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[LordPorkins]

Ok, lets not start plot guessing before the games even out.This is not going to be like FNAF.

[Endymion]

You know what I really wonder about going into this? The curve of time of victory looks like. (and, I suppose to curve of time of defeat)

And I mean in game time. How many months in game does a really fast run take, how many months does a super slow drawn out win take, and what is the average like? I've sorta wondered this for all xcom games really: how spread out the win condition is? How possible is it for a game to get bogged down and desperate but still with the ability to come back?

[Sonlirain]

Ok, lets not start plot guessing before the games even out.This is not going to be like FNAF.

Well the things that happened in the Bureau are mentioned in EW so the theory has a bit of substance and from the looks of things is actually being hinted at in Xcom2.

[IronyOwl]

Well I guess now I gotta finish The Bureau.

[Cthulufaic]

...I thought that the Bureau took place like... 50 years before Enemy Unknown and the Earth already got invaded by aliens.  Did every world leader, and everyone involved in defending the Earth, take that secret to their deaths?

[Neonivek]

...I thought that the Bureau took place like... 50 years before Enemy Unknown and the Earth already got invaded by aliens.  Did every world leader, and everyone involved in defending the Earth, take that secret to their deaths?

Given how public the whole thing was...

[Teneb]

...I thought that the Bureau took place like... 50 years before Enemy Unknown and the Earth already got invaded by aliens.  Did every world leader, and everyone involved in defending the Earth, take that secret to their deaths?

Given how public the whole thing was...

Apparently only the US was invaded and... ok, I have no idea how the Bureau managed to hide the event (ending says "with the help of the aliens", but still), especially since there are quite a few witnesses.

[Rince Wind]

Never played it, bu if all else fails it was simply covered up via mindcontrol.

Is The Bureau canon in the XCOM universe anyway?

[Sonlirain]

...I thought that the Bureau took place like... 50 years before Enemy Unknown and the Earth already got invaded by aliens.  Did every world leader, and everyone involved in defending the Earth, take that secret to their deaths?

Canonically... pretty much yes. Even Vahlen with all her access only found some blank articles refering to somethjing that happened in 1962 but nothing really concrete.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

While searching our records for any references to a material with similar properties, I uncovered a number of redacted data stores created in the 1960s, but much of that information appears to be lost.

As for hiding... the thing is pretty contrived but it goes like this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1 - Aliens poison the water supply turning people into "sleepwalkers". basically the idea is to connect them to mosaic but the sleepwalker mind control is not really perfected.
As a side effect those people (depending on the ending) end up either incinerated by the goverment (bad ending) or have amnesia (good ending).

2 - Aliens don't invade everywhere willy nilly. Most cities and towns never see a single alien or mistake them for russian psychological warfare. Only few places are actually attacked directly.

3 - The aliens jam radio signals (only X-Com has radios strong enough to operate under the jamming and even then it's relatively short range.)

4 - The invasion is global but apparently the local governments managed to sweep the entire thing under the rug as well. With or without the help from X-com (there are mentions of nuclear strikes in the news feed but even X-com does not have a radio strong enough to contact Cuba or USSR)

[Flying Dice]

Hey, hey. The EXALT relay -> reload thing makes perfect sense from the right perspective.

They use SupCom/TA/PA/whatever-style transmission of matter and energy to load ammunition/charge into the guns; the magazines are just props. When you shut down a relay you break the connection between it, the ammo source, and the currently loaded "magazines". When they reload after, they're swapping to a "magazine" with an intact connection to a different relay.

Boom.

[Sonlirain]

This means their machineguns are the most advanced projectile weapons in the world if the lead is transmitted to them via thin air.
Makes some sense with laser weapons i guess.

[scrdest]

Hey, hey. The EXALT relay -> reload thing makes perfect sense from the right perspective.

I honestly read that as one part devs being lazy and just applying the Disabling Shot effect to all EXALTs, one part as 'we've got no intel on safe cover, might as well reload while we're stuck rebooting the comms'.

[RAM]

...I thought that the Bureau took place like... 50 years before Enemy Unknown and the Earth already got invaded by aliens.  Did every world leader, and everyone involved in defending the Earth, take that secret to their deaths?

Is that enough time to secretly build, and then abandon, a giant mobile fortress?

[ZebioLizard2]

...I thought that the Bureau took place like... 50 years before Enemy Unknown and the Earth already got invaded by aliens.  Did every world leader, and everyone involved in defending the Earth, take that secret to their deaths?

Is that enough time to secretly build, and then abandon, a giant mobile fortress?

It wasn't even the world leaders, it was just America who was involved with the Bureau, and considering the time period they were trying to keep info from the Russians and those they would consider communists.

[Neonivek]

Look lets put it this way... The aliens were as well covered up as the Transformers in the movies.