This is the mission that first illustrates how nasty Xtra Spicy is. I didn't -quite- die trying to do this mission, but it was close. When I went through this on Normal, I was able to breeze on through and basically ignore enemies, letting my randomly sprayed Blade Launchers handle the issue and not pay attention to damage taken. On Xtra Spicy, it became extremely obvious that Sectoids have perfect aim, up to and including accounting for your current trajectory. With the open terrain, huge numbers of them get to wear me down all at once, and their increased damage and to a lesser extent the increased costs of upgrades I can't shrug it off.
In conjunction with how much slower I am at killing everything, Xtra Spicy demands... not precisely caution, but certainly more thought. Less just doing whatever and hoping it works out and more paying attention to firing lines and the like. It's gonna vary some based on map design of course, but this is pretty typical for the foreseeable future.
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