Clockwork street mobs in Kings Row conning hostile to each other

[Cobalt Arachne]

Something odd I noticed while doing some landscape surveying in King's Row: Noticed Clockwork mobs fighting and defeating each other, which given their origin seemed like in-fighting shouldn't be possible. Noticed it standing on the Wentworth History Buff badge marker. I'll try and grab video of it if I see it again.

 

[Grindingsucks]

A nearby hero that you couldn't see, using a confuse power, perhaps?  Otherwise, it certainly seems odd, yes.

[Aberrant]

Just witnessed this myself, briefly. All I saw was a Cannon Prince in a group of two sprockets and two prototype oscillators defeating another prototype oscillator. Coords: -1093.8 -41.7 892.5, right at the Wentworth's badge marker. On beta, so no other players around.

 

Edit; Got a couple demos of this happening, instigated by me taunting some clockwork to a spawn at the above coordinates. Perhaps the issue is related to the defeated citizens around that spawn. Maybe the Clockwork there are technically aligned with the citizens or something similar.

clockfight.cohdemo clockfight2.cohdemo

Edit 2: Got an even clearer third one, no taunting, only observation.

clockfight3.cohdemo

Edited November 27, 2020 by Aberrant
Added Demo files.

[Cobalt Arachne]

22 minutes ago, Aberrant said:

Just witnessed this myself, briefly. All I saw was a Cannon Prince in a group of two sprockets and two prototype oscillators defeating another prototype oscillator.

Appreciate verification! Okay, glad to know I wasn't going crazy haha; Probably some kind of odd flag setting somewhere regarding Clockwork spawns.

[ZorkNemesis]

Might have something to do with the ones that attack nearby electrical boxes perhaps?  Maybe whatever makes them attack the box just flags them as a foe to everything.