Huggers acting strangely

[Gentlefood]

Bug Description: Huggers, seemingly randomly although most often when one is used to tear a helmet off a marine and then picked back up, will bug out and be unable to be used and will occupy both hand slots (not visible in client but if you try to click on anything with your 'free' hand it will use the alien) even though it is clearly active and when inspected says it is active.

Also related is that sometimes huggers die upon xenos trying to pick them up, unsure if the above glitch is related and I might have killed the hugger with the 'held' hugger.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Tear a marine helmet off with a hugger
2. Pick up said hugger
3. Be amazed at the seemingly useless hugger (Although after a significant amount of time and dropping and picking it up multiple times AFTER it had become active again I finally got the hugger to jump onto a marine by its own volition [dropping the hugger on the prone marine])

[WyattH]

also huggers on the ground that are shriveled up and called ?????? will damage marines again after being taken on and off

[DesFrSpace]

It still poison you if you take it off and put it back on another Marine. Not sure if this is a bug, but it been around.

[Gamerofthegame]

You kill huggers if you hit them with a hugger accidently, which is a little annoying but oh well.

That said, there's a cool down before you can hug a dude again to make double tapping not so, uh, easy.

[Gentlefood]

You kill huggers if you hit them with a hugger accidently, which is a little annoying but oh well.

That said, there's a cool down before you can hug a dude again to make double tapping not so, uh, easy.

The bug is that the huggers become 'active' before you can use them again on anyone. Additionally the second bug is that the 'inactive' hugger takes up both hand slots so clicking with an empty hand kills the hugger that you tried to pick up.

[Rahlzel]

Fixed via previous updates.