Hero tip mission with hostages bugs if any hostages are killed by incidental AOEs

[GM Sijin]

Mission name: Stop the Blogger's Reign of Terror

Contact: Tip mission

Morality: Hero

Level: 50

 

Thanks to @Ridiculous Girl for walking through the mission with me to identify the issue.

 

The mission has 4 objectives, 3 heroes to rescue and then confronting Flambeaux. The issue is the heroes can be damaged by AOEs while you're trying to rescue them. In one case one of the captives was killed by a super stunner rez from approximately 75% health. It appears that if any of the heroes are killed Flambeaux does not spawn and you cannot progress through the mission.

 

It is my opinion that these heroes should not be able to be damaged prior to being rescued. Short of that, the mission needs to fail if they are killed as to prevent a softlocked mission state, or Flambeaux needs to spawn regardless of the heroes being rescued or killed.