[v19 Experimental / Ground Combat] base attack and defense issues

[blabla]

I am now in the stage where I am still limited to condors and foxtrots but the enemy is frequently flying around with escorted medium and heavy ufos (and it's december 1979 on normal difficulty). So the only way I can engage in ground combat is by defending my base or attacking an enemy base. The main reason is that I did not manage to gather the funds to build a corsair (until recently when I edited the alenium and alloy values in the items.xml). I have also edited gas_gc.xml to have 100% chance of dissipation of everything.

[base defense]

On my first base defense the visual placement of the aliens was not aligned with the actual hit boxes. I would shoot an alien in a long corridor, an empty square would show a blood splatter/hit animation and an alien somewhere else did get hit. My troops could not path through a lot of squares that seemingly were occupied by aliens even though there was nothing to shoot. It seemed to relate to aliens entering the base. This only happened once. When I reloaded a geoscape game just prior to the attack everything went normally after that and (avoiding the smoke issue) I finished without a problem.

Unfortunately I have no save of this.

EDIT: JUST ANOTHER SMOKE BUG APPEARANCE, my bad.

Just read in another thread about the "residue smoke is only cleared with LOS on it" and went through the base and found a smoke patch which promptly disappeared. I get to geoscape fine now. It's just the smoke bug.

[base attack ctd with save]

So now I'm attacking a base, making good progress, waiting turns for smoke to disappear but after the last kill the game drops me to the desktop after the soldier review screen. Same behavior it would otherwise exhibit with the smoke induced crashes. This happens also when I abort/forfeit the mission.

Edit: There is also something really odd going on with doors consisting of multiple tiles opening partially. Damage to the environment (destroyed screens, computers etc) are miraculously rebuild upon reload.

>>Savegame<<

(damn free upload sites, hit the little horizontal bar with green square at its left end with an arrow top left to bottom right in the square and a "download" sign in the white part of the bar to download)

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH

Application Name: xenonauts.exe

Application Version: 0.0.0.0

Application Timestamp: 51b9e380

Fault Module Name: xenonauts.exe

Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0

Fault Module Timestamp: 51b9e380

Exception Code: c0000005

Exception Offset: 000f649c

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: 0a9e

Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Additional Information 3: 0a9e

Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Thanks ofr the report.