0012561: Virused bots and sentries can get the player completely stuck

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0012561	Bionic Dues	Balance Issue		Sep 19, 2013 2:25 am	Sep 23, 2013 11:45 am

Reporter	Misery	Assigned To	Chris_McElligottPark
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix
Product Version	0.915 Linux Support!

Summary	0012561: Virused bots and sentries can get the player completely stuck
Description	This one I'm running into really often right now, generally when viruses are used; when the virused bots run out of targets in the immediate area, they completely stop moving, which also means that the player cannot go past them without either pulling more enemies over... which you often cannot do in that situation... or destroying them, which is definitely never a good idea and rather frustrating to have to do. My suggestion is to have a "displacement" sort of thing be possible with bots/sentries under your control, kinda like how Nethack does it, where if you try walking directly into your own pet, the two of you just trade positions. This should only be doable with virused bots, since doing it with sentries could be exploitable, and sentries tend to be very expendable anyway.
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Internal Weight	Key Feature Addition

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Sep 19, 2013 2:25 am	Misery	New Issue
Sep 19, 2013 8:39 am	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Key Feature Addition
Sep 19, 2013 8:39 am	tigersfan	Assigned To	=> Chris_McElligottPark
Sep 19, 2013 8:39 am	tigersfan	Status	new => assigned
Sep 19, 2013 8:40 am	tigersfan	Relationship added	has duplicate 0012560
Sep 23, 2013 11:45 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Note Added: 0033986
Sep 23, 2013 11:45 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	assigned => closed
Sep 23, 2013 11:45 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => won't fix
Apr 14, 2014 9:29 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Gameplay - Balance Issue => Balance Issue

Chris_McElligottPark Sep 23, 2013 11:45 am administrator ~0033986	Honestly I think the current method is the best -- you can fire at these things and kill them, and the sentry turret one even tells you to. The displacement thing would be exploitable even for bots, if you wanted to walk them way across a floor to get them into range of some enemies you wanted killed.