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Clustered panicking NPCs


srmalloy

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In Steven Sheridan's mission "Stop the Rikti Assault", there are odd clusters of NPCs cowering in fear -- several groups in front of doors, another on top of the parking structure -- that will spontaneously break up and run off when you get near them; I mistook them for hostages because I could see a cowering NPC, but not that the rest of the group were also cowering NPCs. Sometimes, after they break, they'll go running en masse across the map:

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It doesn't actually affect the mission, so it's not really a bug, just a case of aberrant NPC behavior that -- in the event that the other problems get dealt with, could be looked at.

 

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54 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

In Steven Sheridan's mission "Stop the Rikti Assault", there are odd clusters of NPCs cowering in fear -- several groups in front of doors, another on top of the parking structure -- that will spontaneously break up and run off when you get near them; I mistook them for hostages because I could see a cowering NPC, but not that the rest of the group were also cowering NPCs. Sometimes, after they break, they'll go running en masse across the map:

 

It doesn't actually affect the mission, so it's not really a bug, just a case of aberrant NPC behavior that -- in the event that the other problems get dealt with, could be looked at.

 

 

Seems like sensible behavior to me.

 

They know if you come running up to them that you are bound bring trouble!

 

They might even been running in fear of you attacking them.

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10 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

They know if you come running up to them that you are bound bring trouble!

It wasn't the 'break and run' behavior, but the fact that there would be eight or nine NPCs all clustered in front of a door cowering, and instead of escaping into the door they would scatter, often running into each other in their confusion:

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