Do we have to leave Fidel alone? Is he still busy?

[Seinnhai]

  One of my fondest memories of JA1, done purposefully on several ocassions just to have to put him in situations where I'd have to hear him complain, was the voice line from Fidel if he was prone and engaged.  "Leave me alone, I buuuuusy!"  So fast forward 20+ years, I can understand that is problematic but I have to ask...

Do we still have to leave Fidel alone because he buuuuusy?

[BossWeapons]

I was actually wondering the same thing the other day. That voice line is so iconic to me. 😺

[votadc]

Psycho mercs in Ja 2 were boring compared in 1. They just wasted the burst fire but in 1 they refused to move until the enemy is dead and they leave the team of they don't kill enough.

[LoboNocturno]

"Leave me alone, I buuuuusy!" hahah as i played JA1 recently few months ago it was a funny but also a annoying moment in my opinion that you could not move Fidel during a shootout, especially in hard i got my Fidel killed several times for this reason and had to reload from my last save.

[Seinnhai]

Like I said, I used to do it on purpose because back then scum saving wasn't in my mind.  It would be on scenarios I'd run a couple dozens of times and I knew how to beat it without him.  It was handicapping myself for the amusement, pretty much me trying to save a guy who couldn't hit a barn from the inside but I had to leave him alone...

... he buuuuusy.

[VektorT]

Oh, man, that's a classic!

Three top lines in JA history to me:
- Fidel being busy.
- Dimitri forgetting things "again"
- Ivan saying anything in russian that I have no idea what it is