VIP carrying soldier knocked out?

[Mr. CookiePear]

Good day y'all,

So, I'm not afraid to admit it, I play with the "Always bleed out mod". It just removes those "oh no my best guy just got instantly killed by a crit, now I gotta start again" moments.

I was casually doing a dark VIP mission, minding my own business. It wasn't going too great, but I thought I'd be able to finish the mission without killing the VIP, so I knocked him unconcious after killing what I thought were the last enemies on the map since two facelesses got revealed without me getting too close, and reinforcements came as well. Two of my guys were poisoned, but i could get from the VIP to the extraction zone in one turn, so it shouldn't be a problem.

However, my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck kicked in, and without any enemies in sight one of my poisoned guys (with bladestorm (!)) panicked and got in my way. I found out panicked rangers with bladestorm attack friendlies, but that's not the point here. While panicking the ranger reveals a new group of enemies (which, ofcourse, had a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sectopod). So I start panicking a bit, and sent the specialist carrying the VIP into cover, which just so happened to be next to the panicking ranger. The ranger hits my specialist and voíla, my specialist (who was carrying the VIP!) starts bleeding out and drops the VIP she was carrying.

At this point I've forgotten my mission and just want to get my soldiers out. So, I throw a decoy, pick up my unconcious specialist (luckily my ranger un-panicked) and head straight for the exit. While passing by the dropped VIP I can't resist trying one more time to complete my mission. However, I seem to be unable to pick the VIP up again. Not that I minded, I was happy enough just seeing all my soldiers live to see another day, and I was aware that there was a bug which sometimes doesn't allow you to pick up unconcious people.

Now here's the fun part: after extracting all my soldiers (including the specialist who previously carried the VIP but then got knocked out) central said: "Package has been eliminated, repeat package is down. Proceed to the evac zone for extraction." or something like that. So I thought alright, maybe the game counts knocking the VIP out as killing him/her, so we succeeded the mission after all. However, in my loot screen it showed the CAPTURED VIP along with the supply and intel gains that come with capturing the enemy VIP.

How is this possible? Is this a bug? Was my bleeding-out specialist somehow still carrying the VIP while she was being carried? I have no idea what happened, and have been a loss ever since. Anyone have any idea?

[Derfy Jerfy]

sounds like a bug where the soldier carrying the VIP didn't drop them when they got knocked out so in the dusty code your unconcious soldier managed to pocket the VIP so when they were carried to safety they got stimpacked and woke up pulling the VIP out of their pocket.