Non-activated pods don't activate when seeing hacked bots, but still shoot at them.

[nmkaplan]

One of those weird edge-cases that doesn't show up often, and I have no idea whether it's intended behavior or not.

An un-concealed specialist hacks an activated advent drone. The drone is in LOS of another un-activated pod. That pod does NOT activate after haywire protocol resolves. No scatter, no health bars, etc. But on the enemy turn, soldiers in the un-activated pod start shooting at the drone (yellow actions?). Still no scatter, still no health bars, etc. I never see the pod again, so I assume they continued to patrol away.

So! How do hacked robots interact with un-activated pods? Are patrolling pods supposed to ignore hacked bots if they see no XCOM soldiers? That seems cool and on-theme, and it'd be nice to not have to worry about hacking an active bot in the middle of a pod and activating 3 more.

But are non-activated pods supposed to take yellow actions to shoot down hacked bots?

[JulianSkies]

How odd. Myself I had a different, more expected, interaction when I hacked a turret. It saw a lot of advent and they didn't activate, but when it was their turn then they activated on her, as expected.

[ORIONOX]

One of those weird edge-cases that doesn't show up often, and I have no idea whether it's intended behavior or not.

An un-concealed specialist hacks an activated advent drone. The drone is in LOS of another un-activated pod. That pod does NOT activate after haywire protocol resolves. No scatter, no health bars, etc. But on the enemy turn, soldiers in the un-activated pod start shooting at the drone (yellow actions?). Still no scatter, still no health bars, etc. I never see the pod again, so I assume they continued to patrol away.

So! How do hacked robots interact with un-activated pods? Are patrolling pods supposed to ignore hacked bots if they see no XCOM soldiers? That seems cool and on-theme, and it'd be nice to not have to worry about hacking an active bot in the middle of a pod and activating 3 more.

But are non-activated pods supposed to take yellow actions to shoot down hacked bots?

so taking control of the bot made the pods activate on the bot, but didn't break concealment for the rest of your sqaud? I thought hacking a bot and having it spotted breaks concealment for your entire squad.

[nmkaplan]

My squad was already NOT concealed. The bot I hacked has LOS to an inactive pod that could see the bot, but not anyone in my squad. It wasn't about breaking conealment, but about the fact that an inactive pod that could see it took shots despite not going active.