These platforms are also modular, and can be equipped with new and upgraded weapons just like your soldiers can.
Easier to manoeuvre, it's useful for initial recon of a mission area, while its missile banks are great for dealing with large groups of enemies. Replacing Xenonauts' bulky, manned scout car is an automated weapons platforms that occupies a single tile like your soldiers. The way vehicles are implemented into the game has been adjusted. There are new elements to the tactical layer too. One of Xenonauts 2's great satisfactions is switching out a high-accuracy single shot for a low-accuracy three-round burst and seeing every bullet thud into your target, shortly before they thud into the ground. But there are equally elements that I prefer over Firaxis' design, like the wide range of fire modes that most weapons have. There are some elements to the tactical layer that I unambiguously dislike, getting shot from halfway across the map by an enemy in the black void being one of them. An enemy that explodes on death is dangerous to everyone around it, no matter how many limbs or nostrils or pancreases they have. Most of the game's mechanics work like this. But that same system can help you guard your flanks as you advance through the map, or deftly navigate around an alien's overwatch, as orientation impacts their ability to respond as much as yours. Yes, losing a xenonaut because you didn't turn them forty-five degrees is annoying. However, as classic X-COM fans will tell you at any given opportunity, this extra layer is there for a reason, and the more I played, the more I understood why. Had I been forced to grapple with such fiddly squad management back in 2012, I'd have binned it off faster than a birthday card from Hitler.
Firaxis was 100% right to remove this stuff from the reboot.
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