Concealed Specialist causing weird pod behavior

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LordYanaek
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Concealed Specialist causing weird pod behavior

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This might very well be an old Vanilla bug that resurfaced (i remember something similar from early versions).
In a recent stealth mission i had the opportunity to hack a lamp for the disguised signals reward so i called the evac and then regained concealment with my specialist. From that moment the specialist caused some very strange pod behavior.

When the evac zone was 1 turn from being active, i moved towards the objective. A yellow pod (they had found a trojaned drone)"saw" my concealed specialist even thought she was way out of the red zone. The pod scampered as usual but my specialist didn't loose concealment and the enemy counter didn't register that pod as active. During the alien turn they just double-moved around as an activated pod that don't know where any XCOM soldier is.
During that same alien turn a green pod moved towards my position and also "saw" my still concealed specialist. The reveal animation played and then the pod "scampered", calmly walking in the middle of the street (they had already moved so it wasn't their normal move) and stayed totally exposed in the street.
When i finally hacked the objective and lost concealment both pods registered as "active" but neither got their scamper move so the previously green pod was still in the middle of the street waiting to get shot.

I backed up my save folder in case you want to take a look. Not sure you can do anything if it's really a vanilla bug but just figured i would report it anyway. It was a strange, almost as if the Gremlin wasn't concealed and they reacted to it rather than the specialist :?
JulianSkies
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Re: Concealed Specialist causing weird pod behavior

Post by JulianSkies »

Very certain that this is a Vanilla bug, particularly the bug is that the Gremlin is an actual unit AND doesn't get concealed unless you get squadwide conceal.
That means that it can activate pods, vanilla I even had it activate pods when doing squadsight actions.
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