What are the abilities/weapons that destroy loots/corpses?

[josna238]

I know that ending an alien with explosives destroy the body and the loot also the zoombies. But I don't know exactly how does it work. Neither if other area agtacks like iron courtain destroy loots.

[LordYanaek]

• All explosives (grenades, rockets, cars, fuel tanks ...) and heavy weapons (flamethrower, shredder gun, shredstorm cannon) destroy bodies and loot.
• Guns and abilities using guns don't (including heavy guns and abilities like saturation fire - but be careful blowing "explosive" cover with demolition).
• DoT (such as fire set by the flamethrower don't destroy loot (only the initial flame does).
• Direct damage abilities don't destroy loot (psi powers, combat protocol).
• I don't think the Spark Bombard ability destroys loot but i'm not sure.

[Tuhalu]

Surprisingly, MEC micro-missiles do not destroy loot, even though they look like a grenade/rocket type ability.

[LordYanaek]

Good to know. I'd bet it's an oversight because you are not supposed to fire micromissiles and ADVENT doesn't recover loot.

BTW, can anyone confirm that using explosives to damage an enemy but finishing them with a gun doesn't destroy the loot? I always considered it works this way but never really checked if an enemy who got hit, but not killed by explosives (non needle) actually drops any loot when he's killed later.

[Tuhalu]

You get Resistance MECs too though. It's hilarious when you've collected 3 or 4 MECs in a region and get a Rendevouz... Micromissile everything

Only the killing blow matters for destroying corpses and loot. That's vanilla behaviour and it hasn't been changed in LW2.

[Bu6613man]

Popping in to mention that Needle Grenades lets you use both grenades, AND heavy weapons, without destroying corpses.

[saroscycler]

• All explosives (grenades, rockets, cars, fuel tanks ...) and heavy weapons (flamethrower, shredder gun, shredstorm cannon) destroy bodies and loot.
• Guns and abilities using guns don't (including heavy guns and abilities like saturation fire - but be careful blowing "explosive" cover with demolition).
• DoT (such as fire set by the flamethrower don't destroy loot (only the initial flame does).
• Direct damage abilities don't destroy loot (psi powers, combat protocol).
• I don't think the Spark Bombard ability destroys loot but i'm not sure.

Bombard doesn't destroy loot.