Protect Specialist Trooper side objective?

[Sikorsky]

I was playing ARC Agni Prime and a side objective popped up that I admit I've never seen before. A lone NPC trooper spawned right outside the base build area and the objective was to protect him. I found it interesting that he was already ranked up to Private rather than Recruit like the normal NPC troopers. Unfortunately this was all happening during a rather chaotic Warrior Ambush so I wasn't able to pay much attention to the announcement or see if the trooper survived. So my questions are:

1.) How long are you supposed to protect the Specialist for? (There was a yellow bar under the task but I'm unsure if this was a timer or the trooper's HP)
2.) What does the trooper provide granted they survive?
3.) Why haven't I seen this objective pop up more frequently?

Thanks in advance.

[RENGOKU]

So yeah, it is a bit rare and there’s not really a set time at first you’re supposed to escort them to a location where they’ll dig up supply cashes.

[Bovril Brigadier]

I honestly thought this objective was taken out because it was so frustrating and broken.
1) How long is a piece of string? If he spawns near any other objectives i.e. ore and people keep triggering it then he'll never advance, or my personal favourite he spawns in an area where Bug Exterminations keep spawning in so he never moves as he constantly stops to fight.
2) NPC trooper that can follow people around, that's basically it.
3) Because its a ♥♥♥♥ secondary.

[Sikorsky]

That's disappointing. When the announcer called him a specialist I was hoping he'd do something unique like hang around base and repair walls.

[Stein]

Honestly, it would be better if it were a cameraman who you have to take to an extermination point and he has to survive (or not) and record how an infestation is cleaned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd7DwGA7qEU

[Bovril Brigadier]

Originally posted by Stein:

Honestly, it would be better if it were a cameraman who you have to take to an extermination point and he has to survive (or not) and record how an infestation is cleaned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd7DwGA7qEU

Really was a missed opportunity from the devs. Guard a camera crew who are obtaining footage would be so much better.

[Stein]

Originally posted by Strayed:

Really was a missed opportunity from the devs. Guard a camera crew who are obtaining footage would be so much better.

It would even be great to be able to see a "replay" of the battle recorded by the cameraman after the extraction

[Sikorsky]

Originally posted by Stein:

Originally posted by Strayed:

Really was a missed opportunity from the devs. Guard a camera crew who are obtaining footage would be so much better.

It would even be great to be able to see a "replay" of the battle recorded by the cameraman after the extraction

They could add a little monitor in the back of the extraction dropship playing the footage with a FedNet overlay. Give the people waiting for everyone else something to do.

[prometh]

A cameraman class would help the game's marketing via social media

[Stein]

Originally posted by Sikorsky:

They could add a little monitor in the back of the extraction dropship playing the footage with a FedNet overlay. Give the people waiting for everyone else something to do.

It would probably be a bit expensive in performance to render things twice, but unreal itself has a tool that allows you to record, say, the "game", like soccer games, where the scene and events are repeated in the same way.
They could do that after the extraction as a bonus maybe,
it would even be great to be able to share that recording. "it's even Marketing?"

Originally posted by prometh:

A cameraman class would help the game's marketing via social media

It would be great a final trailer where the game imitates some kind of scene like the movie where the cameraman dies.