I just saw NPC becoming self-aware.

[Florenus]

So there I was, minding my own business, spreading words of wisdom among non-player population of remote settlements and looking for crap people forgot to glue to the floor.
I just landed near some small planetary settlement and disembarked, looking for some guy I promised to deliver package for.
While I was leaving landing pad, a NPC walked by - nothing out of the ordinary, you see them all the time, doing chores, patrolling the grounds, etc. As he wasn't the one I was looking for, I paid him no mind and he paid no attention to me too. He just slowly walked on, as if lost in thought. Didn't scan me, didn't even look at me.

After making my delivery I was returning to my ship when I saw him again and I realized that he was obviously leaving the settlement.

That's... weird, I thought.
I've watched him slowly walking straight ahead and I couldn't shake the feeling that he is not on any adventure. There was no spark in his step. He wasn't looking for anything, he wasn't going anywhere in particular. He just slowly, but deliberately moved forward. Away from me, away from other NPC's, away from sources of energy and air. Away from everything, into the dark and cold night.

I just know he wasn't planning to come back. He had enough of it all.

 

[The_Keyser]

Thank you for the screens, I laughed a lot x)

 

[Darth Ender]

The Void calls even those on foot.

 

[AngryAntz]

He is looking for signs of inteliigent life

Great story

 

[bangermsuk]

i had a similiar experience of npc leaving settles and going for walkabouts, mine was a normal cargo delivery,npc comes towards us and walk straight past me and ship walking into the dark gloomy world beyond.i followed him with the ship & he just kept going.

 

[thistle]

“I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.”

 

[Sublime]

Even the NPCs don’t want to play EDO.

 

[metatheurgist]

Yep, now you know why some of those kill X missions don't work.

 

[Speedcuffs]

The Ship Interiors threads got too much for NPC Lawrence Oates...

 

[varonica]

They're all self aware but trapped in a computer controlled behaviour pattern they can't escape, so next time you see an NPC looking angry or ugly this is just the innate horror of their mind-numbing existence being expressed on the only part of their body they have control over, their face. Pity them and put them out of their misery whenever you have the opportunity!

 

[Jankules]

I have killed 27.000 of them for that combat rank...now I feel sorry.

 

[Agony_Aunt]

All he wanted in life was just some Settlement Defence Plans to unlock Wellington Beck, but he just couldn't face the grind any more.

 

[Arioch]

Help them.

Save them.

Please donate just one* Confirmation, and you can help stop this senseless loss of digital life:

https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/47859

*or more, if you have alt accounts

 

[FrogsFriend]

Josie left for a different reason.

Something bad happened and she can never go back.

Good luck Josie, I hope you find a new home out there.

 

[AkenBosch]

Now that last one is a powerful image. Thank you for the sobering report Cmdr. The harsh, unforgiving life out on the frontier can take the best of anyone, we should always keep that in mind.

Days without incidents: 0

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

It is a beautiful, powerful story.

 

[Vardaugas]

Reminds me of that penguin head for the mountains. Nothing out there but death but it's still going. No one knows why.

 

[LeoBartlet]

I hope this is a random event and not a bug. If it is a bug may it never be fixed.

 

[AkenBosch]

It's a bug. Some navmesh vertex divided by zero or whatnot. We are probably lucky the fellows are walking out into the sunset on solid ground, and not straight up on the rainbow bridge to Neverland. Though I'd want that latter one even less fixed than the former.

 

[bangermsuk]

Done ticket op, but so far it only 1 i seen