Prop NPC Contacts as Enemies in NPC Groups

captainazzarano

Hi all. It's been a while.

Im working on an exploration/horror mission using a cryptic prop NPC costume as an enemy in an NPC Group. The enemies must be nonhumanoid, so I found the perfect prop in "Prop Undine Incubator". A group of them moving across the room look positively terrifying, however they move a short distance and then automatically die.

Anyone have any experience with this?

Does anyone know why the NPCs are dying after a brief time?

paxfederatica

Are you seeing this in preview mode, or in a published mission? The behavior of NPC mobs is known to be rather flaky in preview mode; that's why it's often good practice to test-publish maps with a lot of custom NPC settings and reskins and playtest them in-game.

captainazzarano

Preview mode, but I realized it doesn't work on animal groups. You have to place it on a humanoid enemy group for it to work.

markhawkman

If it's preview they're probably not dying. They're warping to somewhere else on the map.