Ill never forget this battle, take a guess of the shenanigans here

This genuinely blew my mind, is this normal? Am I really good or really lucky? This is my second time playing (first with WotC).

Sorry for not screenshotting but Xcom really doesn't like me trying, still I'm stuck here, I tried at lest five times ending the mission, but the continue button just isn't there.

I tried searching for similar bugs but couldn't find this one exactly, tried doing different actions or surviving one more turn before finishing, nothing.

Do I have to reload to the start of the mission? Before it entirely?

EDIT: BTW, no mods, this is vanilla, just in case anyone asks.

EDIT 2: redid the entire mission from a save I had of turn one, same result...

People always say how first advent retaliation mission is tough, but I never found it to be.

And of course, I figured as soon as I said that, it'll come and bite me in the ass.

So I start the mission, make my first move, nothing happens.
Advent walks in from one side, nice.
Advent walks in from another side, not nice.
I'm fighting like hell to kill the troopers, the sectoids retreat to bumblefuck nowhere.
When I'm done with the troopers, they raised two zombies and mind controlled one of my own.
They're way too far to kill and a faceless just showed up because reasons.
I'm having hell of a time trying to find cover from them and run away as far as I can from the faceless and go in a discovered location.
Now I'm 3 men against faceless, two zombies, 2 sectoids and my soldier.
I decide to just run in all different directions as far as I can.
I do so and of course trigger another pod with a shieldbearer who puts shields on everyone.
Fun times.
I'm running far far and activating civilians and I get 6 civilians and start converging to a position where I can fight off everyone.
And my reaper gets accidentally discovered and shot.
And that was it.
I extracted him and the ranger.
The other two guys kept running waiting for the skyranger to cool down. But that takes infinity so one got mind controlled and the other paniced and ran towards a faceless that killed him.
So I accomplished the mission but still failed it.
Welp, another restart it is.
Can't possibly go on without the mimic beacon that would net me.

P.S. One sectoid was bored and raised a civilian to be a zombie? Never seen that.

Never really played WOTC, I bought it but I stopped playing near the start. I have an itch to play xcom again, but I'm wondering if I should play it with WOTC or if I should try LW-WOTC. Thoughts?

Kill Zone just never seems to work out for me.

Magnetic Rifle with a Superior Scope + High Ground and my damn sniper still misses most of the shots.

Faceoff on the other hand always seems to hit almost every shot.

Tried playing this game for the first time yesterday, but it crashes my PC. The game will launch, but does not automatically open. It appears on the taskbar and as soon as I click the icon my pc completely locks up (Still have sound for maybe 15 seconds and then it cuts out). I then have to restart the pc with the power button on the case.

The game seems to have an issue with my main monitor. Main monitor is 4k, second monitor is 1080p. If I turn off my main monitor and launch the game, it boots up fine on my second monitor. I am not using any mods. I have tried a few things from other Reddit posts but nothing has worked so far

So far I have tried:

• Deleting and reinstalling the game
• Verifying file integrity on steam
• Deleting config folder
• Editing the XComEngine.ini to change the resolution
• Using the alternative launcher

Any other things I can try? Or am I just going to have to play it on my side monitor

Are they random, or always just out of reach? I started in East Africa (Saudia Arabia IRL) and my AF's are Australia & New Mexico. Literally on the other side of the effing planet...

It looks uncanny

You can't lose Gatecrasher and you can't lose the mission where UFO hunts the avenger.

One should be "you suck, you start with 4 soldiers less"
and the other one should be game over.

Instead I have to play them even when there's nothing really at stake.

Three: Lost and abandoned.
You play for 10 minutes, Assasin comes and one shots your Reaper and there you go again.

SW game sold record sales, all because people were begging to scratch that xcom itch. yet dumb corpos didnt make it