In this mission, there are several chests/labs around holding a bunch of science, these look a lot like they are ment to be a reward for getting through the defenses, but the chests are on the enemy team and so cannot be looted.

An example of this is the mini base at -250 -590, which has nothing excempt 3 labs with 1 stack each of green, blue, gray, yellow, and white science, and a chest with 650 red science, but the chest is on the enemy force, and so cannot be looted.

Is this intentional?

nevermind, the boxes are not there to reward the player, they are there so the mission can add an inserter by script and start research on a trigger

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