Originally Posted by
Freedominspace
This is the primary idea of the policy, to keep the Marines from slaughtering the xenos with metaknowledge. However, you're never going to get rid of all the meta. For example, you see a boiler gas round coming right for you. Sure, your character doesn't know what it is, but are you, the player, going to stand around and die just for roleplay?
And it occasionally gets old having to say "What's this?" every single round. They should try an event where the Marines know about the xenos when they drop, and see how it goes.