This is my attempt at making an ongoing list of issues I’ve noticed in BB5, both bugs and typos. It’s not many right now, but I’m still playing the game and trying different things.
For typos, I will usually include the fix in parentheses next to the typo.
WARNING – this may contain spoilers for the game, because I will be listing typos from messages attached to events and research projects at some points. I will use my discretion in avoiding really big spoilers.
Bugs
| element | issue | reproduced? |
|---|---|---|
| save games | games sometimes fail to save, thus creating no save file, despite repeated attempts | yes |
| ability | Triton alien’s “Silent Echo” ability does not silence weapons like it’s supposed to; on a scavenging mission, I heard their pistol shots in the fog of war as they fired on crates, which gave away their exact position | yes |
| voice/bark | soldiers killing Mindfragger controlling friendly soldier use “missed/shot wide” voice clip, despite scoring a kill, as though the soldier was their actual target | yes |
| battle | synedrion sniper-class unit on alien colony mission had her standard synedrion equipment overridden and replaced with PX assault-class gear – gear that I did not even have spares of in storage. After battle, I found that all the gear that sniper once had had been erased, replaced by a carbon copy of one of my assaults’ loadout | yes |
| personnel equipment UI | dragging an item from stores, then to the “manufacture” pop-up button, and pressing ESC to cancel out of the manufacturing tab causes that item to completely vanish from stores | yes |
| battle | hidden enemy moving next to wall (on scavenging mission) created light particle element on that wall, following it as it moved and giving away its exact position after it had stopped | yes |
| battle | alien egg-hatching sentinel in nests has electric special effect while “preparing” – this effect is visible even when the unit was never seen, giving away its position in the fog of war | yes |
| battle | alien egg-hatching sentinel sometimes starts preparing, then stops preparing on the next turn and doesn’t use “mass hatch” – special effects and animation also stop, but the deep “roaring” and stretching sounds keep going | yes |
| ability | rapid clearance gives unlimited bonus actions for kills, rather than a limited of 4 AP | yes |
| save & load | loading autosave from just before launching nest destruction mission auto-resolved that mission in my favor, giving me all items (including my own gear) as loot | yes |
| after-battle report | ‘replenishment soldiers/equipment’ screen after battle used name of soldier who was at base, not even in the battle (this happened alongside the save/load bug just above this one) | yes |
| battle | dash movement (with assault) onto space adjacent to crate does not open crate if no soldier could see that crate’s ‘open tiles’ | no |
| action economy | if Mindfragger that controls a soldier is killed by overwatch on that same alien turn, that soldier retains all action points on their turn as though they were never controlled | no |
| status effect | stun effect (caused by Hel-II cannon shot) on hostile human enemy not reflected in their “info” panel | no |
| battle | resource crate on high ground that is destroyed remains suspended in midair | no |
| battle | vantage point (glowing blue area) on Anu slums map did not activate when soldier climbed inside the edge of it via ladder, even when they then took a step within it | no |
| battle | battle sometimes does not end if last active enemy was paralyzed rather than killed (this happened with 1 mindfragger already paralyzed and an arthron newly paralyzed) | no |
| battle | if move is force-stopped (i.e. revealed enemy in the way) adjacent to an openable crate, that crate does not open, despite soldier stopping on an ‘open’ tile | no |
| after battle (ambush) | after ambush in which I paralyzed and acquired a live Triton, but no other items, after-battle report did not display the Triton in list of acquisitions (but I still got it for research) | no |
| geoscape event | on second time meeting the 25 favor threshold for “diplomatic mission” with Disciples of Anu, it displayed the same mission prompt and text, and generated a new mission on a different site while removing the existing mission | no |
| haven window | recruit available at New Jericho haven, but not shown on window, while Elite Training facility still building; I assume the recruit is a Technician but is not available until the facility is done | no |
Typos
| element | description | typo |
|---|---|---|
| geoscape event | meeting Synedrion, after mission killing thieves | “…and I know we can apper (appear) that way” |
| geoscape event | message after researching Oneiric Delirium Index | “Large parts of the recording contain unintelligible rantings, buy (but) one clear segment” |
| research | Disciples of Anu research project description | “Said to have been a series of cultists sects (cultist)” & “Not much is known about their religion other that (other than that)” |
| research | mist sentinel autopsy description | “…it is capable of emitting an (a) viral airborne mist when harmed.” |
| research | mist sentinel report | “…but that they are strategic (are a strategic) attempt” |
| research | hatching sentinel report | “It produces egg like (egg-like) structures” |
| battle UI | recover ability description | recover shows AP cost as 100, rather than 4 – and also, recover restores half of a soldier’s WP rounded down, not 3, but the tooltip still says 3 |
| loading screen tip | “Phoenix Project reminds you” tips | “If a soldier does not the (not have the) right class to use a weapon proficiently” |
| battle, unit info | fireworm egg | fireworm egg info often says “give birth to a poison/acidworm” even though it’s a fireworm egg |
| manufacturing | banshee sniper helmet | when manufacturing the banshee helmet, game displayed “HEAD has been manufactured” message – referencing the armor slot, not the armor itself |
| geoscape event | message after Synedrion diplomatic mission, repellers branch | “Dimplomatic (Diplomatic) relations with Synedrion have changed.” |
| ability/perk description | expert rifles/handguns perk | “Additional +20% damage when using Rifles and Handguns” perk works for shotguns, too, but does not say this |
