So some moron thought abusing bugs was fun

[Caladbolg]

someone put resources outside reachable area, permanently glitching refining drones.

I mean seriously. not only is that a stupid bug and shouldn't exist, but using it is really retarded and should get you a permaban. that's just assholery.

[WhyteDragon]

... considering that's both a troll method that can be used by your own team and a rather unfair AI glitch for infiltrators, sounds like that could use a fix.

[Caladbolg]

So confirmed that it is Squid that likes to abuse the glitch.

[Siretu]

There's two parts to it.

1. Fixing so you cant drop stuff outside
2. Making sure refining AI doesn't go crazy if it cant reach a particular piece of mineral.

[Acid Burn]

this glitch was also done to my team in one game however it took me about 2 sec to figure out i just needed to attack and kill the minerals canisters stashed away. so until this is patched thats the only way to fix the drone

[WhyteDragon]

I tried doing that. To my understanding, you can't use a regular gun to kill the minerals..?

Is it a particular gun type?

[Acid Burn]

glad you asked Whyte i never thought about it, also could not remember ran a test game tried all weapons seems i had an ARC12 equipped due to previous boarding attempts. this gun can actually destroy any item on the ground guns, kits, missals etc.

-ARC12 and only ARC12 will destroy items and mineral canisters-

[Caladbolg]

so he has been continuing to abuse the bug. Even after being made aware how fucking ridiculously stupid it is.

the worst part is how easy the solution is. Remove the infiltrator.

So yeah. fuck it.

[Siretu]

There's two parts to it.

1. Fixing so you cant drop stuff outside
2. Making sure refining AI doesn't go crazy if it cant reach a particular piece of mineral.

I've fixed both 1) and 2). I'm hoping to patch it in later today.

[Acid Burn]

so this glitch still seems to happen can still drop a few mineral pods in certain locations still 2 spots right where the minerals come in as well as spots on the main deck. also a few repair kits were dropped outside of range behind upgrades i clicked on one to try to pick it up. As i was otw to pick it up i ran over upgrades in the process this caused the beacon to stay highlighted and the upgrade console was no longer able to be used i did verify this watching the replay. A different fix might be a wider area object pick up range. The refining drone is definitely fixed though even with the 2 canisters u can still place out of range the drone still functions fine.