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I find that weird, xenonauts 2 tactical is super easy compared to other games of the genre, especially xenonauts 1, here's why: You misunderstood, this would BUFF the money, especially on lower difficulties like soldier. It would only slightly decrease it on commander, which is the highest difficulty I'm playing on commander/ironman (technically honestman because I don't want my save bricked due to bugs), and i find the funds to be pretty plentiful on that difficulty as is. the game IS balanced around ironman, it's very ironman friendly. I suggested rescaling the funds because the funds being stingy is a pretty common complaint, you literally said it's stingy in your post.

I moved the MARS from left and revealed the two wraiths (blue arrows). After that, I moved my soldier into flanking position (yellow arrow) and ended turn. On AI turn, the top wraith threw a grenade to my soldier (red arrow). The wraith could not know my soldier was there, so did it just happen to guess, or did the AI cheat?

Perhaps the closest Wraith to your man heard a noise and the one at the top took a chance that your man was out of sight behind the wall? If so then the AI is pretty clever, but I doubt it :-). Good (realistic) AI is probably the hardest thing to do.

Can we get the alien vatiants of new missions? they're great, but the mission variety noticably drops after cleaners are dead.

Smoke doesn't block LOS, but just reduces accuracy.

Thanks for the follow up - feel free to tag me in posts again if you encounter it; in the most ideal case with a save! I will starting hunting for this from this side! What might be happening is that the outcome of a grenade blast "leaks" the information of the units it doesn't have sight on - as part of the routine that uses grenades to "tactical advantage" (I.e. blasting open choke points, etc), which might give that tile a "score" because it hits units...