Kainass

Dear Chris, Thank you very much and for the attempt to isolate the problem. I'll try to get to the final mission then asap.

Hi Chris, I was left a bit hanging. So did you manage to pin-down the source of the problem and a fix is pending, or? Thanks for the update.

I am not sure I follow... How is Fury (which is in flight in geoscape and obliterates another battleship before drop ship lands) related to a drop ship arriving on a another landed battleship? Yet, answering your question, Fury was built on my main base in Europe, killed a few battleships, then i relocated it to North America. No further activities took place with Fury as far as I remember. Hope this helps

Ok, now this is getting really wierd... I will try to be as descriptive as possible. Following your suspicions around mods corrupting the files, I made sure I have steam stable selected, verified all files, loaded xenonauts launcher and deleted community map mod (which came pre-installed in steam version and was previously disabled by me), no other mods were installed ever. Loaded Kainas.sav and landed with the dropship again. It did generate a slightly different map for me and I was able to make around ~10 turns or so and save after each turn. After I mowed down enemy hordes outside and started breaching the battleship, suddenly, I could not longer save the game after turn ended - it crashes to desktop when I attempt to save. I got curious, and started experimenting. I loaded all the previous saves one by one from the moment I landed on the mission and tried to save the same turn again, but crashed immediately to the desktop. So in summary, I was able to land, made multiple turns and successfully save each turn without crashing through out the mission up to a certain point, and I am able to successfully load those saves. Subsequently, after I encountered the first crash to desktop incident in the mission, I can no longer save after successfully loading any of the previously made mission saves. Here is the last quick save I was able to make before crashing starts happening. [ATTACH]6107[/ATTACH] Here are two combat saves I made successfully without crashing during the mission and which I am able to successfully load, but crash when I try to save even without ending turn first. [ATTACH]6108[/ATTACH][ATTACH]6109[/ATTACH] Here is the landing save that was created for the mission. [ATTACH]6106[/ATTACH] Ps. I do not mean to brag, but I keep my pc in good order, anti-virus, software/hardware firewalls, patching, up-to-date drivers, etc, so the likelihood that my machine is causing this is rather small. Pss. Let me know if you need anything else from me. I wish there would be some sort of debug log I could give you, want to finish this game, really liked it thus far LaNding2.sav Quic.sav Combat1.sav Combat2.sav LaNding2.sav Quic.sav Combat1.sav Combat2.sav

Dear Chris, I doubt that v1.51 release corrupted the crash landing, because I loaded to v1.51 geoscape, waited for the battleship to land, and then landed myself. So the spawning of the site and landing happened within the same build. Plus I had this problem in v1.50 expiremental as well on the exactly same geoscape save file during Christmas, so decided to wait till you release 1.5 stable. Here is the save with the landed battleship that causes this corrupt landing site. [ATTACH]6094[/ATTACH] Unfortunately, I no longer have the save file where the battleship was still flying. I hope it helps Kainas.sav Kainas.sav

So I load geoscape in v1.5 stable and notice a massive ship (read: battleship) land on Greenland soil. I scramble my squad and a hover tank into Valkerie and burn to the landed alien ship. Upon making landfall, I deploy and save the game ([ATTACH]6093[/ATTACH]). Then I move out my solders to random locations and end turn. End turn successfully completes with aliens shooting stuff up. Then I try to save the game and it crashes the game. Loading earlier geoscape saves and burning to the landed battleship result in the same outcome. Please help, I cannot proceed further with the game a few more facts: 1) Landing save file loads properly for me 2) Files are verified on steam 3) Exact build is v1.51 4) No mods Landing.sav Landing.sav