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XCOM Base Defense
an XCOM: Enemy Within video

The video is at the bottom of the post.

So I've continued the campaign. Everything's going pretty well; the aliens and EXALT have regained some ground in the tech war, but I'm a little over half a month from the last big tech leap into plasma weaponry and firestorms, so things are going to get very one-sided again. We've been stomping ayylien butts everywhere, to the point where, after three full months of fighting, the world is...really actually kinda nonplussed about the whole "Alien Doomsday Invasion" thing.




Our soldiers have been faring well, as well. After a flawless data retrieval mission against an EXALT cell, things are really looking up for our intrepid heroes. Blac became our first max-rank (Colonel) soldier, becoming a Mayhem-Suppression heavy who likes to lock down ayys and keep them from doing anything. I got to the point where I really wasn't taking the enemy "threat" very seriously, as you can probably see.




Of course, as they say about XCOM, the moment you get complacent is the moment you should be the most scared. Little did I know at the time, that I was about to have the most difficult test the game could possibly throw at me: an all-out alien assault on XCOM HQ. Be careful, it's 1.5 hours of uncut video. I tried to make the slowest parts at the beginning more bearable.