Feedback having just reached the end of the EA on all dififculties now.

Have a lot of fun with it and looking forward to the future.

the needs to be implemented.

•Shift click should let you select how many out of the total number of items you want to put in. very often I have 30+ alien bits to turn in but only need to sell 12 to get a item and don't want to click 12 times.

•Black market needs to not completely rotate out items. many low level accessories and weapons are extremely valuable to making specialized squads later in the game but feel impossible to get past the first half the game. Just like how we have a rare item section we could also use a scrapyard section, or just double the total number of item slots rolled in the store with half of them having no limitations.

•Enemy factions need more differences and for not every faction to cheat against your Los as it only makes them easier ironically. Most of the expert run was setting up concealed/tripod people in blocking positions to funnel enemies into my killbox. and currently all factions push you towards armor pen. health damage basically doesn't matter alien bugs should convert 3/4 of their armor into health so that theres at least one faction you would run hollow points on.

•If all the mission objectives are completed let me end the mission after every single enemy is dead, I don't want to spend 5 turns clicking across an empty map.

•Smoke needs to be changed, currently it throws up a invulnerability field, even if both sides have targets marked and hit by radar they cannot shoot at each other if the smokes in between. defense is still overtuned on expert but I completed many of them by just dumping smoke for last few rounds so all the enemies just grouped up and calmly waited for minigun strafing. (also why are miniguns the best/only reliable AOE weapons?)

On to more of just the would be nice points.

•the start of the run is the hardest but not in an enjoyable way. you literally do not have the ammo to or tools to deal with the sheer number of enemies thrown at you in expert especially if you get unlucky bug mission.

the only reason i got through my 2nd first start attempt was because i had a resupply drop from the mission itself.

even outside of expert The best squads I found were those who had the ability to either generate ammo in every run by the end. and Very often ended up with at least 2 squads using the lasgun and plasma.

•Squad Armor costs way to much while not having similar defensive tools to vehicles and being more susceptible to Enemies attacks. Would be nice to get better Defensive Accessories or OCI. like a droppable crate of armor plates to repair. or Riot shields that give some Damage reduction or a underarmor that increases squad hp. though I found that marta and sachin were increadibly tough in heavy armor, just costing the same as 2 vehicles apiece.

• Mortars are incredibly strong in enemies hands and absolute garbage in the players, after having spent at least 10 ops in normal trying to make ivory work as a heavy mortar with a mark set up Its sad that she can immediately perform significantly better swapping to a guided missle without changing anything else with half the ammo. not to say that mortars are bad, they are incredibly useful for the smoke for running objectives. but the damage component of mortars might as well not exist. even with demolitionist they don't even really take out destroy points well and even with a max accuracy stacking ivy you miss by miles while the shells require direct hits to do anything.

•Once you've built a OCI you should be able to swap to and from it. in my normal run It often took 10 runs to partially switch around it to try stuff out. but this generally just led to me running the same set up for the other 2 runs since I couldn't give up med bay/vehicle supplies and none of the weapon slots really competes with resupply (well laser turret is a decent distraction in normal and lets you get vision if you haven't found a radar yet.)

The fluff section

• I want more people to shit on vamplew, Currently Exconde is my favorite character for dialogue cause he's the most realistic having actually served, with sy being the second. but i really need more people picking on the rich elitist.