Suicidal Pawn Behavior?

[Netflix]

I was minding my own business opening a chest and I saw a rented pawn jump backwards off a ledge and into the Brine below. I thought, "Maybe this is a visual glitch?" And lo and behold, the pawn is gone. I know I'm a bad Arisen who kills rabbits, but this was a sucker punch to my stolen heart feelings.

Checking to see if such behvaiors have been happening to anyone else?

[Scoopicus]

I've had my main pawn come REALLY close to a ledge when attacking a bandit but otherwise no suicides.

[legendaryhero]

Originally posted by Abaddon Runaway:

I was minding my own business opening a chest and I saw a rented pawn jump backwards off a ledge and into the Brine below. I thought, "Maybe this is a visual glitch?" And lo and behold, the pawn is gone. I know I'm a bad Arisen who kills rabbits, but this was a sucker punch to my stolen heart feelings.

Checking to see if such behvaiors have been happening to anyone else?

wierd edge detection causes this for the pawns and no its normal because the pawns are coded to be "infront" of you camera-wise and if there's nothing infront of you, they sometimes just jump to their deaths.

[Mora]

What did you DO to them?!

I've never seen it myself. Maybe a weird combination of inclinations, or just an oddball bug, haha.

[GRRRR]

Pawns tend to jump over chests when theyre in the way instead of walking around them. Ive always been wary of chests next to cliffsides ... >,<

[Horus Lupercal]

Just how pawns are, I remember playing this on 360 and I had at least half a dozen rented pawns jump off cliffs

[Netflix]

Originally posted by legendaryhero:

Originally posted by Abaddon Runaway:

I was minding my own business opening a chest and I saw a rented pawn jump backwards off a ledge and into the Brine below. I thought, "Maybe this is a visual glitch?" And lo and behold, the pawn is gone. I know I'm a bad Arisen who kills rabbits, but this was a sucker punch to my stolen heart feelings.

Checking to see if such behvaiors have been happening to anyone else?

wierd edge detection causes this for the pawns and no its normal because the pawns are coded to be "infront" of you camera-wise and if there's nothing infront of you, they sometimes just jump to their deaths.

I had no idea regarding the camera view thing.

I'm noticing it more now as I'm spinning the camera around myself slowly.

[Stargazer]

Sometimes, when a chest is close to a cliff or an abyss their AI will screw up and they will jump down. Happens in Bitterblack Isle the most.

[RK/Dragonfly]

Pawns also jump over chests a lot, so if you sprint towards chests near cliff edges and sheer drops you'll watch your pawns fly off into the aybss.

"I wonder what's in heeeeeeeeerrreeeeeeeeeeee............." *splat*

[Sven Chrono]

I had a quest giver I had to escort, commit suicide. Was walking around in a dungeon and he was following me while we were traversing some narrow walk ways with deep water below. Next thing I notice, I failed a quest and hear a sploosh sound. Turn around and see he was gone and the quest forever. My heart ached there.

[Netflix]

Okay, now I know my pawns are out to inconvenience me.

I run over to pick up an exploding barrel to use it on a clump of enemies and a mage pawn runs up to it, uses a heavy attack on and it explodes in my face. I don't think this pawn will get a helpful rating (I know it's not his fault), he's gonna just get thrown off a ledge.

I think I'm turning evil and they know it. Dark Arisen indeed.

Edit: In hindsight, I suspect changing the camera may have impacted the mage's heavy attack. I'm sure he meant to heavy attack in the direction of the goblins.

[Nicholas Steel]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with ledge detection... oh wait: https://youtu.be/e-CmJ2h8mwU

One of 'em made it!

[Netflix]

Originally posted by Nicholas Steel:

There's absolutely nothing wrong with ledge detection... oh wait: https://youtu.be/e-CmJ2h8mwU

One of 'em made it!

LOL, oh that's too fun. I think I've become a paranoid Arisen in the last 30 minutes.