The next mission was the Overseer UFO. But when the Skyranger landed, the map wasn’t the usual forest. It was the XCOM headquarters. The walls were upside down. The aliens were duplicates of his own soldiers—ghostly, maxed-out versions of Sully, of Petra, of soldiers who had died in his first month.
He tried to close the program. ACCESS DENIED. He tried to alt-tab. The screen was now a single, repeating texture of the Ethereal’s face. Xcom Enemy Unknown Cheat Engine
That was the trap.
A pop-up appeared, not from the cheat engine, but from inside XCOM’s own UI. It was a direct message from the Ethereal collective, normally just flavor text in the final mission. But this was different: The next mission was the Overseer UFO