Legacy Chain: Lore or Bug?

I don't have that much time spent on Redside so this may be covered in the lore or backstory concerning the Legacy group but I've yet to see it.

Whenever I have a mission with them, they're always tearing into each other with the Earth powers. For no reason. I'm invisible and just marching past group after group as they defeat each other.
Sometimes by the time I reach the boss room he's killed all his companions.

I thought it might have been a bugged tip mission the 1st time I saw it.
But now I've run a few story arc missions and they're still doing it. So far they are the only group that infights like this.

So...

Bug or Lore?

Is there a story reason for them doing this and I just missed it somewhere?

Sounds buggy to me, i don't recall this happening o_O

1. Nemesis plot.
2. I'd call that a bug. If you have a different villain who can run the same arcs (or tell us the arc names so we can test), try that.

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3.) The Legacy Chain were too stupid to live anyways. They're a tech group, after all... Seriously (so are the luddites... LUDDITES!!!!!!).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I suspect that it is a variation of the bug that causes patrols to attack regular spawns that hits almost all missions from time to time.

Yesterday, I was doing Maria Jenkin's non-arc Marauder mission and he was killing off all the nearby IDF before I saved the IDF from Marauder. Spending twenty years in jail is better than spending twenty years in a hospital.

Yeah, I've bugged this a couple times. They attack each other in every mission they appear in now.

It's a bug. As has been mentioned above, it happens with other factions too, but never with the consistency or frequency that it affects Legacy Chain.

However, being a bug doesn't exclude it from being lore as well.

Before I started, there was a bug that made every citizen in a certain zone head from their spawn point to a certain location. When they got there, they'd find every other citizen in the zone, and all get in a huge shoving match trying to reach that one spot they were all headed towards.
The bug was eventually fixed, and a history plaque was added at the location the citizens all headed for, explaining that a minor villain had been experimenting in the zone with mind control devices, but he was finally apprehended.

It's entirely possible that the devs will work this bug into the game lore, even if it is just a minor off-hand mention on a plaque somewhere. However, since Spoiler alert! the new contact for villainside in i19 is a defected Legacy Chain, it's possible that they may make better use of the bug as part of the story.

Had a really fun similar bug last night. During the final fight with Nictus Rommie on an ITF, Imperious got stunned, then swapped sides and went hostile to us. Not often you get to see "You have defeated Imperius" (Technically the tank on the team got the kill, not me).

Hehe. Still awesome.

I was doing a red side tip with my stalker. I had a freak tank spawn called learn to read or some such, I whacked him and used placate at which point he ran off at high speed, going straight for one of the mission objective crates I needed to burn the books by destroying and well, destroyed it.

Was funny. He spawned to stop me burning his books and when I hid he got so mad he burned them. Or maybe it was spite? You cant burn them if I do it first.

After he took out that one offending crate he just stood there till I decloaked with an assassins strike delivering several hundred thousand volts to his head.

I've seen this bug before... but I've only seen it hit Longbow. I have never personally seen it affect Legacy Chain... or any other faction. But I've come across a handful of missions where Longbow members start killing each other without me being anywhere near them.

Had this bug in a Rogue tip mission on my stalker,
Target was Wyvern and a Glowie in a sewer,
On getting the Glowie, it triggered a Longbow and PPD ambush.
Was fun staying hidden watching Wyvern, Longbow and the PPD slugging it out.
Especially when they completed the mission for me.

IIRC the bug is something to do with the NPC faction info.

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Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade I suspect that it is a variation of the bug that causes patrols to attack regular spawns that hits almost all missions from time to time.

Most likely a backfiring 'Confuse'/ambush having a different (ambush not mission) faction even if they are the same mob.

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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU I've seen this happen a couple of times on that mission, though the last time he only went hostile to the Brute on the team and the rest of us just had to stand around and watch the fight.

That was a co-op zone alignment glitch