There is a bit of lore, I think one of Mox' comments on the lost that implies that their numbers do not seem to go down, no matter how many purifier squads ADVENT is sending in the abandoned cities. Terrifying implications, this carries.
The lost are most likely at least connected to the concept of the Contagion, which appears in XCOM 2: Resurrection book, and based on multiple similarities between Contagion and Lost as they are in War of the Chosen, its pretty likely that Lost are the evolution of the original idea. The Contagion in Resurrection, much like the Lost is something aliens and advent is wary off - to the point that they create massive exclusion zones around areas with expected Contagion presence (likely said exclusion zones are larger than actual Contagion spread - to the point that before encountering changed animals in France, Amar - MC of the book always thought they were a rumour or Advent lie.Naturally these are valuable to advent as they allow them to create "dead zones", where they can freely abduct and kill members of independent settlements). Both are also vulnerable to fire, and Advent utilises flamethrower equipped units to contain them. 'Alien glow' reistance rumour (named The Contagion in game files) has similar green glow to the one experienced with some of the lost. Firaxis clearly abandoned the imo far more intresting Contagion in favour of run off the mill zombies during WotC development, but this connection is worthwhile of noting, especially as Resurrection is the only extra material which does not outright contridict data in the games (XCOM 2 Factions and XCOM 2 Escalation are a mess)
Zombies might be run of the mill, but they're also easier to code. Laziness? Maybe. But I think the idea that the Lost and Contagen are connected is a good headcanon.
Another quality video from you to make my day, and on such an interesting topic! The Lost are just another among many reasons why i consider XCOM to be one of the grimmest alien invasion scenario i know of. These whole cities where unnumerable Lost shamble in, only reinforce the feeling that indeed, they are relics of the past. Of OUR past, and that this past, wether we like it or not, is slowly disappearing, by Advent's hand... or our own.
The one thing i never exactly understood was.. What happened to Literally.. Any of the Nations's Local Militaries, Police Forces and Hell Even Friendly Armed Militias
Killed in the first few days of the war. We even see a military base in one of the missions. The tanks are destroyed. Ones that survived probably went on to join the resistance in XCOM 2 or joined the Reapers. Law enforcement was disbanded and replaced by ADVENT.
Destroyed by the aliens during the several weeks of open warfare. Aliens had every advantage. Tech, air superiority with constant possibility of CAS from alien ships, logistics (a single "Avenger - type" vessel has the ability to move cargo matching that of a Wasp class, based on it's size. And it can fly at speeds of a transport aircraft, and they had dozens if not hundreds of these), and even numbers - certainly numbers in any localised battle due to mobility advantage.
There is a bit of lore, I think one of Mox' comments on the lost that implies that their numbers do not seem to go down, no matter how many purifier squads ADVENT is sending in the abandoned cities. Terrifying implications, this carries.
Yes more XCOM lore. Also man I didn’t know that the purifiers skin was like that
The lost are most likely at least connected to the concept of the Contagion, which appears in XCOM 2: Resurrection book, and based on multiple similarities between Contagion and Lost as they are in War of the Chosen, its pretty likely that Lost are the evolution of the original idea.
The Contagion in Resurrection, much like the Lost is something aliens and advent is wary off - to the point that they create massive exclusion zones around areas with expected Contagion presence (likely said exclusion zones are larger than actual Contagion spread - to the point that before encountering changed animals in France, Amar - MC of the book always thought they were a rumour or Advent lie.Naturally these are valuable to advent as they allow them to create "dead zones", where they can freely abduct and kill members of independent settlements). Both are also vulnerable to fire, and Advent utilises flamethrower equipped units to contain them. 'Alien glow' reistance rumour (named The Contagion in game files) has similar green glow to the one experienced with some of the lost. Firaxis clearly abandoned the imo far more intresting Contagion in favour of run off the mill zombies during WotC development, but this connection is worthwhile of noting, especially as Resurrection is the only extra material which does not outright contridict data in the games (XCOM 2 Factions and XCOM 2 Escalation are a mess)
Zombies might be run of the mill, but they're also easier to code.
Laziness? Maybe. But I think the idea that the Lost and Contagen are connected is a good headcanon.
I did NOT know that you also did XCOM lore.
I do now, and I'm enjoying it.
Might I recommend
XCOM Lore: ruclips.net/p/PLyuBleayYU5fmPkI2htYE2AmllYP5Ldi7
Another quality video from you to make my day, and on such an interesting topic! The Lost are just another among many reasons why i consider XCOM to be one of the grimmest alien invasion scenario i know of. These whole cities where unnumerable Lost shamble in, only reinforce the feeling that indeed, they are relics of the past. Of OUR past, and that this past, wether we like it or not, is slowly disappearing, by Advent's hand... or our own.
The one thing i never exactly understood was..
What happened to Literally.. Any of the Nations's Local Militaries, Police Forces and Hell Even Friendly Armed Militias
Killed in the first few days of the war. We even see a military base in one of the missions. The tanks are destroyed.
Ones that survived probably went on to join the resistance in XCOM 2 or joined the Reapers.
Law enforcement was disbanded and replaced by ADVENT.
Destroyed by the aliens during the several weeks of open warfare. Aliens had every advantage. Tech, air superiority with constant possibility of CAS from alien ships, logistics (a single "Avenger - type" vessel has the ability to move cargo matching that of a Wasp class, based on it's size. And it can fly at speeds of a transport aircraft, and they had dozens if not hundreds of these), and even numbers - certainly numbers in any localised battle due to mobility advantage.
I wish they take there time to dive into the mad experiments from the xcom leader science team
He's back! Love the Xcom episodes keep it up!
Dang, from thumb of the old gods, to DD2 lore, hotline maiami lore and now XCOM lore, man diversity is not going to be a problem, this rules!
Hell yea he's finally back. Gteat video and I wanted to ask have you considered maybe doing bestiary series where you look at each specjes in detail?
Please give us more xcom lore, maybe alien biology
64 lost killed in my 1st engagement even a year later this helps
Having 1500+hours in xcom i love your videos! Have you read the book on xcom yet?
Ps just subbed
I've stared on the books, liking them so far. Read the comics too, really enjoyed those.
Thanks for the sub!
Please make a video on the chosen!!!
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Hi :D