Mekii

XCOM compared to UFO is close to "Ultra kiddy-play" by my standards. Too stripped, too much holding the players hand and the missions are too predictable. In (i.e) an escort mission (goes for the other Council missions as well) you know what you are up against every single time. By the Ufo's sizes or the missions difficulty it gets easy to predict how many aliens (or groups of aliens) that will be on the map. Games such as UFO: Aftermath and UFO: Aftershock (published by 1C) is, in a way, closer to a "Classic-UFO" than what XCOM: Enemy Unknown is said to be. Not entirely spot on though. The fact that I am so unable to affect what class my soldiers will be may be quite a minus. I dislike that 20 of my 30 soldiers are snipers in my current game. Still, I do like the fact that you can get special mission by the Council, I do like that you can only do two actions per turn (but I miss the AP still). I like that the player is stuck with 4-6 units per battle (more units would make this game even easier), but on the other hand, I miss to field a large amount of units. Thank gawd for Snipers, to have an actual sniper rifle is something I missed from the first game. In the end I do however like playing the game, but if I want some serious alien hunting strategy my first pick will be UFO: Enemy Unknown.

I haven't heard of a broken save that would cause this kind of behavior, so for certain I cannot say. I find it more likely that any animations mod that you may be using requires an update. Note that I said that some mods drops these kinds of files into your folder with or without your knowledge. If these files got touched or not by the version of FNIS you downloaded and installed I cannot tell.

Yer welcome, I might add more available voice actors as I come across them. I am as well looking for voice actors (not a full phased hunt though).

You could try send a pm to Lomekian and/or RainsfordXY. They both posted in a thread saying that they are available for voice acting. Forum Thread Edit: I forgot; I also got a tip about that the TES Alliance has a voice actors guild. You could also try your luck there.