For as much as I like the punishing aspect game, there are plenty of parts of it that are just flat out stupid as ♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Chief among which is the fact that AI doesn't seem to recognize hazardous tiles whatsoever. kind of defeats the purpose of an area denial weapon like a flamethrower or acid grenade, when enemies just charge through them, taking no meaningful penalty and one shotting you.

At the very LEAST AI should suffer some sort of accuracy or AP penalty when on a hazard tile and should outright NOT attack if they fail an armor resistance check and proc fire.

The player/AI should be able to take a "knocked down" proc to put the fire out in one turn.

Which brings me to another pertinent topic Escort missions: Instantly killing a character because the dumb as ♥♥♥♥ escort objective runs through fire or runs AWAY from you as you're trying to heal them is cheap as ♥♥♥♥.

A dead escort should result in a timed extraction, or simply you losing any items looted on the level to "pay off" the failure.

That, or give the NPC the ability to heal themselves. Lost two geared characters because the escort got firebombed and died before I could do a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing. Pretty cool.