Ground Combat Balance Discussion v19 Experimental Build 3

[Ol' Stinky]

The "gc" stands for ground combat. Weapons.xml is mostly for the geoscape, although confusingly, some of the fields also have an effect on the ground combat too, which is why you should try and keep the two in sync. Ammo is the major culprit and was the cause of that medkit-with-1-ammo bug a few builds back.

As for the why, I'm guessing it's a development scar that's never healed, the same way there are some .xmls that don't seem to serve a purpose.

[DNK]

Yeah, there's no reason to separate them. It's a lot easier for modders to only have 1 file to deal with, there's no reason for 2, and with contradictory values it gets really confusing.