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geisthund:
Something pretty interesting just happened.

Remember how in UFO sometimes the aliens flipped out when their morale dropped too low, and they either dropped their weapons in panic or else gunned down team-mates after going berserk?

As far as I've sen the aliens in UFO AI go "berserk" by running forwards all guns blazing. Once in a very long time they've dropped their weapons, or charged out and not fired. I've never seen them "panic" (which was a nice touch in UFO)

Today during a harvesting mission I found most of the aliens up in the command center of the harvester. After dispatching a clump of 4 outside (they were standing together, so a heavy needler and rocket launcher took the whole cluster out) I tried breaking the glass of the cockpit and lobbing plasma grenades in using my GL.

To my surprise I managed (after 8 grenades) to kill 4 of them in 1 shot... and the last one freaked out and ran through his ship gunning down all his friends!

In the end he ran out into my waiting team and got killed by reaction fire, and when we combed the ship there was 1 last alien cowering in the stairwell and a trail of dead bodies. :\

Was this an AI glitch, or do aliens really crack like this?

Salvo:
This is the first time this has happened to you? They freak out all the time in my battles. Especially the wounded ones are prone to running away to curl up in a corner somewhere.

geisthund:
running away to curl up has been a regular feature.

turning around and gunning down their friends - no I can't say I've seen that happen before.

Much less running amok through a spaceship killing ALL their friends. It's a first for me.

And believe you me, with 32 active personnel all with over 100 missions each (the most senior ranks are captains, the most junior warrant officers) ....... i've played a few missions.

ShipIt:

--- Quote from: geisthund on June 02, 2012, 09:48:09 am ---with 32 active personnel all with over 100 missions each (the most senior ranks are captains, the most junior warrant officers) ....... i've played a few missions.

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Hehe, seems like.

Nokim:

--- Quote from: geisthund on June 02, 2012, 09:48:09 am ---turning around and gunning down their friends - no I can't say I've seen that happen before.

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It was usual thing for me in earlier version of UFO:AI. 2.3 perhaps... In 2.5 i had never seen this. Instead my soldiers got killed by civilians sometimes. They pick up weapons from dead alien and shoot my wounded soldier. It's VERY rare but it happens... On bunker map.

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