Sevenfm,
Please elaborate on the new option - HEAD_PENALTY_NCTH. Does it over-ride SHOT_HEAD_PENALTY?

I managed to reset this wrong placement of avatar by climbing on a roof. Now both characters are drawn on the correct tile.

2) Visual cues to indicate the approximate location of an enemy necessary: Maybe with a new skill: "Observing"?:

I also use blind suppression fire against enemies I cannot see and I do this by paying attention to the bullet tracers in order to estimate where the enemy is hiding. However, as a player I cannot keep track of all the fires shot at me. This gets very complicated when my mercs are especially getting shot at from different angles. Therefore, I need to have some visual cues indicating me the approximate location of the bullet fired in order for me to compete with the AI-suppression fire. After all, who wins the firefight, wins the actual fight.

I have discovered when I press Shift, it shows a small circle, indicating where the last enemy has shot at me. This is helpful, but shows only one target - and sometimes doesn't show any at all. So I don't know how this thing really functions.

But here is my suggestion: Ideally, what I would like to have is that my merc interprets the direction of enemy shots and I receive visual cues about the approximate enemy location. For instance, those could be indicated with green circles similar to spotting or radio skill circles - the smaller the circle, the more accurately my merc has approximated the location. This feedback could be automatic, or even better, could be made into an active skill as follows: So any merc can be assigned on the tactical to use the skill "Observe". They will be observing and giving feedback about enemy location interpreting enemy blind suppression fire. The more experienced the merc, the better. Deputies and Squadleaders get bonus points, since by profession they know how to guide firefight.

What do you say, is implementing such a thing possible?

Imagine we get feedback on all noises, 1st "bait" shot results in people shooting all over the sector,
finally team X wins after taking heavy losses, and all happened without any visual contact.

One (not serious;) way to make the game harder is to make savecumming "unattractive":
While there is no direct control over loading,
the game could keep track on number&frequency of reloads and preferably also reasons,
for e.g. 10 reloads identified as cheating it gets permission for one reload to its favour
e.g. if it "thinks" player had a lucky turn, or to start one of those reload_until_hit sequences,
imagine the reaction of affected player when it happens the 1st time

I don't know if this is from the AI mod or from something else but another thing I have noticed is that the enemy camouflage seems to be overpoweringly effective!

I have experienced such cases: I hit an enemy with stun grenade, he goes unconscious and falls prone. Then my merc goes to knife him at the spot he has fallen but the stunned enemy has disappeared! I cannot move the merc back or forward since there is an invisible thing blocking the path. I wait a couple of turns and then the enemy gets up and kills my merc! The guy was apparently there all the time, but because he wears camo, he disappears when he falls prone and I can not detect him even if I am almost on top of him zero tiles away. This is very strange, do you know what the reason could be?

Apart from this example, camouflaged enemies seem to have 100% camouflage, so they see me almost always before I see them. Is there a way to reduce or limit enemy camouflage values?

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I was thinking about two possibilities:
1. Game is randomly saved each turn with 1/10 probability in iron man mode, so you cannot save/load every turn but if something goes wrong you don't lose the whole battle.
2. Morale is reduced for mercs on each load on small amount and restores after several turns - you can save\load any time, but if you start saveloading a lot your mercs will not like it and they will start losing combat effectiveness because of morale drop.

Once the Designer of a game starts trying to modify the Player's behaviour it spells the end of the game. If a Player is save-scumming the game is already too difficult for them, even if it remains enjoyable. Now take away save-scumming and the game becomes impossible for that Player, and no longer enjoyable.

I've got runtime error with something about utf-8. Next time i will try to write down the error log.

Ok happened again, same exact error. Here's log message

Runtime Error
File: \src\Core\UFS_STRING.cpp
Line: 205
Function: ufs:string:as_utf16
invalid utf8 character 'a'=139

Game runs fine without your mod

Flashlight does not work on roof

I was surprised flashlights suddenly did not work, just when I had managed to get half a dozen of them. Turns out merc on a roof can turn flashlight on and off but it does not illuminate anything. After climbing down from roof the flaslights again worked as expected.

Is this intentional or something that game engine forces?

Why disable Flo's discount? What is the reasoning? Her backstory says she was the accountant for a gun dealer, and so would have learned the value of firearms.

Hi,
the actual German version crash after click next on the first skills selection screen on IMP...
The english version works.

Regards

It is only happen on the start of an new char - then maybe list it as know bug, and the user should create/start an new game with the english version, after this he can switch back to the german version ...

The root of the problem is maybe in german chars (ä,ö,ü,ß...) ?

Regards