Inconsistent poxburster AI behaviour

[Harridas]

Issue Type (Required):

Enemy Mechanics

Issue Description (Required):

Making this thread to collect instances of inconsistent poxburster behaviours.
Such as bursters not responding to pushes, walking into players, inconsistent health/corruption damage and/or playing multiple audio cues at once. Instances of sound cues missing or too quiet instead go to the sticked thread KNOWN ISSUE: Sound Cues Missing or Too Quiet

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

• Encounter and engage poxbursters in game

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Unusual (<25%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[Harridas]

Inconsistent poxburster health and corruption damage:

What happened to poxbursters?

Issue Type (Required): Enemy Mechanics Issue Description (Required): I’ve noticed recently that poxburster damage is inconsistent. What I thought was bursters always dealing 100 health damage turns out to be really inconsistent, especially any burster damage after the first. Poxburster explosions seem to deal varying damages. 1st poxburster usually deals 100 damage and poxbursters after that usually deal 50 damage, sometimes it’s more and I do not understand whatever logic poxbursters are worki…

[Harridas]

Inconsistent pushing behaviour (since Arby update)

Pushing Poxbursters is inconsistent

Issue Type (Required): Enemy Mechanics Issue Description (Required): Lately I’ve often had poxbursters not responding to pushes, maybe due to targeting issues. Not sure. Steps to Reproduce (Required): During normal games, push poxbursters. Having nearby teammates may play a role. Reproduction Rate (Required): Somewhat uncommon Platform (Required): PC - Steam console-2025-07-05-21.09.08-8b8f77ef-1299-4796-899c-8e835cacf6bf.log (5.3 MB)

[Harridas]

Poxbursters playing multiple audio cues when blowing up

Poxburster playing multiple audio cues

Issue Type (Required): Player Mechanics Issue Description (Required): Sometimes, poxbursters will play multiple audio cues as they are about to blow up. Steps to Reproduce (Required): Unknown [PC] Do You Use Mods? (Optional): Yes, but I haven’t tried disabling them Reproduction Rate (Required): Rare (<10%) Platform (Required): PC - Steam

[Harridas]

Another instance of poxburster push not working as expected

[Harridas]

Unreliable push behaviour

[Harridas]

Unreliable pushing

[Harridas]

Unreliable pushing

[Gideon404]

Re: issues since Arbites introduced, the dog projects a continuous short range stagger aura which can cause absolute mayhem if they’re near a burster.

Assuming the Arbitrator player hasn’t actually set the dog on the burster, which can also make them problematic to counter safely but is more of a skill issue on their part.

[Harridas]

@Gideon404

the dog projects a continuous short range stagger aura

This was patched with 1.8.2 or 1.8.3 I believe. But the dog will still stagger bursters if they jump on anything nearby the burster. (Pox Hounds still have this passive stagger aura)

Though one time my dog despawned when it was supposed to pounce a burster (which was pretty far away) and because of that the burster got close and then the dog pushed the burster back into me when it got back

[psyk]

[psyk]

also not all walls prevent explosion damage, i have a clip of this somewhere but theres no way i’m gonna find it. essentially the pillers before the big drop in chasm station dont prevent pox burster damage

[Harridas]