So today I wound up in the middle of a giant firefight. I am alligned with the BOS so when things got hairy a Vertibird fired at gunners and landed on the ground. The next thing I know the gunners hop into the Vertibird and start firing at me... Wth? I was unaware this was possible. Has anyone else had this happen? I am level 44 with 4 days+ logged and have never seen this besides that one time. Maybe a bug?

BTW I found a great use for power armor blank suits because I had like 10 of them. You can line them up outside your settlement entrance to funnel enemies into a single file line .

Nothing is stopping NPC's from using a Vertibird or a suit of Power Armor with an inserted Fusion Core for that matter.

I was fighting a couple of Synths outside a building, including a Legendary one, very tough. I saw the Vertibird and thought "Aha, air support!" except they were firing at me. I got worried because I thought maybe I had killed a BOS soldier by accident and turned them hostile, but it turned out to be a bunch of Gunner punks. It was kinda cool.

Gunners sometimes control Vertibirds not just BoS

It′s not a bug, it′s a feature!

Didn't know Gunner's could hi-jack vertibirds. Never encountered it myself. Nice feature tho!

Close to the one Gunner stronghold south of Diamond City I got to watch a BOS Vbird vs Gunner Vbird show down. They were basically circling each other and shooting like big flying cardboard boxes. Twas glorious.

At least Super Mutants aren't flying Virtibirds... yet...

Lol Can you imagine? Most Super Mutants are too dumb to use proper English much less tie their own shoes. They can't all be like Virgil (his Super Mutant form has a voice that sounds like John Goodman lol). Can you imagine them actually being able to fly complicated flying contraptions such as vertibirds?

I was more thinking of them 'attempting' to fly a Vertibird, but then crashing it into the side of the Boston Bugle building and blowing up everyone withing a 3 block radius...

I've never before seen a gunner vertibird.

Not at gunner's plaza, not at quincy, not anywhere.

I'm level 80.

223 hours in and I've yet to see a gunner vertibird, but I know they're confirmed to be a thing.

Hijack em all you want, those scrubs will meet a quick end via mobile AA battery that is the quad Party Starter.

Gunners can hijack them and attack The Castle then! (P.S. I made The Castle an Anti-Fly Zone. Vertiberds live, at most, 5 seconds there).

Hmm, maybe this is what happened to me when I thought the BoS was shooting at me for no reason. Not that it mattered too much as I brought that svcker down with the Party Starter rocket launcher.

Well [censored], I need to see this.