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Also helping is that their primary weapon runs off Pistol upgrades, which are cheap and accessible. The fact that so many of their abilities are borrowed from Psi Operatives also helps, since their competition takes a while to exist and costs a lot of resources to bring online. why would you?), which is not only inherently a strong skill but then combines well with their overall focus on abilities that don't care about Cover and barely care about position: if you're going to use Fuse to set off a grenade, or Dominate someone, or are in reach to drop Void Rift on your preferred targets, why not fire off a shot first? Movement isn't relevant to any of those after all. but at Corporal they can take Marauder (Or Mindspin, but.

At Squaddie they're bad, with Melee Weakness built in, animating Psi Zombies being a dubious use of a turn, their primary weapon being comparable in strength to a Bullpup, and functionally no secondary weapon. Sectoids are, amusingly, unequivocally the best playable alien. Still overall better off than Mutons, though. They remain okay even at the end of the game simply due to their strong start ablating these issues some, and in particular their ability to flank and whatnot is unparalleled, but they do struggle a little to pull their weight at that point.

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They unfortunately overall degrade as a run goes on their level-up options are largely okay-to-terrible, Bind/Tongue Pull loses relevance as enemy HP rises (They never upgrade) and invalid targets proliferate, and past the early game they're perpetually hampered by the fact that their weapon upgrades are tied to upgrading your Sniper Rifles, putting them behind when first progressing to magnetics and really leaving them in the lurch at the beam tier since there's normally little reason to upgrade Sniper Rifles to that tier when you can just loot the Darklance. Vipers start out above-average, with innate Dodge, superior Mobility, innate Bind, Tongue Pull acting as their secondary weapon, and no major tradeoffs.

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