Suggestions?

[mg979]

Not sure if this is the appropriate subforum, but I'd like to suggest a couple of things:

- I love statstrings but I find the / after each name very unnecessary, I prefer symbolic strings (like > / >> / >>> / <>) rather than letters so that / just stands in the way. So an option tu turn it off

Then a couple of new item properties in rulesets to define:

1. aim bonus when crouched (a sniper rifle would benefit more than a pistol, a LMG even more, to simulate bipod)
2. a flat TU before the first shot after moving or crouching (not turning), to simulate weapon draw (would be high for sniper rifles/LMG, low for pistols, etc)

[Meridian]

Then a couple of new item properties in rulesets to define:
1. aim bonus when crouched (a sniper rifle would benefit more than a pistol, a LMG even more, to simulate bipod)

This is already possible in OXCE+ if you're interested: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4647.msg65327.html#msg65327

[mg979]

This is already possible in OXCE+ if you're interested: https://openxcom.org/forum/index.php/topic,4647.msg65327.html#msg65327

Thanks, I'm not following OXCE+ atm but it's nice to hear an option is there already. Anyway I think this option would become more meaningful with the second change I suggested. For example it would be nice to get a bigger bonus when crouched when using LMG, but there should be a drawback (more TUs for weapon draw). If this is difficult to do (tracking move etc), an alternative could be a modifier to the TU needed for crouching, depending on the item equipped (also in the item ruleset).

[yrizoud]

You can't expect to replicate Jagged Alliance in the simple XCOM model. It requires way too many states, like prone, kneeling, standing, walking, running, all of these combined with the weapon's "ready state" (aiming at a specific target or tile)

[mg979]

Yes absolutely and I wouldn't like it either if I had to manually ready weapons and such. I was thinking more about a flat TU penalty/bonus when crouching standing up, maybe depending on weapon weight rather than type, so it would be like -1 TU for crouching/standing up with pistols, normal for rifles, +1 TU for heavy weapons like rocket launcher, LMG etc.