What a joke

[aardvark]

Is this serious?
Went all the way through a mission, only to have to give it up because the last enemy on the map decided to chase a zombie tick or something rather over 120,000 distance away......
.....and even better, they were still flying off into the distance away from me the entire time.

You would think there would be a limit on how far out the AI would go . . . .

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

Doesn't happen too often, but if it does, you can usually refit a smaller ship that can catch up to them. Usually that's enough to destroy whatever you needed to.

[Gough Whitlam]

Take a lighter ship next time and you should be able to chase anything with it. Fast and agile ships are useful in a lot of missions particularly when there's a time limit and all you need to do is destroy some inanimate targets.

[delmoroth]

Work around or not, it is a poor game mechanic. Runners should return when everything else is dead. The challenge for that area is over at that point anyway, the rest is just a waste of time. There is no need to make the player refit to kill it, then refit again to actually play the game.

[FDru]

It's a flaw with the game, you just kind of have to deal with it.

[Macabre]

did you try dumping your armor?

[Fate]

120k clicks is a huge distance. Even using a hydra loaded with engine boosters and no armor, it'd take about 2-3 minutes to traverse that distance.

Keep a closer eye on your tactical screen and head off runners with a ship that is equipped to be fast and contain gravity missiles. Since this sort of situation doesn't tend to happen until Chapter 3, you should be equipped to deal with it at that point. If you maintain awareness of the battlefield, it's hard to get stuck in a situation where you get to the end of a mission and something you need is really far away.

[aardvark]

I always use tiny hulls for the other 2 slots.
So I chased it down in a gopher that has 2 engine boosters but gave up after 2-3 minutes of flying. Massive distance away plus they were also still flying away from me, not worth it.

Saw them off to the side during the mission but never had them targetted so didn't think they would be light years away. At least now I know what to look for now that I'm aware this can happen.

[Ishraqiyun]

Happened to me once but I thought it was a glitch.

[Shad1902]

It happens sometimes, but I never had an ennemy chase for so long.

When this happens and I have a runner, I simply change my ship (pressing the 1,2,3 keys) and every time the runner then changes direction and comes back to attack.

Another thing that works is sending your ships to repair and except 1 which is stealthed and you control.