[v20e3] Reactionfire on dead enemy

[dropbear]

More of an annoyance but since the reaction fire happens one soldier at a time anyway, it might be a good idea to stop if the alien is already dead.

[Tascruel]

Gotta agree with dropbear.

Currently it is just bit useless to save any TU to reactionfire.

Always better than nothing ofcource!

I hope you guys have some time to twiddle with the reactionfire before releasing the game.

I assume this is not top of to-do list. And also is at the todo list already?

One suggestion I had in mind, would be that we could have

option to take, or not take the reactionfire shot.

Example: 10s time to make choice or game goes further. (options like: Fire / Skip)

Also I was thinking, that you could get "new changes" to take shot,

if reaction fire %change works in your favor as opponent moves.

Could be "risky" but then again would make reaction fire much more usefull.

Just an idea

[StellarRat]

Yeah, that ones been around for a while. Of course, it is fairly realistic, but not player friendly.

[dropbear]

Since we're suggesting changes to the reaction fire mechanic anyway, I always liked the way Jagged Alliance 2 (1.13) dealt with it. Basically if you get an interrupt a player turn is inserted (and vice versa for enemies). This allows to decide weather you want to take the shot or not, which would also nicely solve the death-by-friendly-fire-because-an-alien-walked-around-the-corner issue. Depending on what the code looks like this might of course be too drastically a change, but maybe not.

One thing to note is, that if you go down that road, give the player some way to disable reactionfire if below a certain number of TUs. Otherwise you'll get spammed with interrupts you can't do anything in

Anyway wrong forum for suggestions i guess, so I'll stop now.

[StellarRat]

That would be a good option. Laser Squad worked the same way too. (If you're old enough to remember that game. It was the forerunner to XCom.)

[dropbear]

Altough technically old enough, i don't remember playing that one. Then again my memory is kind of bad, I barely remember X-Com. Anyway slightly off topic here.

[Matthew]

I reported this issue earlier, here is the reply I got:

(0000886) Chris (administrator) - 2013-11-04 08:37

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This is intentional, as reaction fire is meant to occur simultaneously but we

can't focus the camera on all the units simultaneously.

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(0000887) Chris (administrator) - 2013-11-04 08:43

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Intended.

[dropbear]

Ah well, thanks for the clarification anyways.

[vaultdweller]

Well then, I guess we'll need to spam the feedback forums about that instead, because it is a seriously annoying design decision.

[Gorlom]

I reported this issue earlier, here is the reply I got:

(0000886) Chris (administrator) - 2013-11-04 08:37

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This is intentional, as reaction fire is meant to occur simultaneously but we

can't focus the camera on all the units simultaneously.

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(0000887) Chris (administrator) - 2013-11-04 08:43

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Intended.

Silly Chris. he reaslly should consider changing that.