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Tactics / Ninja playstyle possible?

« on: August 27, 2015, 11:44:51 am »

Hello together.

I was a quiet reader until now. But some of the discussions here give me an idea of playstyle: Ninja-Stabbing

At the moment I'm in my first campaing playthrough with a mixed assault/sniper (main-team) and two full assault teams.
Laser riffles are awesome and snipers were great until i get the laser weapons. Now I'm building my first coil guns...
I've played some Missions with Smoke Grenades - very strong but not so funny and you lose very much civils.
Now I'm using a camping + reaction fire playstyle with laser riffles... quiet ok but not as offensive as i like it.

So I've read about soldiers wiht monomolecular knife and grenades only. It sounds interesting but is it realy playable?
I mean running from smoke cloud to smoke cloud, using IR googles and then stabbing the dammed aliens sounds fun.
Or would it be better to use flashbangs?

And about reaction fire: would a small shotgun/machinegun/plasma revolver work?
Does it have to be in the main hand?

What do you think?