Underrail Forum
Underrail => Bugs => Topic started by: Phr3ak on February 10, 2026, 06:44:29 pm
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When the PC is tasked with Epione Lab investigation, the Free Drones in the nearby hideout are not hostile until the PC trespasses. While it makes sense since they don't know the PC's affiliation, it creates some problems. First, dogs are hostile, and if a dog detects the PC while a Free Drone sees the dog, Free Drones become hostile too. This already makes the FD supposed neutrality fuzzy and weird. Worse, if Shred is lured out (c.f. https://stygiansoftware.com/forums/index.php?topic=2746.msg14697#msg14697) and talked to, he says stuff that he would say if the player joined the FD (e.g. he knows the PC's name, calls the PC his brother/sister, etc.), which is clearly a bug.
Also, I experimented with luring out and killing unnamed FDs with the intention of leaving Shred the only one alive, but when only three FDs (+ Shred) remained, stealthily killing any of them made the rest hostile. Not sure what's going here, e.g. whether some counter is involved or those three are somehow special.
Anyway, given that no meaningful interaction with Free Drones is possible on the Protectorate path, just making them immediately hostile on Epione Lab quest start looks like an easy workaround for all these issues.