Anyone else having trouble with the Sniper Shot?

[Pope Innocent the 69th]

It's weird because I used it several times to good effect and I definitely know how it works.

But now my guys INSIST on starting to fire as soon as I click on the guy WHILE THE SNIPER SHOT ABILITY IS ACTIVE.

There is no other way to make the ability go off and I've done this before without problems, so why is the game suddenly so hell-bent on making me blow my cover?

Edit: Ok, it's even worse than that, my guys just seem to start shooting as soon as they see a xeno, even if we're undetected...what the f*ck?

Edit 2: Okay, now I'm thoroughly confused, my guys sometimes just start guns blazing as soon as they get their eyes on a xeno, sometimes they start shooting when I try to tell my sniper to pick off an unaware xeno, sometimes...they let him do his thing and it works. I'm failing to see any pattern, I swear I'm not detected and not clicking 'kill that bastard' when they start guns blazing...I'm really, really confused now.

[Bamsmacked]

It's a bit wonky. When you use the Precise Shot ability the icon should be blue and you just click it once, if you get the blue skull thing that means the Marine is about to carry out the action. If you press the Blue Skull thing after the fact the rest of your squad will take that as a Kill The Bastard order and open fire.

Precise Shot is nice but so wonky. If you see a target your Marine has to be in direct line of sight to take the order too which seems counter-intuitive because if you try to move to gain line of sight it moves the entire squad, I feel like if you see a target you should be able to use Precise Shot and your Recon will move until they have line of sight and take the shot. You can send out Marines to do multiple tasks at once like Weld doors, loot, and deploy stuff etc etc but for whatever reason you can't do this with Precise Shot -- you need to position the entire squad.

[jajomba]

its a bug
sometimes your dudes just start firing at everything even while undetected

[Pope Innocent the 69th]

Thing is, I AM doing that already, I've noticed that the line needs to connect to them and even when it's perfectly lined up, the guy starts saying 'got you in my sights' but at the same time the rest starts yelling KILL IT KILL IT.

[Majestic Fantastic]

Yeah, there's been a few times where my marines will just start firing full auto at everything even when undetected which makes silenced sniper shots worthless. It's particularly annoying and I think the only way to fix it is to leave the mission and send in another squad.