Can't weaken crashed UFOs?

[Anarch Cassius]

So I had a team of plasma fodd- new recruits go and take on a UFO. They all died but killed 4 of 8 aliens. When I sent the next batch in there were again 8 aliens.

This sort of discourages the player from accepting anything less than a total victory. I'd have been happy to send waves of less than stellar recruits in but I take a hit in relations for every attempt that results in less than victory and I can't do any permanent damage to the crash site.

Failure being a little less severe would encourage less save scumming and wider tactics. Also I have to wonder if this oversight could be abused... sending a strong raid team to weak crash sites and killing all but a couple, taking all the stuff you can, evacing and repeating to farm alien gear.

[geever]

Maybe in 2.6. I wanna make a change in alien team generation which supports this feature but we have many features on our plates already.

-geever

[DexCisco]

Another thing that might be considered is to have the aliens that have crashed be less than full health, or potentially even dead, depending on the condition of their ship.  It makes sense and would make crash missions play differently than landings.

[H-Hour]

Another thing that might be considered is to have the aliens that have crashed be less than full health, or potentially even dead, depending on the condition of their ship.  It makes sense and would make crash missions play differently than landings.

Already happens.

[DexCisco]

Sounds like you guys are on the ball. 

[geever]

Please open a Feature Request Ticket for the original idea so it doesn't get forgotten.

-geever

[Anarch Cassius]

Done, but I accidently left it as 3D Engine not Gameplay and lack the permissions to change it now.