Well, it's a combination of the intrinsic terror of alien invasion, coupled with familiarisation of the new equipment, plus the east European steroid...
Tiesemans, if you're going to pop a vein every time something happens in the experimental builds that you don't like, then I'd suggest that you stop...
That's not actually a bad idea. As Khall found out so long ago, aliens ignore stunned civvies. Research stun weapons and taser every civvie you come...
You'll need the spectres, specifically solider_spectre.xml. Which is in GC_units.pfp. You can either unpack that and scurry about for some spectres,...