Good evening, I've been a great X-Com fan since it's begining and I believe your effort is great and deserves all we can offer (even if it is bug testing)
So far I've encountered two bugs. One already mentioned (research set at 0% at game loading) and the second one:
*When I put the IR googles on a soldier in the aircraft equipment screen an error pops out in windows to debug:
-if you hit cancel, game crashes
-if you hit debug, I don't know how to debug
-if you hit ignore, It keeps on popping until you go back to the game but you can no longer select that soldier as the error will pop back.
I tried this twice and always the same.
Good luck and great work