When I switch out a rifleman 1 for a rifleman 2, or an assaulter 2 for an assaulter 1, it doesn’t let us switch our their equipment. I think it would be good for the game to attempt to swap over as much equipment as possible when doing the alternate squads.
As an example
Rifleman 1
Has Rifle, pistol, backpack, detpack, medkit
Swap out for rifleman 2, who can only take the rifle, medkit, and detpack
Rifleman 2 now has rifle, medkit, detpack
Unusable equipment goes back into the pool or can be removed from Rifleman 1 with the ‘remove excess equipment’ button
This would quicken things and keep me from having a bunch of new squad members with base carbines because I forgot I was switching 1’s out for 2’s
I guess that the code considers them different troop types. You can exchange engineer I for engineer I kit but not engineer I for Engineer II or Rifleman or AT gunner. Same for any troop type.
The reason we can’t do those swaps is because of the possibility of unlocking different equipment slots for each squad of one type. Sniper 1 gets a backpack, sniper 2 gets secondary, for example. Easier for the devs to just not let us autoswap them for now
I think we could have preset loadouts though, which would make rearming a guy a lot faster.
It’s a very good idea. I encourage you to put up a suggestion thread about it, it’s the kind of quality of life things that make the game better, and hopefully devs would take notice.