I’m very glad to see some of the much needed nerfs to solider perks coming into the game with the 1st patch. Can’t wait to start a new play through and see how things feel in practice.
One suggestion I’d like to make in advance though is; if soldiers are now a little less like superheros on the battlefield, does that then give licence to increase the squad sizes that we can into the start of missions? I think 16 was originally proposed and I hope we still end up there, but even upping it to 10 would be a nice way to re-balance for the increase in difficulty.