In Covert Infiltration, ambush maps are WAY too large. They are also incredibly repetitive and a slogfest. There is no tactical decisionmaking and takes away from the fun part of the mod, which is the new geoscape and the event chains. Missions were tense at first having to navigate with a severely understrength squad but they got old fast.

It's not like ambush missions are particularly hard, just stealth through with civilian disguises or overwatch crawl since the only enemies you encounter (at least til midgame, since that's where I am at) are troopers. The biggest issue I have is that they are just flat out boring. Not only does the percentage seem to lie ("trivial" = 100%) but I avoid covert actions that feature them just because I do not enjoy these 15 minute ad breaks in my gameplay.

Finally, some missions types feel like a waste of electricity. Reinforcements should not drop every turn during supply crate extractions, this is a death sentence combined with crates disappearing every 1-2 turns, often 10-15 units between each other requiring a full dash. There's no tactical depth to this mission type, the only correct move is just to extract immediately. This leads to very unsatisfying gameplay. Alloy scarcity should not be balanced around obtaining 1 crate per supply extraction, this just wastes the entire setup of the mission.

Both these mission types culminate in repetitive gameplay, as both mission types have the one game plan, which is dodge around units with stealth, then the mission ends. Once I finish this campaign I doubt I will revisit CI again, despite the interesting geoscape changes, unless significant changes are made to these two mission types.