XCOM EU better way to manage your soldiers loadouts

[ronf2882]

I dunno how possible it would be but i would love a better way to manage soldier loadouts, i never have enough highest tier armor or weapons for everyone and i seem to select my mission, tab back go to the barracks and unequip some gear from troops then go back to the mission set my team up. Im not a modder but i have 2 ideas of possible solutions. Just throwing it out there maybe we can even come up with better ones than these.

 

1, would it be possible to add a button to the squad select screen pre-mission that unequips all gear from any troops not in the current squad? could make finding that stray plasma rifle or titan armor easy.

 

2, icons could possibly fix the issue and may be the easiest option? Adding icons for what tier of weapon / armor / scope / medkit a soldier has equiped so you can quickly find who has what your needing.

 

3, this is, in my opinion, the way the game should have been when released and probably would be too hard to implement but here goes: make soldiers unequip all items after a mission but have them remember their loadout so next time they are selected on a mission they just be a responsible adult and grab their gear, thus leaving it for use by others when they are not taken on said mission. would make it a lot easier to just have 6 titan armors and never having to unequip / equip them all the damn time. I understand the game does this with injured soldiers already, although I honestly havnt bothered to pay attention for myself it this is true. If that is the case though I imagine it wouldnt be too hard to make the game do the same for every soldier after a mission.

 

i think something like this would pair very well with all the mods popping up that allow you to intercept the terror ships, which could lead to more tactical missions thus a need to rotate troops more often.

 

Also on a separate issue I dont understand why critical hits permanently make my vets crappy, isnt the old saying what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger? I would love to see this as a maybe jsut to the end of a mission reduction in will, once they are recovered they should be fully recovered. maybe with a chance of needing to retire to balance that out.

[Avi1231]

Really want to see this. My wife and I can't stand having to go hunt down a plasma rifle or titan armor set because some guy isn't coming on the mission so we can get a lower ranked guy promoted and want him to have the better equipment. It actually pissed me off so badly one time trying to find a set of ghost armor (had 2 total) that I stopped playing for the day. The cure all "unequip all soldiers not on mission" is probably the simplest and most effective.