Fire Reactions and Combat Discipline
You'll be facing different opposition forces in the game, and they all tend to react a little differently to being fired upon.
Your most vicious enemy is the Narco Guerrillas - bought and paid for by the local druglords, who in the absence of any legitimate local government took reign in your area of operations.
These fighters are fearless, but lacking even the basic military training - easily defeated in open combat.
Even though these fighters are the least likely to think tactically when in combat, or will often even come at your troops with all guns blazing - even they, as do all units in-game - have survival instinct and will try not to stay in the open, during a firefight.
Units in Invasion Machine, depending on situation, will:
- run to nearest cover, when first shots are fired at them (duh)
- if trained military, may try to help stabilize and evacuate wounded buddies (sometimes with awful consequences, if inexperienced)
- react to explosions around them (double duh)
- if met with overwhelming force, try to evade
- Civilians and Press almost always flee firefights, but if in dire straits - sometimes might grab a rifle as well
All this is done to make the game actors more authentic, as opposed to what units would generally do in the classic RTS titles (stand still in the middle of a gunfight, or run directly at their enemy).
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