A question to the Developers

[Alucardex]

What is the purpose of having a sidearm along with a larger weapon when there is unlimited ammo?

Well you still need to reload so the only reason I could think of is to have something to shoot with when you forgot to reload your main weapon.

[timewatch]

Panic, soldiers will panic and drop their weapons. I assume..

[Being]

Panic, soldiers will panic and drop their weapons. I assume..

Dropping weapons in panic is not going to be in when the game doesn't allow you to loot stuff from dead things either.

[tazong]

dropping weapons wasnt the worst thing that could happen - the worst thing that could happen is a soldier would panic and shoot at anything - that included your own troops - whilst praying he didnt have a rocket launcher in his hands?

[Zaran]

Please, leave the discussion out of this thread. I wanted to give the devs a list of questions that they can easily parse in case they want to know what they are.

Will we be able to have more than one team of soldiers?

[seannybgoode]

I really really REALLY want to know the maximum squad size.

I also would really like to know if there are base defense missions.

+1

I just saw the interview on destructoid, and I'm very excited. But with the "ant farm" view, are there base defense missions like in the original UFO?

[Severene]

Will the game be modable? (I think this was mentioned but not confirmed?)
If so:
Will there be mod tools released along with the game or will that be a separate package?

Will we be able to mod the basic parts of the game like squad size, tech tree, adding custom aliens, etc?

Will we be able to make custom maps to import into the game?

Will we eventually be able to mod new objects and skins transforming the engine of this game into an entirely different custom game or will we be limited to a certain scope? (I am thinking this engine would be perfect for a Star Gate Mod of some sort.)

[katscan]

Will we be able to have more than one team of soldiers?

Let me save them some time. You have a pool of men (unknown cap at the moment) from which you pull 4-6 for a given mission (depending on tech level). There's no pre-defined "teams". Your team is whomever you put together on that mission.

I am pretty sure you are limited to one deployment at a time (one skyranger in the air at a time) although I suppose I could be wrong.

[Inkidu]

Can you link that destructoid interview, please?