The Flamethrower: A Game of Stress

The game implies pretty heavily that like uh flamethrowers are for instance. Every time an alien is even with it within sight of a character they start taking heightened stress damage so every fight is hitting them worse. So from the beginning of the mission you have two stacks of negative debuffs on you and you're just stuck with that. The game does give you an out on this front which is at a certain point of the campaign you go into the med bay and the therapy room is open. You can effectively send troops into the therapy room to have the stuff removed but this is where the game is really nicely constructed.