• Dying mercs are no longer attacked by the AI.
• If REDUCED_INSTANT_DEATH is set to TRUE (default is FALSE), damage from guns/knives that would normally instantly kill non-comatose player-controlled mercs is lowered so that they instead fall into a coma (and can be saved by other mercs).
  
  Note that this does not apply if the attack caused a special death animation to play - no, you cannot survive your head exploding. This can also be circumvented if the damage is stupid high (taking a 7.62 NATO Glaser burst to the face is still kinda final). I also said guns, not bullets, so frags should not be affected by this.

it is and interesting question. on one hand, it goes against the whole 'hardcore' aura we've got going, on the other ... something that reduces insta-alt+l and leads to those awesome "and then I threw down a smokescreen and grizzly rushed in to drag that guy out and spider got her gloves on and buzz was just ripping through belts suppressing everyone ..." stories instead sounds worthwhile to me