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A possible joke from castle or just another one of the funny bugs in the recent patch

BBQ_Pork

By BBQ_Pork,
Posted on: 2010-09-30 18:37 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Sometimes I like to read what the npcs are saying during missions and I decided to tonight on one of my favorite villain tip missions. "this is how she dies"

This is a pretty good tip mission that to me makes me feel like I really just did something extremely evil although its to one of my favorite classic heroes of the game Overdrive.

So I'm reading dialogue where she's talking to longbow:

[NPC] Overdrive: Okay, look guys.
[NPC] Overdrive: You need to trust me on this. Desdemona is our ally.
[NPC] Overdrive: I sent her away so we could talk ab--did you hear something?
[NPC] Overdrive: What?
[NPC] Overdrive: <playername> here?
[NPC] Overdrive: I'm not sure what you're doing here, but I intend to stop you!
[NPC] Overdrive: You've got quite the reputation in the Rogue Isles, <playername>!
[NPC] Overdrive: I got sloppy, I should have prepared for this.
[NPC] Overdrive: I admit, you're powerful.
[NPC] Overdrive: But, I'm not through with you yet!
[NPC] Overdrive: I-I can't give up!

So as soon as she says I can't give up the famed run the hell away bug starts which at the time kinda pissed me off. But to my surprise the longbow at the other end of the room turns and shoots and kills her as she ran away.

[NPC] Overdrive: Desdemona!

I'm ofcourse already laughing about what just happened and then Desdemona comes charging in and the nearby longbow are apparently still blood thristy and decide to shoot her demons which results in Desdemona being nearly dead before I get the first punch in.

I had to wonder if it was completely just another random broken thing or some funny egg castle dropped in the patch with the recent complaint threads about the mob ai run away bug.

I wish I had fraps or xfire video on at the time because it was quite a funny performance.

Friends don't let friends buy an ncsoft controlled project.

 

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I think it's a variation of a bug. When somebody you are beating on goes untargetable because they are supposed to be clicked for dialog or because you are supposed to fight off waves of ambushes then they can pick up aggro from other spawns if you aren't in perception range of those spawns.

Don't count your weasels before they pop dink!

 

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Sounds like you had a Longbow Commissar spawn.

 

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Originally Posted by ResidentBaka View Post
Sounds like you had a Longbow Commissar spawn.
The Emperor doesn't look to kindly on retreat. Clearly the Commissar was just in doing his duty and making sure both the fleeing traitor and the Warpspawn summoning sorceress that arrived.

Long live the Imperium!

 

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Originally Posted by ResidentBaka View Post
Sounds like you had a Longbow Commissar spawn.
I am officially stealing this reference for the next time I have Longbow turn on each other in a mission because they're bored.

 

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Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano View Post
The Emperor doesn't look to kindly on retreat. Clearly the Commissar was just in doing his duty and making sure both the fleeing traitor and the Warpspawn summoning sorceress that arrived.

Long live the Imperium!
Wait, I thought Emperor Cole was in Preatoria? So which one is Statesman again?

 

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Originally Posted by Ideon View Post
In case you haven't caught on yet, it's a Warhammer 40K reference. :3
Oh, I get the WH40K reference. It's just that with all that dimension-hopping we've been doing over the past several years, Statesman getting kidnapped in another dimension, only come back and start hanging out in I.P., who can you trust?


Who came back?

 

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the tip mission are full of bugs, like no one ever tested them.




here's the mind control moral mission where she gets beaten up by the people she's rescuing.