Cover system: Automatic

Other (objects, etc.) concept

Player characters will automatically take cover if not told to do otherwise.

games

platform

Alternate names: Autocover, Automatic cover usage
Name variations: auto-cover, auto cover

Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

WIN 2007-09-24

Tomb Raider

WIN 2013-03-05

Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

WIN 2009-04-08

Company of Heroes

WIN 2006-09-14

Mass Effect: Andromeda

WIN 2017-03-21

For strategy games or similar this means the troops will automatically move slightly off from target location to take cover instead of exactly where told unless the cover taking behaviour is somehow prevented (such as force move).

Parent group

Cover system

Games by year

The first Cover system: Automatic video game was released on September 14, 2006.

THQ published all these games.

Platforms

Windows		5

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