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I am fully patched. What determines the chance if nearby soldiers will pickup dropped equipment? Is there anyway to increase the chance? FOr example, if they are not cowering, I assume there is a higher chance? What is buddy aid? I have heard that term thrown around. That really sucks that you can't give equipment between squads.. I didn't have the time to sort it out when an armored company plopped on top of me, just had to grab the javelins from the strykers and run. P.S. I assume the AT-4 launcher is a self-contained unit like in real life and you don't need AT4 rockets to fire it in addition to the launcher, right?

First time playing shockforce or any combat mission games, enjoying it so far, but had some questions. 1. Is there anyway to enable tooltips? If not, is the light blue and gray thing a javelin launcher? 2. How do I give javelins from one squad to another? Is it possible to drop stuff back into a vehicle? I ask because I was playing the 4th-5th mission in the campaign where you have to pass through 3 phase lines and wait for orders and 20 tanks spawned about 400 meters away from me, whiping out most of my vehicles. I was about to pop smoke on a few strykers and quickly grab as much **** as possible from the vehicles, but only got 1 guy with a launcher. 3. Is there anyway to speed up time? I have also read on the forums that its possible to play the game turn based... I don't see anyway to do this and there is nothing about it in the hotkeys panel. 4. Is ceasefire the only way to end a mission? DO I get a penalty for it?