This one particular game feature enrages me to a frothing fury. Let me get this straight. An alien crits one of my soldiers. That soldier takes it in the chest, survives the mission, goes home, heals up, and gets ready to go out again. And this experience lowers his will to fight? Um, no. Getting slammed that hard and living to talk about it should inspire that soldier to kick even more ass. The conversation goes like this:

• Snot-nosed rookie: Ow, sarge! I got shot in the arm by that drone!

• Veteran soldier: You call that getting shot? I'LL show YOU what it looks like to get shot! (tears open tac vest to reveal huge scar) You see this? THIS is getting shot! Muton blasted me in the chest, burned a hole right through my body! AND IT PISSED ME OFF! I ran up and stuffed its alien grenade right down its own throat! So don't you tell me you're shot! You get out there and FIGHT!

• Snot-nosed rookie: Y-yes, sir!

Seriously, though. Am I alone in disliking this "feature"? Really, I would think that the more interesting -- and dare I say, realistic? -- feature would be for a soldier who manages to survive a crit and spend FSM-knows how long in the hospital recovering to come back with MORE will, knowing that he's taken the worst the aliens can throw at him and came back to fight again another day.