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Normally in one mission in Synapes its a broken down office, might be Berthas mission in boomtown I never recall any random running scared citizens but today I seen one and it was actively following us.  it was still kinda running away and shivering but running back to us.

 

Are we being watched?

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7 minutes ago, kelika2 said:

Normally in one mission in Synapes its a broken down office, might be Berthas mission in boomtown I never recall any random running scared citizens but today I seen one and it was actively following us.  it was still kinda running away and shivering but running back to us.

 

Are we being watched?

 

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Yes the GMs can enter your mission and watch you. This I know for a fact.

 

Now I don't know if they can take control of an NPC that's there, but I seem to remember a GM saying that they have a number of options for how their avatar looks. So I'm guessing that ordinary person would be one of those options.

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     The time on Live that I personally saw a GM enter a mission was after we filed a ticket because we couldn't complete a defeat all in a TF mission (mob stuck in terrain).  They appeared as a Police Drone.  We all buffed up and they moved the mob out ... and it got obliterated.

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I think they do, but I can't imagine they would. I recall the OG devs talking about controlling Rikti in the original invasion at the end of beta

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1 hour ago, Doomguide2005 said:

     The time on Live that I personally saw a GM enter a mission was after we filed a ticket because we couldn't complete a defeat all in a TF mission (mob stuck in terrain).  They appeared as a Police Drone.  We all buffed up and they moved the mob out ... and it got obliterated.

 

Yes, I'd seen the police drone devs a handful of times over the years.  As to human form, I can only vaguely recall one time where devs appeared in a group activity as NPC character, like the Vahz.  However, some were also there with their choice of avatar.  Ghost Widow, for example, was present.

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I too had a police drone GM roll in to help us with a Council creep who had been blown through the geometry.  Not sure about just street walking NPC's But I tell myself that the GM's are secretly the ones saying nice things about my costume or how hot I look or how they should make an action figure of me.

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7 hours ago, Riot Siren said:

I think they do, but I can't imagine they would. I recall the OG devs talking about controlling Rikti in the original invasion at the end of beta

 

Just before Sunset, Zwillinger came to Defiant and he was followed by one of the support GMs and there ensured about 30 minutes of mayhem including Clockwork King superleaping through Atlas Park and Hamidon's big orb appearing, and plenty of other stuff. It was one of those rare game occurrences that we treasure.

 

I'm pretty sure a lot of passing pedestrians began to dance, waving their arms in the air and moonwalk so...

 

yes they can if they so desire.

 

But your example sounds like normal NPC behaviour I suspect

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8 hours ago, Doomguide2005 said:

     The time on Live that I personally saw a GM enter a mission was after we filed a ticket because we couldn't complete a defeat all in a TF mission (mob stuck in terrain).  They appeared as a Police Drone.  We all buffed up and they moved the mob out ... and it got obliterated.

I have seen them use police drones.  Not sure, now that I think, that I have seen them use anything besides police drones. I guess those things have good attacks.  They can obliterate a GM. 

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11 hours ago, kelika2 said:

Normally in one mission in Synapes its a broken down office, might be Berthas mission in boomtown I never recall any random running scared citizens but today I seen one and it was actively following us.  it was still kinda running away and shivering but running back to us.

 

Are we being watched?

 

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16 hours ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

Now I don't know if they can take control of an NPC that's there, but I seem to remember a GM saying that they have a number of options for how their avatar looks. So I'm guessing that ordinary person would be one of those options.

 

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22 hours ago, Techwright said:

 

Yes, I'd seen the police drone devs a handful of times over the years.  As to human form, I can only vaguely recall one time where devs appeared in a group activity as NPC character, like the Vahz.  However, some were also there with their choice of avatar.  Ghost Widow, for example, was present.

I hadn't even mentally correlated in my old brain this sort of appearance.  I'd heard of GMs showing on several occasions in this manner.  Notably at the end of CoV beta in Mercy where our characters got to dogpiled several members of the Freedom Phalanx.  And as I understand it after a certain moment when Howling Twilight and a Hami Bloom brought an invisibly watching Admin out to exclaim "you did what?!!"

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On 2/24/2024 at 4:28 AM, ZorkNemesis said:

I know i've seen one of the Homecoming GMs appear as a Spirit Shark projectile, they can be a lot of things if they so choose.

 

One showed up as Lady Grey once to help us try to fix a problem in LGTF.  Even played it a bit in-character. 🙂

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