After manually targeting an enemy for the dog by double tapping the tag key, the target will be removed if the enemy becomes highlighted by a veteran teammate’s “Focus Target!” keystone effect instead.
This is a problem when trying to get the dog to continually attack a monster and can lead to a tag spam battle between veteran and arbitrator.
I’m not sure if the veteran’s debuff is also overwritten by the dog mark but it seems likely, the outline color definitely is.
Steps to Reproduce (Required):
Arbitrator marks a target for their dog.
Veteran marks the same target with Focus Target.
Dog target is removed and the dog will probably start attacking a different enemy.
This is still an issue, to the point that I consider focus target & dog completely incompatible. Repeatedly during a maelstrom mission I would send my dog for a target, only for it to disengage after the veteran used his tag ability, and often do nothing at all while standing next to me despite there being a monstrosity or something to attack.
I really think that other people shouldn’t even see the dog tagging at all. In quickplay it just leads to people killing the target before my dog reaches it, kinda similar to when you try to brain burst targets on psyker only made worse because you’re blatantly marking the enemy for everyone.