 Right then! Time to get back to action. We've got a team of five, one squadie, four, well, you know, three rookies, all armed with assault rifles and grenades, fag grenades, to say the least. And let's just go ahead and launch the mission, shall we? While you were away, I must admit, I made a few alterations to the graphics. Right, so I'll be recovering a power converter. Sounds exciting, sure. Let me guess, it's going to be one of those missions with time constraints that Excom loves so much, which means I'll have to think quick on my feet, and I have to remember that unlike the last game, this one... Right, so is that what I was saying? No, I think I'm going to play like that. I'm concealed. I need to remember that as long as I'm concealed, I can do whatever I want. But who's who? A good thing to remember is that I only have eight turns, which means that I need to prepare an ambush, or otherwise exterminate the enemies in the most quick and bloodless way for me, of course, as possible. There can be plenty of blood for the enemy. Ooh, green little containers. This is going to burn, isn't it? I'll go here, thank you very much. Miss Stuart. We have a chance to do some serious damage here. Before jumping into combat, let's make sure we make the most of our advantage. Right. I was going to set him up an ambush anyway, but now you've made up my mind. Dangerously close, hopefully. Uh-oh. How? I suppose not to. They're disciplined and well-equipped, but their obedience makes them predictable. Right. So I'm just going to get here and shoot people. Now, because, obviously, I failed. Right, aim plus 68%. Abarrange minus two, low cover minus 20. Right. Because I would miss the surprise there. Well, about start, to say the least. Ooh, I'm marked. That's nasty. Seriously. And I do believe that was under full cover. He is an idiot for missing. Ah-ha. Let's see then. 61% compared to 20. I'm going to kill the other guy. I need to concentrate on the other guy. Let's see, 34. Well, it's better. Let's see if I can take it. Probably not. Yeah. I expected that much. I should have just put her into Overwatch. But you know what? What I'm going to do is I'm going to move her into Overwatch. Just to check the odds infinitely small. Overwatch will do. Me too. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to stab her. I mean, slash at that guy. And hope that some of our friendly neighborhoods creeps. Try and get her by moving. Please tell me no one got hurt. Nope, no one got hurt. And if they do indeed try to move my guys who are on Overwatch right now, we'll incinerate them. This is not going to be easy. Five turns, five turns to get there and hack it. Which means I have four turns. What mistakes will you make, dear boy? Alright. Can I take both of those gentlemen out? I can certainly try and take this one. The bad thing about grenades is that they will leave nothing to move salvage. Hmm, good. I need to move forward. Let's do something risky. Better, much better. Still, this is even better. And if I get that guy, I will win. Which I did not. Damn. And now this guy, my guy, is easy to get. And easy to gut. Sorry, that was bad. Hmm, actually 40%. Better, 33%. I'll take the 40%. And once again, I will miss. That is getting really frustrating. That's what happens when you shoot at 40%. Yet another member is marked. Yeah. So not coming. At least none of mine have come yet. But I missed. That was a bad idea, mate. That was meticulously bad. Well, good to see them just blasting off on the marked girl instead of actually using their brains. Let's see, 47, 34, 34 again. Let's see if I can take you down, mate. No, actually. I'm going to, you know, do that. Thank God she did not miss. Hopefully she will survive this and live to fight another day. This could be good or very, very bad. 42, 36. Not good. Not terrible. Definitely not good. Can I stab someone? Tell me I can stab someone. Excellent. Or not. That was actually very bad because I can't seem to kill that guy. Oh, God. This is going to cost me my... Did you miss that? It was a clear shot. How did you miss that? You want to kill her? Now you will kill her. You won't kill her. Ouch. But still, that is insane. You could have killed her. Yes, yes. I will stabilise it soon enough. No, I don't believe that you will take any shot whatsoever. So I'm going to move you here and hope that no more aliens are in the vicinity ready to murder us all. Oh, sorry, not aliens. Human alien hybrids. So far so good. Sure. Nice shooting. I believe that girl earned herself a promotion. Just now. Lovely. I have to get a converter not to blow up in my face. Should be easy enough. Let's overwatch it for now. You too. I want to play it safely. Oh, more. Oh, God. I mean, more alien activity. What a surprise, right? Can I save, actually? I feel like I should save. Yup. Saved. Reload. Not a bad idea. Not at all. Another hard cover. Good. Do you need to reload? Yes, please do. God, my team has such low health right now. It kind of horrifies me. I need hard cover. I'll take the partial cover for now. Just as long as I can overwatch. You know, I am a bit disappointed that I had. Yes, yes. I've got someone in the job. Don't worry. Jesus. This game full of warriors. I just feel like something very bad will happen soon. And I don't mean the exploding converter. No, no. Aliens. Big, bad, fat aliens. Tell me this is easy. Tell me I want. Ah. Lovely. So I'm just going to begin the hack. I'm not going to try with the 4 or 1% chance. Because that seems insane. I'm getting nothing insane. No one dies today. I can actually move. Moving is actually good. Let's go high above. I can do wonders with shotgun and a vantage point. That's bad. Can I get someone else up there? Hopefully the one with the extreme low. Oh, hello. You look like a triptease. No, a sectoid. Oh. This guy is going to get the hellstabber. A bit of overwatch for you. I can't actually fire my weapon at anyone right now. Let's say the half cover with this one. 66%. I did not even expect that. And it is an instant death. That is truly enjoyable. Come here, little friend. Oh my. Can I resist it? Nope, cannot resist it. I have to stab her. The alien. Stab the alien. Kill the alien. The alien is alive. The alien is alive and very angry, I'm sure. Oh my. Is the alien a necromancer? You know, a scientific necromancer, but you get me. You do. That's why you watch this. How did you? You idiot. Hello. Goodbye. Whoa, it's a critical. No, I can't help but feel that. At this point, I should be able to kill that idiot. Alien. Please. Lovely. Oh, and he's got salvageable items. Ooh, an Illyrian core. This valuable artifact powers all of the alien weaponry we've encountered. We can use it to create experimental weapons, summons and ammunitions. And an alien data cache. These mysterious storage devices carried only by aliens contain a wealth of intel about a large variety of enemy plans. Their extremely high value and their security measures will be commensurately more time consuming to crack. Worth it. And no one died. But mostly because of my luck. Soldiers wounded three. Soldiers killed zero. Excellent, I'd say. Enderating confirms it. Good. Well, that was an exciting first actual battle. 63.64, not bad. Made most of that. Yeah, the rookie was actually very good. And she survived a hell of a lot. Average cover bonus. Move furthest. Squally. You're a good servant. I mean, soldier. I'm definitely not going to destroy the aliens just to take over the earth. Definitely not going to do that. Not one of those world-class commanders of old. Nope. Welcome back, survivors. Whoa, gravy. Poor darlings. I have made some interesting discoveries as they relate to the implant we removed from you earlier. Fascinating stuff. Loot. Good, good. Mmm, corpses. You know, ex-com personnel are some creepy fuckers. They loot. They don't just loot the corpses. But they also take them. For science, as they say. But hey, I have no problems with that. Let's see, having recently discovered an alien data cache, storing valuable enemy intelligence so I can dedicate my team's resources to decrypting the files and ensuring that we recover the large amount of intel stored with him. Good. She's my favorite character. Was she in the first game? She looks very familiar. Which reminds me, I have a campaign I never finished in ex-com enemy within. Should probably jump back and do that. Anyway, thank you for watching, guys. I think I will continue pretty damn soon, because this is just too much fun and far too addicting. Thanks for watching. Hope to see you next time. Bye.