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Heavy Lasers are sort of beaten by the Laser Tank...

If you're playing on the hardest difficulty setting, only the Heavy Laser and the Heavy Plasma and the Blaster Bomb have a decent chance at killing a Sectopod in a decent number of hits.

Maybe you haven't seen the severe advantage that flying and firing explosive autocannon rounds gives you, especially early in the game. It turns all those (numerous) near misses into hits.

Also, I wanna join after you get access to rocket launchers and mini launchers. Gimma one of those! Guided tracking heavy damage weapons? Ohhhhhh yeeeaaaahhhhh....

I always do Cult of Sirius in turn based. Because I'm a sadist and I enjoy walking right up to a COS and firing 10 rounds into him at point blank. (on full auto, 10 rounds = 10 AP lol)

I'm pretty sure sportscars are preferable because they go fast. I have yet to verify this. Also they look cool.
Unfortunately it had an alarm, so I cheesed it. Let's try again.
This time I found a bug with no alarm and hotwired it, we have a car!

Really all it does is open up a few new locations, but I feel better knowing that we have a car now.
Really, all I've been doing is grinding McProstitute to as high as I can get, I may actually suit her up and have her start killing security guards, unless there's a better, less dangerous way to grind weapon skill.
I know it's a short update, but I did get a lot done, so expect me to do a bigger one next time.

yes, sportscars go fast fast. Very good for escaping car chases, though the game takes driving skill and car speed into account.
Well, those locations are sort of critical. And give good rewards. Also, cars allow your team to make smooth getaways even when members are wounded. (otherwise wounded members tend to get left behind when running, and beaten to death or arrested). Also, cars will usually absorb bullets fired at anyone. Works for both sides. I think it's 70% chance to block any incoming shot? Car chases also render melee weapons useless. "PERSUASION" attacks remain just as powerful.
 
To reduce danger, get your members some armor. Like bulletproof vests or such.
Or shoot up enemies who don't have guns. Like the conservative workers with chains in the factories.
Or just shoot up the unarmed civilians in public areas.
If you run away early enough, the police/angry mob will not have time to mobilise and block the entrance.

Yea Chryssalids were terrifying in xcom.  I recall rather fighting mutons than those things.  But a few guys with flying suits turn them into jokes.

Sorta like the brainsuckers in Apocalypse.  Fast moving, small targets almost garenteed to take out a soldier and turn them against you if they got to one.

Brainsuckers fortunately had that little bug or exploit though that made them significantly less dangerous. They couldn't brainsuck a crawling soldier.  And they would still try.  They would just bug out and knock themselves out on the soldier's tile for the duration of the mission instead of brainsucking.  It was hilarious when an entire swarm of the things went after one crawling soldier.  That bug probably singlehandedly knocked the game's difficulty down a few notches, and made live brainsuckers child's play to get.

OR, you could fly up to the ceiling.
OR you could stand in a doorway.
OR you could use androids.
 
Plenty of ways to beat brainsuckers, actually.

Lasers are terran weapons too...

... hmm. Actually, on terran weapons only, you just let the larger UFOs land, I guess.

If you want to quibble over semantics, the PSI-AMP is actually Terran (the aliens don't have anything similiar, theirs is biological not technological) and it's not really a weapon...

Make sure you overcome the "all difficulty modes turn to easy mode after a reload" bug.

Also, Flying Suits are not weapons either.

Well, the LOCATION determines the type of enemy. Whether you get 1 squad of police/ 1 squad of mercenaries/ 1 squad of agents/ 6 squads of hicks/ 6 squads of gang units.

You should do an all syringes run, lol.