All you need to do is open Gamecore.ini with your notepad+ and highten the FULL COVER DEFENSE BONUS. I upped it from 45 to 75. Perfect!

I mean SERIOUSLY! The guy is behind a WALL. He just peaks around it occasionally.
"How do you constantly shoot him in the face while peaking, Cyberdisc?"



Stop the mega-FRUSTRATING crits behind FULL COVER. If they hit you NOW, you know it was purely luck. Make Cover Great Again.

2 great side effects: Aliens use more grenades. Oh wait, that's not great. Actually it is, because it gives the game more depth. And: You need to apply more tactics, instead of just steady-shoot behind cover or pure-luck-shoot behind cover.
"43%? Let's try it! Oh hit! Whatever." Again, they are behind a wall or a huge tree. Can't really see them. How do you get a 43% shot in the first place?

The shootouts really get enourmously better if (FULL) cover suddenly counts for something again! It just reduces alll the random deaths the modders put in there - BECAUSE THEY (secretly) HATE YOU - and makes shootouts great again. If your guys die now, you will know that you made a mistake. Similarly it is more difficult and more rewarding to get to and kill aliens that hide behind full cover and overwatch or suppress you.

Check out my new tactical guide for XCOM Long War: The Ten XCOMmandments.
If you read these, you at least know which mistakes you made, when your soldiers died:
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3221214279&searchtext=Ten+Commandments


You find the Gamecore.ini here:
Windows: \Steam\steamapps\common\XCom-Enemy-Unknown\XEW\XComGame\Config\DefaultGameCore.ini
Mac/Linux: /Library/Application Support/Feral Interactive/XCOM Enemy Unknown/XEW/WritableFiles/XComGameCore.ini