[quote=“KA101, post:5245, topic:42”]Spare you having to look it up:
In an effort to combat the new threats of both large amounts of undead humans and various otherworldly horrors, the automated security forces are quickly reprogrammed to behave much more aggressively, killing threats instead of just trying to arrest them if they were supposed to, and adopting a much wider view of what constitutes a threat. Unfortunately, this backfires - they still fail to identify the undead as humans, and continue to ignore them since animals can't be criminals, but the new settings lead them to turn on the human "trespassers" running the security network, and the networked security systems identify almost any living human as a hostile threat to be eliminated. The larger network itself collapses shortly afterwards, leaving no way to adjust the settings back, as each security unit - police station, military turret, autonomous hunter vehicle - reverts to independent control operating under the last instructions received
That’s one day after the portals opened and hell was breaking loose, with zeds rapidly increasing in number and Nether critters popping out (some did OK, some not so much: rather more chaotic than the situation at game start, five days after the portals opened). FWIW, triffids, giant insects, and fungaloids hadn’t yet made themselves apparent, so the bots don’t have a paradigm for 'em. Special zeds might well have the same problem.
Milbots disregarded nonhuman targets such as foxes, wolves, cougars, and bears because those aren’t likely to be a threat, cannot be criminals, and aren’t worth wasting ammo on. The operators tried to program 'em for zeds but botched.
Zeds don’t breathe, and if folks like we can make them no longer warm. Would make IR pretty crappy, though. I tend to think of 'em as not warm enough to have a human heat-signature.[/quote]
So if the Chinese had invaded with an army of robots, the American robots would have all just stood there and done nothing. Because only humans can be criminals, and military robots care about who criminals are for some reason. Also, in a world where combat robots are established technology, the ability to shoot nonhuman targets isn’t just a simple toggle. Nope, it’s a crazy idea that no one has ever considered before and which has to be added on the fly so it can be conveniently botched.
This is tripe. We may as well delete it from the wiki and replace it with “Robots are on the same team as zombies because screw you!” It would get the point across without insulting one’s intelligence.
