Jackal

A pop-up when the plane was finished

I'm not sure if anyone has reported this but every time I knock out an alien and the local militia guys are around they just shoot at it until it's dead which completely messes up the live alien capture.

I was outfitting my new interceptor when my helicopter finally reached its mission. I didn't want to abandon the mission so I engaged and ended up with the airplane outfitting screen underneath the regular ground combat tile. Not really a serious problem and it didn't affect game play, I'm not sure if it causes a crash after the mission is over because I haven't finished it yet. It seems pretty benign to me, but just thought you should know.

Well that didn't take long https://www.dropbox.com/s/tw9807fl75vqv3c/2013-06-04_23.13.45.sav this kind of differs from my usual air combat bug in that in this one there were actually 2 groups of my fighters flying around unlike my usual group of 1 and and instead of 6 vs 6 it was just a normal 3 on 1 but it's still bugged just like my usual one, and it sounds like the one that the original poster was referring too.

I think I saw this happening few times myself or something similar. It's really weird. For me it's most likely to happen whenever there are three aircraft on both sides, and then it just doubles them for some reason. It also doubles the music except it's all out of sync and then when the alien fighters are destroyed parts of the geo and all the planes are still visible. Then game crashes immediately after the air combat is officially over. I'll also try to get you a save if it happens again to me.

I noticed that taking unconscious and dead aliens and their equipment onto your helicopter and aborting the mission with all of their stuff in your soldiers inventories corrupts your game save for reason. The game will continue on like nothing is wrong, but if you try to save and then load that save at any point after it will crash the entire game. At least that's what has happened every time I try to do it. If I leave the alien bodies and gear on the battlefield and abort the mission the saves work perfectly again. It happened when I tried to take a medium UFO that had landed undamaged, and then ran into some new aliens and a sniper. All I did was bring one dead, one alive, a new sniper, a pistol, and the clips for them. I can research the new stuff and progress normally but it ruins all the saves after that kinda making it all moot. Edit: Okay, I figured out it was the just bodies that was crashing the game on save/load. Taking the equipment by itself actually crashed my game on my first save but the autosave still saved properly regardless and loaded okay afterwards and every time after that.