[Weapon] Medical Gas Grenade

[Roxis231]

Over the last little while I've been thinking about early game ways of catching live Aliens.

As far as I know the only 3 ways you can catch them before gaining the stun launcher are:

- Stun Rod
- Tazer Pistol (mod by Ryskeliini)
- or just shear luck

Given that 2 of these are close range (and often deadly), I came up with the Idea of a researchable grenade that spewed knockout gas.

This is the result - the MediGas grenade.
(I've based the sprite off the games Smoke Grenade, but I'm no artist, so if any one has a better one feel free to let me know please)

The research topic unlocks when you research at least one of the Alien Autopsy's - Once researched it can be manufactured fast and cheaply from smoke grenades at a cost of $75 a unit .

For those interested in its power - It has an attack power of 35 with a blast radius of 3

This mod is usable but still not complete because I haven't got any translations other than English (since that's the only lanuage I speak) so if anyone wants to add a translation (or has a problem with a translation), please let me know and I'll see about adding them.

Edit - Current Translations : English, Polish,

The text to translate is

      STR_MEDGAS_GRENADE: Medi-Gas Grenade
      STR_MEDGAS_GRENADE_UFOPEDIA: Combining the trigger mechanism from a smoke grenade with a small pressurized canister of Anesthetic Gas, these grenades are an ideal (if low strength) way to capture live Aliens

I'll add more translations as people send them to me - this will probably go to the mod site when I have 12 -15 translations.

Not Compatable with May 7th+ nightly (will fix when I Can)

[Falko]

that works?
i tried a acid-grenade once and it did not work i see no differencve between your item and mine - strange

[Roxis231]

Yes it works - I've been using it for several weeks now and had no problems with it (other than the fact it takes quite a few grenades to drop Mutons and Floaters - up to 6 on one ocasion!)

I tend to equip each member of the squad with 3-4 grenades - especaly on terror missions.

[Jo5hua]

There is a similar mod but it requires research of a stun bomb, the stun grenade.

https://www.openxcom.com/mod/stun-grenade

[yrizoud]

From the name, I thought you had made something with negative damage to heal your soldiers
In any case, this sounds balanced, and I like how it's not redundant with the stun grenades mentioned above, they're stronger but happen in later part of the game.

[Roxis231]

Yes, the Idea was to create a weapon that could be used within the first 3 or so UFO's rarther than wait for the stun launcher to turn up on the 5 or 6th terror mission.

From the name, I thought you had made something with negative damage to heal your soldiers

Yes - it is a stupid name - if anyone can come up with a better one, please suggest it!

[Falko]

tried your exact mod with damge changed to acid - does not work i suppose devs only implemented stun/he/smoke (=vanilla) explosions

[Roxis231]

Sorry to hear that - you could suggest it be impllimented, right?

[Solarius Scorch]

I haven't checked your mod in practice yet, but here's the Polish translation:

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  - type: pl-PL
    strings:
      STR_MEDGAS_GRENADE: Granat usypiający
      STR_MEDGAS_GRENADE_UFOPEDIA: Dzięki zapalnikowi granatu dymnego zamontowanym na małym kanistrze ze sprężonym gazem usypiającym, granat ten doskonale sprawdza się w łapaniu żywych obcych.

CAUTION: remember to save it in UTF-8, or non-English characters will become unreadable. I'm attaching your .rul file converted to UTF-8, so you can use this.

I guess we need a zombie autopsy article now...

[Aldorn]

CAUTION: remember to save it in UTF-8, or non-English characters will become unreadable. I'm attaching your .rul file converted to UTF-8, so you can use this.

Right, and it has to be done before pasting new data...

[Roxis231]

Thanks Guys - I'll keep that in mind.

I'm currently keeping the mod updated as I get the translations.  Current version is in the first post.

[Roxis231]

After working on this a bit more, I plan to make it a [BETA] Mod soon.

[the_third_curry]

Yes - it is a stupid name - if anyone can come up with a better one, please suggest it!

Maybe "somnolent gas grenade" as a name?

[Gifty]

Maybe something snappy and to the point, like Medigas or Medibomb.

[moriarty]

Hypno-Grenade? Morpheus Bomb? 

NarcBomb or Narcobomb or Narco-Grenade would also be valid