Petta and the hyenas

[idpounder]

Hey folks, one of the amusing little side quests triggers when you invade Camp Chien Sauvage. There's an NPC in a cell there named 'Petta' (riff on PETA) that if you cut her loose, she immediately heads out to release a bunch of caged hyenas there. It can make for merry chaos if she does this while you're in the process of invading the sector.

I'm just wondering if there are any funny resolutions to the situation? Every time I've seen it, it only ends when either the hyenas are all dead, by your hand, the troops or the alligator (Petta leaves the area sadly) or Petta gets killed in the crossfire. I've managed to kill everything else before but leave Petta and a few hyenas alive, but then the combat never ends until I kill the roaming hyenas.

Just wondering if there's more to it that I'm missing or not.

[uncle nick]

No animal cruelty by your team:
GENA kills Hyenas, PETA turns GENA into vegan, PETA walks away.

[idpounder]

Ah, so you're actually supposed to let Gena go to town on 'em. Gotcha!

[idpounder]

Unfortunately in my case, after everyone else is dead, Gena just continues to wander around and the combat never ends. Sigh.

[Twelvefield]

I did all of that... most of that... and gassed Petta kind of by mistake. I didn't think she would pathfind through mustard gas, but she did.

[uncle nick]

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i dunno, there was a lot of screaming; but it was kinda dissapointing how GENA never attacks PETA.

[idpounder]

Thanks folks, it sounds like it's fairly random, the key might be making sure that Gena paths back near Petta at the end. I'll fool around with it a bit.

[uncle nick]

Originally posted by idpounder:

...it sounds like it's fairly random...

Haha, do you need an Australian to explain crocodile wrangling?
Not random, i think it was scripted; because PETA ran back into the empty Hyena pen to cry and console herself. I then used Mouse with frog leap perk, as bait to lure GENA into the Hyena pen cage area. After GENA has followed Mouse into the cage area, Mouse climbed up the roof top at the back end. While Uncle jumped down from the rooftop at the door end, to close the gate door. Thus, trapping both PETA and GENA in the hyena cage pen. Pretty sure this is all scripted.

[idpounder]

Originally posted by uncle nick:

Haha, do you need an Australian to explain crocodile wrangling?

It would've been pretty funny if you needed to have Scully in your group to make it work! :)

Anyway in my case, I've wasted all the time on this that I care to now, it's obviously bugged for some reason for me. I carefully cleared out the rest of the camp w/o triggering Gena (no small feat!), left the hyenas alone, then released Petta to start things off. Lured Gena into the pen area w/o Petta leaving (again, no small feat) and let Gena do crocodile things to the hyenas. Got everyone away, locked Petta and Gena in together, got combat to finish.

....aaaand, nothing. They just stand there looking at each other. Looks like the quest has resolved itself for whatever reason, the text implies that my mercs did the hyenas in, but they didn't touch 'em. If the devs happen to see this, it's an annoying thing to go to all that effort then have it not work. I can provide save games if desired.

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[uncle nick]

Originally posted by idpounder:

....aaaand, nothing....

It wasn't for nothing, you have the satisfaction of knowing that PETA got the hyenas killed by her actions. And while waiting for combat to resolve between PETA vs GENA, you got to listen to about 10 minutes of PETA screaming loudly in fear. You could have shot the crocodile to save PETA, but that would have been 'animal cruelty'.

I dunno, what were you expecting to happen?

[idpounder]

Originally posted by uncle nick:

I dunno, what were you expecting to happen?

Petta's dialog is pretty funny, to be sure. :)

It was my understanding that if she and Gena survived the hyenas, that a cutscene would ensue where Petta would teach Gena to eat vegan food and both would depart happy. That's all I've been angling for.

[Ceredh]

Interesting. I was always too afraid of crocodiles (one killed Thor in my first campaign) to make experiments and let the poor beast at life. When I visited the location first I was too surprised to act with a plan. I managed to kill the hyenas but one merc got severely wounded. Petta also opened more than one cage.

Now in my second campaign I had the anticipatory excitement to fill Petta with bullets or cut her in half when she tried to open more than the first cage. Sadly she did not try but ran away and so was able to survive and torture the rest of the world further on. I should have let her in her cage probably.

[Gorebane]

Yup, I just left her in her cage and walked away. I wonder how long she'll survive subsisting purely on a diet of virtue signalling.

[SirHawk]

Originally posted by Gorebane:

Yup, I just left her in her cage and walked away. I wonder how long she'll survive subsisting purely on a diet of virtue signalling.

I once didn't release her, went on doing repairs and training militia, after some time I've got a quest failure and her corpse was in the pit.

[GreenDragon1776]

Petta is such a lovely individual. She makes a nearly perfect match for your consideration to earn the sinner achievement. Having Flay in the team, equipped with...say a machete and waiting in front of her until the exact moment she talks about one part of the human species didn't have the right to live, makes this into a truly satisfactional experience...it fails you the quest though, but you might not regret it too much.

[piyoist]

I just killed Petta, because I hate animal rights activists.