Yes you got a good point Gauddlike , I was more thinking like how it works in Ja2 where you can ready your weapon, so while walking you have the normal viewcone.
There are 2 good feelings while you do land combat and 1 of them is finding the allien. Xeno1 didnt do much with that other then nightbattles.
But not only how spotting works I think the whole combat system is way to basic and feels lazy and uncreative. Your fighting alliens for godsake, the defs can comeup with what ever they want...
Maybe it isnt lazy and uncreative but a choice to keep it as basic as possible thats why I asked that in my first post.