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The X-Com Files / USA just signed a pact with unkown aliens. How boned am I?

« on: May 04, 2021, 06:10:51 am »

So I've just started my first play through of the X-files and I'm having a blast. So far it's been pretty fun. However at the end of one of the months, I suddenly see that the USA has withdrawn from the Xcom project because of a pact with unknown forces. I've been trying to shoot down whatever UFO's I could potentially find and I do have a radar base situated in the USA, but I don't have the hyper-wave decoder so I probably missed some sort of diplomatic or infiltration mission. That notification suddenly made me doubt how my progress has been. Score wise I've been doing great, and I haven't yet had a month where I lost too much council scoring. Am I behind the tech curve and should I have researched more ways to prevent this? Or is it just inevitable that one or two nations are going to get subverted?  Should I consider this campaign lost or might I be able to salvage a win from this? Currently the in-game date is 3/7/1999. Honestly I wouldn't mind starting over as my first playthrough was pretty unfocused, not really targeting/focusing techs that might be important or could have saved me.