Chris

Sorry for not replying to this earlier. Thanks for the thorough testing. We'll be looking into this at some point in the next few weeks, it's just been pushed back a bit because there's some more urgent stability issues we're dealing with at the moment.

Again, this is mostly your personal opinions on game balance rather than bugs. It's not a bug if I decide that a grenade has both a shrapnel element and a poison element to it, and it's not a bug if you take more damage from being caught in an exploding gas grenade blast than you do from walking through one tile of gas, and it's not a bug if there's no simple rule that the armour destruction is a fixed percentage of the raw damage. You can post your opinions on that sort of thing in the balance threads if you want, but please don't fill up the bug threads with it. The grenade explosion itself does 15 damage and causes 3 armour destruction. The poison gas inflicts 10 damage when it spawns into a tile, and for each tile a unit passes through. It also inflicts 20 damage if you remain in the tile at end of turn. There's clearly a problem with shields, as you've already reported. Thinking more about it, you probably took 2 armour destruction because the grenade didn't hit dead on your soldier, and the damage drop-off reduced the inflicted armour destruction. So the only actual bug I can see is that combat shields should be immune to the poison gas (but not the initial 15 damage caused by the grenade).

While I do see your point, it doesn't entirely replace the gas mask, because it doesn't prevent taking conventional damage from walking through poison. But in either case, this is a balance issue rather than a bug - healing clears all accumulated stun damage, so the system is working as intended.

You already can crush the Symbiotes!

Yes, we do need to unify this a bit. Thanks for the reminder.

Thanks. Yeah, you're right there's something strange going on with the way poison gas interacts with combat shields. We'll get that fixed. It shouldn't be taking so much damage on impact, and it shouldn't be taking damage on movement either. The damage calculation for armour seems fine for the initial impact, it seems to do 3 damage to tactical armour on impact. Maybe the armour you're testing has a resistance value too. I think it's fine for the initial explosion to cause armour damage but then the gas itself not to cause armour damage when you move through it. The grenade might contain more than just gas. I'll set poison gas to have a higher priority than smoke.

Best to mention this in the balance thread - I don't think it's a bug, because any healing also heals all stun damage?

Thanks for reporting this. It seems like this bug has happened because earlier in the campaign, you tried one of the UOO missions and either failed the mission or aborted it? There was a bug in an earlier version of the game (now fixed) that could break campaigns if you did that, and it looks like that's what's causing this crash. If that's not what has happened then please let us know and we'll look into it further.

Thanks, I've fixed that now. BTW, the Cleaner Device project isn't the Quantum Teleportation research. They're different objectives linked to different projects, so if they're displaying incorrectly then let me know - but I had a quick look and it seems to be set up correctly.

Thanks. I've also tried to reproduce this from your saves and I can't do it either, so this is very strange - as Kouki said, it'd be very useful if you could switch to the Experimental branch as then hopefully we'd get more information about exactly where the crash is happening/

This update is also only accessible by switching to our Experimental branches (instructions on how to do so here) - although please be aware they have slower load times and worse performance than normal builds due to the extra logging they contain! Bugfixes: Fixed soldiers initially being invisible after moving up a level via a teleporter. Fixed various visual issues with the Western Town biome, the largest being the long-running issue with the restaurant interior walls rendering black. However, there were several other (more subtle) rendering issues in this biome that we've also fixed that should clean up the visuals of Terror Sites. Fixed there being some "holes" in the walls of alien bases (this was just one particular wall tile not rendering correctly). Fixed some issues with the walls flickering in certain Farm barn buildings. Removed a filing cabinet that was obstructing an office window (but still allowing you to shoot through it) in a particular terror map. Fixed an issue with the text for a certain Geoscape anomaly in the German translation.

This is another hotfix for Milestone 5 that fixes a few crashes and other gameplay issues. As always, we're monitoring the bug report forums and we'll continue to release hotfixes for crashes and gameplay issues reported by players. Changes: All aliens in the Terror Site around day 70 should now use Magnetic weapons (previously a couple of aliens were incorrectly using Plasma weapons). Made some small changes to the Endgame part 2 mission, ensuring the outer walls of the mission are indestructible and placing earth tiles in any of the internal voids in the map. Also fixed some misaligned floor tiles. These map changes mean that any existing save games from Endgame part 2 will now be broken! Bugfixes: Fixed a crash that could occur when a Servitor fell down a level while also trying to perform autoheal. Fixed the Autopsy: Symbiote research project not unlocking correctly. Fixed the "Recovering" state of wounded soldiers incorrectly displaying as "<1 Day" in some situations. Fixed the western town double-sided chair tiles not correctly disappearing when destroyed.

We've had a look at the logs and the cause isn't really obvious. As we're not really sure where to start with the a fix, we've decided not to spend any more time on trying to fix it - if it doesn't appear in the Release branches, and only appears on slow machines, it's quite a low priority bug. Thanks for all your testing on this bug, we appreciate it a lot.

Hi - thanks for this bug report. We looked into it today but we couldn't reproduce it, as everything seems to work as intended. Could you provide a save or reproduction steps on what you did to get the bug?

Hi - are you able to reproduce this crash from any of your saves? We've tried loading them and we can't get it to crash.