I have a tactical mission save game file that loads in the most current hotfix. I have run out of action points across all my soldiers and saved the game. I end my turn and then immediately save the game when I get control back. The second save game won’t load. The load screen just sits there for as long as i care to wait doing nothing visible. Do you want the pair of save files?
Herb…
if you submit a bug report by hitting F12 in game, your save file is included in the information sent.
Thanks. That takes care of only one of the saved game files. I can always get to the next turn but saving that might load or might not. The second save file I kept never loads and I think they need to be treated as a matched pair.
Herb…
@gamingmechanoid I feel this is in your wheelhouse now
We actually upload all of the save files in the players’ folders when a report is submitted. I’ll take a look at it and send it to the proper programmer.
There are some very specific cases that cause saves not to load. Basically, we try to serialize every element in the game. Each element has a specific ID. If some system tinkers with that ID for whatever reason, the saves might get affected.
We cleared out some of the cases but a few still remain and we’re still cleaning them up.
I have uploaded a bug report where all but one of the save files are loadable. the one that isn’t was created by loading save file named “4”, ending my turn, and then saving as soon as i receive back control. i have loaded the save file “tactical” a number of times now and played. as soon as the very next turn the save files can’t be loaded. i have loaded “tactical” more than half a dozen times now and at a certain point after loading and continuing, saved games are no longer loadable. this was my first attempt at saving before and after every turn and testing the save files to see which one stopped being loadable. so far i haven’t had any problem loading geoscape files.
Herb…
It seems that only missions with Chiron in them have this hang and only after they have shot fireworms. before they do, there’s no problem loading any saved game.
Herb…
i ought to mention also that the main reason this business of not being able to load a saved game after a certain point when there are chiron present is that it’s also the same situations where frequently, the game hangs during the Pandoran turn. i wait many minutes and there is just animation, nothing visibly moving. i think it has something to do with the chiron’s turn. killing the game means reloading to resume of course and that turns out that most of the save files don’t load with the game hanging during load. i have to restart the entire mission knowing that it could hang again at any time during a Pandoran turn.
Herb…