Duplication Bug

[myteon]

I flew "The Hacker" squad out of Fort Worth in a blackhawk. I turned in T-Force to Major Stevens and did the Mount Tailor mission. After completion it was present in Albuquerque, after getting T-Force back I have a second "The Hacker" still squad loaded in the blackhawk (the other was on foot).

Non Bug related pondering begins:
Also units that leave via air drop their upgraded single item (Laser sniper ect) gear in the exit zone. I didn't have a unit that could equip it but I wonder what would happen if I tried to.

[onearmwonder]

you can duplicate any infantry unit doing this as long as the unit can fit inside a vehicle and part of the unit is left behind once said vehicle leaves an exit zone they will become a new unit

[myteon]

That's interesting onearmwonder. Does the portion of infantry outside get counted as evacuated when the vehicle leaves?
I took a deeper look at previous saves. It looks like taking the Founder units for Mount Tailor is the culprit. I have in armored transports 2 sharpshooters, 1 militia, and the Hacker in a heli mentioned above. All of them are boarded on founder transports, all duplicated. The units that were boarded in vans where not. After the Mount Tailor mission, the other founder infantry is unloaded. That is the point I believe the bug is occurring.
I also believe the game is saving the data of units (non founder) that are still in the transports when they (the transports) get moved to whatever structure you (the developer) are saving them in. The game does remove them from the transport but fails to remove the data of the unit in the transport. It sounds dumb I know. When the units are returned the game sees the data for that unit in the transport and creates a copy still in the transport.
Or I could look at it as an extra six laser snipers, a plasma shotgun and a plasma rifle.

[onearmwonder]

you may have found a bug but you can chose what units you want to duplicate with vehicles and the exit zone on any map as long as the unit is able to fit inside said vehicle and yes all infantry left outside of the exit zone become a new unit while the old one is copied at full unit size with equipped weapons and can be done several times with one unit if u can keep more than one outside after the first mission out of haven base i left with 5 rangers and 7 founder infantry and 2 kondos

[myteon]

Hahaha that's awesome! Seen something about adding founder units to the store inventories recently. Makes me want to try a founders only early/mid game run.

[onearmwonder]

i havent wanted to mess with files yet so ive just been duplicating all founder units and hero units i can can also sell them for extra good will