Maggots playing with a beach ball

[Xordaii]

A few days ago my son took Nidus into the Captura with the Dog Days scene. I hadn't seen Nidus summon his maggots so he invited me in.

As soon as I entered, in front of me was one of the maggots doing a few hoppy little steps, then he jumped a bit higher than the ball in front of him, and pounced on it. He repeated this cycle of a few hops, jump and pounce on the same ball, all the way into the water. He did not disappear there, but only turned into a cloud of particles when the skill timed out.

We tried everything we could think of to get it to happen again, and it hasn't. Has anyone else seen it? We couldn't repeat it and we didn't think to SS or take a video of it. 

It kind of damned cute, and we couldn't figure out how to trigger it. Kind of like when the Kavat or Kubrow play with them in the orbiter. I hope it wasn't a bug and is reproducable.

[(PSN)Ravenger-MRIB]

I've not seen it myself, but I know that the pets will play with the decoration beach balls in your lander, so I imagine that they've some sort of script attached to the ball to have companions treat it like an enemy and melee it.  Chances are the maggots somehow got tied into the "companion" class when they were spawned during the captura, so more than likely it was a bug, but it could be reproducible.  On the map there are a couple of containers packed with the balls, so you might want to open them up and spread them out a bit, then drop Nidus's 4 near them to see it they'll go after it.  Alternatively, the infested Kubrows have the Strain mods which cause them to spawn maggots every once in a while, so coming from the Pet they might follow similar scripting.   

Might be able to brute force it given enough time.