Extrocomp

I've been watching Let's Play X-COM videos on YouTube and the ones I've seen so far are terrible. LordFinisher played the game on Beginner difficulty and didn't bother to research any autopsies or live aliens he didn't have to, preferring instead to go straight to Cydonia. Necroscope86's series was even worse. He picked the Veteran difficulty and claims to have used XCOMUtil to fix the difficulty bug, but the aliens' stats show his game was actually on Beginner difficulty all along. He did research some autopsies and live aliens, but his UFOpedia was nowhere near complete when he decided to end the game. He always pronounces psionic as "fizonic" even though he pronounces "psi" and "psychic" correctly. And worst of all, his strategies were often incredibly stupid and he used of repeated game loading whenever a valued soldier died. I'm looking for a Let's Play series where the player has completed the UFOpedia, or at least come very close to doing so. I'm also looking for a Let's Play series where the difficulty is Veteran or higher. On Beginner difficulty the aliens' armor and firing accuracy are halved, making the game disappointingly easy. The only way I know to find out what difficulty they are using is to wait until the player mind controls an alien so I can look at the stats, but that only happens late in the game if it happens at all. I've also heard that it's possible to find out the difficulty by counting the number of aliens on terror mission and large ufos. Does anyone know if this is true? There are dozens of Let's Play X-COM UFO Defense series on YouTube. Does anyone know which ones are good?

Thanks for clearing that up.

But I've seen objects on a Dreadnought and in a Colony that look exactly like what an Examination Room is supposed to look like according to the Ufopedia screenshot. Has anyone ever succeeded in getting an Examination Room without cheating/hacking?

Abductor and Harvester are UFO Defense terms. I'm playing Terror of the Deep.

I know what an Examination Room looks like because I found the Ufopedia page on the internet and I've seen the Examination Room in the various Colonies and Dreadnoughts that I've assaulted. But when the mission is over and I've recovered the Colony/Dreadnought, I still don't have an Examination Room. It's the only thing I haven't researched. Does anyone else have this bug? Is there a way to fix it?