What is Direct Contact ?

[Johnnie Concrete]

...and what is the purpose of being able to select AI using G select/deselect.

[supirman]

The main feature of it is to prevent staff being killed so when you use them on single player mission it will not die and they will not taken away if your FOB core breached. But you can not use them as combat deployment units.

[Elite1111111111]

Can do it to stop them getting taken from FOB attacks. For example - your first S+ and S++ guys you get from single player. You can also use it if you're trying to get FOB defense medals for your guys so that they don't actually die.

[Sekkuar666]

Also they won't get changed when you use auto arrange staff.
It's a good way to keeping staff where you want them to be and still being able to use auto arrange for the rest.

[Matthew]

It's a way of protecting staff you deem to be indispensible, either because of their stats or abilities. Staff that is on Direct Contract status will not bo reassigned or dismissed as space is filled up or you use auto assign. Furthermore they will be unable to take part in dispatch missions.

[Mates]

Originally posted by Johnnie Concrete:

...and what is the purpose of being able to select AI using G select/deselect.

It is so you can move more of your soldiers between units. It is useful later when your units have a lot of members. Just select as many as you want and press Space to move them all wherever you wish.

[Johnnie Concrete]

Thank You everyone for the info.