no, the saves are from this version only as I am using the steam edition, previous saves dont help, my saves are plain busted.
I guess I could try and reload an earlier save from before I had laser researched and see what happens, but I'm kind of over playing the first 4-6 weeks of the game over and over again.
might just wait till 18.6 I think.
I tried copying the saves to a different location and deleting xenonauts altogether then redownloading it and copying the saves back, but same issue so its got to be in the save files.
Its odd I get the intial first clip full then cant reload