After the research it is possible that it does not reveal a new facility on the map, but instead 'gives you the exact coordinates' for a facility of which whereabouts you already knew about but did not attack due to not having contact in the corresponding region. It's a quick research but it also takes some intel to do so. This can be gotten at least from a hack reward or sometimes you can buy it from Black Market. This requires you to acquire a 'mission lead to alien facility' or whatever it's called. You can attack a facility in a region you have not contacted, given the correct circumstances. It represents any project progress which is not bound to a specific facility.Īvatar progress can also be reduced by events which will happen when you progress in the 'Alien Blacksite' and 'Codex' story arcs. The facility in the pacific ocean which you see as soon as you become aware of the avatar project can not be attacked (yet!). This isn't done with the region of this facility yet, so I should better do that soon so I can take out that facility quickly when the aliens get close to completion. But before you can attack a facility, you have to establish contact with the local resistance of the region. As you can see by the red square below it, the facility in this screenshot has only collected one point yet, so it is not yet a priority.

When you successfully attack such a facility, the aliens lose the progress from that facility and they have to build a new one in a different region. The progression of the avatar project is 'collected' in the 'alien facility' sites which look like this on the global map:

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