Who is Boss Name?


 

Posted

I came across this while playing the last mission in Brother Hammond's arc:



Is anyone else getting this guy showing up? More to the point, does anyone know what he's actually supposed to be?


-This Space Intentionally Left Blank.-

 

Posted

its possibly bugged and he should be something that they forgot to implement

i saw him too when i ran his arc, no idea if it was intended as a joke or if it was a bug


 

Posted

Maybe it's the in-game implementation of your signature.


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Probably a bug, several times I've run across a radio mission to get "Boss_Name"... and in the mission the baddie actually IS Boss_Name. My guess at the time was someone forgot to give him a unique name and that's just the default if the name's blank.


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It may be a joke on the Dev's part. In the normal bug in newspaper missions, the name comes up as Boss_Name, however this one is Boss Name, with no underscore, and his dialog is he's still 'inactive', so that's why he's not a combat boss.

Kind of like how they added in the 5th Column saying that their Mekmen were using a Hard Light disguise, since hostages would sometimes default to a 5th Column Mekman.


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Boss Name V OneWhoBinds.

Nice match-up.


 

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Usually see that in newspaper missions (and I think the occasional regular mission) that have been held on to during the issue update. In this case, though...

Frankly, if they're putting it in intentionally as a "joke," they should spend less time joking and more time fixing.


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Yeah, the lack of the underscore from radio/newspaper missions leads me to suspect that this is a deliberate joke on the Devs' part.