I will be getting Xcom 2 on xbox one since I do not have a PC currently. Sad Face. On the 27th of September.

Hello good sir, how have you been? Are you getting XCOM 2?

Ignoring the fact that they were on the ground level, and had to shoot up through both(one by door, one heavy was behind) sarcophagi, logically, the smoke should have blocked their view. That's why I suspect the effects are only applied to units inside the smoke itself. Every other game I've played that has smoke grenades counts it as visual cover, so I thought this one would too.

Re: Smoke Grenade-
The exact situation was...
I was inside the mausoleum at the center of the cemetary map. One support soldier was around the corner from a side doorway, out of sight. One of my heavies was inside, opposite from that doorway, on the far side behind the sarcophagus. Directly across from the heavy, outside were two thinmen. The support tossed the smoke in the doorway as the last move of the round. I hoped it would obscure the view through the doorway, and the thinmen would either advance inside(it was too far to move and shoot), or move around to another door or go for one of my other guys outside. Instead, they both stood their ground and shot my heavy.

What am I doing? Letting people know that humility always trumps revenge.

333 hours of xcom online, anyway.