@SaintWacko:
- **The Chosen:** Three new "Boss" like Aliens called "The chosen". They're strong aliens with randomized strengths and weaknesses that'll randomly show up on missions, and get stronger as the game proceeds. Killing them on a mission doesn't permakill them, and required you doing a special mission later on.
- **Covert Ops:** Send soldiers on missions to gain rewards. It happens automatically, but on some ops there's a chance for soldiers to be captured, wounded or ambushed (which gives you a mission where you need to escape with the soldiers)