...yes, otherwise known as completely replacing it.

also, gibbing it would seem rather unnecessary.

yes, that, and no gibbing is just for fun, not neccesairy.

There isn't a way to cycle through an actor's inventory without glitches, currently, so I'm leaving the way it is. Once we get that function, there will probably be something like that.

i prefer the current option, though it would be good if you could remove wounds. a full replacement is silly.

Completely replacing clones would be a great thing to have available, but not for a field drone. I mean, how fast would it replace a lost limb, would it be possible to make a browncoat almost invincible by having him completely replaced as soon as something gibs?

Something more like the healing station in the prison escape mission ( Coalition Base #836-AOC ), but with a few seconds delay between the clone entering and having him replaced would be a great incentive to actually trying to get your units out from the field alive once they get wounded.

Hmm...

Hey Banana, if there isn't any safe way to cycle through an actor's inventory, how did you do that healing station? Does the map save his current available items and drop him with the same ones regardless of which ones he currently carry, just like when he's killed?

Any healing stations will work on two principles: raising the health variable, or removing and respawning the actor.

Since reading and then storing and then duplicating an actor's items is quite shitty (along with a surprising number of other lua functions we are supposed to have) it's not about to happen well.

JeCa, the weapons on the level are stored as special variables for only that level. So, what you said is correct. However, having that kind of healing station is impossible unless you know the weapons ahead of time. We'll have to wait until we can access an actor's inventory.

Or have it check for all known weapons.

That means that any modded weapons would be excluded and every single time somebody added a weapon to the game I'd have to add yet another name to the gigantic list... No thanks

All right, got that cleared up at least. I guess then that "functions for cycling through a character's inventory" should be added to the "things we want for b24" list? (not only for this purpose)

It's already on the developer's official list of things that need to be done, so no worries.

Isn't this build not done? So really, it'll be on the list of things to do for build 23.5.

Except you can't really release half an update!

I noticed the medic drone suddenly stopped working around some units I sent to snipe. And I didn't know you could make them follow actors... awesome.