Pawn attacking a downed enemy after tending to him once?

[M4ck]

Hi

After a raid, I wanted to capture and recruit one of the downed enemies, but he was battered badly and seriously bleeding. So I drafted one of my pawns, and forced her to tend to his wounds. Before being forced to tending, she was just standing around drafted, and just in case, was set to flee and not attack.

After tending to him once, she just immediately bludgeons him to death :/ Any idea what could be wrong here?

[gimmethegepgun]

Did they regain their ability to move, i.e. pain went down below 80%, or their movement rose above 15%?

[Astasia]

The raider probably got up and since your doctor was standing on top of them that immediately triggered melee combat and your healthy doctor attacked first and won. Hold fire only works for shooting, flee only works when a colonist isn't drafted.

[M4ck]

Well, maybe they tried to get up, I don't know. But after save scumming a bit (be honest, this is NOT the intended behavior...) everything worked correctly. Now the friendly cannibal is slowly getting converted in a nice, toasty 46*C prison cell :)

[Minty Fresh]

I had a mate that I was with when he regained consciousness after surgery. In his semi-delirious state he said something sexually inappropriate to the attending female nurse (which I won't repeat here). She promptly flicked him on the nose. I suspect if I wasn't present she may have done something worse, such as bludgeoning him to death. I'm only speculating, but this may have well been what happened in your case.

[Psilo]

always capture downed enemies before healing, otherwise if they are not too injured badly they will simply get back up and fight...

[Ashardalon]

setting someone to flee doesnt do anything when drafted
thats just the setting for undrafted behavior
he got up and was in melee range, your guy was drafted so attacked

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by Retro050:

always capture downed enemies before healing, otherwise if they are not too injured badly they will simply get back up and fight...

LOL...I learned that for the first time yesterday because it was the first time I tended to a downed enemy before capturing them. My doctor bandaged them up and they immediately sucker punched him in the face after!

[Cat®]

Working as intended.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Retro050:

always capture downed enemies before healing, otherwise if they are not too injured badly they will simply get back up and fight...

The important factor is mainly whether or not they have newly-missing limbs. If they have untended newly-destroyed external body parts, then those cause pain, which contributes to their pain shock, but when it gets tended it instantly ends the pain and may result in their pain going low enough.
If they don't have missing limbs then they probably aren't going to get up while being tended in the field, if you need to do that because you shot them in the heart and neck a few times or something and they're going to bleed out right quick. In any case, you can check their pain level to see if they're near the threshold.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

Originally posted by Retro050:

always capture downed enemies before healing, otherwise if they are not too injured badly they will simply get back up and fight...

The important factor is mainly whether or not they have newly-missing limbs. If they have untended newly-destroyed external body parts, then those cause pain, which contributes to their pain shock, but when it gets tended it instantly ends the pain and may result in their pain going low enough.
If they don't have missing limbs then they probably aren't going to get up while being tended in the field, if you need to do that because you shot them in the heart and neck a few times or something and they're going to bleed out right quick. In any case, you can check their pain level to see if they're near the threshold.

Can confirm: People sometimes get just over the pain threshold. I had raiders stand up without tending not too long after they got downed and when I raid other camps and tend bleeding ones and then proceed to disassemble the camp, quite often the raiders get up in that time.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by gimmethegepgun:

In any case, you can check their pain level to see if they're near the threshold.

I should add: if they ARE close to recovering and getting up you can smack them with a gun or something. That PROBABLY won't kill them, and it'll put them in more pain so they stay down. Whereas if they get up they'll roll the chance to instadie on down when you try to down them again.