Enemy units survive sector capture if in payload form

[BigWingBeat]

Platforms

Linux

Build

146 and current git master

Issue

Normally, when an attack-mode sector is captured in the campaign, all enemy units that are still alive will self-destruct. However, if a unit is in payload form, such as from being on a payload conveyor, they will not be destroyed, and can be taken out of payload form, at which point they will begin attacking like normal.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/db59842f-4dc2-44ff-9fd3-cb139925b6d9

Steps to reproduce

• Capture an attack-mode sector that has enemy units which remain in payload form
• Locate payload conveyors or other payload-carrying blocks that still carry enemy units
• Destroy said blocks
• Enemy units are taken out of payload form and begin attacking

Mods used

• New Console (Only for build 146, testing on git master had no mods)

Save file

save.zip

• Sector: Origin on Erekir (Note that all the enemy locuses featured in the above video are destroyed in this save)

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onset.msav.gz

• The test map I used to confirm that the bug is still present on Git master (d8edf23 as of writing)
  • Use Obviates to go north and destroy the two cores, then test with the payload conveyor of Locuses above the second core

(Crash) logs

No response

Submission

• [X] I have updated to the latest release (https://github.com/Anuken/Mindustry/releases) to make sure my issue has not been fixed.
• [X] I have searched the closed and open issues to make sure that this problem has not already been reported.
• [X] I am not using Foo's Client, and have made sure the bug is not caused by mods I have installed.

[Matita008]

I have searched the closed and open issues to make sure that this problem has not already been reported.

No you haven't and I think it's intended behavior

[Matita008]

Literally the issue before this talk about this

[Anuken]

This has been reported before at least twice.

[BigWingBeat]

I have searched the closed and open issues to make sure that this problem has not already been reported.

No you haven't and I think it's intended behavior

I did, but that issue miraculously avoided using the term 'payload' (The term I searched for) even once, despite payloads being the entire subject of the issue.

[BigWingBeat]

This has been reported before at least twice.

Given the typically low ratio of bugs encountered -> bugs reported, this particular issue being reported so many times independently makes me think that the majority of players who have encountered this behaviour naturally assumed it was unintended, which makes sense to me as it's highly surprising and violates a precedent that the game is otherwise good at enforcing - namely that sectors are safe once captured.