Wounded on the Ground?

[Snarks]

So I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but occasionally I find that a Xenonaut who was shot and knocked to the ground survive at the end of the mission. Does this mean they were not fatally shot? I've also noticed that sometimes their body does not show up in the inventory screen until a few turns later. So if they can be wounded on the ground, is it possible to stabilize them?

[Commissar Pancakes]

Most likely a bug to be honest...

[Tobbzn]

I know you can "revive" people who've just been knocked out, and I seem to remember a post stating that there's a "chance" for a downed soldier to survive with grievous wounds. Did you have a medical center when this happened?

[Snarks]

Yes, I had a medical center. I'm not sure how you would revive someone who had been knocked out though.

[Gopa5]

I recall in the OG you would occasionally have a soldier go down wounded, and the game would tick down the turns till they died. Maybe that's the case here?

[GizmoGomez]

I don't know about their body not appearing, or whatever, but them reviving is not a bug.

If they are within a certain number of hit points below 0 (down to -10 or -20, I think) they have a small chance to be revived.

[EchoFourDelta]

I recall in the OG you would occasionally have a soldier go down wounded, and the game would tick down the turns till they died. Maybe that's the case here?

Yeah, in the OG, you could end up with the dual state of a soldier being both knocked unconscious and having what the game referred to as "fatal wounds," which caused the loss of 1 HP per wound per turn, so if a soldier was both knocked unconscious and bleeding out from wounds, you'd end up with what you described after a fashion. Treating their wounds (and jacking them up to consciousness with stims and sending them back to the Skyranger if you were smart) would keep them alive. That, or picking their unconscious body up, hauling them back to the rear, and treating them there.

[Snarks]

But is it possible to treat them in Xenonauts? When I tried to mouse over the body with a medkit, I don't seem to get any indicator to treat them.

[Ol' Stinky]

I think I remember reading that there was a small chance that KIAs can actually survive, but it's a small enough chance that you shouldn't count on it. Whether it's that or a bug like the good Commissar says, it's probably something calculated after the mission. Once soldiers kick the bucket on the battlefield, it's too late to apply first-aid; you don't have the situation from the original that Echo states. (First aid in Xenonauts being to hurl aspirin at someone who's wounded, judging from the animation.)

[Elydo]

Uses the same animation as the stun rod too, leading me to think...

Edit: Uploaded thumbnail was tiny, so linked to the image itself.

Edited September 15, 2013 by Elydo

[Ol' Stinky]

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Commissar Pancakes]

Police Medic heals you for Negative HP recovery.