This is likely because robotic enemies have become more prevalent with the Seeker showing up early in the game and the Mechtoid showing up a little later. This is a step down from the +100% it used to have in Enemy Unknown. This ability simply gives a straight +50% damage against robotic enemies. Combine this with the +10% from Holo-targeting and you can take an enemy from an incredible defensive position to a dead position. Suppression will also remove the targets reaction shots, making it safe for your troops to manuever on the battlefield. This can be used to pin down a powerful enemy that you can't hit easily. Your soldier will also get an opportunity to fire on them, just like Overwatch, if they move. Suppression picks a target and reduces their aim by 30. This allows you the option of shooting a weaker rocket that may not kill your enemies, but instead give you a solid opportunity to capture or kill them with regular gunfire and loot their corpses. The best part about this rocket is that it's a four damage rocket, instead of the six damage that the Squaddie level rocket gives you. Sergeant Shredder Rocketįor the next four turns, any enemies hit by this rocket suffer 33% more damage from all sources. This can be good for taking down a big or hard to kill enemy, however it's rare that the Heavy can't kill a big target with two shots that Bullet Swarm could have given him instead of this ability. Any enemy that you suppress or fire at on a turn will have a +10% bonus applied to any other allies firing at him in the same round. This ability essentially 'lights up' the target. Normally your turn always ends as soon as you have fired your weapon. A more advanced use of the ability will allow you to shoot, then move.

Great for putting your biggest gun on the same target twice or spreading the wealth to multiple enemies in the same turn. The simplest use of this ability lets you shoot twice in a turn. This is, honestly, my favorite ability for the Heavy. You can drop the scanners and the spawn point won't scatter like it normally does when you first find them, leaving you with a perfect grouping for explosives.

It gets pretty difficult in the heat of battle to get a group of baddies in the same place to pose for your explosives, unless you have a Sniper with the battle scanner ability. Whenever you want to reach out and touch an enemy with weapons of the explosive nature, the Rocket is your weapon of choice. The Fire Rocket ability is a critical ability for the Heavy. They can't move before the shot and they will need line of sight, unlike grenades, but the shot goes farther and does a little more damage than the grenade. The soldier gets to fire a rocket once per mission.

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