[V18 Steam] Melee kill soldier progress?

[Miyuki]

I've managed to flank some aliens and killed them with concentrated melee attacks, however the two soldiers that contributed only to these melee kills didn't gain any bonuses at the end of the combat, unlike the other soldiers that killed the rest of the aliens with a random assortment of guns. Was this an isolated incident or a design oversight? I'll try and replicate it...

Another issue I seem to have is that on my normal gameplay, I've had multiple alien battle rifle units roam around, but in either easy mode at around march 1980 and ironman mode in january 1980 I have yet to see a single battle rifle, thus no MAG weapons or Magstorms, which makes fighting escorted battleships pretty suicidal.

As a balance wise suggestion: Marauders without Magstorms are woefully underpowered with just two missile slots, so even six of them have trouble taking down an escorted battleship, but with a little bit of editing I gave them a third missile slot, giving me a fighting chance... However, since the autocannon takes two weapon control slots, I don't have a button to control the activation of that third missile slot, so is it possible to edit that button to only take one of the four button slots?

Edit: correction, I meant magstorms, not railguns on the Marauders. Confusing when both the soldier heavy magstorm and the craft magstorm share the same name, but the tank weapon is the railgun, when I'm so used to having them on space craft >_<

Edited June 20, 2013 by Miyuki

[Sathra]

I think only Caesans will carry battle rifles. I usually get them from bases.

[Miyuki]

I think only Caesans will carry battle rifles. I usually get them from bases.

Seems that way, I've had three caesan large bases during the normal game, which is where I got the first battle rifle, and one caesan base during the ironman one, but no luck so far... Strangely, my easy gameplay has a dozen bases all over the place and an endless number of UFOs during incursions building even more bases at a rate where I can't find and take them down in time. In harder difficulty ironman... they just seem to appear sporadically and I can pretty much clean them out as they appear, so no endless hordes. How's that for a difficulty ramp up?!

Edit: regarding battle rifles, I just finally managed to get some, apparently I hadn't gotten far enough earlier to get them to spawn in the base or something, now there was a praetorian and plenty battle rifles.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Miyuki