Weird Bug - CoH 4.0 - Destroyed repair drone turns into about 15 mass traffic ships.

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Weird Bug - CoH 4.0 - Destroyed repair drone turns into about 15 mass traffic ships.

Post by grapedog » Fri, 11. Jun 21, 13:50

English, Vanilla, 4.0 CoH, Fires of Defeat start.

Weird bug.... I'm trying to do the Path of Vengeance mission... in the save posted below, as I near the group of ZYA surrounding the destroyer... there is a lone repair drone trailing the group. I can't see it on the map, but I can see it in my field of view while playing. I target it, and as I close on it, and shoot it... if you shoot just enough to destroy the drone and nothing else, the drone is destroyed and you move on with life. If you fire another volley or two into the same spot where the drone was, all of the sudden like 10-15 civilian transport ships pop up out of nowhere. Mass traffic ships. And then they make a beeline towards the nearby rattlesnake...

It is somewhat repeatable, I can get it to happen about 25% of the time.

As soon as the game loads, if you pause, you'll see the enemy fleet in front of you, all lit up and red and yellow. If you aim the nose of your ship a little down and to the left of the group, and initiate travel drive, the repair drone should pop up center screen after a few seconds. I make a beeline to the left of the drone, to avoid the pack of ridiculously murderous asp escorts, once I get around 4-5km from the drone, i exit travel drive and coast until i get into range, then shoot. If you shoot an extra volley into the spot, you can get the civilian ships to spawn sometimes.

Since I was only able to reproduce it myself about 20% of the time, I've included 2 saves. One right before, where I do the above sequence. And one immediately after I got the mass traffic ships to spawn, and I'm trying to speed away from the engagement.

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Re: Weird Bug - CoH 4.0 - Destroyed repair drone turns into about 15 mass traffic ships.

Post by Alan Phipps » Fri, 11. Jun 21, 14:35

Sheer coincidence I expect, unless the repair drone just got itself stuck in the clump by accidental collision. Those mass traffic clumps happen quite frequently, and the way the player usually sees them is when one of them becomes a criminal and attracts the attention of lots of police etc. Try to shoot the criminal yourself and you may massacre a multitude of civilian mass traffic parked in the same place - and annoy and lose rep with the local authorities. :D

If you want to test this theory then just ram the repair drone with your ship and see if the coincident mass traffic clump breaks up and quickly remerges. No risk or rep loss if you try that.
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Re: Weird Bug - CoH 4.0 - Destroyed repair drone turns into about 15 mass traffic ships.

Post by grapedog » Fri, 11. Jun 21, 23:31

Well hopefully with a before and after save, and it being somewhat repeatable, it is something they can investigate if they so choose.

It's not a nuisance in any way really, so I don't really care that much... but maybe these can help. less bugs is always a good ting.

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