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Right there it is!


I actually use Chitin Plating a fair bit. Mostly on forward Supports and shotgun Assaults. Everything else is a scope. Shotgun Assaults often hit 100% close up and 90-100 with rapid fire so while a scope could be useful(f'ing missed one of my rapid fire shots at 96% that I really could have used hitting). Supports that are up front can easily flank due to their sprinting + skeleton/ghost and they have fairly high base aim as is. So a medkit and a chitin plating incase something munches on them. That said I don't go with it every-time. Basically when in doubt scope it. If you are on a terror mission with a lot of melee units running about a chitin can be rather handy for your front line(shotgun assaults usually, though it is tough to give up a scope for it). I mean a zombie does something like 15 damage with a melee hit(or so I have read). That is more powerful than a heavy plasma hit!

Grenades for early game(alien nades mid game) can also be handy. They effectively have 100% accuracy and destroy cover. Combined this can have a much larger accuracy than a scoped weapon. Problem is you can only carry one. Which makes the scope more useful overall.