Covert Operations Items Glitch

[Brother Eye]

I have 0 idea if anyone else is running into this or if it's just me, I've seen it nowhere online so I have to ask if it's just me and if there's a fix, but basically when I click "Make All Utility Items Available" on squad selection screen it removes items from people on Covert Ops too, so in one instance I wound up with two soldiers who were MEANT to have medkit+nanovest and they each just had a grenade each

Would be great if I could find out if this is just me or if it's a widespread issue or if there's a fix

[Eggy]

I have assumed this is not a bug, its an intended feature.
Theres only a "chance" your covert team will be ambushed.

Imagine a scenario where you only ever made 1 medkit.
That "make all available" button means you can still take it on missions.

If its not an intended feature then there should be a squad equip screen pop up before you send out a covert team.

[Brother Eye]

But this is terrible

[Brother Eye]

I give my soldiers these items in case of ambush

[Brother Eye]

Having to manually search thru my individual soldiers because I don't want to rob my Covert Operatives of items is a huge drag

[Brother Eye]

And I don't think it is intended because you can't change the loadout of soldiers while they're on a Covert Operation

[Eggy]

Escrito originalmente por Brother Eye:

I give my soldiers these items in case of ambush

I understand this , but in order to do that you have to manualy back out of the covert ops screen, go into the armoury, setup your 2-3 guys. Remember there names, and then go back into the covert ops screen. That cant be the expected behaviour.

[Brother Eye]

Well it's that or my men go into a potential ambush under-equipped

[Brother Eye]

Either
A. Covert ops need a squad selection screen and items need to be locked
or
B. You need to be able to edit the loadout of soldiers while they're on a covert op

[Brother Eye]

But as it stands currently I can't use that button without irreversibly robbing my covert operatives of their items

[Eggy]

Also. The first "order" card I got was "no chance of ambush on covert ops". Which I have had equiped since day 1.
So I have never seen an ambush and dont ever suffer the rigmaroll of equiping my guys for covert ops. So imagine how pissed I would be if my best stuff was locked out.

it works both ways I guess.

[Brother Eye]

I literally just turned on the console and made my soldiers immune to damage and would turn it off after 4 hits just to roughly simulate the effects of a medkit

[Chaser324]

I agree with you OP. You should not be able to change the gear on any soldiers after they're sent out on a covert operation where there can be an ambush.

My assumption is that they probably always treat "On Covert Operation" in the same way as any other condition that makes a solider unavailable (injured, bond training, etc.) and they didn't put in a special exception for this situation.

[Brother Eye]

I actually cannot be bothered to carry on this current game because I can't be asked to go thru my individual soldiers equipping/dequipping items so I don't have to press the button

This needs patching or modding

[Brother Eye]

Escrito originalmente por Chaser324:

I agree with you OP. You should not be able to change the gear on any soldiers after they're sent out on a covert operation where there can be an ambush.

My assumption is that they probably always treat "On Covert Operation" in the same way as any other condition that makes a solider unavailable (injured, bond training, etc.) and they didn't put in a special exception for this situation.

So it's not just me encountering this then?

[Scrapulous]

There is an edit button when you assign a soldier to covert ops that allows you to change their loadout, so i think your assumption about intended behavior is incorrect, Eggy. I agree with the OP.