Alien use of ammo: Can they run out?

[The Martian]

Do enemy units consume the ammo in their inventory as they fire weapons and reload from their own personal inventory supplies when necessary?

Or do they just have an infinite supply of ammo and only the player is restricted by a units total ammo loaded/carried?

[wcho035]

Yeap, enemy do reload.

[The Martian]

Thank you for the information. ^_^

[The Martian]

(Question):
If an alien runs out of ammo in their currently held weapon and they have two different types of ammo in their inventory that could potentially be loaded into the weapon, how does the AI choose which of the two ammo types to reload with?

[wcho035]

The AI load whichever it feels like. It happen in my mod where alien need to choose between a Stunt gas type warhead and napalm and alien choose napalm...

[The Martian]

Did your napalm weapon happen to have a higher power: value than the stun gas?

[wcho035]

They are the same amount of damage.

[The Martian]

In that case perhaps it is one of the following that is determining which item has priority to be loaded:
. The value of listOrder: on the ammo.
. The position of the ammo in the units inventory.
. Which of the ammo clips is defined first inside the items: .rul file.