Scavenger Used Scratch from Across The Map?

[Ephysona]

The scavenger was well outside of melee range, I'm talking at least 20-25 tiles, but they used "Scratch" and hit one of my characters. What's up with that?

[nintenbruce]

I know exactly what you mean. I had the same thing happen on stream but with a plague doctor. https://youtu.be/7A4ugo2klYU
Funnily enough, after seeing this for the first time I then had a maggot and a corrupted shield bearer use their melee attacks on me from miles away for a different save file the day after!

I wish I could tell you what triggers it because I'd really like to know myself!

I'd say if it changes the outcome of the level for you then quit to menu and restart the mission. I was lucky as I had 600 armour on both Blademasters when the latest glitch happened although being rooted to the spot made me a little unhappy...

[Ephysona]

I wasn't very lucky. It happened to brand new, freshly rolled characters. They all ended up dying. I mean, I kinda expected that, tho'.

[nintenbruce]

I guess the glitch just sped up the process for you then 🤣 Still frustrating when it's outside of your control though.

If it happens again, do try and make note of it on here. Perhaps we might come across a pattern and the Devs could fix it.

Good luck to both of us I guess.

[Ephysona]

Indeed.

[Pingu The Merciless]

Yes it happened to me when i was trying to do a Recollection 1 run a while ago.
it was a monster from the 4rth world (dont want to spoil you if you haven't seen it yet) but not a scavenger (he oneshotted my daughter so i had to redo the whole run.
It seems if a monster spawns too far away from your daughters (for example in the long maps of rescue missions, he can attack on spawn as if it was melee range for some reason)
It's a pretty consistent bug sadly

[Ephysona]

Damn what the hell. Well what can we expect? Both XCOM and XCOM2 were extremely buggy and never fixed, so.