Concealment (XCOM2)

Concealment is a new mechanic introduced in XCOM 2. In certain mission types your squads will start consealed, wich means that the enemy wont know your precense and will patrol the map without knowin you are out there. The best about this new mechanic is the possibility of setting ambushes. To set an ambush just distribute all your soldiers in good cover and put all except one in overwatch, then use the last soldier to attack, this will break concealment and hell will breake loose.

Breaking Concealment

As said before, attacking will break concealment, but that is not the only thing that will break it. Steping into an enemy or civilian LoS will break concealment too, also failing a hack attempt or an enemy flanking you will reveal your squad.

Getting most of Concealment

There are certain skills that can be used to boost the effectivenes of Concealment. Rangers excell with Concealment, their first three Scout skills allow it to remai in concealment, get an aim and critical chance bonus when in concealment and also enter Concealment again once per mission, you will be able to flank, attack and most probably kill an enemy in the same turn.

Sharpshooter´s Kill Zone and Grenadier¨s Saturation Fire will get most out of this game mechanic, since enemies will be out of cover so you will have a flanking shot critical bonification when attacking with those AoE skills.