I guess I'll have to find some mods too then.
I've played the original xcom games a lot and I find this game very frustrating.
Granted I just started playing it but the battles are very hard (this is on normal).
In every one of my first 5 missions, I've lost at least 2 guys.
I hide them, crouch them, doesn't matter. The aliens are shooting at me from long distance and killing me while my guys never have higher than a 20% chance to hit.
The fifth mission was a night mission and I was getting shot from at least 2 or 3 screen lengths away with 50% accuracy. Lost my entire squad and a vehicle. Lost 2 guys before I even saw an alien and I even ran one guy ahead in a suicide mission to see if I could at least see one of them.
I know its still in development.