[v1.03 - Geoscape] Exploit to teleport equipment to soldiers in dropships

[Devencire]

Double-clicking a soldier's name in the Barracks roster takes you to the Soldier Equipment screen and selects the soldier. The bug is that this works on soldiers who are in airborne dropships, and thus should not have access to base equipment. (This bypasses the restriction that you cannot select an airborne dropship group in the bottom-left of the Soldier Equipment screen.)

Using this exploit you can e.g. change a soldier's armour to something you only just finished building at the soldier's home base, even if the soldier is in a dropship on the other side of the planet. Since something is in place to stop this being done the obvious way, I assume it's unintentional that it's possible at all.

[Devencire]

I should also note that you can teleport soldiers back to base regardless of the location of their dropship by assigning them the 'Unassigned' group (or presumably a grounded dropship group) in the Barracks roster. This is perhaps less useful, but would allow you to defend against base attacks using forces you deployed to a different hemisphere (though at least you can't return them to the airborne dropship after making them Unassigned).

[KevinHann]

Nice catch, should have been pretty obvious!

[Chris]

Thanks for letting us know about this.