Recon could be improved

[Pnume]

It's quite tedious and unpractical to have to wait for the enemy to be in the direct line of fire of the recon to be able to snipe. Sometimes, I keep pressing the pause/action select button until the shot is possible.

It would be much better if as soon as an enemy is in the line of fire of one of your teammate, you could already select the sniping shoot and the recon auto position himself to take the shot.

[Devilee]

Or just click on the enemy and scout positions itself for a shot. It's frustrating to rotate the team around so that recon get's a clean line of sight.

[Paladestar]

Exactly this! I've had this thought so many times myself and I'm sure, like us, I'd suspect that many others have too!. It's pretty frustrating trying to use the silenced sniper rifle, but your Recon happens to be in the back of the squad and gets line-of-sight on the target long after the squad members up front have already triggered the detection timers. Like you say, you're pretty much force to spam the space bar until you get that white line, to minimise the detection progress as much as possible before you can give the order. If anything has vision on a target, you should be able to issue the snipe command and the Recon automatically moves into place if they don't personally have LoS on the target yet.

[DragynDance]

I'd honestly prefer if anytime youy gave a command for a grenade, rocket, flamethrower, snipe, etc, the squad member would automaticallyt move into position to do it. They do for using motion trackers, why not for skills? The fact that you cant control individual squad members heavily punishes these special roles because you can't have a specific marine in front, and have to awkwardly play with move and stop orders to get one squad member forward. It's part of the reason the best squad comp will always ever just be 5x sergeants. Be immune to stress and have infinite command points, better then dealing with the games terrible squad mechanics.

[Deepeye]

Yes, this should be the case. This is is THE most annoying aspect for me. It just becomes silly, clicking 5 times to get whole squad to stand in such a way (hoping for it) that recon can manage to snipe the target.

As you said, it should just make the character active and move towards the available line of sight where the squad is positioned. During some stealth missions with hibernating xenos this is was truly frustrating...

[Celery]

Game would have been 100x better if each individual Marines could be controlled. Was likely done the way that it was for the sake of gamepads.

[Vultan]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Celery:

Game would have been 100x better if each individual Marines could be controlled. Was likely done the way that it was for the sake of gamepads.

It would be different but to say it would be better is ridiculous.

[Coyote]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Devilee:

Or just click on the enemy and scout positions itself for a shot. It's frustrating to rotate the team around so that recon get's a clean line of sight.

I like this idea.

[Bamsmacked]

Oprindeligt skrevet af DragynDance:

I'd honestly prefer if anytime youy gave a command for a grenade, rocket, flamethrower, snipe, etc, the squad member would automaticallyt move into position to do it. They do for using motion trackers, why not for skills? The fact that you cant control individual squad members heavily punishes these special roles because you can't have a specific marine in front, and have to awkwardly play with move and stop orders to get one squad member forward. It's part of the reason the best squad comp will always ever just be 5x sergeants. Be immune to stress and have infinite command points, better then dealing with the games terrible squad mechanics.

They do this for all actions except combat actions. It makes it difficult to perform singular combat actions cus the squad moves as one unit, hopefully they smooth this out on the future