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I'm in the first December of my first serious run. The first grenade launcher I encountered was on an EXALT Enforcer in a night mission a month or so ago. I lost one of my best soldiers to a surprise incendiary grenade launched at a reasonable distance to have been spotted and wrote it off.

I then had an entire grouped-up squad wiped in a similar mission by not one, but *three* launchers all firing out of the inky blackness on another EXALT cult outpost investigation. Stunned, I savescummed because I at least wanted to understand how I was seen from across the map, in the dark, mostly behind a hill instead of losing a full helicopter of my best soldiers every time I assaulted an EXALT compound.

As near as I can tell:
- Certain enemy types act as Spotters for others. (in the case of EXALT, this seems to be all of them!)
- Hitting an enemy reveals your location, making you Spotted for a turn if you hit a Spotter.
- ... this includes your own units Reaction Fire.

After a half hour or so of fiddling and looking stuff up, I couldn't see much way to avoid being barraged with grenades. Taking snap shots at full TUs then darting away didn't help; cover was blown away or bypassed by being fired on from three angles; the only way I could see getting out of this is managing to snipe them before they sniped me or getting better technology (I just upgraded to Armored Vests and am still using Helicopters which are woefully inadequate defensively).

I'm just curious if there's some tactical insight I'm missing? Or should I just avoid EXALT investigations 'til I've got a sturdier transport or armor? I can only assume going during the day will only leave me even more at the mercy of bombardment as any unit will spot me.

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