Optics

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Why not light-amplification or thermal-imaging equipment? Obviously they would incur accuracy penalties. Maybe some aliens would have little to no thermal signature?

 

Lightamp would increase the range that your troops using them could see at night or in dark areas, but with penalties in light areas and after large light sources (grenade, flare, ect).

 

Thermal would do the same thing, but to a lesser degree. The big advantage would be seeing through smoke and thin walls (very thin). Penalties after large or numerious explosions (hot air would make it harder to see differences in thermal radiation past the hot air) or lots of plasma-flinging. Again, some aliens would have little or no thermal radiation, and some would be blinding (whats the one with a magma core?)

 

It would either be purchasable from the start with researchable improvements, or needing a little research at the start (like motion trackers). I say this because we have both now. Thermal could be better, but we do have it.

 

 

... maybe even let the aliens play with some of their own optics on higher skill settings?