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Open Feedback / Re: The most useless piece of equipment in the X-COM arsonel

« on: July 06, 2014, 04:58:40 am »

It is extremely useful in UFO breach or base assaults (confined areas) if you're playing the game properly without save scumming.  It is a survival tool much like smoke grenades.  You use this at the beginning of your turn where the only motion detected is the alien's.  You can find where they are camping and waiting with reaction fire, giving you a tactical edge (especially if you can bust down UFO inner walls).  Also gives you a good idea of how many aliens there are (ie. sometimes a medium scout would have 3-4 aliens inside, going in without preparation is reaction fire suicide).  It is a niche tool, but definitely not useless.  I find incendiary ammo more useless, as it is almost impossible to kill anything with it other than setting camp fires.