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RBrim08

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  1. The debate has skewed from the actual TU costs at this point, but I just wanted to point something out.

    Burst fire costs 40 TUs to use for the Assault Rifle. If it instead used a one-fourths model for burst fire, you'd need to have 160 TUs for it to cost as much as it currently does. At a one-third model, you would need 121 TUs for it to cost as much as it currently does. It was FAR cheaper to auto fire in the original X-COM than it is to burst fire in Xenonauts.

  2. I guess if distance is factored in like in this game, it's still more cost effective. Are you high? 30 TUs for 3 20% chances to hit is better than 20 TUs for one 30% chance to hit, because you're taking more shots and giving yourself more opportunities to hit. It's pretty simple statistics maths.

    Getting that close is really dangerous though, with reaction fire. And, as I said above, if you're close enough for your accuracy to go over 20%, you might as well just be using a shotgun since it has a cheaper TU cost for firing the same number of shots.

  3. It's not cost effective unless you are at point blank range. Otherwise single shots have far superior TU/Damage output. I would really like to see burst fire cost slightly less TU's given its current accuracy, at 35 or perhaps 30, but overall I don't find it to be completely without merit -- for the same time units you can get three shots off instead of two with snap fire, but the accuracy is so low it is only really worth it in close quarter situations IMO.

    Exactly. And if you're close enough to the point where burst fire is guaranteed to be effective, you might as well be using a shotgun since it's cheaper to use TU-wise and fires three shots as well.

  4. Just enough so that you can know what the area around the ship looks like and have an idea of where the aliens might be the second you step off the ship. Not entirely revealed, either, just the greyed out like when a soldier sees reveals terrain but no longer has line of sight on it. This can be explained with the pilot giving the soldiers intel while on approach... or just the soldiers looking out the window before touching down.

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