Case in point, yer man up the top there.

Look at that smug mullet and his unimpressed raised eyebrow.

repeated death by alien overwatch).

A scientist with a gnarly mullet looks sceptically at the camera in Xenonauts 2

He’s got research to do.

Dead alien carcasses to splice.

We had stinking brain monsters wrapped round our torsos, guy!

A scientist looks quizzically at the camera in Xenonauts 2

you’re free to’t get the staff these days…

Okay, small apology to XCOM’s scientists.

And yet I don’t think thesestrategy gameswould be the same without these clashing personalities.

A scientist hurls an insult at you in Xenonauts 2

Just look at the things he greets me with after a hard mission.

In fairness, he’s probably right to be sceptical.

The first half of the mission was going well.

A soldier prepares to fire on an alien across a jungle lake in Xenonauts 2

It was going well, and I was slowly getting to grips with how its time bar works.

So yes, the mission was going well.

But I came unstuck when I needed to approach the UFO proper.

A soldier’s inventory screen in Xenonauts 2

I might have brought back a few more soldiers if I’d been sensible like that.

But in the moment, desperation took over and ultimately paid the price for it.

After that kind of performance, I’m not surprised Science Guy hates my guts.

A UFO ambush goes extremely wrong in Xenonauts 2

Truly, this is what friendship looks like at the end of the world.

A nice engineer talks to you in Xenonauts 2