Confused Immunes Surgeon continues to heal allies

[Uun]

When Immunes Surgeons are confused, the purple dots appear over their head, but they continue to heal their allies. This occurs whether or not Shout of Command has been used. 

 

Edit: this applies only to their Heal Other power. Their Healing Aura power will heal me.

Edited December 25, 2024 by Uun
Clarification

[srmalloy]

I see something loosely similar to this with Arsenal Control's Smoke Canister, which has a confuse rolled in; if I drop the rest of the spawn, the remaining mob, while still showing the purple "I'm Confused" dots, will attack me. It's specific to being the last mob from a spawn; as long as there's another mob in the spawn still standing, they'll attack a friendly, and will only attack me if there's nobody else to 'shoot' at.

[Cobalt Arachne]

On 12/25/2024 at 5:11 PM, Uun said:

this applies only to their Heal Other power.

This is likely due to the method by which many mob support powers work, using a whitelist of allowed targets.
Specifically, Heal Other is only allowed to be cast on a curated list of Cimeroran Traitor enemies, if they try to target anybody else (like a player) it will return invalid.

In this specific case, it's to prevent them from healing Nictus Romulus in the finale mission on standard difficulty, as their heal hits for a base 50% of the target's max HP which would be really strong if used on an arch-villain.
 

Spoiler

PowerConfig
    {
        PowerName:                Heal_Other
        AllowedTarget:                Romans_Legionarii_Endgame, Romans_Centurion_Endgame, Romans_Centurion_Female_Endgame, Romans_Praefectus_Endgame, Romans_Engineer_Endgame, Romans_Legatus_Legionis_Endgame, Romans_Romulus_Endgame, Romans_Romulus_Nictus_Endgame, Romans_Cyclops_Endgame, Romans_Minotaur_Endgame, Romans_Cyclops_Boss_Endgame, Romans_Minotaur_Boss_Endgame, Romans_Romulus_EB_Endgame, Romans_Legionarii, Romans_Centurion, Romans_Centurion_Female, Romans_Praefectus, Romans_Engineer, Romans_Romulus, Romans_Legatus_Legionis, Romans_Legatus_Legionis_HMSpawn, Romans_Praefectus_Passenger_HM
    }