[Oxyd] [1.1.42] Biters make a cuddle pile with me instead of brutally murdering myself and my base

[rlm]

Steps to reproduce: load

weird frozen biters.zip

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, observe biters.
Expected behavior: brutally torn limb from limb by biters with no mercy; then efficient destruction of my rocket silo and subsequent game loss.

I have been playing wave defense on "hard" mode recently and found what I consider to be buggy behavior from the biters after they breach my defenses. A behemoth and big biter made it through my walls, destroyed a few entities, then congregated lazily near my rocket silo, seemingly unsure of what to do next.

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Soon after I found these lazy biters just want to cuddle with each other and even welcome me to join the cuddle pile! Disgraceful.

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I have included a save that shows this odd and shameful behavior by these biters. Over time several more biters come and also just sort of laze around. I need these guys' vibes to be more Starship Troopers and less Steven Universe, dammit! How else can I justify murdering them wholesale?

[mrvn]

cuddle pile, lol.

[Pi-C]

Did you know there even was a Far Side movie? Myself, I only discovered it rather recently -- even though it's quite old.

[Klonan]

Looks like they are stuck pathfinding:

[Oxyd]

Thanks, fixed in 1.1.49.

[Amarula]

Expected behavior: brutally torn limb from limb by biters with no mercy;

Ah the dreaded BCPB (Biter Cuddle Pile Bug)!
Thank you for this delightfully written description; I can't say I have ever enjoyed reading a bug report quite this much

[alxbs]

Hi,
I have a savegame, maybe [1.1.46], of a biter stuck in my base doing some shaky moves, and I thought it could be the same issue.
When I loaded after the update the biter is still there and still doing its thing.
Is it expected for the biter to remain like this after the update to 1.1.49?

[rlm]

Can now confirm that these new high-quality biters immediately murder my base. Thanks!

--RLM