• you attack anyone, plant bombs, pick locks etc.
• as civilian:
  
  • you have any weapons, armour or explosives that are not hidden
  • you have any camouflage
  • you behave uncivilian-like
  • you are in a restricted sector, like Orta. Civs will be shot on sight here.
• as a soldier
  
  • you target 'fellow' soldiers with your gun
  • you are drunk
  • you are close an only have the first level of this trait
  • your equipment is better than what one would expect from a typical soldier
  • you carry a suspicious amount of weapons

• civilian clothes is a new item with which you can disguise yourself as a civilian
• a garotte is a devastating close combat weapon that can instantly kill someone... if the target is unaware, and you are familiar with this.
• a neurotoxin dart will inject a devious drug into the target and kill him a few turns later
• items can now be covert, which excempts them from detection. This works on guns as well as on LBE items itself. So a 'covert' revolver holster can hide any revolver in it.

It's a mod , guys , when it's released try it and either enjoy or don't play again , more choice IS better .
And thanks Flugente for all your work :ok:

Wow... I was planning to do this.

One suggestion: Do not allow to take usable enemy uniform, if that enemy was shot or stabbed, so the unarmed combat gets a little more space in the gameplay.

And I am not sure if it is balanced to have it as a major trait. Its usability may not be every-day, and lately this trait may become obsolete.

Nice feature, but wouldn't this make the game a little too easy? Like, if I can walk into the SAM locations and explode the terminal to disable the rockets, then there is no reason why I should openly attack such locations at all, as the covert ops solution seems to be faster and easier.

Balance of the game has been disturbed slightly with each feature. Currently i can only enjoy playing 1.13 while holding myself back. I suggest you the same.

Nice feature, but wouldn't this make the game a little too easy? Like, if I can walk into the SAM locations and explode the terminal to disable the rockets, then there is no reason why I should openly attack such locations at all, as the covert ops solution seems to be faster and easier.

And... to those concerned that this will make the game to easy... note that altough it currently can only be used by the player, minimal changes would allow the enemy to use this too. :cloud8: The problem is that the AI would simply rush up to you and shoot you in the face, which, while certainly refreshing, feels like it could need a bit of tweaking.

• GameDir of revision >= 1529 is needed, otherwise you will experience crashes because of missing STI files.
• This is savegame compatible (back to r5480). However, you will propably want to start a new game, as only IMPs can select the new trait in the IMP creation process.
• Should you, however, decide to lend that skill to existing mercs in their profiles: This is the skill number 20.
• This skill is new trait system only. Also, while still possible with OIV, I strongly recommend using NIV with this feature (with OIV you will have some serious drawbacks, as you can't hide anything in your inventory).
• The new dialogue for the handling of corpses (decapitating, gutting, stripping or picking up) requires a knife in your first hand, as it is directly based on the old decapitation action.
• As suggested by Sandro, if you kill a soldier with bullets or stabs to the torso or legs, you won't be able to use this uniform later on.
• There is no animation for carrying a corpse, you just have the item in your hand (it does not fit into the inventory). Other people with knowledge in animations might add some here ?
• Similar, the civilian clothes, garotte and corpse items have only placeholder pictures. Hopefully, this ugliness will drive capable people to make good pictures here...
• To those who are interested: When covert, the AI does not react to you if in green state. On yellow, they are sometimes driven near you (because you suddenly become a bit interesting). On higher alarm levels, they will cling to you. This is achieved by reducing the amount of 'noise' they hear from you on lower alarm levels. They don't really follow you, they just follow the sounds you make...
• The garotte is a new melee weapon designed for the covert ops trait. It deals low damage, but has the cahnce to deliver instant kills. The propability for this is raised by your covert ops skill (look in SkillSettings.ini for the settings). It is severely reduced if the enemy is alerted, and if he sees you. Thus, it is a perfect weapon for quick takedowns on unsuspecting enemies from behind, but almost useless you attack the enemy in the open.
• LBE gear with the COVERT entry in their -tag will hide all equipment inside from enemy inspections (when covert, your inventory is checked by the enemy for suspicious items). All other items can also get that entry directly. At the moment, the Standard holster, C1, C4, PSM and Dart gun have this tag.
• Recruitable NPCs (but not the rebels) are at first known to the enemy as neutral. Thus, on recruitment, they will be covert civilians or soldiers (Iggy and Conrad). As long as they have this initial covert property, they are not bound to the usual trait restriction, which means that Iggy and Conrad are treated by the enemy like soldiers, even though that should normally be impossible, as only mercs with the trait can disguise as soldiers. Once they lose this initial cover, they can't regain it.
• Even mercs without the trait can disguise as civilians. But they will automatically be discovered if too near to the enemy.
• There is now a new ammo type property. We can now set ammo to contain neurotoxin (used on the neurotoxin darts, item 1578). Any ammo with that property will add the 'lifedamage' drug effect on the hit target (except tanks). Anyone with that effect will die in a few turns. This is unreversible, there is no cure (until I might be convinced to add one). Only way to slow the effect is by resetting the timer: hit them with another dart :snake:
  Be careful with these thingies, friendly fire is even more regrettable than usual.
  Not recommend with non-dart ammo, because 'Why would you?'.

Update: This feature is now in the trunk (revision 5529).

updated to rev1529 exe5526 but have no trait on imp, do I need another exe?

Not recommend with non-dart ammo, because 'Why would you?'.

I would like to be able to steal weapons from Spike, Damon or Kingpin himself and then kick his ass )