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The game is always saving "Iron Man Campaign" savefile even when Iron Man mode is disabled.

I'm still having this (or related issue) in 1.32c Queued 8x Warden armor to build, got 4 of them built by the time a crash site came up. Equipped first soldier with new armor. Now I have zero. If I unequip him, I have 1. If I wait until another is produced, I have 2. If I kick everyone off the dropship, I now have 5. I can get the team properly equipped, but only if I kick everyone off the dropship, equip them with armor, then reassign them. It didn't used to be like this in my previous playthroughs (~v1.10)

Yes. Please.

Please always attach a savegame to make it easy for the devs to reproduce the crash and fix it.

Doesn't work in cleaner HQ (although I think it should). Half-works in actual alien bases (the aliens disappear at the end of each turn and only reappear when a soldier moves to a new tile in the control center. To me that's a bug and somewhat immersion-breaking that I need to go back to the soldier I left in the control room (supposedly looking at the security cameras to see where the alien(s) are) and tell them to move to a random new tile to (reactivate the screen?)

^^ This. Please.

Just cross-referencing my previous bug report on the same topic.

I would also make it a point to always do all 3 cleaner cell missions before the main base, even if it had been revealed, purely for the bonus of not having armor/weapons/guns in the main base. My last Cleaner Headquarters playthrough (v1.06 I think) seemed a lot tougher than previous playthroughs, with what felt like a lot more enemies in the main room than before (on Recruit). Having to deal with sentry guns also made it harder than previously. I don't think the in-game text says anything about +$450k/mo for taking out the Cleaner Headquarters (it just says $500k reward). It does say stops all cleaner activity, but it's perhaps not as clear as it could be that cleaner activity = panic, even after playing the game a dozen times in the last month I still see those panic events as random (perhaps caused by an invisible UFO) and I don't have the strong association that they're caused by Cleaners.

I can confirm that 1.10 does load my 1.07 savegame. I didn't try playing any further yet.

Tried continuing my campaign I started on 1.06 and continued on 1.07, got up to day 153 last night. Tried to load it just now on 1.08, loading goes up to 87% then crash-to-desktop. I noticed by then Chris has just released 1.09 so tried with that too, same problem. user_day_153_manual_save-97.json output-log.zip

I was also initially suspicious that these kinds of research could make the big-scary stuff come faster. If it was labeled "Funding" or similar it might be more clear that it gives you good (more money) and not bad (tougher aliens sooner).

Found a posing cyberdrone after reload in v1.07 in alien base mission. auto_groundcombat_turn_5_start-572.json

I've seen this numerous times. Since it's non-replicable I haven't reported it. Often happens with releasing abduction tubes, but I've had similar non-replicable crashes as well. Reloading the game and doing the exact same move again works just fine in all cases so I'm not sure how easy it'll be to track down the cause.

You probably don't need it, but I'm attaching a couple screenshots and a savegame. I'm not sure if it's reproducible from the savegame. I sent my soldiers upstairs one by one tossing stun grenades, some threw forwards, some sideways, some backwards. auto_groundcombat_turn_10_start-415.json

In v1.06 I research Psyon, got Xenopedia popup, then near-immediately after closing that got the popup about "You have no research project, would you like to assign one?", exactly as it should. So I picked Wraith interrogation, couple days later got the Xenopedia popup for that... but no prompt for next research project. So it's inconsistent. user_day_76_manual_save-60.json

Landed UFO mission, boxcar is "invisible" for pathing, soldier can walk straight through it. auto_groundcombat_turn_3_start-301.json

Definitely. Nothing is more important than getting that upgraded armor ASAP. You can always shoot the alien several times with a lesser weapon, but only if you're not dead. On another topic, I just played the 2x Cleaner Cell + 1x Cleaner Base missions, and the Cells were easy enough (by chance I captured the VIP both times although I wasn't really trying for that), but the base mission seems tougher than before. Partly because you can no longer avoid the sentry guns, but there also seemed more enemies than previous playthroughs. And going at it with ballistics vs plasma was tricky. But I got it done.

This playthrough I made an effort to aim quickly towards Accelerated weapons. But by the time I got Accelerated research done and ready to build, I had unlocked Laser research. Sure it'll take 10 days now, but Alloys are so precious that I'm not sure it's worth it to spend the alloys (and money) on weapons I'll use for 1-2 missions and then discard when I upgrade to laser, especially for a relatively minor boost over the free ballistic weapons. If they were cheaper (e.g. 2 alloys, $10k) I probably would.

I can't say I've noticed I've noticed that in my playthroughs. Maybe this could be tied to difficulty scaling. Not just modules but all items could be scaled to 0.8-1.2 (or whatever) weight multiplier based on game difficulty (personally I'd prefer to see it broken out like the other custom-difficulty sliders on New Campaign). So people who want to punish themselves can make the modules heavier. But please don't forget that not everyone likes punishing difficulty level in their games, please at least leave the option for "very easy" for those who wish it.

I wasn't really paying attention, sorry. And while I legitimately played up to about day 110, I very much hurried through the last 70 days (ignoring uninteresting crash sites, cheat-winning new UFO crashes to get research items) just to see how the mid-game plays out before my savegame broke.

Ha! I managed to rush to 180 before you broke my savegame ;-)

Sometimes, not always, I've seen my soldier angle their body perpendicular to the direction they're throwing and throw the grenade straight out sideways from their body while they face 90° away. The grenade goes to the right place, just the soldier facing the wrong way. Once I even saw the soldier face the complete opposite direction and throw it behind him (at the intended target, while he faces away). This is something I only started seeing in v1.05 I don't have any screenshot or savefile to show, as the bug is intermittent and hard to catch, and I'm not sure if any particular prerequisites to reproducing it.

The latter. I don't much care about the Xenopedia entries, but I do want to see "Research finished on <topic>, what would you like to research next?". Several times I've been researching something and it apparently finished (hours? days?) ago and nobody told me anything so my research lab was sitting idle. And there's always too much to research so can't afford to have it idle. What I'd really-really like to see is the ability to queue research tasks, but I assume that's not the direction you want to go with the game so that's fine.

Still seems to be happening with live alien interrogations. Also with the Cleaner Device research.

I restarted from the Before Mission (auto) save and re-played the Terror mission and no crash afterwards.