UFO:Alien Invasion
Technical support => Feature Requests => Topic started by: Tamanfodder on December 15, 2010, 10:19:17 pm
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If i happen to have a SHIVA or some other gun like the airborne laser on my dropship (excluding missles and rockets), Wouldn`t it be logical that that heavy weapon on the dropship could be used to mow down some aliens too close to the dropship???
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Probably not. Aircraft weapons would cause too much collateral damage and kill civilians.
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Makes sence... ...though i would gladly slaughter every single civilian on the map to save my soldiers...
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Makes sence... ...though i would gladly slaughter every single civilian on the map to save my soldiers...
If you only care your soldiers health why do you send them to the missions?
-geever
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Well if the civies showed a intellect ower the mental capabilities of an ameeba, i might take my task of saving them more seriously... ...currently they are a herd of sheeps happily walking towards the slaughterhouse AKA harwester. I mean if they don`t evev WANT to live, why to bother ;D
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Besides, the TR-20 Rocket pod specifically mentions that it could be used as a pre-mission softener. SHIVA would also do, since it is rather precise and HE rounds would explode on impact, making them rather good for anti-infantry use.
Pretty much anything could be used, though TR-20 would most likely be the strongest weapon in it.
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If 'craft weapons were fully operational from the ground, your Firebird would never survive getting anywhere near the mission because it's extremely outmatched by any of the UFOs.
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Not from the ground but from the air for softening the enemy a bit. E.g. doing a couple of strafing runs with the SHIVA before actually landing and dropping the troops. Or have an interceptor fire rockets from TR-20 to soften or kill some of the aliens before the actual mission.
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Well this could be simulated by adding some random dead aliens and civs to the mission site at the becinning of the mission...