◊ in the Slingshot DLC is obviously inspired by Emile's skull-patterned visor◊. When one of your soldiers spots an alien squad, they might announce it by saying, "It looks like E.T. phoned home for backup." Another achievement called G'day when you kill an EXALT Elite Sniper with one of your own. One of the options you can select in Second Wave mode is the requisite that psionics can only be learned by interrogating psionic aliens. This option is called The Greater Good. One of the possible clues to the EXALT headquarters' location is that it's "Not in a country you can play in Civilization V", another Firaxis game. The Seeker autopsy research project is codenamed Lovecraft. There's also a Council mission with a highly Lovecraftian feel: All contact with a fishing village in Newfoundland is lost after a strange ship arrives, and your team is sent to investigate. They even bend the rules a little to make the comparison better as the mission features zombified townfolk, even though they should've turned into Chryssalids by the time you get there. Enemy Within introduces medals that you can award to your soldiers for buffs. One of them is named the Star of Terra by default. The trope Fastball Special isn't actually used, but soldiers occasionally say this word-for-word when throwing a grenade. The base defense mission in Enemy Within is code-named "Ashes and Temples", a reference to Thomas Macaulay's classic poem Horatius at the Bridge, an epic about Horatius Publius and his companions as they Hold the Line against assaulting enemies.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: News blurbs in low-panic countries can report how tourists are attracted to locations with reported UFO sightings. Eventually averted, they start caring more as the panic rises and the Terror Site missions become more frequent, with the same news blurbs mentioning how some countries' tourism industries evaporated overnight.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: It is stated in the report of the Ethereal autopsy that the science team used carbon dating to place the Ethereals at several thousand years of age. However, accurate carbon dating would be next to impossible without knowing the current and past concentration of carbon on the Ethereals' home-world, not to mention living organisms are intrinsically harder to date due to carbon going into them continually.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c96e8bb5	type	Rocket Punch
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c96e8bb5	comment	Rocket Punch: In Enemy Within, one possible upgrade to your MEC Troopers is a "Kinetic Strike Module" which is fancy-talk for a rocket fist that can punch Muton Berserkers so hard that if there's a vehicle less than a few tiles behind it, the car explodes on impact.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c9861848	type	Video Game Caring Potential
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c9861848	comment	Video Game Caring Potential: Unlike the original game, you'll (probably) get attached to your soldiers this time, and not just treat them as Red Shirts. Especially the Argentinian Heavy from the tutorial. Go ahead, see if you don't at the very least change their nicknames based on the game's events. There's even an achievement, called "Ain't No Cavalry Comin'", which you earn if you take a soldier through every single mission. It's not enough to merely have him/her survive from the very start until the end of the game, but he/she must take part in each and every mission you take on. If you play with the tutorial enabled, this soldier will inevitably be the aforementioned Argentinian Heavy because he's the only one to survive the tutorial mission, which does count towards the achievement. Name your soldiers personally if you really want to get attached. Go ahead, name one of the soldiers after someone you know and care about deeply and see how much care you take in not getting them blasted by an alien. This does lead to awkward explanations to your loved ones of how their name ended up on the memorial wall because of misplays, though.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c9981efb	type	The Engineer
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c9981efb	comment	The Engineer: Dr. Shen and everyone else in Engineering. There's also a military Combat Engineer, Sergeant Carlock, in a Council mission.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ca7f68c4	type	Power Fist
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ca7f68c4	comment	Better yet, in Enemy Within. Is that Berserker close to one of your MEC units? Does it have the "Kinetic Strike Module"? Punch it clear across the map. It gets even better if it's an EXALT agent. You can punch them into cars so hard the cars explode.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Played With. While XCOM's ballistic weaponry is more sophisticated than our own, it's still woefully outclassed by laser and plasma weaponry. Upgrading to better weapons is a must once you get past Thin Men and Floaters. On the other hand, the Alloy Cannon, essentially a shotgun that fires rounds made of alien alloys instead of more conventional materials, is better in close quarters than almost any other weapon.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ccbd82d3	type	Gotta Kill Them All
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ccbd82d3	comment	Gotta Kill Them All: Most individual missions are played this way â€“ to succeed, you have to kill or disable every alien in the zone. There are a couple of Escort Missions where you just have to get one character to the exit area (possibly with a couple of tasks on the way), and to win the final mission and the game, you just need to kill one particular alien (though it's hard to get to him without killing almost every other alien on his ship).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: Colonel is the highest rank a character can achieve, and since ranks work essentially as levels, any Colonel you have is automatically this. Colonel-level abilities are often game-changers in their own right, like the Sniper's "In The Zone", which lets you shoot your entire magazine's worth of ammo in one turn as long as every hit kills a flanked or cover-less alien.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cde4b34a	type	TechLevels
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cde4b34a	comment	Tech Levels: Ballistic Weapons < Laser Weapons < Plasma Weapons. Several class abilities refer to the weapon's tech level.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: On some missions, either because of a larger than usual map or placement of enemies, it can take you a while to actually find the aliens if you're advancing slowly. This only makes you more nervous as you continue to worry about stumbling into a horde of Mutons or a swarm of Thin Men. Or worse, when you've moved forward so quickly that you overextend and wind up with aliens behind you - but you aren't sure where they are, and you're standing in the middle of an alien base with Mutons and Chryssalids coming from god-knows-where. You have two options - split the party, or wander around hunting for the last enemies on the map. Or pull a six-way Back-to-Back Badasses Last Stand, because twenty turns in, the aliens have their fog of war removed so you don't wind up chasing the last alien all over the map. Bonus points if they all make it out alive.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ce104b8e	type	Serial Escalation
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ce104b8e	comment	Serial Escalation: Deftly done to keep the game challenging. When you field new technology that will level the playing field, the aliens start sending even more powerful troops. Got those Plasma Rifles at last? Here come the Sectopods...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: In the Tutorial mission, a scanner identifies a downed German helicopter as a NH90note which is an actual transport helicopter used by multiple nations, including Germany, while displaying a schematic of a UH-60 Blackhawk.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: In Enemy Within, you'll have to be careful with all those genetic and cybernetic modifications, as things can happen to your soldiers when you use the aliens' Meld technology to genetically and cybernetically enhance them... at least, in story. They're perfectly safe to use as much as you want in gameplay*This is justified by Dr. Vahlen's ethical restraints, such as they are. There are things she will not condone when it comes to experimenting on XCOM soldiers. The corruption is most evident in EXALT elite soldiers, who have no such restraints and have been "brought by degress" to wield the "sword" of the alien technology against their fellow humans.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf4294df	type	War Memorial
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf4294df	comment	War Memorial: In the Barracks you can go to a memorial to fallen soldiers, which will list all of the units that have fallen in gameplay (including the three killed off in the tutorial mission). Strangely, any base security personnel killed during the Base Defense mission are not listed on the wall. Apparently, they're not important enough, despite being willing to defend their base from heavily-armed aliens with the most basic body armor and weapons.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf496044	type	Smoke Out
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf496044	comment	The Support's Smoke Grenades, which can also be enhanced to double as a combat stim that buffs your troops, or just provide extra-thick concealment fog.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: One news report states "UFO enthusiasts around the world feel sense of vindication following appearance of aliens." New blurbs from countries at low panic will mention how reported alien sightings or people killing aliens are met with skepticism and accusations of drug usage, despite, you know, the whole alien invasion. This borders into ignorance if the country was panicking previously but has since calmed.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac	type	Take Your Time
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac	comment	Take Your Time: What's that? A gigantic ship huge enough to cause earthquakes where it pleases just appeared out of nowhere? It'll wait as long as you want for you to attack it. Which is exactly what it wants you to do since you'll be bringing your best Psionic Soldier on that attack. Averted for Enemy Within if you intend to enhance your soldiers genetically or cybernetically. Those Meld canisters self-destruct after a number of turns that depends on how far away they are from your insertion point - the closer, the sooner. Take too long to discover and salvage them and they're gone for good. There are other ways to procure the stuff, but they're both less profitable and much more dangerous, so you better get a move on with a cloaked scout or two.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	type	Escort Mission
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	One of the Escort Missions has a politician who (supposedly) is in collusion with the aliens as the escortee.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d1c375db	type	The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d1c375db	comment	The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort: It's a game mechanic here. Units that can't Take Cover!, like Sectopods and Berserkers, receive the "Hardened" ability and a huge base defense rating. This can allow them to stand out in the open and have a lower chance of being hit than enemies in cover twice the distance away.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d2cf1dce	type	Hyper-Awareness
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d2cf1dce	comment	Hyper-Awareness: The "Bioelectric Skin" genemod amplifies the soldier's latent electrical field so they can sense enemies close by, even if they have no line of sight. Useful for sensing if there's a group of enemies in the next room or finding cloaked Seekers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d3327df0	type	Defend Command
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d3327df0	comment	Defend Command: Any unit able to take cover can use Hunker Down to double the defense value of the cover and become immune to critical hitsnote with Ghost Armor and high cover, a soldier reduces the hit chance of any enemy on the same level as them to 1%. The downsides are that the unit loses sight radius beyond the cover and the action is made void if the cover is somehow destroyed or the user is flanked.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d397657d	comment	Chryssalids as compared to the original, though they're certainly still dangerous. They no longer instantly zombify your units *they have to kill that unit first via base melee damage, which can be reduced by your units wearing armor made from their chitin, and the zombies no longer need to be killed with fire to prevent a new Chryssalid from hatching (they can be killed within three turns with anything). Furthermore, Assaults can learn a special ability that gives them Reaction Fire against enemies that close in on them, useful against the melee-only Chryssalids. On a more fundamental level, Chryssalid's didn't cope well with the transition from the old "Action Unit" system to the new "one move, one attack per turn" action system. Since they're melee-only units, if they can't use their first movement to get within claws' reach of their target then they need to dash, using up their second action for the turn and resulting in them running up to stand snout-to-nose with an XCOM trooper... and then not attacking and subsequently being mown down by the entire XCOM squad at the start of the next human turn.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d40a8a0f	type	Suddenly Voiced
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d40a8a0f	comment	Suddenly Voiced: EXALT operatives normally have their radio chatter shielded by massive static and are otherwise completely silent - with no pain or death cries (unlike aliens), taunts, or other sounds... but if you hit them with a flamethrower, they completely lose their cool and start talking, usually saying how they're losing control of the situation or how they didn't sign up for this. Interestingly enough, some of them seem to have a slight Asian accent no matter what country EXALT is in.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d48605dc	type	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d48605dc	comment	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future: In full effect with XCOM's hardware, and most pronounced with lasers. The plasma weapons are decidedly not boxy, but rather rounded and (in some cases) cylindrical, but they're copied from the alien models rather than designed from the ground up. The Arc Thrower is essentially a cube sitting on top of a pistol grip. Also, going by the concept art and various in-game animations, they have a 'fold in' mode of sorts◊, so the boxy-ness is something of a design requirement. EXALT weapons avert this, as their engineers took their existing gun frames and stuck the laser parts on.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: The No Sense Of Units variety. A news blurb mentions how the worldwide death toll numbers in the "thousands." Not hundreds of thousands, not tens of thousands, but "thousands." That number would barely take a dent out of a decently-sized city, and seems impossibly low given the large-scale destruction we see during Terror! missions. On the other hand, it could be that the official news reports are deliberately under-reporting the number of casualties to prevent panic from rising.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Downplayed, but Vahlen and Shen make it clear that they disagree on how best to utilize Meld, preferring bio-augmentation and cybernetic enhancements, respectively. Lampshaded by Bradford: "Is there anything you agree on?" They hesitate, then announce that they agreed on the name*Ultimately, though they disagree on the best application of Meld, they agree that both avenues of research will have excellent potential.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d565da4	type	Starter Equipment
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d565da4	comment	Starter Equipment: XCOM starts the game with awful conventional earth weapons. While they are passable on easy and normal difficulties, they are hopelessly outclassed by the aliens on Classic and Impossible, routinely requiring multiple shots even to kill the lowly sectoids.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: In this case, it's all of XCOM that are the Elites. XCOM is the special unit that gets the critical missions, the best equipment, and ends up booting the aliens off the planet. In the meantime, the appearances of the regular Earth militaries are restricted to requests for gear to not get curb-stomped, flavor text stating how they're getting curb-stomped, and missions showcasing how they're getting curb-stomped. A Council mission involves rescuing an official from an alien ambush. When you reach him, he always comments on the quality of your equipmentnote "I've never seen gear like that before...", even if you're using basic equipment.This is accentuated during the defense of the XCOM HQ, where you have access to XCOM base security as well as a few of your standard operatives. The difference is stark, to say the least. The base security is little better than your standard rookie, and by this point in the game you're fighting things like Chryssalids, Mutons and Sectoid Commanders.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d60c5472	type	No Help Is Coming
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d60c5472	comment	No Help Is Coming: One achievement is called "Ain't No Cavalry Comin'". You get it for having at least one soldier participate in every single combat engagement against the aliens for the entire campaign. In other words, those who started the fight against the aliens have to finish it, without anyone relieving them.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d64c3cd4	type	Living MacGuffin
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d64c3cd4	comment	Over the course of the first Operation Progeny mission, there's several to the entire EXALT faction. Bradford notes that the ambushed French soldiers were killed with ballistic weaponry, they're after a very special "cargo," and you extract someone who is implied to be an EXALT operative, who gives cryptic hints to his organization's ideology and opinions on XCOM.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d68c925d	type	Creator Provincialism
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d68c925d	comment	Creator Provincialism: Zig-zagged. Most of the time, in regular abduction, UFO crash, Terror! and equally run-of-the-mill missions, the battlefield will always look distinctly American. For instance, fighting in urban London will take place among (right-handed, naturally) black-white police car wreckages with red-blue lights, yellow cabs and Ford station wagons, crash sites "near the German border" occasionally look like the New Mexico desert, and Tokyo will be crowded almost exclusively by white and black people. But scripted story missions, like the tutorial in Cologne and the rendezvous in Hong Kong are usually surprisingly faithful to their locations, often including unique buildings, cars, NPCs and even traffic signs. Though admittedly, they actually made Cologne prettier than it actually is: you won't find many cobblestone streets and baroque houses there anymore.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	In Enemy Within, failing the XCOM Base Defense mission causes a game over, for obvious reasons. In the same vein as the first mission, you get to restart it if it goes too south. Even on Ironman.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: The Sectoids.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d7a5fa23	type	Symbolically Broken Object
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d7a5fa23	comment	The raid on EXALT HQ in Enemy Within shows that EXALT has a Hologlobe of their own... the only difference being that it's red. When the mission is completed, this Hologlobe shorts and fizzles out, symbolizing the end of EXALT.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d7e7326c	type	Spare Body Parts
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d7e7326c	comment	Spare Body Parts: In Enemy Within, you can give your soldiers a second heart. This ensures that, rather than simply dying, they are always Critically Wounded the first time per mission their health drops to zero and extends their bleed out time, giving you a better chance to resuscitate them. As a bonus, they also don't gain the permanent Will penalty for having been Critically Wounded.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9	type	RedShirts
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d7f204e9	comment	Aliens get to move out-of-turn upon being discovered, usually to take cover. XCOM's Red Shirts don't get to do so. However, they will also move without attacking if they discover you on their turn, so your soldiers won't get instantly wiped out if they're surprised.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d9384864	type	Post-Defeat Explosion Chain
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d9384864	comment	Post-Defeat Explosion Chain: Sectopods explode four times when destroyed. With Enemy Within running, the last explosion deals considerable damage up to four tiles away.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Winning a mission with an all female squad unlocks "Flight Of The Valkyries".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	comment	Unobtainium: Elerium and the alien alloy. Neither of them can be found on Earth or artificially created (yet. Both Dr. Shen and Dr. Vahlen muse that, with a few years of concentrated research, they could make the stuff become widely available.), meaning your only source is from the cold dead hands of the aliens.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Lots and lots of them from every corner of the globe. Enemy Within introduces a unique female unit in Annette Durand.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The XCOM Project's headquartered in one. Instead of the classic top-down view flat base, this game uses a side-view multi-level base nicknamed the "Ant Farm". Unlike the original game, this is the player's only base; the developers noticed most XCOM players focused on a single base and built others solely to expand their radar range, which is done via launching satellites in this game. The aliens have one too, using it as a gathering points for specimens from all the Alien Abductions they have been doing. The Disc-One Final Dungeon consists of raiding this base.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Not a character, but a continent: South America's continent bonus is called "We Have Ways", allowing XCOM to perform Autopsies or Interrogations instantly. Pain is the universal language! Dr. Vahlen, who designed the interrogation system, an off-screen process which avoids the translation barrier by almost literally ripping the information out of their brains and/or implants. Officer Bradford admits that he is a bit creeped out by her methods. The end of the first mission in the Operation Progeny mini-campaign in Enemy Within has Bradford explicitly mention how Dr. Vahlen is also good at interrogating humans!
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: The Assault class is the only class that can dash/move twice and still shoot before the enemy has their turn, complete with numerous perks that significantly increase either their damage output or durability. They even get bonus hitpoints for wearing heavier armor, on top of having the best base health progression. MEC Troopers have guns that hit even harder than a Heavy's and have a massive health pool due to their suits, as well as a number of skills/upgrades that reduce damage. They are also pretty quick on their feet if they're equipped with a MEC suit built with the "Kinetic Strike Module" Tactical Subsystem, which bestows a +3 bonus to mobility. The "Advanced Servomotors" Foundry Project pushes this even further, giving them a passive +3 Mobilitynote with the "Not Created Equal" Second Wave option enabled, a 14-Mobility unit converted into a MEC Trooper that has both Advanced Servomotors and the Kinetic Strike Module can reach 20 mobility, same as a Chryssalid that is reflected by their movement animations: while by default MECs jog to their new positions, after the upgrade they switch to big loping steps that are noticeably faster.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dc5e5427	type	Renovating the Player Headquarters
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dc5e5427	comment	Renovating the Player Headquarters: The tunnels beneath X-Com HQ can be excavated and used to house facilities to assist you in your war against the aliens, such as labs to research alien tech, workshops to train engineers who keep your base running smoothly, or satellite uplink networks to increase the territory you can protect.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Funnily enough, the Council of Nations is this. In any other game, they'd be the antagonist, but here, they provide XCOM with the funding they need to keep things running, request special missions that provide the second highest decrease in panic levels (next to successful Terror missions), and only complain if you're failing at your job to repel the alien threat.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: Occurs to the populations of countries as the panic level maxes out. News reports state how many people give up hope for victory, and turn to religion, anarchy, or hunkering down in their homes. If the country then withdraws from the Council, they won't return from the brink. Additionally, the giant, red and black vortex of doom appearing over the affected country actually resembles an event horizon.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dde43ab	type	Tattooed Crook
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_dde43ab	comment	Elite EXALT operatives can be identified by their rolled-up sleeves, which also exposes their tattoos.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_de953d10	type	Rage Helm
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_de953d10	comment	Rage Helm: From the Slingshot Downloadable Content, the final helmet has a head-encompassing faceplate with a skull imprint◊, a la Emile and his distinctive helmet◊.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_de98d218	type	Poke in the Third Eye
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_de98d218	comment	Poke in the Third Eye: You can give a soldier the 'Neural Feedback' gene mod, that produces a mental rebound that damages any enemy attempting a psychic attack. The damage occurs even if the attack succeeds, so if a wounded alien mind-controls an agent with this trait, it might prove to be a rather short bout of control. If it doesn't kill the psionic, it'll put all of their psi-abilities on a forced cooldown. If one such soldier is targeted in any way by an Ethereal, the Ethereal is completely neutralized (aside from attack reflection) for at least one full turn.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	type	Artificial Brilliance
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	comment	Artificial Brilliance: The invaders' tactical sense is remarkably complex. They make very good use of the flanking mechanic - most of a player's introduction to flanking will be by having the technique used against them (on higher difficulties). They'll also throw grenades when they can't get a decent shot, will use Overwatch themselves if they know you're there, attempt tactical retreats, and most funny of all, accidentally use up their movement turns blundering into the middle of your units leaving them without cover and ripe for the slaughter. Basically they act like players, occasional missteps and allnote for example, be wary of attempting to suppress an alien when its allies are about: on higher difficulties, the suppressed unit's allies will attempt to counter-suppress you if they lack a clear shot, freeing the suppressed unit back up to take unfettered action; alternatively, if they have a clear shot, they will simply just blast the suppressor in the face. Sectoids deep in cover tend to Mind Merge those in front of them, and will stay hunkered down. They'll also scurry away behind their compatriots if they're not already there. Thin Men in particular are very intelligent, and will actively seek rooftops and proper sniping positions from which to support other aliens, particularly when supporting "heavy" troops like Mutons. They will also use their gas-spit attack to deny you the use of good sniper spots, but only if you are already in position. The invaders will also "panic" (not the in-game debuff kind) if you trounce a squad with overwhelming force. Removing all but one of the invader units in the same turn that you discover them frequently sends the survivor fleeing from your soldiers for their lives. Of course, this becomes less likely as the strength of the invader unit goes up, or if they lack the intelligence to do so (Berserkers and Chyrssalids). The civilians in Terror missions are miles better than the ones in the old games. They will run away from the aliens, up to and including diving through windows and shimmying up drainpipes to get away, at least after the first turn. Berserkers have the ability to break down some types of cover, causing damage to any XCOM soldiers near it in the process. Berserkers tend to specifically target XCOM soldiers behind breakable barriers when possible, in order to expose them to fire from the other aliens. Seekers cloak and specifically wait until they can hit an XCOM soldier who is isolated from the rest of the squad. They also often wait until you're fighting other enemies before striking. Aliens mind controlling troops will often have them run towards your own soldiers and then use explosives to damage their pawn along with their target. Either it forces you to kill the mind controlled soldier, or it weakens them for when the mind control wears off, a win-win scenario. EXALT troops use all of your favorite tactics: Grenades to destroy cover, smoke to protect their allies, splitting up and flanking, using rooftops to position their snipers... at least until they run wide in the open to reach an objective like the encoder in Data Retrieval missions. Alien behavior on terror missions fits their described characteristics / personalities. Enemies like Chryssalids or zombies are mindless and aggressive, and will gleefully attack anything they can get their claws on. Floaters are semi-intelligent but also in a constant state of berserker rage, and are just as likely to fire on civilians as they are XCOM operatives. Lastly, enemies like mutons and thin men are highly intelligent and disciplined, and will typically ignore civilians in favor of firing at your squad - they know who the far greater threat is. If your soldiers can No-Sell an enemy's ability, they won't even bother using it. For example, if the whole squad is completely immune to strangulation (having a Respirator Implant or Chitin Plating, toting Bioelectric Skin or wearing Titan/Archangel/Ghost Armor), Seekers won't even try to strangle them â€“ they'll fly behind the soldiers in a good flanking position, stay airborne up high, and shoot. Thin Men will save their poison for non-immune targets in their sight range (anyone carrying a Medikit or Respirator Implant, or wearing Titan/Archangel/Ghost Armor, is 100% poison-immune), and will just shoot the most exposed target.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df1793de	type	Updated Re-release
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df1793de	comment	Updated Re-release: Unlike the PC version, Enemy Within was released as the Commander Edition for the PS3 and Xbox 360, which includes the base game and all Downloadable Content. The PC version plays with it. While the game is still called Enemy Unknown in the Steam game library, Enemy Within adds a game launcher that lets the player choose between playing the original Enemy Unknown and the expansion.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Delta Squad. They all have names (all soldiers do) and get to speak, but 3/4ths of them get killed before the tutorial mission is over.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df858e81	type	Shoot the Medic First
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_df858e81	comment	Shoot the Medic First: Averted against aliens, as they don't focus on medics any more than other soldiers. Zig-zagged when you're facing EXALT. Their Medics all have Field Medic, so they can use Medikits three times each, and Elites have regenerative gene mods that affect them and any EXALT units nearby. They also have Covering Fire, so they'll shoot back at any XCOM targeting one of their buddies. On the other hand, they tote neither the firepower of Heavies or the aim-increasing-when-hit gene mods of Elite Operatives, and their aim is atrocious, so if they're not close enough to help their allies, they're better left for last. Drones are a mixed bag. In Enemy Unknown, it was possible to down a Sectopod in one turn by concentrating most or all of your team's fire on it, meaning their Drone allies are nothing but a minor nuisance on their turn. In Enemy Within, Sectopods are so tough because of Reinforced Armor that it's unlikely you'll be able to get rid of them in a single turn, and if you leave their Drone allies alive they can effectively erase any damage you dealt on their turn. As such, it makes a lot of sense to kill the Drones first, especially with AOE attacks like rockets, grenades, or proximity mines that can kill the Drone outright and possibly damage the Sectopod as well. In Terror Site missions, Drones will forgo their repairman roles to attack and kill civilians, which they're annoyingly effective at thanks to flight and innate defense. Shooting them is an absolute priority if you're going for the best ratings. If you have Drone Capture developed in the Foundry, in non-Terror missions it's not bad to save Drones for last so they can be hacked with the Arc Thrower. A hacked drone is permanently in XCOM's side until the mission ends, and can serve as a risk-free disposable scout or autonomous grenade; if you're running a S.H.I.V., they can repair it from a considerable distance. But the most crucial aspect of hacking Drones is in Enemy Within: they can also repair MECs, and from far away. A hacked Drone or two make a world of difference if one of your soldiers during Operation: Ashes and Temples is a MEC Trooper.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e0207930	type	Humans Are Special
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e0207930	comment	Humans Are Special: Turns out humans share the right combination of physical toughness and psionic potential, and the aliens want to make that specialness part of their empire.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: As with Colonel Badass, some of your troops will probably end up like this. Can lean into Drill Sergeant Nasty with the right voice option;
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e1b2070b	type	Chameleon Camouflage
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e1b2070b	comment	Chameleon Camouflage: Mimetic Skin works this way in Enemy Within. If no aliens see their starting point (and would see the pattern moving), the soldier basically gets ghost cloaking if they move to full cover. It does disable the stealth mode of both Ghost Armor and Ghost Grenades even if Mimetic Skin isn't active at the time.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e26c3c72	type	Mile-Long Ship
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e26c3c72	comment	Mile-Long Ship: The alien battleships are enormous â€“ during raids on crashed battleships, their upper decks alone take up the whole map. A cutscene in the Operation Slingshot DLC shows a battleship hovering over a city, dwarfing the skyscrapers. The Temple Ship is even bigger â€“ its emergence over the Atlantic Ocean causes worldwide earthquakes, and in the final mission, its self-destruct sequence threatens the entire planet.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e2e80e71	type	Ass-Kicking Pose
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e2e80e71	comment	Ass Kicking Pose: The aliens will usually strike one upon discovery. Especially the Thin Men, who make poses that would turn James Bond green with envy.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e32f26c9	type	PostMortemOneLiner
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e32f26c9	comment	Though not stated directly to the aliens, Assault class soldiers will issue one when you activate their "Run & Gun" skill. Made even more badass if accompanied by the Ghost Armor's invisibility and wrapped up with a provided Post-Mortem One-Liner:
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: Despite the ominous tones, the Council of Nations is a subversion. They're essentially a UN-expy of the world's leading countries who function more like The Alliance than anything else. Do poorly however, and your actions might splinter the Council apart as nations drop funding to fend for themselves.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e35bc0f7	type	Tragic Monster
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e35bc0f7	comment	Tragic Monster: In a way, all the aliens qualify. Each of the subservient species had their own civilizations until the Ethereals 'tested' these civilizations for psychic potential and mutated and/or enslaved the losers, which is currently all of them. When each race was finally deemed as "failures," they were then simply converted into proxy soldiers and outright cannon fodder for the Ethereals' future invasions. As for the Ethereals themselves, they (or at least their equivalent of Pope) view themselves as failures in the eyes of their deities, having failed to ascend to a higher plane of existence, and started this unholy crusade in a desperate attempt to find a psychically superior species to take over their empire for them (or possibly Grand Theft Me that race, but they still view their own species as the biggest failure of all).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0	type	Load-Bearing Boss
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0	comment	Load-Bearing Boss: Killing the Uber-Ethereal in the final mission causes the Temple Ship to begin self-destructing from the resulting release of psionic energy and the damage caused by the alien orb going out of control, necessitating the Volunteer's Heroic Sacrifice to prevent it from taking the Earth with it.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e5066b68	type	11th-Hour Superpower
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e5066b68	comment	11th-Hour Superpower: For the final mission, the Volunteer gets a powerful area of effect attack called "Rift". However, the Ethereals have the same power as well, although they rarely use it.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e545e190	type	Nerf
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e545e190	comment	Nerf: Blaster Launchers were downgraded from insanely powerful programmable guided missile launchers to merely flawlessly accurate and harder-hitting smart rocket launchers. The Blaster Launcher borders on a Cosmetic Award when compared to its predecessor, dealing out only a 50% increase in damage over the rocket launcher and the ability to shoot around corners (though the same limited view range) â€“ useful, but not a Game-Breaker in the slightest. You get it by downing and clearing a battleship, the hardest challenge in the game unless you complete the Gangplank mission of the Slingshot DLC. Chryssalids as compared to the original, though they're certainly still dangerous. They no longer instantly zombify your units *they have to kill that unit first via base melee damage, which can be reduced by your units wearing armor made from their chitin, and the zombies no longer need to be killed with fire to prevent a new Chryssalid from hatching (they can be killed within three turns with anything). Furthermore, Assaults can learn a special ability that gives them Reaction Fire against enemies that close in on them, useful against the melee-only Chryssalids. On a more fundamental level, Chryssalid's didn't cope well with the transition from the old "Action Unit" system to the new "one move, one attack per turn" action system. Since they're melee-only units, if they can't use their first movement to get within claws' reach of their target then they need to dash, using up their second action for the turn and resulting in them running up to stand snout-to-nose with an XCOM trooper... and then not attacking and subsequently being mown down by the entire XCOM squad at the start of the next human turn. Enemy Within nerfs the near-game-breaking power of "Squad Sight", while actually buffing several skills that proved to be rarely chosen, like "Covering Fire" (reaction shot triggers before the enemy fires), "Close and Personal" (free standard shot if within 3 tiles of an enemy) and "Snap Shot" (only -10 Aim penalty when firing after moving). Also from Enemy Within, instead of guaranteeing critical hits, Ghost Armor's cloak now only gives a 30% chance increase, while the cloaks from the invisibility grenade don't offer any crit bonuses. Mimetic Skin and Ghost Armor don't mix as well as it may seem at first either, as Mimetic Skin precludes using the Ghost function; thankfully, the grapple function, extra mobility and innate defense are intact. Additionally, Heavies' "HEAT Ammo" ability only gives a 50% damage bonus against robotic units, compared to the 100% from the original. Science got nerfed too; it takes a lot longer to research beam weapons and carapace armor, for one, so you are encouraged to capture more aliens alive and cut down on the research time for those. You are similarly encouraged to try to get more scientists and/or build laboratories, where in Enemy Unknown you could safely focus on getting engineers and nothing else.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e75572f	type	Hack Your Enemy
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e75572f	comment	Hack Your Enemy: Drones can be hacked with the Arc Thrower once the "Drone Capture" Foundry Project is completed. It's a permanent side change, too, unlike the 3-turn limited Mind Control. Hacked Drones can repair S.H.I.V.s and MEC Troopers.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e76151c3	type	Battleship Raid
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e76151c3	comment	Battleship Raid: Whenever you attack a downed Battleship-class UFO. They're so large that there is nothing else on the Battlescape; the Skyranger lands on the Battleship itself. The Slingshot Downloadable Content adds a raid on a disoriented Battleship still in flight.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The Council is almost impossible to upset. The chairman only expresses concern when several council members withdraw and even if you mess up a few times over the month he's still confident that you'll improve. But when you lose 8 council members he'll call you up and tell you that the XCOM project was a stupid idea to begin with that would never succeed. It turns out he's being mind controlled when he says that, and there's nothing you can do to stop him from shutting down XCOM.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Dr. Vahlen (Id), Dr. Shen (Superego) and Officer Bradford (Ego).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ea480f92	type	Simple, yet Awesome
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ea480f92	comment	Simple, yet Awesome: The Alloy Cannon and Carapace Armor, despite being cutting edge technology, are ultimately just a shotgun and a suit of body armor respectively. When these relatively mundane human concepts are suddenly upgraded with nigh-invincible alien materials, however...
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Snipers dramatically reload their ballistic bolt-action rifles after each cinematic shot, complete with a casing flying through the air in slow motion. One-Handed Shotgun Pump: Assault-class soldiers do this after each cinematic shot... even if it's a laser shotgun. You gotta wonder if they added the pump to the Scatter Laser just for that (no other laser weapon has one).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ea92aeb0	type	Concealment Equals Cover
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ea92aeb0	comment	Concealment Equals Cover: Zig-Zagged. Seemingly played straight, as all forms of cover only provide a Defense bonus (which reduces the chance of being hit) rather than reducing or stopping damage entirely, and can be shot through by any kind of weapon when the target using it is hit, essentially meaning all cover in the game is really being valued by their ability to provide concealment against shots. This means large garbage cans provide better cover than a low stone wall, and a bar tap or cash register is the difference between half- and full-cover. Averted by how nearly all cover can be destroyed by explosives or taking a direct hit by laser/plasma weapons, which makes it very clear the only purpose of the cover in the game is to provide concealment against enemy shooters. Played straight for conventional ballistic weapons when they shoot and don't hit their targets as the shots go into cover like the aforementioned large garbage cans, as bullets would logically tear through such materials. Mostly kept the same in Enemy Within, though weapons can destroy cover even if the shot hits the target (previously, cover would be left completely unharmed if the shot hit the target) and heavier ballistic weapons, like LMGs and Sniper Rifles, can now destroy certain types of cover much like laser and plasma weaponry.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: The Brave New World expansion for Civilization V allows you to recruit XCOM Squads, end-game airborne infantrynote they can be dropped within 40 hexes using the Skyranger; for comparison, the regular paratroopers can only be dropped within 9 hexes that can take on even the Giant Death Robot, the strongest unit in that game. Each squad member wears Titan Armornote oddly, dropping them from a Skyranger has them using jetpacks like those on Archangel Armor to slow their descent, which aren't modeled on the in-game unit and packs a Heavy Plasma.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ebad3aad	type	Jet Pack
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ebad3aad	comment	Jetpack: Built into the Archangel Armor, allowing your soldiers to take to the skies. Floaters look like they're wearing them, but it's actually built into their bodies. MEC suits can be retrofitted with jet boots.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ec9d3eb7	type	Explosive Stupidity
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ec9d3eb7	comment	For whatever reason, aliens always skip their turn when under suppression or seeing soldiers on Overwatch, at least if they don't have an easy shot. This happens even if they're being flanked at the moment (and the possible death from reaction fire is preferable to the certain death next turn), or if they're hiding behind a car THAT IS ON FIRE. Fixed as of Enemy Within, for the most part.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ed61457c	type	The Illuminati
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ed61457c	comment	The Illuminati: Averted with XCOM. Despite being ruled by an The Omniscient Council of Vagueness, they are not an example of this. In Enemy Within, Played Straight by EXALT. They're a secret society of paramilitary operatives working in the shadows and masquerading as ordinary citizens. Each one of them is fanatically loyal to the cause and won't stop at anything to take the aliens' gifts and Take Over the World. The organization is also shown to be very old and very wealthy, their base having a lot of fancy decorations and priceless art. Their insignia even has the stereotypical Illuminati "eye"!
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_edae412c	type	Fighter, Mage, Thief
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_edae412c	comment	Fighter, Mage, Thief: The three Super Soldiers you can get each correspond to an archetype. MEC Troopers are the Fighter. They are big, bulky, and cannot take cover. Instead, they become the cover for your teammates, and they're equipped with the heaviest weapons possible, from BFG to Power Fist, allowing them to charge straight into the battle, match Berserkers and Sectopods in brute strength, and pound them to submission. Gene Mod Soldiers are the Thief. They get options that enhance their ability to work independently of the team, sneak behind enemy lines and deliver critical damage to the enemy before they even know what hit them. Psionic Soldiers are the Mage. They bring otherworldly arcane power to the battlefield, which can truly disrupt the enemies. They lack increased durability or survivability, unlike MEC and Gene Mods, but with powers such as Mind Control or Rift, they won't need that extra survivability.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ef43c232	type	Downloadable Content
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ef43c232	comment	Completing the Slingshot Downloadable Content nets you an intact alien battleship possibly less than two months into the game, which yields a tremendous amount of alloys and Elerium, plus an earlier route to endgame weapons. Chances are, you'll have to try extra hard to even come close to running out of resources again. On the other hand, you'll be facing said Battleship's guards, albeit toned down. Fighting Mutons and Chryssalids with only Ballistic or Laser weapons, Kevlar or Alloy armor, and a small team of somewhat inexperienced troops can make it all into a sequence of Brutal Bonus Levels, even on easier difficulties, though still worth the huge payout. However, the real prize besides the Fusion cores is not the Elerium and Alloys... it's the corpses and interrogations. If you stun the Muton and capture him, then destroy the Drone, Cyberdisk, and Chryssalid without blowing them up, you can shave literally months off of the research and Foundry trees.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_eff26b2b	type	Take Cover!
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_eff26b2b	comment	Take Cover!: The biggest gameplay change over the original (aside from the removal of Time Units) is this. Your troops will hunker down next to various objects when possible and this is absolutely vital to not getting your soldiers' heads blown off. Technically, you could take cover in the original X-COM too, but only through micro-managing your troops' time units to duck out from behind walls before ducking back in; here, it's all automatic. Cover can also be destroyed by explosives and a few MEC abilities.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f12c6fb1	comment	Surprisingly Sudden Death: Always a possibility, depending on your soldiers' health. Aliens can pop out from rooftops and kill soldiers in one shot, Berserkers can smash through walls to kill someone, even if you can't see them, and Sectopods can launch rocket barrages that can annihilate your squad from well beyond visual range.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f32d85ab	type	20 Minutes into the Future
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f32d85ab	comment	20 Minutes into the Future: The game is set in 2015, but the world is almost exactly the same as it was on the game's release date in terms of technology and geopolitics, with a few exceptions. For example, military technology is slightly more advanced, Scotland seems to be an independent country, and gas costs around nine or ten dollars a gallon (though the last may be due to the alien invasion rather than an ongoing energy crisis).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9	type	Arbitrary Headcount Limit
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9	comment	Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Your squad is limited to 4 members, which can be expanded to 6 with some upgrades, even though you can clearly see your skyranger has room for more. You can also have only one squad answering alerts at once, even if you have enough soldiers to field additional squads. It seems XCOM can't afford a second Skyranger.note The developers have specifically stated that they limited the squad size so drastically to greatly enhance the significance of the actions the player takes. Whereas the original XCOM had 14 (later 26) possible soldiers on a mission, each with their own set of options, the new game limits you to 4 (later 6) distinct units, each with only two actions per round. Additionally, it makes the loss of a single squad member much more catastrophic. In addition, XCOM can only have a maximum of 99 soldiers recruited, though that's almost a non-issuenote With each soldier having a cost of 10 credits, you would have to spend almost 1000 credits to hit the soldier limit. That's equivalent to a full month of funding in the late-game. Enemy Within ups the ante by including an achievement for finishing the game without EVER increasing the squad limit. It also decreases the max number of recruitable soldiers to 75. The limit is upped to 7 members in Enemy Within, but only during Covert Ops missions where you can send a full squad to extract the single unit infiltrating EXALT. Furthermore, your operative on the Covert Operation has only a pistol and no armor, making them more of a liability than an asset, especially since you fail the mission if they die. Upped in the XCOM Base Defense mission. In addition to 4 to 6 of your best soldiers (depending on your squad size limit), you get around 6 base security personnel, essentially Rookies with conventional weapons and Frag Grenades. Your squad can also be reinforced at three points in the mission if your headcount of soldiers + security is lower than 8.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f402340	type	Walkie-Talkie Static
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f402340	comment	Walkie-Talkie Static: "EXALT Activity!" plays this sound when it's EXALT's turn during a covert op, and they also seem to make this noise to each other when communicating. It's completely undecipherable. If an XCOM soldier under Mind Control calls out, they'll make the exact same noise.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f4a0408f	type	Wake-Up Call Boss
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f4a0408f	comment	Wake-Up Call Boss: The Chryssalids, especially on harder difficulties as losing the first Terror mission will squad wipe, automatically cause the targeted country to withdraw, and probably put nearby countries into full panic as well. Regular Mutons and Heavy Floaters are not-so-subtle nudges that it's time to upgrade to Laser and Plasma weaponry respectively if you haven't already. On Impossible difficulty, Thin Men. They appear before the first month is over, have 6 HP each (double what they have on Easy/Normal) and can do up to 6 damage on a non-critical hit. Given that most of your soldiers won't even have 6 HP at this point, nearly any successful shot from a Thin Man will result in a One-Hit Kill. They also often attack in groups and have very high aim, not to mention also being able to poison you. They are still threats on lower difficulties, but not to the same extent. The first EXALT covert mission in Enemy Within can be a jolt to players used to fighting only aliens, particularly if an EXALT heavy manages to kill two or three of your troopers will a well-placed rocket on the second turn.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f4fd424c	comment	In the expansion XCOM: Enemy Within, there is a scripted event involving an alien attack on your base (if you lose this mission, it's Non-Standard Game Over for you). The means the Mind Control the aliens use on some of your techs to get them to sabotage your base defenses is stated to be a one-off.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f55a1990	type	Disc-One Final Dungeon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f55a1990	comment	The assault on the alien base, which will be XCOM's first encounter with advanced psionic abilities. Not that it slows the alien invasion much.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: The point of the game. Mostly an all-out attack, with some infiltration by Thin Men and psionic aliens. Though it turns out the aliens are holding back in an attempt to test humanity rather than wipe it out.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	You can avoid that if you skip the tutorial, although you'll miss the chance at some early loot and a starting Heavy. Unless, of course, you use that first tactical mission to utterly annihilate every X-Ray you see and come out with zero casualties and four promoted rookies instead of just one.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f821e963	type	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f821e963	comment	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: The Temple Ship, which shows up floating ominously over the Atlantic Ocean after you recover the Ethereal Device.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	Video Game Cruelty Potential: The medal system of Enemy Within encourages this. A limited number of medals can awarded at any given time, they provide stat bonuses to units and thus are desired to have on your best teammates. Early on your need to assign them to your team to have any hope to survive the early game; however, it's possible for your original soldiers to fail to become psychics, and game mechanics mean newer teammates will often have better Will, used by psychics and to defend against it, than your original soldiers. Thus at some point you'll likely want to retire your original batch of soldiers for newer psychic powerhouses. This is when you discover you can't reassign medals from the old ones to the new. You could sacrifice useful medals by leaving them on unused soldiers, or you could remember that medals can be reassigned after death and 'retire' the old medal winner by arranging for an unfortunate accident during a mission. Have four Heavies? Four civilians next to a truck you wanna use for cover? Now, sending in anyone to rescue them? Nah. Sending a rocket to blow it to hell along with the four civilians? Yes! Earning an Excellent rating? Check. Technically, you only need to save one civilian for the Terror Mission to be considered successful, provided you wipe out the aliens. So once you tagged that one cowering civvie, you can just go to town blowing everything up. Hell, you can shoot the civilians too if you want. Rookies cost about Â§10 (Easy/Normal) - Â§15 (Classic/Impossible) each, which is pretty cheap (except very early on in the game). If one pisses you off by repeatedly missing the alien they're standing next to, the options always exist of making them go check out the scary noise in the building on their own, or drawing fire, or just plain being used as bait. Is there one little Sectoid left on the map? Have an Assault with Ghost Armor and an Alloy Cannon? It WILL bring a smile to your face when you decorate the wall/tree/car/bulkhead that Sectoid is hiding behind with its innards. Is there a single Muton Berserker left on the map? Can one of your soldiers use Mind Control? Now take the Berserker, move it to an open area with no cover, then have your squad line up in firing range, turn on Overwatch, and wait for the Mind Control to wear off. Cue More Dakka. Better yet, in Enemy Within. Is that Berserker close to one of your MEC units? Does it have the "Kinetic Strike Module"? Punch it clear across the map. It gets even better if it's an EXALT agent. You can punch them into cars so hard the cars explode. Mind Controlled a Muton, Elite Muton or Heavy Floater? Does he have buddies around? Why not have him stroll over to his friends and then casually drop his own grenade at his feet? In Enemy Within, MECs can be particularly effective anti-robotics troops. Killing a Cyberdisc with a Kinetic Strike Module will send its explosive corpse flying like a flipped coin, allowing it to be used like a grenade against other enemies or even its own Drone allies. Similarly, a MEC can launch a proximity mine near one or more Drones so that they'll instantly get killed the moment they try to move to heal one of their allies. Chryssalids are right bastards, which makes the options of torturing them oh so satisfying. Launch a proximity mine on top of a Chryssalid pod that either wasn't activated (MEC Troopers can launch grenades and mines beyond their sight range, and unactivated pods won't react to a scout that they can't see because of height advantage or concealment from Ghost Armor/Mimetic Skin) or is moving as one (usually in downed UFOs since there are no juicy, squishy civilians to go after, so they have to settle for the juicy XCOM meatbags). It's effective on every singe situation where this scenario pops up, as 'lids never have more than 8 health on any difficulty and mines deal exactly 8 damage, so it's a guaranteed kill on every single one within the blast radius. It's guilt-free, too: since 'lids don't drop weapon fragments or Meld, you're 100% free to wreck their faces with explosives. Good way to give that low-rank inaccurate MEC Trooper some combat experience, too. The Flamethrower is the earliest hard counter to Chryssalids: MECs can pick it as the very first level, a basic one will bring them down to 2 HP, and Jellied Elerium or "Absolutely Critical" enabled equals instant death if it touches the buggers. The cone of fire can cover an entire pod of them, too. The basic flamethrower also has the fun factor of making them panic. A whole squad with Archangel Armor utterly negates them, since they can't attack airborne targets at all and will do nothing but skitter around. If you're lucky enough that the Site Recon mission pops up after you get said armor and Advanced Flight engineered in the Foundry, an otherwise terrifying mission becomes a massive turkey shoot that you can use to level up the New Meat. Exploiting "Instant Death" Radius is pretty fun too. Just put your heavily armored Assault with Close Combat Specialist or S.H.I.V. with Sentinel Drone within their movement range, and watch as the reaction fire shreds the shredders. If they get close to an offense-oriented MEC Colonel, a claw-kick won't do much besides provoke a monstrously combat-capable cyborg with poison immunity and far too much HP for them to one-shot, and trigger a reaction shot from Reactive Targeting Sensors at a range that even the most aim-deficient MEC won't miss.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f95027af	type	Spy Satellites
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f95027af	comment	Spy Satellites: Used to search for UFOs outside of your main base's radar coverage. Keeping satellite coverage heavy is important to keep the various nations from withdrawing from the Council (and more importantly, funding you, as only countries with satellite coverage will give you monthly donations) and the aliens visible and chaseable. If you don't diligently shoot down UFOs with your interceptors, your satellites can be shot down, necessitating an expensive and time-consuming replacement. Fortunately, you can also research stealth enhancements for your satellites at the Foundry, making them harder for the aliens to find. Satellite coverage has another, less-advertised result: if a country has coverage at the start of a month, it will no longer be possible for the aliens to start abductions in that country. Thus, in addition to giving you the continent-specific bonus, locking down a continent with complete coverage will stop its panic level from rising (assuming you don't fail any Interceptions, Raids or Terror Missions).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f97ab6a5	type	Suicidal Overconfidence
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_f97ab6a5	comment	Suicidal Overconfidence: Zig Zagged. Most aliens avert this; they'll sound the retreat, fall back to better cover and call for help if they feel they're outnumbered and/or outgunned. Chryssalids and Muton Berserkers play this straight; these two will (usually) charge ahead instead (note that they can move, but not attack in your turn), allowing you to shoot them point blank in the face. In the case of the Berserkers, there's a good chance an Assault can shoot one 3 times in one turn with the right abilities and when in the right position. Even Chrysallids will panic if flamethrowered, though for only one turn.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fa686f29	type	Weird Moon
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fa686f29	comment	Weird Moon: Each return trip from a mission shows your Skyranger flying toward a full moon on a clear night, no matter what the date or Mission Control time actually is. To top it off, it's an unskippable in-engine animation so you will be seeing it quite often. Additionally, most maps take place either at night or at day. Most maps don't switch between the two time periods, so it is very likely that your soldiers will arrive to the mission at noon only for it to be as dark as midnight. Also inverted by the times you deploy on a map where the sun shines bright even if it's 3 AM.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fa7d3dfe	type	Number Two
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fa7d3dfe	comment	The Firestorm, which can take on Battleships one-on-one and win. Dr. Shen, even with all the other cool gear he's built, says the Firestorms make him the most proud. Your Number Two also comments that humans have just leveled the playing field when he first sees it.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fa9e71b5	type	We Buy Anything
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fa9e71b5	comment	We Buy Anything: The good ol' Gray Market is the secret auction house for XCOM's funding nations. If you don't think you're going to be using that pile of already autopsied corpses and wrecks you don't use in crafting items or Foundry projectslistSectoid Commander and Muton Elite corpses and Mechtoid cores you may as well sell them for moneynote try to keep around 8 on stock whenever possible, though, as sometimes the Council requests a bountiful of bodies for a very nice price. In the early game, this will probably be your primary means of income.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fb9afaab	type	Attack Drone
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fb9afaab	comment	You get the option for this with with the Scatter Laser, Heavy Lasers and SHIVs and Interceptors/Firestorms equipped with Laser Cannons. The aircraft version of the Laser Cannon has as its trump card the ability to hit harder than Avalanche missiles at a very high fire rate, essential for tougher UFOs that can shake off an engagement faster.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: Standard missions in XCOM have randomly generated names made up of two words, such as "Operation: Fallen Tears". While most of the time these make no sense, some of them such as the previous one actually do. Although it's fairly uncommon to see, valid combinations could yield a name like "Operation: Vengeful Vengeance".
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fc225bec	comment	Rockets are particularly bad about this, because even though they allegedly only have a 10% miss rate, when they do miss they can miss spectacularly, potentially hitting friendly soldiers or not even hitting one enemy despite a huge blast radius. It can be less about veering and more about firing in completely different direction, possibly hitting walls that should be completely blocked off by other walls.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fcb733b1	type	Disadvantageous Disintegration
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fcb733b1	comment	Disadvantageous Disintegration: Using explosives to kill aliens with weapons prevents you from salvaging anything other than their corpses after the mission, denying you weapon fragments that you could use in research projects or the foundry. Even worse, Heavy Floaters and Mechtoids in Enemy Within drop 5 Meld (that's half a lootable canister) apiece when killed by normal means, but if you blow them up, that Meld is lost.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fd0fdc9	type	Video Game Randomizer
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fd0fdc9	comment	Video Game Randomizer: The free "Second Wave" DLC gives the option to randomize several elements that are static in the base game, such as weapon damage values, funding levels provided by Council nations, and soldier statistics. The Training Roulette option randomizes most class abilities, allowing for combinations not possible in the base game.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fd2086a9	type	You Require More Vespene Gas
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fd2086a9	comment	You Require More Vespene Gas: You've got four basic resource types in this game: Money, the Gold equivalent. It's used for pretty much everything. You get awarded by the Council on a monthly basis based on which nations have satellite coverage, as well as for some Abduction missions, Council missions and requests. You can also sell scavenged alien materials on the Grey Market if you're strapped for cash. Alien Alloys, Weapon Fragments, Elerium and various specialty items like UFO computers, power sources, and occasionally dead bodies, the Lumber equivalents. These are all used for the research and manufacture of advanced tech, but you can only get them by scavenging after missions. Enemy Within adds "Meld", which can be collected during missions and is used for Genetic Mods and MEC Troopers. Meld is collected from canisters that degrade over time, so they need to be collected quickly lest they expire. Killing Mechtoids and Heavy Floaters also provides a small amount of Meld. Power is actually the Population equivalent, despite its name. All the facilities in your base need power to run, which is provided by constructable Generators. You can't build a facility if it requires more power than is available, but there is no other penalty to having insufficient Power, making it more of a cap on how many facilities you can have at the same time. Power demand also cannot exceed its supply under normal circumstancesnote The only way to do so is to play on Easy, which grants bonus Power, then switch to a harder difficulty mid-game and existing facilities continue working at full efficiency even if you manage to do so. Engineers and Scientists are a different kind of Population from Power, and serve as another hard cap. This is especially true with Engineers, as each project and facility have a certain minimum number of Engineers on staff requirement to construct and operate them. Some facilities, like the Generators mentioned above, have a scaling requirement where each facility built requires a higher minimum number of Engineers than the one before it. New Engineers and Scientists are provided monthly from member nations, with some giving more than others, and can also be granted as rewards for certain requests and missions.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: All the research project codenames for the various plasma weapons and the Alloy Cannon are various types of birds. In Enemy Within, the three survivors rescued in "Furies", the final mission of Operation Progeny, are nicknamed "Alecto", "Megaera" and "Tisiphone", three of the Greek Erinyes, also known as the Furies. Two of them are actually twins, for extra points, the Saudis. The others are a French woman and an American man.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fda454ec	type	Every Bullet is a Tracer
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fda454ec	comment	Every Bullet is a Tracer: Ballistic weapons. Even more pronounced if the soldier has Reaper Rounds, whereupon the bullets look like small red stars.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fdeed2aa	type	Old-School Dogfight
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_fdeed2aa	comment	Old-School Dogfight: Battles between UFOs and your interceptors are pretty straightforward aerial shoot-outs. While your initial aerial weapon are the Avalanche missiles, you can later develop and equip various cannons, which may force your interceptor to close in to dogfighting range. Crafting various modules in your base allows your interceptors one-time bonuses to Aim, Dodge, and Chase.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ff26eaf0	type	Common Tactical Gameplay Elements
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ff26eaf0	comment	Common Tactical Gameplay Elements: Being a tactical game, Enemy Unknown implements most of these: Fog of War, Scouting, High Ground, Unit Specialization, Panic, Attack Range, Flanking, Attack of Opportunity, Friendly Fire, Taking Cover, Covering and Suppressing Fire, Called Shot (Snipers only), Target Spotting, Defensive Stance (Hunker Down command), Crowd Control (Assault's extra reaction shot against nearby enemies), Concealment (Ghost Armor), Smoke Screen, Grappling Hook (Skeleton Suit and Ghost Armor), and Movement Manipulation (Assault's flush-from-cover shot).
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ff34c05a	type	Item Crafting
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ff34c05a	comment	Item Crafting: Most of the stuff you can research or manufacture requires you to expend more than just credits, but also various resources or items you've collected from the aliens. Alien Alloys and Elerium are the two big ones, but you also need to use up Weapon Fragmentsnote to rebuild the weapons from the broken pieces or study their structure to turn the technology to new ends and the dead bodies of aliensnote to rip out their cybernetic implants to include in your new devices for a lot of products.
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ff5fc4d7	type	Hiss Before Fleeing
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_ff5fc4d7	comment	Hiss Before Fleeing: Most of the time you stumble upon or are stumbled upon by a group of aliens, they have a mini-cutscene where they all turn around and look at you, growl, then they get a free turn to run to cover.
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Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
Video Games / Fan Fic	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
Vigil (Fanfic)	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XCOM From The Ashes Of Temples (Fanfic)	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
Minecraft Dad (Lets Play)	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
Squiddish Gaming (Lets Play)	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XCOM Universum (Lets Play)	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	A Form You Are Comfortable With / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	A Quest Giver Is You / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Aggressive Play Incentive / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Alien Autopsy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Alien Invasion / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Alien Works / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Aliens Are Bastards / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	All Your Base Are Belong to Us / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Alpha Strike / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Always Accurate Attack / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ambiguous Robots / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	American Video Games / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ammunition Conservation / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ancient Conspiracy / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	And Mission Control Rejoiced / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Anger Born of Worry / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Annoying Video Game Helper / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Apocalyptic Gag Order / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Approval of God / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arbitrary Headcount Limit / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arbitrary Mission Restriction / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Argentina Is Nazi-Land / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arm Cannon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Armor-Piercing Attack / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Armor Points / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Artificial Limbs Are Stronger / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Artistic License – Statistics / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Attack Drone / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Attack Reflector / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Auto-Save / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bad Luck Mitigation Mechanic / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bad Vibrations / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Badass Transplant / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Barrier-Busting Blow / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Barrier Warrior / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bathos / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Battle Thralls / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Battleship Raid / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Beam Spam / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Beef Gate / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Beehive Barrier / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Benevolent Conspiracy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Better Off Sold / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Big Dam Plot / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bio-Augmentation / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bizarre Alien Reproduction / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bizarre Human Biology / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Black Market / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blasting It Out of Their Hands / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Blinded by the Light / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Boarding Party / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Body Armor as Hit Points / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Boss in Mook Clothing / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bottomless Magazines / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bragging Rights Reward / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Breakable Weapons / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bulletproof Vest / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bullet Time / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp" / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cannon Fodder / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Casual High Drop / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Chain Lethality Enabler / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Chain Reaction Destruction / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Chameleon Camouflage / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Changing Gameplay Priorities / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Character Class System / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Character Customization / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cherry Tapping / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Chrome Dome Psi / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clone Army / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Close-Range Combatant / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Combat and Support / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Combat Resuscitation / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Compound Title / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Concealment Equals Cover / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Concentration-Bound Magic / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Concussion Frags / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Continuing is Painful / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Continuity Reboot / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Contractual Boss Immunity / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Conveniently Interrupted Document / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cooldown / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cooldown Manipulation / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Coup de GrÃ¢ce Cutscene / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Crafted from Animals / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Crawl / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Creator Cameo / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Creator's Culture Carryover / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Creepy Crossdresser / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Critical Failure / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Critical Hit Class / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Crutch Character / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cryptic Conversation / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damage-Increasing Debuff / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damage Reduction / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Death or Glory Attack / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Decapitated Army / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Defend Command / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Defied Trope / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Defog of War / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Depleted Phlebotinum Shells / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Designated Point Man / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Desperate Plea for Home / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Destructive Saviour / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Difficult, but Awesome / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Difficulty Spike / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disadvantageous Disintegration / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disappointing Last Level / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disc-One Nuke / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Do Not Drop Your Weapon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Don't Celebrate Just Yet / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Doom as Test Prize / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Downplayed Trope / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Draw Aggro / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Drop Ship / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	EMP / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Early-Bird Boss / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Early Game Hell / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Effortless Achievement / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Emergency Broadcast / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Emergency Weapon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Emergent Narrative / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Emotion Control / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Empowered Badass Normal / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Encyclopedia Exposita / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Energy Beings / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Enhanced Interrogation Techniques / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Enhanced Punch / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Epigraph / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Escort Mission / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Every Bullet is a Tracer / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Every Car Is a Pinto / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Everything Is an iPod in the Future / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Executive Suite Fight / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Experience Booster / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Faceless Goons / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fast-Roping / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fighter-Launching Sequence / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fighter, Mage, Thief / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Final Death Mode / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fishing for Mooks / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fixed Damage Attack / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Force-Field Door / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Forced Level-Grinding / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Four-Star Badass / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	From Zero to Hero / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Frontline General / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Future Badass / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Future Copter / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gambler's Fallacy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Game Mod / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Game-Over Man / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Geo Effects / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Germanic Efficiency / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Giant Enemy Crab / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Girl's Night Out Episode / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Glassy Prison / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Global Currency / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Go Through Me / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Golden Ending / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Goldfish Poop Gang / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Got Volunteered / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gotta Kill Them All / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Gotta Rescue Them All / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Government Agency of Fiction / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Greater-Scope Paragon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grenade Spam / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grid Inventory / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Guilt-Based Gaming / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hack Your Enemy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Harder Than Hard / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Harmless Luminescence / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hazmat Suit / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Heal Thyself / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Healing Shiv / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Heavy Equipment Class / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Herd-Hitting Attack / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hero Insurance / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Herr Doktor / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hide Your Otherness / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hiss Before Fleeing / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hold the Line / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Homing Boulders / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hugh Mann / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Human Resources / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Humanity Is Superior / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Humans Advance Swiftly / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Humans Are Survivors / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Humans Are Warriors / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Humans Are White / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Humans Need Aliens / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	I Need You Stronger / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	I Want Them Alive! / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Imported Alien Phlebotinum / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	In a Single Bound / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	In Working Order / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Informed Equipment / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Inhuman Eye Concealers / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Injured Vulnerability / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	"Instant Death" Radius / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Intercom Villainy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Interface Spoiler / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Inventory Management Puzzle / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisibility Cloak / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisibility with Drawbacks / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Is That the Best You Can Do? / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	It Only Works Once / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Item Caddy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	It's a Wonderful Failure / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	It's the Only Way to Be Sure / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Jump Jet Pack / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Justified Tutorial / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Keystone Army / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	King Mook / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Kung Fu-Proof Mook / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Labcoat of Science and Medicine / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Last Chance Hit Point / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Late Character Syndrome / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Law of Cartographical Elegance / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lean and Mean / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	LEGO Genetics / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Levels Take Flight / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Life Drain / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Like Cannot Cut Like / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Limited Loadout / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Load-Bearing Boss / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Long-Range Fighter / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Low Culture, High Tech / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Luck-Based Mission / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	MacGuffin Delivery Service / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Machine Monotone / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Magnetic Weapons / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Magnum Opus / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mauve Shirt / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Megaton Punch / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Military Alphabet / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mind Probe / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mini-Mecha / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Missing Main Character / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission Briefing / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission Control / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mission-Pack Sequel / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Modern Day/Sci-Fi RPG Class Equivalents / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Modular Difficulty / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Money for Nothing / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mook Debut Cutscene / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Morale Mechanic / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Muggles Do It Better / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Murder Is the Best Solution / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Blood Runs Hot / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Brain is Big / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	My Rules Are Not Your Rules / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Backer / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mysterious Informant / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Neural Implanting / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nicknaming the Enemy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Biological Sex / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Help Is Coming / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Mouth / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Range Like Point-Blank Range / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Such Agency / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nom de Guerre / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Lethal K.O. / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Specifically Foreign / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Humans Lack Attributes / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Standard Game Over / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Standard Skill Learning / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Noodle People / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Not Wearing Tights / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Number Two / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Oddly Small Organization / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Old-School Dogfight / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	One Bullet Clips / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Handed Shotgun Pump / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Hit-Point Wonder / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	One Riot, One Ranger / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	One Stat to Rule Them All / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Onesie Armor / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Operation: [Blank] / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Orbital Bombardment / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Organic Technology / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Organization with Unlimited Funding / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Out-of-Turn Interaction / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Outranking Your Job / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Overranked Soldier / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Overrated and Underleveled / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	People Jars / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Permanently Missable Content / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Perspective Reversal / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pinned Down / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Planet Spaceship / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Player Character Calculus / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Playing Games at Work / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Plug 'n' Play Technology / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Point of No Return / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Post-Defeat Explosion Chain / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Power Fist / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Powered Armor / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Powerful, but Inaccurate / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Practice Target Overkill / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Precision Crash / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pretentious Latin Motto / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Primal Chest-Pound / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Psi Blast / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Psychic-Assisted Suicide / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Punch-Packing Pistol / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Puny Earthlings / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pure Energy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Purposely Overpowered / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Purposely Overpowered / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	RPG Elements / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Raising the Steaks / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Random Number God / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Randomized Damage Attack / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rank Up / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Red Alert / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Reed Richards Is Useless / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Reformed Criminal / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Regenerating Health / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Renovating the Player Headquarters / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Reptilian Conspiracy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Required Party Member / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ridiculously Average Guy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Roar Before Beating / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rocket-Powered Weapon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rocket Punch / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rocket-Tag Gameplay / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Room 101 / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Running the Asylum / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Russian Guy Suffers Most / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Save Scumming / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Scary Dogmatic Aliens / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Science at the Speed of Plot / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Science Foils / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Second Hour Superpower / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Secret War / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	See the Invisible / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Self-Destruct Mechanism / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Self-Imposed Challenge / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Self-Insert Fic / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Send in the Search Team / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set a Mook to Kill a Mook / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shadow Discretion Shot / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shoot the Mage First / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shop Fodder / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Short-Range Shotgun / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shotguns Are Just Better / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Shrine to the Fallen / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Signature Team Transport / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Silicon-Based Life / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Simple Rescue Mechanic / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Skill Scores and Perks / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Slow Laser / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Smoke Out / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Snake People / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sniper Duel / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sniper Rifle / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Soft Glass / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Solo Tabletop Game / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sorting Algorithm of Evil / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sound-Coded for Your Convenience / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spy Satellites / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Squishy Wizard / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Army / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Starfish Robots / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Static Role, Exchangeable Character / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Static Stun Gun / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stealth Mentor / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stealthy Colossus / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stealthy Mook / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stray Shots Strike Nothing / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Strong Flesh, Weak Steel / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stuck Items / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stun Guns / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Suicidal Overconfidence / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Super Spit / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Support Party Member / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Suspend Save / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Suspiciously Small Army / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tactical Door Use / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Take Cover! / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Take Your Time / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tech Tree / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Technology Uplift / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Telepathic Spacemen / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The All-Seeing A.I. / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Alliance / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Creon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Enemy Weapons Are Better / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Engineer / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Gift / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Illuminati / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Triads and the Tongs / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The War Has Just Begun / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	The War Room / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	They Look Like Us Now / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	They Would Cut You Up / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Throw Down the Bomblet / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tier System / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Time Bomb / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Timed Mission / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	To Serve Man / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Toasted Buns / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Torture Technician / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Transhuman Treachery / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Treachery Cover-Up / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Trick Bomb / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Triumphant Reprise / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Turn-Based Tactics / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Turns Red / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tutorial Failure / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Uncanny Valley / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Undisclosed Funds / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Uniqueness Decay / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	United Nations Is a Superpower / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unluckily Lucky / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unstable Equilibrium / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unusable Enemy Equipment / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Up, Up and Away! / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Updated Re-release / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Uplifted Animal / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Urban Warfare / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Utility Belt / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	V-Formation Team Shot / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Games of 2010â€“2014 / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video-Game Flamethrowers Suck / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Villain Forgot to Level Grind / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Villain Respect / int_e003d65e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Viral Unlockable / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Virtual Paper Doll / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vulnerable Civilians / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wake-Up Call Boss / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Walkie-Talkie Static / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Walking Tank / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wall of Weapons / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	War Memorial / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Are Everywhere / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Buy Anything / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Have Ways of Making You Talk / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Will Not Use Stage Make-Up in the Future / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	We Will Spend Credits in the Future / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weak-Willed / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Welcome to Corneria / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Western Terrorists / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	What the Hell Is That Accent? / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	What the Hell, Player? / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wingdinglish / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Word Salad Title / int_4ce5263e
XCOMEnemyUnknown	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Have Researched Breathing / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Lose at Zero Trust / int_946c725e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Problem with Licensed Games / Sugar Wiki / int_946c725e
X-COM	seeAlso	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XComEnemyUnknown	sameAs	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XcomEnemyUnknown	sameAs	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XCOMEnemyUnknown	sameAs	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XComEnemyUnknown	sameAs	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fandom Nod / int_4ce5263e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lennon Specs / int_58ff2a3e
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)	hasFeature	Slave Mooks / int_4ce5263e
xcomenemyunknown	sameAs	XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game)

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