Trigger Happy Troops

[GrimmReeper]

I've made it back to the space station and now on almost every sighting of an alien my troops are firing instantly. This had happened once or twice before now but now with the increased activity it's becoming a problem. Especially when I'm down a hallway with enough distance for a sniper shot but instead everyone starts firing before the shot goes off. I'm wondering if this is a bug possibly with clicking on the alien for the sniper shot and the game is also confusing that as a "kill that bastard" target? I've been extra careful to make sure I'm not clicking multiple times when doing the sniper shot as well.

[GrimmReeper]

Just tried the mission again, first alien I saw across a long hallway. Activated sniper shot and clicked on the alien. Moved my mouse completely away from the alien and just before the 1 second was up for the shot one of the soldiers shot alerting everything. Getting tired of reloading from the same point and the same thing happening 4 times over now. Will take a break and see if future patches fix this.

[Nekavandre]

Ok so it wasn't just me this happened to a few times. I would try to silently snipe and my squad goes full kill mode triggering a hunt.

[Silver Dubloons]

I had this bug once too, and from my Googling, it happens when you have a Synth in your party. It stopped happening to me once I extracted them in the ARC. Could be something else in your case, but if you have a Synth in your party, try extracting them.

[[MnP]MagiChrist]

Same thing with me. Everytime I try to shoot with my sniper, my whole squad shoots 1 second later and alert the whole hive.

[Swato85]

Per googling it happens when you have a nonmarine memver (escorting someone). Were you alone=just squad?

[GrimmReeper]

There are no synth or people I am escorting BUT I think I have the drone on my tech person but on defensive mode. Going to try it passive and see what happens.

[[CB] Pandasama]

Have same bug in same station mission. No tech drone, no escorting.
This is my second game (I start new game some time ago), and when I playing this mission in first game - all was OK.

[GrimmReeper]

I do indeed have a drone and it was on defensive. On my first attempt with the drone on passive instead a sniper shot went off successfully and none of my troops or the drone fired. Guessing that if the drone is the cause and then the troops shoot immediately after it's easy to not see it was the drone doing it? I will continue this mission this morning and update if this consistently works with the drone on passive.

Also 616.4 mb patch this morning and I see no patch notes but I'm suspecting that the patch did not resolve this, it was the drone actually causing the issue.

[FArheinFisch]

Had this bug on mission 10, too. I think reloading did fix it but i can`t remember.

[GrimmReeper]

2 attempts with drone on defensive and 1 out of the 2 times someone other than the sniper shot as well. This time it looked like my gunner shot first but that was just what was animated or just what the frame in slow mo caught first. (using nvidia shadowplay to capture)

Since then 5 attempts to snipe a single alien with the drone on passive with no issue.

Fairly confident in saying that the drone being on defensive is the issue.

[BlackBart]

If you give your squad a run order they will not shoot while the sniper takes the shot.