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Author Topic: [Solved] Behavior of unload all shortcut ("x") for soldiers on a craft.  (Read 1695 times)

Offline R1dO

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I'm not sure if intended but it doesn't hurt to ask.

Noticed this when trying to unload all soldiers from a craft using the route:
base->crafts->Select a craft->Soldiers button-> Unload all shortcut ("x")

What did i expect:
 Only soldiers from the current craft would be unloaded
What did i observe:
 Soldiers from all crafts on the current base were unloaded

Were my expectations wrong or is this unintended behavior?
« Last Edit: February 12, 2023, 01:03:37 pm by Meridian »

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Re: Behavior of unload all shortcut ("x") for soldiers on a craft.
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2022, 10:58:13 am »
it's intended

X = remove from all
Z = remove from current

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Re: Behavior of unload all shortcut ("x") for soldiers on a craft.
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2022, 05:50:26 pm »
Honestly, I don't like this... Pressing X in the inventory only clears this particular soldier, so why would it be different with craft?

As a player, in 25 years of playing X-com, I've often needed to remove all soldiers from a craft, but not a single time I needed to unload all the craft. And I already know that X is associated with clearing the current item... This doesn't add up at all.

I really think X and Z should be swapped here. Please.

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Re: Behavior of unload all shortcut ("x") for soldiers on a craft.
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2022, 06:47:41 pm »
They are configurable by the player.
(sorry, I'm not going to change the defaults that have been in use since 2015)

As for which one is more useful, I have never used Z, I use exclusively X. We can talk about our use cases over a beer some day :)

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Re: Behavior of unload all shortcut ("x") for soldiers on a craft.
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2022, 07:00:02 pm »
Thank you for confirming, it didn't occur to me to look in the "controls" section :faceslap:.

Now that I take a closer look I start to appreciate the consistency of this key-'combo' in relation to the other base 'management' keys,
"X" is everything unconditionally, "Z" is everything with some screen specific exceptions.

Let me just consider this as part of my learning curve ;)