[ENDGAME SPOILERS] the ending seems a bit ambiguous

[The unfathomable abyss]

according to the relevant xenopedia entries, once you kill the high praetor the fleet crumbles. But without FTL, where do they go? also, given that earth has painted a giant target on itself for the rest of the empire to see, what are the plans for future survival? i can see humanity using it's newfound technology to colonize the solar system and try to build a fleet strong enough to rival the aliens.
Personally i think a nice bit of flavour text at the end would make the ending so much better.

[OldFlame]

The ending is a bit aniclimatic. If you beat it, it doesn't really matter if your squad survived the final mission, either way you will be greeted with the near equivalent of: "Congrats! YOU'RE WINNER!" with random stats alongside a pretty picture. To be fair, this game isn't really that plot oriented, but a story develops throughout the game when you conduct research, so I can see why people don't like the ending being too inconclusive with alot of questions remaining unanswered. Some brief endgame flavour text summarizing the aftermath of repelling the invasion would be a nice addition, but I don't see that happening any time soon unless someone makes a mod for it.

[Dranak]

The xenopedia does state that the hyperspace jammer covers a large enough area that it will take thousands of years for the aliens to arrive with a new fleet. Almost all the aliens are drones, which are controlled by the high praetor. WIthout someone commanding them, they stop being a real threat.

[Barry White]

i guess all the remaining aliens become vegetables...? What about the mini praetors?

The ending is a bit meh but tbh this isnt a story focused game. It would have been great to see something more but this is more of a mechanics game.

What im hoping is that this proves that games like this are wanted and we see a more expensive effort which does flesh everything out better (new xcom had a bad ending as well).

Still, the game does give nice lore for everything else and i suppose you can just make up your own ending.

[Hans]

Without the High Praetor controlling the rate at which aliens "invade," all the remaining thousands of ships (according to the xenopedia there are roughly 3000 orbiting the planet) descend to earth for a massive free for all!

You thought killing the high praetor and stopping the aliens arriving from the hyperverse for 1000 years would work? Too bad you forgot about the all the rest who were obediently following orders, and now, without a leader, are like a mindless ant hive lashing out in all directions with praetors trying to stake their own claim to various parts of the earth.

[Mr.Kill]

Originally posted by Arngrim:

Without the High Praetor controlling the rate at which aliens "invade," all the remaining thousands of ships (according to the xenopedia there are roughly 3000 orbiting the planet) descend to earth for a massive free for all!

You thought killing the high praetor and stopping the aliens arriving from the hyperverse for 1000 years would work? Too bad you forgot about the all the rest who were obediently following orders, and now, without a leader, are like a mindless ant hive lashing out in all directions with praetors trying to stake their own claim to various parts of the earth.

except those 1000s of ships need guidance and retrofitting to hit earth's atmosphere and not burn up. Thus its the perfect set up for xenonauts: apocalpyse, smog as has ruined earth (due to all the melting aliens) and that's when other aliens from another dimension show up.

[Morhem]

Cool, now I know how the game will end, becouse I wont be finishing this one. 2 Predator suites - finished. 2 Sentinel suites - finished. 2 Magstorms and 2 mag rifles - finished. Final dropship - finished. Rest of the team is nicely outfitted for support. Just killed my first Carrier, flying to clean the wreck, when suddenly interceptor. "Air superiority, ♥♥♥♥♥!". In the middle of a buckin Pacific Ocean. It was fun when my first team was slaughtered by single reaper. It was fun, when alien commander and his retinue ambushed me at his cruiser's bridge, only 2 rookies survived, completing the mission. I was amused, when my latest recruit got controlled, and put plasma shot in the back of the skull of my favorite, best soldier. But this one is just too much. Im done. Im soooo done.

[Mr.Kill]

Originally posted by Morhem:

Cool, now I know how the game will end, becouse I wont be finishing this one. 2 Predator suites - finished. 2 Sentinel suites - finished. 2 Magstorms and 2 mag rifles - finished. Final dropship - finished. Rest of the team is nicely outfitted for support. Just killed my first Carrier, flying to clean the wreck, when suddenly interceptor. "Air superiority, ♥♥♥♥♥!". In the middle of a buckin Pacific Ocean. It was fun when my first team was slaughtered by single reaper. It was fun, when alien commander and his retinue ambushed me at his cruiser's bridge, only 2 rookies survived, completing the mission. I was amused, when my latest recruit got controlled, and put plasma shot in the back of the skull of my favorite, best soldier. But this one is just too much. Im done. Im soooo done.

ouch, let me guess playing on ironman?

[Barry White]

Originally posted by Mr.Kill:

except those 1000s of ships need guidance and retrofitting to hit earth's atmosphere and not burn up. Thus its the perfect set up for xenonauts: apocalpyse, smog as has ruined earth (due to all the melting aliens) and that's when other aliens from another dimension show up.

But what about all the lesser praetors who clearly have self ability.

Other aliens cant come because of the hyperspace stopper you build.

[Mr.Kill]

Originally posted by UltimateHobo:

Originally posted by Mr.Kill:

except those 1000s of ships need guidance and retrofitting to hit earth's atmosphere and not burn up. Thus its the perfect set up for xenonauts: apocalpyse, smog as has ruined earth (due to all the melting aliens) and that's when other aliens from another dimension show up.

But what about all the lesser praetors who clearly have self ability.

Other aliens cant come because of the hyperspace stopper you build.

We clearly don't see more preators on the high preator ship. So either its one preator per ship or that high preator was linked to all the other preators, which means they were killed too or knocked out. I mean the high preator death animation is him freaking imploding in a ball of light. Even then humanity has furies (assuming you bothered to research and make them) and the aliens probably needed the main ship for resources to retrofit. The bombers and strike cruisers need to be in atmosphere to do anything. The researcher made it clear that the mothership was the logistical engine behind the invasion, otherwise why would it have so many reapers in cyrostasis? That would take serious energy production.