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Soldiers shooting soldiers

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Hell-Fire:
I usually only do single shots and most of the time aimed shots with a green and soldiers are one square to either side of the green line to target.  Their rating with the weapon is 30 or higher and yet I still have a high ratio of shooting my own soldiers.

Core:
I had some of these incidents too, I think three or four. And I never shoot close to my soldiers or civilians with automatic weapons. That's why all of the incidents happened when using the sniper rifle ;D

I mean, come on, it is possible irl to shoot your friend next to you when shooting autofire from assault rifle, but I highly doubt that a trained sniper shooting on a very far target, looking through a telescopic sight, would shoot his teammate - few meters in front of him - to the back.
I think the gaussian function in case of such weapons as sniper rifles should be much much sharper. With the same chance to actually hit the alien, but with the misses to be very close, not like 20° off :)

Schilcote:
On a related note, it would be really nice to have a "This shot might hit a teammate! Are you sure?" dialogue come up when firing at far-off targets with wall-penetrating weapons. All my friendly fire incidents have been with the electromagnetic rifle when I didn't notice there was a guy standing between the alien and my sniper, and the line either stayed green or I thought it was picking up terrain.

frumius:
Hey, I just had one of my guys panic and deliberately shoot two of his teammates. I have never seen or heard of that happening in real combat. That doesn't seem to be a common panic response. I am a combat veteran and even experienced some panic myself. Usually panic results in a freeze or drop weapon and run and hide. I suppose it could happen but I have never read about such a thing. anyone else know more?

Noordung:
your soliders usually just run away. but they rarely panic. 2.4 maybe some more but i only saw them panic in 2.6 once ot two times.

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