Does anyone else feel this way?

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@Tyrant12

That is something i really don’t like about phoenix point is you have things like snipers having heavy weapons bonus traits. Kind of goes full against what a sniper is meant to do.

This is do give player choice of development for a soldier. If one class is not enough then player can multiclass to some other class and perks indicate which class it can be.

@Tyrant12

In xcom 2 war of the chosen i feel like they did it right.

It wasn’t right just like limiting some weapons to specific classes.

@Tyrant12

but the combination of the equipement and the abilities of my different soldiers complimenting each other gave me a fighting chance.

It shouldn’t be like that classes compliment each other. It should be like the enemy is forcing you to use different classes. But it is you who decide which classes you want to use and it doesn’t have to be all available classes.

@Tyrant12

I also agree with gronky that having no weapon or armor progression at all makes the game a bit “stale”, in xcom i always looked forward to getting equipement upgrades to increases my soldiers chances of survival.

I think here it should work like:

No upgrades/lack of progression

From my understanding this game should be about adapting to the enemy. So at the beginning you can deal with enemy (let call him “A”) with what you have (let call it “Z”). Then enemy evolves (mutates) into “B” and you need to counter it with something else (name it “Y”) which you need to research. Then enemy mutates in “C”, and you need to develop “X”. This means that “Y” will be to deal with “B” but not with “A” or “C”. “Z” won’t be good vs “B” or “C”, and “X” won’t be enough to deal with “A” …

and I think it is better option than simple progression of +20 damage to each weapon type and +30 to each armor type.