Weirdness: betraying escorts and Oilslick

I've just noticed two weird problems in my AE missions and was wondering if anyone else has run into these.

I was running a mission with a Kinetics defender. I have an Escort objective (Fusionette) who has Aggressive, Follow and Betrays on Arrival options set.

When I use Transfusion and Transference on her after the betrayal, I am healed and have end restored, but the powers also heal and restore her endurance. This makes it really hard to defeat her.

Running the same mission with a Trick Arrow defender, I used Oilslick. Then I tried to target the Oilslick with Blazing Arrow. I have to click it to select; I can't tab to select the slick. If there are no enemies in the slick, I get the warning "INVALID TARGET" when I try to fire Blazing Arrow and I can't ignite the slick.

If there are enemies in the slick, I wind up hitting one of the enemies at random, even though I have the slick targeted.

I see the same behavior in other AE missions I've tried (including the Johnny Sonata DC arc #1001). It fails whether I take standard rewards or tickets. This makes doing AE missions with Trick Arrow a real pain, as Oilslick is a signature power of the set.

The slick works fine on the street in Talos and in other missions.

I'm not sure about the betrayal, but this is apparently a known bug with Oilslick at the moment. (At least on the forums. I have no idea if the devs consider it a bug.) What is happening is that in MA missions, the Oil slick is being treated as an allied pet, rather than a hostile npc, so when you target it, you are assisting rather than attacking it.

Yes, this was my surmise from the way I hit an enemy when I targeted the Oilslick. And there's no question it's a bug. When it behaves differently in the streets of Talos than in an AE mission, and no longer works as documented, something's obviously wrong.

It looks like the "Ally" bit is still set on the betraying escort. It seems to be an enemy and an ally at the same time. That seems to be the same sort of problem with Oilslick -- it should be targetable as an enemy, but it's only targetable as an Ally.

I tried the Escort with a Gravity/Force Field controller. When Dispersion Bubble is up a bubble appears around the betrayer, and when it's off (I have PFF on, or when I leave), the field goes away and the betrayer suffers the effects of my holds (floats in the air immobile).

If this is the case, I bet that an Empathy defender could still heal the betrayer while attacking them.

From this weirdness it looks like the AE missions have basic differences from regular missions. It's like they've written a completely separate "mission interpreter" for AE. Probably not a bad idea, considering that all this weird stuff would be happening in regular missions if they had used the same basic code for regular and AE missions.