This game throws a ton at you in the beginning. Before I can scan some cargo another popup cutscene happens and wants me to abandon ship and head to new sector. Then in science research it says I found/have limited opportunity to research with bonus. All of this seems to force my hand whereas xcom1 I had the illusion of choice. So, do I have to follow the games advice or will I miss/skip missions or can I do my own thing...

Second mission, crater extraction, hard, enemies nearly triples or quadruples my units, half of my squad are rookies, I somehow manage to kill them all even if I got very few crates. The missions does not end so I try to call the Skyranger but game refuses to call it, never had this issue before only seem to happen here, after a few reloads and turns I manage to call the skyranger but it is a 7 turn wait, then enemies start to appear out of nowhere litreally first 6 then 12 then 16 every freaking turn, at ...

I'm happy to get a skill which allow a Grenedier to do 2 shots (chain shot) in one go. But I'm upset due to the fact that the aim value is a joke. Under normal circumstances, an aim value of 70% - 80% would successfully hit the target most of the time. But with chain shot, such value meant nothing. Most of the time, in different maps, with different enemy position, or even with different Grenedier, most of the time, it will just miss, regardless of high aim value. This really sucks! The aim value of chain...

is greater than low cover and more than halfway to being full cover

So, this just happened... and i'm confused as to what exactly just happened... I'm in ironman mode, in a difficult mission. i'm a dirty cheater who can't handle "True" ironman mode, so i liberally alt-tab out of of the game when something i don't like happens on an alien round. Because of this, i know that the game saves after every alien round. I start the play session in the middle of a council mission, 6 turns on the clock, Archons, muton, Andromedon, stunlancer alive, berzerker queen in the fog of w...