I made her and a few others and added them to the character pool before I started, but the rest probably are just randomly generated. She's the only one of my premades I ended up using except for a heavy to try out the class. Starting my second run now and I'm just gonna use the story guys this time. I feel it's better to focus on leveling them, since some missions require them and also don't have to deal with switching items. Plus I rarely used the crit talent, and I find the basic talents to be kinda weak.
I was just saying early on during the easier missions you could probably get by with a blaster rifle on your sniper, if you want to take 2 shots per turn instead of one. I never found range itself to be much of an issue, since I have Jae as medic/sharpshooter with blaster rifle, and usually have her in zoned in, too. Hmmm, just checked and it seems one of the things that Hard and Expert does is reduce player weapon ranges. That's kinda weird, but would definitely make the longarm more necessary. I tend to play more close up anyway, to avoid LoS issues, especially with Call for Backup. And, with the retarded unlimited melee retaliation, distance doesn't matter much, lol.
There's a six squad mod on nexus that I wanna try out, but it'll probably make the game super easy, since it's not balanced for that. Having a six man with a droid would be overkill. One of the main things that made Xcom difficult was that your soldiers could get one or two shot and be gone, and a single would would removed a soldier for weeks. Zcom you have a lot more hp padding, have to be downed 3 times in a single mission, and the medbay only takes one cycle.
