Various issues with control laptop hacking of robotic enemies

[PatchouliKnowledge]

Describe the bug

Using the "IFF override" option of the control laptop on various enemies produces mixed results. Out of the ones I encountered so far:

• Manhack-type enemies, TALON UGVs, skitterbots - works ok - allegiance changes to Friendly and stays that way
• Prototype/broken cyborgs - works partially - allegiance changes, but cyborgs will attempt to hit each other if they bump together. They will not, however, actively engage in combat with other friendlies.
• Light Turrets - works ok, with one exception - when encountered in a lab barracks' armoury, if you hack the turret and then fail the hack on the armoury doors console, the turret will reset to Hostile.
• Dispatch-type enemies - does not work - despite showing a successful hacking result, the Dispatch will immediately spawn assorted hostile hacks and no longer be Friendly when it spots the player, which can be immediately fatal.
• Hostile Nurse Bots - does not work - despite showing a successful hacking result, the nurse bot will immediately revert to Hostile and continue sending "The nurse bot scans you and detects something" messages.

Other robots might have similar issues, but I have yet to encounter them on my current run.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Spawn a control laptop, and charge it
2. Have a means of concealing yourself from the hacking target - darkness, wall w/clairvoyance artifact, etc.
3. Spawn your choice of hostile robot hacking target
4. Approach close enough for the IFF override option on the control laptop to be usable, and attempt the hack until success 5a. (Prototype/Broken cyborgs) - Their bump-into-each-other issue becomes really apparent with 4-5 of them trying to fit through tight corridors. 5b. (Lab barracks armoury Turret) - This one is an edge case and would require finding a lab with a barracks armoury turret. You must hack the turret first - then fail hacking the armoury door console. 5c. (Dispatch bots) - They will revert to Hostile as soon as they visually sight the player that hacked them. All manhacks spawned are also Hostile. 5d. (Nurse bots) - Requires the hostile nurse bot variant.

Expected behavior

• Prototype broken cyborgs - shouldn't try to attack each other when bumping together. Skitterbots, by comparison, don't have that same issue.
• Lab armoury turrets - this is honestly a very edge case which I only ran into because I had a clairvoyance artifact that allowed me to hack the turret before attempting the console. Expected the turret to stay friendly as I entered the armoury.
• Dispatch bots - expected the bot itself to not launch hacks at me, and hacks spawned to also be friendly. How balanced that would be is debatable, but I feel that at least not being attacked by something that has been successfully hacked with an item only obtainable at high levels of crafting is reasonable.
• Nurse bots - expected the bot to change to its normal, non-murderous variant.

Screenshots

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Versions and configuration

• OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1
• Game Version: 2f1b6de [64bit]
• Graphics Version: Tiles
• Game Language: English

• Mods loaded:

  Bright Nights [dda], Disable NPC Needs [no_npc_food], Simplified Nutrition [novitamins], Elevated bridges [elevated_bridges], C.R.I.T Expansion Mod [crt_expansion], Magiclysm [magiclysm], Alternative Map Key [alt_map_key], Mythical Martial Arts [MMA], sees-player icon, HitButton_iso [sees_player_hitbutton], Mining Mod [Mining_Mod], Vehicle Additions Pack [blazemod], Folding Parts pack [deoxymod]

Additional context

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[KheirFerrum]

One note with the nurse bots, they are meant to be defective, so the hardcoded hostility is actually desired in my opinion, you're meant to notice that they are defective and avoid/kill them. Normal nurse bots start as neutral and when hacked will treat you as Doctor even without a badge. Having defective nurse bots revert to normal nurse bots would be counter to their design and trivialize their encounters.

That said, they're a bit overtuned in my opinion, it should be harder for them to inject you and drag you off, makes melee rather RNG, and especially in labs it may not be feasible to engage them at range.