Duplicants in oxygen mask occasionally use sheering station until they suffocate.

Hi, do you recall if Ranch Ashkan was actually sheering the dreckos or if he was "stuck" sheering the drekos?. did the working progress bar appeared to be moving? 

Is this an issue with them not canceling their current task when they run out of oxygen, or will they also begin to shear another Drecko while suffocating as well?

Edited October 23, 2023 by Vita Kaninen

5 hours ago, DanielB said:

Hi, do you recall if Ranch Ashkan was actually sheering the dreckos or if he was "stuck" sheering the drekos?. did the working progress bar appeared to be moving? 

I thought he was sheering dreckos.  He isn't whistling, he is facing the sheering stations like he is sheering.  I think I was wrong though, as I can't tell if there is a drecko on the sheering station and I don't see a progress bar.  I'll try to trigger it again.

5 hours ago, Vita Kaninen said:

Is this an issue with them not canceling their current task when they run out of oxygen, or will they also begin to shear another Drecko while suffocating as well?

It seemed to me that they were sheering drecko after drecko for the reasons I said before, but perhaps he isn't sheering anything.

It looks like the masks aren't the cause.  Res Nikola here is ranching and sheering, but keeps jumping off.  It appears to happen more at high speeds. It also seems to stop when I pause and give them time to think about their lives and how they don't want to die.

The second video shows it being lethal.

The third video shows the dancing on and off the machine with the mask, as well as overriding both downtime and bed time.  It was also almost lethal.

And in the fourth video, much to my surprise, this even overrides death.  I promise I don't work my dupes that hard.  Also, it occurs with only one dupe sheering.  Once I reduced speed to normal, she immediately died.

 

Edited October 24, 2023 by Zarquan

The experimentation shows that this is actually extremely consistent at fast speed.  I set up each scenario and it happened within half a cycle each time.  I would probably experience it more, but I don't tend to play on max speed.

Edited October 24, 2023 by Zarquan

Seems more related to the Grooming Station.  I've had a dup suffocate twice while grooming Slicksters with no mask/suit.  He won't leave unless given a move command.

10 hours ago, ONIZone said:

Seems more related to the Grooming Station.  I've had a dup suffocate twice while grooming Slicksters with no mask/suit.  He won't leave unless given a move command.

I suspect that this is caused by the idea that when a dupe stops or finishes sheering or grooming, they automatically start again, but the game doesn't currently differentiate reasons for stopping properly, so they stop and immediately start again if the game is running at high speed. 

Edited October 24, 2023 by Zarquan

In my case, I'm past cycle 14k and can only really run at 1x speed.

This bug still happens, but it seems to be much more intermittent after the last patch.  Now, its mostly a problem of the dupes not using the bathroom regularly.  Perhaps I should just have a 20 second timer that turns off the machines for 2 seconds to kick them off.