Stop Nemesis Attack! Arachnos hostile too?
By
Ideon,
Posted on: 2011-02-07 10:09 in Player Questions
I'm pretty sure there's been a lot of this sort of thing going on recently (since about issue 19 or 18)... If I had to guess, I'd say the devs had to revamp relationship tables for Praetoria and its factions to work right, and it kinda had an adverse effect when propagated to existing content.
Other odd consequences of the change are hostile boss targets engaging their escorts. Notably bosses of a different faction than their escort - in Mako's patron arc, you face off against a longbow agent trying to get off the isles with the help of KoA mercenaries. The agent now attacks his escort.
"My inner mind has become a reality-cracking overgod. He torments me! Help!"
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Happens with same factions every now and then - in LRSF, when Ms. Liberty was giving her cutscene speech, one spines Longbow Warden was killing off her Longbow escort with his spines aura, haha.
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Originally Posted by The Grim Heaper
I'm pretty sure there's been a lot of this sort of thing going on recently (since about issue 19 or 18)... If I had to guess, I'd say the devs had to revamp relationship tables for Praetoria and its factions to work right, and it kinda had an adverse effect when propagated to existing content.
Other odd consequences of the change are hostile boss targets engaging their escorts. Notably bosses of a different faction than their escort - in Mako's patron arc, you face off against a longbow agent trying to get off the isles with the help of KoA mercenaries. The agent now attacks his escort. |
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"Keep living the dream, and never let any jerk tell you what to do."
-- High-Roller
Okay, good to know. From now on, I TRUST NO ONE! Although, really, my villains should already have long adopted this policy.
This weekend I ran the mission Stop Nemesis Attack from Black Scoripion. It's the last mission in the Destiny Raids arc, the one where you destroy the mole machines.
Because I was there to help Arachnos fend off Nemesis, I assumed at first that the Arachnos on the scene would be friendly. However, the first group of Arachnos I passed attacked me. With the exception of a few bane spiders that were bracketed in blue, most of the Arachnos on the map were hostile to me, including Black Scoripion and the other Patrons.
My initial thought was that it was a ruse and these Arachnos were actually automatons, but unlike the fake Arachnos soldiers I encountered earlier in the arc, these listed their faction as Arachnos, not Nemesis. Then I thought it was a trap set by Black Scorpion to pay me back for the betrayal mission (in every piece of dialogue, he reminded me he hadn't forgotten about that). But I don't know what beef Captain Mako and the rest had with me.
Afterwards, when I turned the mission in to Black Scorpion, he gave no explanation for the hostile Arachnos (nor even commented on how I had yet again given him a beat-down). I checked Paragon Wiki and found that it lists the Arachnos faction in this mission as "neutral."
Was this not working as intended? Is this a known bug? Are Arachnos always hostile in this mission, or was this random? It wasn't a big problem, in fact it actually made the mission more interesting, and fighting all four patrons in one mission was pretty cool, but now I'm curious about it.