Low leve RD recruits are used to drink funny stuff all the time!
...
proper RD serum
I mean, it's more about the risk/reward ration. A random gopnik is at best familiar with Storm, not the RD serum. And even if the end result is demonstrated beforehand, it's just 45HP -> 50HP. Training and dieting (and regular steroids
) can give +10-20HP, as evidenced by the stats of civilians (and military 'civilians'). X-Com Bio-Enhancement does give +15, and Red Ops vs regular military is also about +15, so maybe the higher ranks do get a better serum.
But the point is, it's not a lot of reward for joining a
suspiciously military gang that might not be a
gang after all. It might be
political, and your typical gopnik knows very well that you
avoid becoming political.
But my biggest gripe is that this +5HP translates to about
zero difference in gameplay. Your tactics for taking down a buff RD guy are the
exact same as against a not-so-buff Dagonite or farmer. EXALT goons, MiB agents, Osiron, etc with their light armour are actually a bit different from a plain non-pathetic human. RD toughs sadly are not.
...forbidding Pioneers from using it would make little sense. They're sort of junior officers, past the testing phase.
If you say so. As long as they were weak and there was nothing to contradict that in the Ufopedia description (being an assistant can also be a test!), I could very well think that they were cannon-fodder-in-training. In fact, they were depicted as ensign/junior lieutenant types, and we all know how these fellas are.
Come to think of it, where
are the guys who're still in the testing phase? A little strange that they are not fielded
anywhere.
Are you sure? Nobody pointed out anything like this in years.
"Nobody bothered to correct me" is not an argument. You really need to familiarise yourself with how iconic firearms look if you're going to make a 'gun porn' mod.
But, okay:
Sten,
Sterling. Note the barrel shroud.
Now, the Sten gun
did come in a few different
marks. The above is the most popular and iconic one, Mark II. Mark III did look a lot more like the bigob. But none of them had that exact kind of
perforated barrel shroud (though Mark III came close and some others could have
somewhat similar sound suppressors).
The Pioneer should appear only after you discover their Network, but over the years something probably changed...
Cult Suppression missions also have both Lads and Pioneers. They're kind of a 'failure to Network' thing, though. And even then both Lads and Pioneers appear in them. I don't know of a single mission that only has Lads.