Will MARS units get more gear options with further updates?

[Bookshelf11]

I fell in love with these little robots and bring one every mission but the lack of options with their gear causes them to sometimes be a little lacking sometimes. The rockets and cannon are both very good for their roles but considering they take a troop slot and cost a lot to make/repair, they feel not as good/versatile as they should really be considering you can just take extra grenades of any type and have a rifle by replacing that MARS with a Xenonaut who is cheaper and will get better with missions. 

 

The ability to have them with a grenade launcher (maybe instead of the smoke launcher?) to provide smoke and destruction, a heavy machinegun to supress and a heavy short range electrical prod to serve as a shock jock as possible options would make MARS units feel like they're very much robots designed to fulfil a specific niche that you wouldn't or couldn't have a human do. Even giving them more pure support modules/the ability to use MARS exclusive modules alone would go a long way as well, like a stealth field emitter module that provides a defence aura much like the Stalker suit, a medkit module that acts similar to the healing of a servitor or a form of self repair module if you want them to be a bit more selfish.  

 

Obviously they shouldn't be as good as a fully trained and geared Xenonaut in a role that Xenonauts can fill but a MARS unit should definitely provide a specific role considering the price and the limit we have on the dropship, be it directly assisting you in taking out enemies by destroying cover and supressing them or indirectly by providing smoke cover while it uses its medkit secondary to heal someone bleeding out. 

[Alienkiller]

The MARS have an great Upgrade-Gear with more R & D already. Played the stablest Betas and could test it out. But yeah, more modular Components and Rework-possibilitys would be great, there I agree.

There get done a lot of Discussions in the Beta-Phase already (and we could make an MARS-Refit later on to let him fly instead using Tracks).

If you and others have good Ideas to make the Mars cooler, then come with Ideas. But not with impossible Ideas like in an other Thread for Support-Vehicles already mentioned about the hardcoded Field-Limitation (1x1) to bring it in instead an Soldier.

Edited July 21, 2023 by Alienkiller