I've liked this class, but I can't help but feel that using a cannon with extended mags and such with guaranteed shots is too strong for a squaddie rank thing. Maybe I'm overestimating it, though, it just feels very effective.

I'm grabbing this class and your supporter and I'm going to see how they go. Thank you

after playing with it a bit more, i agree on most that, just that aim at the heart + concen/grazing fire as a combo is prolly on the OP side being able to reliably instant kill some of the stronger advent units. but that was the only issue i can think off in terms of balance, heavy fire is a fun ability, and is balanced by requiring set up, overall a fun class i am keeping in my campaigns

For this reason, the Grazing Fire and Concentration abilities are less powerful for this class as they don't match the role. Instead, they may complete the soldier by improving standard shots and overwatch. The player gets more options to either use Heavy fire or save ammo in certain situations with still lower hit chance. I don't think that this makes the class op. Only the combination with Aim for the heart might be too powerful. I've created this ability for vanilla and have not really tested it in that combination yet.

The default ability of this class is the heavy fire. So as you said, if the soldier is in a good position, he can attack with 100% hit chance, as long as he has enough ammo. In mid/late game with better weapons and attachements, you usually have enough ammo to use this ability 3+ times before reloading. In most cases, at least after 3 turns there are no enemies in sight so you have to move your soldier and are able to reload. So the role of this class is to deal 1 shot each round when facing enemies. Having the hevy fire ability available in most cases, standard shots and overwatch are much less effective.

Hey Captain Pet Rock, thanks for sharing your opinion. I thought about why I put those two abilities, Grazing Fire and Concentration, in the low tier perk list. So here is my answer:

also a note with Aim at the heart + concentration/grazing fire gives you a ridiculously high chance to instant kill humanoids.

Concentration and Grazing fire are a bit too strong together (they were removed previously from all classes that could get it i believe), you have both of them showing up on the xcom row for 10 AP. Concentration is usually on other classes row for 20-30 AP, same with grazing fire. Might wanna take a look at those and adjust AP costs/choose to only have one.

ight have one running in my current campaign, brought on a few missions, seems to be in an okay spot, the heavy fire ability is interesting, if you can get him set up he can basically kill something each turn until reload. will give you more opinions if i can get them into later game

will check it out, will let you know what i think

Thanks for sharing your opinion. That's what I thought, it's a gap. It's small, but it's a gap.

Since we already have Ranger as a rifle prime + sawed-off sidearm, it's a good idea to focus on Frontline's offensive cannon skills. I know Gunner is probably doing this, but to me Gunner is more Suppression-specialized, and he's not carrying a sawed-off lol.

random question: would you be willing to post a description of the perks in the perk tree?

Thanks for reporting, should be fixed now.

There seems to be an error in the english localization file, the class is called "AGunner" in the header instead of "Frontman".

thanks mate