Machine gun / Autocannon Discussion

[Sophisanmus]

Now, the question would be whether the aliens would continue to fire upon downed soldiers (especially when there are no other targets in LOS/range), and if so whether there will be a way to move such incapacitated soldiers out of the line of fire.

[Mayhem]

According to what motivates them, they should stop shooting any downed soldier.

If it is safe to do so, they would move up to melee range to begin organ harvesting,

If it isn't safe to do so, then zapping their active opponents should be more of a priority than pumping plasma into a possible corpse.

[Sophisanmus]

Good point; they do want live subjects as much as PHALANX does.  Still, implementing something like that might make capturing live aliens too easy, if the system also applies to them. 

[Nevasith]

lets just leave incapacitated soldiers, as phalanx do- after a failed mission you would get information, that some soldiers were given a "missing in action" status. That way we will avoid problems with tuning an AI - many players would use a downed soldiers as a trap - the guy is on the groun somewhere in the middle of the street, while his friends are behind the corner and windows with heavy lasers and full reaction fire. waiting till all the aliens end up dead trying to get to the downed

[Mayhem]

No tweak to the AI is necessary - just have the aliens ignore downed guys until they are certain the area is safe - ie, they never go after a downed guy as long as you have a living team member.

Though this discussion should be in a new thread, really.

[Doctor J]

Soldiers already are penalized for being injured. A soldier with less than 50% health gets an accuracy penalty.

Does this work on the aliens as well?

[BTAxis]

Yep.