I don't know if I'd say paramount. I mostly used them to reduce panic early on, but put up more throughout the game until I had almost the entire planet covered. It's a juggling game, as you have lots of different areas to spend money on.
If cover did more hits would be so rare on both sides (that said I prefer the original games' use of the encironment without cover systems, just a pure line of sight system. I don't think that you get hit through walls, overwatch occurs only if you get in line of sight, it's just the animations that may delay or otherwise mess up so that it looks like that while not actually being unfair with the game rules. There are lots of visual glitches and general lack of polish, like people smashing windows to fire through from the wrong side etc. anyway, think of the strategy and rules, not the eye candy's interpretation of it which may not be accurate.
First time I got a psi-lab report.
Yeah, there's a list of words it picks from, but they're random. With, apparently, an algorithm to create the most metal operation names. At least half the mission names would be a good name for a metal band.
