Unique recruited NPCs should not respawn on import

[Ocram]

Apparently it was already this way, but it changed recently? Anyway, now that we have an import dead npcs option, I think it should prevent recruited uniques to spawn too.

[Sol Lignum]

What makes you think they do respawn now?

Don't know about every unique recruit, and can't test them all, for i have no idea where did i originally get most of them anyway, but i've just imported and visited Burn's tower (3rd time in recent history? 5th? I can't tell) and just as always, he wasn't there, because he sat in his shack on my outpost. As always.

I vaguely remember where did i recruited Ruka, but i doubt it's really necessary to go there and look for her twin.

[Hatsune_Neko]

if a unique recruit is again able to be recruited then its a bug, as they have a check system to make sure they do not re-spawn again.

[Ocram]

I'm talking between imports, should probably have specified in the title, my bad.
If you referred to import too, I can confirm Hobbs, Miu, Hamut and Green, but as far as I remember it always worked this way since 0.97.6, pretty sure Ells always spawned too.

[Sol Lignum]

(...) I can confirm Hobbs, Miu, Hamut and Green (...) Ells (...).

That's odd, they have all got their "Unique" tag intact in the FCS. It's either something messed up in the code, or your mods. Could you check if they've got the tag in your FCS, with all mods enabled? They're in the "Characters" section, just open them up and scroll all the way down, unique tag should be second last.

[Ocram]

Without mods enabled, same behaviour.

[Sol Lignum]

Well then, this should definitely go to the bug report.

[Hatsune_Neko]

zipup and upload the affected save folder for the Devs to look over.

[Ocram]

testuniquesWOimportdead.rar

w/o import dead checked

(354.33 KiB) Downloaded 187 times

testuniquesWimportdead.rar

w/ import dead checked

(326.51 KiB) Downloaded 269 times

They are just new games with hobbs recruited tho....

[ronvandorp]

I have 2 unique Ruka's in my current game and had similar experience with previous games.

[Sol Lignum]

Odd, i remember that topic about duplicated Ruka, and i've not found her in Squin either. Maybe it's not the code after all.

By the way, it might've been caused by no import upon certain update. I'd say it's preferred to import after updates, even if the game doesn't tell you to, just in case, to avoid possible small glitches.

Assumption: Those characters might've been altered at some point, and game didn't count recruited ones as the same character, since stats, and probably IDs as well, were changed. So they doubled, and since your squad got, say, Ruka (internal ID ruka_001_squin_old), the other Ruka (internal ID ruka_admag_new_buffed), the game keeps to spawn her. IDs are made up, but i hope you get the idea.

Test suggestion: Try to dismiss your affected characters, recruit their twins, save to another slot, import, and see what happens.

[SirDuke]

I can tell that "Headshot" is always respawning on import.

[lakired]

Had this happen with Ruka. On the experimental branch, imported my current game to try to fix a separate bug I'm experiencing and a second Ruka was available in Squin to recruit.

[Ocram]

Wrongly marked as fixed, or it was and now it's happening again, either way.