Duplicant Reported Dead Yet Still Lives.

By Isakole

April 29, 2017

Branch: Live Branch

Pending

This new Zombie patch is epic. What Zombie patch you ask? The one that's been there the entire time.

Please refer to the pictures attached to follow along on this epic quest to discover patient zero. As you can see the duplicant named Ren is present within the base of The Starving Asteroid yet he does not show on the Vitals window and there's even a report stating that he's dead. In reality Ren is continuously climbing a ladder, one that was removed before visual evidence was taken, stuck in perpetual motion on three squares of ladder that don't exist. There's one specific way to kill a duplicant and yet have them live in a loop of animation, which ever animation when the game decides that the organic copy of life no longer exists. I prefer the sleeping animation, it makes them look like a lazy jerk while everyone else freaks out about the lack of artwork.

Please see Steps to Reproduce, I've been able to do so myself three times out of five.

Steps to Reproduce
For the sake of readability and humor the duplicant for the explanation will be named Sprinkles, his partner being called Ingrid. Please reference picture ONI Death Glitch StR for visual representation. --- 1. Sprinkles must be the only duplicant with Build and Dig selected under the Jobs panel. --- 2. In a dead end corridor have Sprinkles dig and build in no particular order until the the last column of the grid is the next priority. Sprinkles must be standing on a block of material where the green box is placed, having built the floor tile next to the pink box where the floor tile has not been built yet. --- 3. Prioritize the floor tile to the highest queue for the same grid square, the pink box, that Sprinkles' head is in of which he will start building like the low IQ duplicant he is. --- 4. Sprinkles' head will now be trapped in the floor tile, suffocating to death. Contrary to popular belief this is good. --- 5. Remove all jobs from the second duplicant, Ingrid, and prioritize digging the green box of material that Sprinkles had been standing on to be the highest queued task. --- 6. Once the green box of material is gone prioritize the pink box of floor tile to be the next highest queued task, of which Ingrid will start on. --- 7. EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Sprinkles must be at five percent health or less as the floor tile is destroyed by Ingrid. --- 8. Once the floor tile is destroyed Ingrid goes on with her life with nightmares of what she just witnessed, wondering if she's next. She's not wrong. --- 9. Sprinkles will drop to the ground, health still registering as being depleted since gravity does not pause vitals but since Sprinkles is screaming he can't take in any oxygen. --- 10. Sprinkles will inherently be dead upon landing but the game will not register his death until the news is queued as a notification as there is a split second delay. --- 11. Whatever animation Sprinkles is in at the time will now be the one he's stuck in for all eternity yet he will not register on the vitals windows and the rest of his duplicant friends will be depressed that he died. --- 12. Ingrid will go on to become the outcast of the colony, claiming there's a higher power watching them all who has the power to control them. The other duplicants don't believe her. --- Interesting side note: Sprinkles can not be placed in a tasteful memorial since his body is in motion.