whend does exalt comes in ?

[S-Array 03]

Hello, I bought the complete editions of the game with the sale (somehow it's cheaper than EW alone but whatever) and I didn't see much of exalt yet, I had the mission with zhang but I expected an infiltration mission much sooner, I believe I'm at month 3 or 4

[Jesterofgames7712]

It should Be Soon if you got zheng and Got portent
They show up sometime in month 3 IIRC

[Mhblis]

Yeah don't worry you will know when they show up. Usually somewhere around month 3-5

[Lucky]

Originally posted by sniperquikill:

Hello, I bought the complete editions of the game with the sale (somehow it's cheaper than EW alone but whatever) and I didn't see much of exalt yet, I had the mission with zhang but I expected an infiltration mission much sooner, I believe I'm at month 3 or 4

They will show up right after you finish research MELD. Xenogenetics i belive.
So if you don't want them, you can just skip this tech.
Now in my campaign they appeared in early may, right after i finish Xenogenetic. (I'm do mec rush campaign)
Devs (Firaxis) in first preview videos told, that "Exalt wants to achieve the perfect combination of people and aliens, and they find that Xcom - hindrance.

[Jesterofgames7712]

Originally posted by Lucky:

Originally posted by sniperquikill:

Hello, I bought the complete editions of the game with the sale (somehow it's cheaper than EW alone but whatever) and I didn't see much of exalt yet, I had the mission with zhang but I expected an infiltration mission much sooner, I believe I'm at month 3 or 4

They will show up right after you finish research MELD. Xenogenetics i belive.
So if you don't want them, you can just skip this tech.
Now in my campaign they appeared in early may, right after i finish Xenogenetic. (I'm do mec rush campaign)
Devs (Firaxis) in first preview videos told, that "Exalt wants to achieve the perfect combination of people and aliens, and they find that Xcom - hindrance.

Except even if your playing long war Exalt will always appare at a fixed point Not after doing a research project

It just takes that long to do A MEC Rush

[red255]

they always show up in the third month.

nothing to do with MELD. same month as prodgeny and Slingshot start making it a rather busy month.

making it very hard to do an alien base rush actually.

[S-Array 03]

I completed the battleship mission and they messed up my research right after that... heh I guess that's what they do

[Jesterofgames7712]

They can also Steal money and cause terror

Howeve you can scan for them (iirc you should do so every 20 days) this pervents them from doing things to your research/stealing money/Causing terror

[red255]

you can't scan for their first attack.

[Jesterofgames7712]

Originally posted by red255:

you can't scan for their first attack.

i meant after there first attack
My bad on the wording