Inconsistency in Atlas Safeguard Weapons Deal NPCs

[mechahamham]

I considered just posting this in the typo thread, but figured that it was more than just a misspelling or grammatical error. However, GMs and moderators please feel free to have me move it or to move it yourself if need be.

 

In the Atlas Safeguard mission, if you happen to get the Weapons Deal side mission, the text and NPCs present in the mission are inconsistent.

 

When you find the key-holder group, it's a group of Vhazilok:

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[NPC] Luminous Eidolon: We stand guard here until the deal with the Hellions is done!
[NPC] Luminous Eidolon: It's unfortunate that you won't live to regret interfering.
[NPC] Luminous Eidolon: Well, pieces of you might live on, in a way.

 

Once you defeat the group and get the key, however, you're told that it was from a group of Skulls:

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You have received a building key! Find the door and see what the Skulls were talking about.

 

Once inside the side mission, the first group you come across for the transaction is happening between the Hellions and the Vhaz:

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[NPC] Blood Brother Chopper: I'll need a discount for the smell.
[NPC] Reaper: We found these in the sewer. An old 5th Column cache.
[NPC] Blood Brother Chopper: With pleasure!
[NPC] Reaper: A hero! Perfect! Give them a test!

 

Note the typical out-of-order NPC text there that plagues a huge number of encounters in the game. I *think* this is set up as a 'hostage' encounter where both the hostage and the enemy are set as hostile to the player, but of course I can't be sure of that.

 

However, and this is the kicker, once you go past just the first few groups of Vhaz, you DO see groups of Skulls in the 'back' of the side mission. They  don't have any text associated with them.

 

My guess is that at some point in the development of the mission, the enemy group was originally set to be Skulls rather than Vhaz, and not all the spawns or text references were changed. To fully fix this, you'd need to change the '... what the Skulls were talking about.' to something like '... what the Vhazilok were talking about', and then replace those last few Skull spawns in the side mission with either Vhaz or Hellions.