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Sarah Connor would be horrified to see what Elite Dangerous's AI has been getting up to.
A bug in Frontier Developments' game has caused the AI to create super weapons and hunt down players, following the 2.1 Engineers update which improved the game's AI and gave it access to crafting.
While the issue is being fixed, Frontier has had to take out the feature, engineer's weaponry, which is causing the problem.
Frontier Developments
"It appears that the unusual weapons attacks were caused by some form of networking issue which allowed the NPC AI to merge weapon stats and abilities, meaning that all new and never before seen (sometimes devastating) weapons were created," wrote Frontier community manager Zac Antonaci.
"These appear to have been compounded by the additional stats and abilities of the engineers weaponry. (We don't think the AI became sentient in a Skynet-style uprising!)"
Antonaci noted that the bug fix is expected to go live early next week at the earliest. The update will be PC specific and an Xbox One update will follow afterwards.
He also stated that the AI will remain "the glorious, improved version from the update". Just, you know, without the ability to destroy us all and take over humanity as we know it.