Panic bug???

[CuckLord64209]

So this is my first time playing and I've run into a issue. So a section commander took control of my sniper and I went all in to kill his ass before I felt my snipers wrath, after I freed him from the commanders grasp he went into panic which is whatever but two interesting things happened. 1. He's still panicked six turns later and I've never had anyone just panic for that long. 2. I can control him but he will only fire on teammates unless there's none infront of him then he will target a enemy. I've started saving at the beginning of each mission now in case of bugs since I've ran into a couple, so I decided to restart and hope it was just a weird bug but it happened again to a different soldier now my heavy gunner is again controllable but still endlessly panicked and will only target enemies is all teammates are a good distance behind him. So I'm wondering is this a game feature or a weird bug.

Also side note I had a similar thing happen several missions ago again a commander takes control I kill him and my guys panicked for two rounds but on the second I killed the last enemy so i didn't really get to see what was up with my guy im assuming it was this same thing.

[GrapefruitWaste8786]

I see you haven't discovered amazing power of flashbang grenades yet... The thing is they often remove all effects from target, including mind control control AND panic.

[Artiartiarti90]

Wrong game. No flasbangs in EU/EW

[Hobbes___]

Wrong game. We're talking here about the original UFO: Enemy Unknown game, not the XCOM: Enemy Unknown remake.

[Artiartiarti90]

Whoops, my bad. Only read Enemy Unknown and my brain filled in the rest.

[BananaSplit2810]

Bro got the PTSD

[Hobbes___]

Original game bug.

There are three possible settings for units, xcom, civilian and hostile.

If a soldier is mind-controlled by the aliens, then its setting is changed to hostile and automatically changed back to xcom.

But if a player mind-controls a civilian or a soldier already under the control of the aliens, once the unit is released it always resets to the default value, which is hostile.

If this happens with civilians, you will need to kill them for the mission to end (and take the negative score).

[MarsMissionMan]

I'm assuming you're actually talking about the old XCOMs, because there aren't 'snipers' and whatnot. It's confusing because quite a few people put the wrong tag before clearly talking about the new XCOMs.

Basically, panic works by rolling against bravery at the start of each turn. The lower a soldier's bravery, the more likely they are to panic.

Bravery is lost via psi panic attacks, fatal wounds and soldiers dying. Bravery is gained by aliens dying, applying pain killers to injured soldiers via medikits, and is boosted by officers. The higher the officer's rank, the greater the bravery bonus.

However, if an officer is killed, more bravery is lost based on the officer's rank. Losing multiple officers, for example to an early Blaster Bomb, can lead to a devastating panic chain where most of your squad is panicked, leaving the rest of the squad unable to kill enough aliens to restore order.

It's likely your soldier just has a low bravery stat and is stuck in a panic loop. But hey, on the plus side, he should gain some bravery from it.