Improve Vehicle Usage
Christian Yungk
While vehicles have several important values (i.e., immunity to most status effects and high armor) they are quickly outclassed by even one high level solider. At the cost of three slots in an aircraft, only the worst of rookies would be a lesser alternative.
Consider either buffing vehicles, reducing their aircraft slots, or my personal favorite: Allow each aircraft to carry one vehicle in a specialized "vehicle slot", perhaps reducing infantry slots across the board to compensate.
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marlin
Aside from the loss of XP, vehicles are extremely powerful. You have to leverage their mobility and armor, while ensuring that their limited shots are well-placed. Their effectiveness drops off as the engagement becomes longer so they are not great at extended battles like the final mission, but they are extremely useful in missions with limited inventory (looting/scavenging) and missions with vulnerable allies (e.g. soldier rescue). Also they turn the base defense into a joke when you pile vehicles in front of the choke point.
I look forward to the updates where they make vehicles customizable
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initium
I think everyone playing PP has linked the poor payback of vehicles to aircraft, where aircraft are the bottleneck in the game and vehicles are underwhelming. So to make a vehicle cost 3 slots in an aircraft - Nah. Not happening.
They're a waste of resource. Can't even ram with them anymore.
The only use for vehicles is to place them in an aircraft at an ancient site to perform the "manned aircraft" criteria to collect the resource.
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George Velez
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I am surprised this topic hasn’t been updated with an “under review” and/or “planned feature” tag considering it is the focus of DLC #4.
Rune Soested
ALLOW RELOADS! :(
Rasyid
Able use vehicles to be use in Geoscape, yes it's very much slower compared to aircraft.
Shadowstone 67
In addition to a majority of these posts, is the ability for vehicles to carry a variety of utility/battle drones.
For example:
in the early game, you might have access to only an area control drone that uses a small flame thrower/grenade launcher with limited ammo, and needing to be refueled at the vehicle or by one of the soldiers with a compatible ammo type
in the late game you might have a strike drone with an armor penetrating rifle to take down single targets, or even have a mobile healing drone.
as a side note I also think that the drone body should also be customizable, allowing for the drone to fly, climb walls, or jump great distances/heights in addition to varying the armor and health.
Nicolas Vessiere
Customization is key!
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THE_TrashMan
For vehicles:
- big inventory (useful for salvage)
- different mountable weapons
- more ammo or better mountable weapons. They are trash.
- dedicated vehicle slot for aircraft
Ernilo Dallagnolo Jr.
Xenonauts X-Division was the one that better handled all the vehicles balance if you guys want to take a look. You have a dedicated vehicle slot on the aircraft which doesnt remove from the infantry pool, that makes it extremly useful to always have one around. Of course that would mean rebalacing the vehicles and the aircraft themselves.
Brett Dalton
I would be happy if they were an alternative form of transport, slow but still usable in a geographic area
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