Probably. I had the same problem with a timed mission. The same arc has three other unfailable missions with captives, which work fine. I've had to remove the timer for now.
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Thanks. That's how I'll handle it for now.
Any reports of this captive happening with other failable missions, such as missions where a boss runs?
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While testing a new arc tonight, I encountered some buggy behavior. Along with several other goals, the mission at issue included two instances of a "release captive" goal. All the enemies' and hostages' dialogue and animations played correctly, and the hostage properly ran away once the captors were defeated.
However, as soon as the hostage reached an elevator, the mission failed. The system seems to be treating the hostage as an escaping boss. Has anyone else seen this happen, either in a published mission or in testing?
I should add that the mission at issue could be "legitimately" failed, since it is timed, but both times I tested it and saw this bug, I had well over an hour of time left. I wonder if the "failable" flag is part of what's causing this problem.
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Yes - my son is writing an arc that had a release captive, and when I tested the mission containing it the mission failed when the captive reached the mission door.
His mission was a timed one as well.
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While testing a new arc tonight, I encountered some buggy behavior. Along with several other goals, the mission at issue included two instances of a "release captive" goal. All the enemies' and hostages' dialogue and animations played correctly, and the hostage properly ran away once the captors were defeated.
However, as soon as the hostage reached an elevator, the mission failed. The system seems to be treating the hostage as an escaping boss. Has anyone else seen this happen, either in a published mission or in testing?
I should add that the mission at issue could be "legitimately" failed, since it is timed, but both times I tested it and saw this bug, I had well over an hour of time left. I wonder if the "failable" flag is part of what's causing this problem.
"Bombarding the CoH/V fora with verbosity since January, 2006"
Djinniman, level 50 inv/fire tanker, on Victory
-and 40 others on various servers
A CoH Comic: Kid Eros in "One Light"