[v18] Hidden Movement lockup

[Orangehat44]

Will try to recreate this when i reload the mission but it was the first small ufo i shot down with the mig. second or third turn, heard shots fire then nothing, let it sit for a few minutes and had to force close it.

[Chris]

Hmm yes any reproduction steps anyone can post on this would be helpful because we've not been able to find the cause of this, though we do know it exists...

[Assoonasitis]

Not sure about reprod, but it seems to happen most often when aliens burst-fire out of the shroud at my mans.

[a333]

First UFO, arctic tileset, i've make it to the house, find two aliens, one in the upper forest, he ran away in the dark, one near the snow vehicle, i've hit him couple of times and he ran away.

Then there was sound of shooting and screen freezed.

Replayed this mission twice and got nothing.

Some kind of debug mode or the events log would help greatly. Something like "sebillian 01 (9,5) snapfire civilian 01 (14,50) hit prop 0212 at 14,52"

Edited April 4, 2013 by a333

[dragond81]

Same issue on first desert battle, light scout, sebillian. Heard 2 shots fired, centered in the FOW, just the lower edge under the unit info was outside the FOW, then froze. From what I could see, the shooter was outside of the UFO.

+1 to the debug mode/log option.

[Matthew]

I had an idea for the debug tool. I think the coders were busy with this release, so it will be implemented later maybe.

[Lt_Parsons]

Can confirm but not reproduce this bug.

One thing was common to all such lockups to me - all happened right after some alien fired at something from out of my troops fov.

Update:

I managed to create a save where this bug is reproducible - here (for v18 hotfix1).

How to reproduce - just load and end turn. Alien will shoot and game lock up right after that.

Some things to note - he seems shoot at (and see) my troops through all obstacles and misses do not leave scorched ground tiles.

Edited April 5, 2013 by Lt_Parsons

[Chris]

Lt_Parsons, you're a star. Thanks.

[Hairyscreech]

What race are you fighting there?

This save:

http://www.filedropper.com/2013-04-07032842

All there is left on the alien side is a zombified person yet occasionally I am getting the hidden movement lock up.

Doesn't happen every time but about 70%.

Zombie is in the building to the bottom right, just hunt it down as normal to get it to crash.

Edit - just tried to finish the mission again, there are only 3 ai controlled things on the map, 2 soldiers and 2 zombie, the two troops were in view and i watched them move, then it went hidden movement and a lock up. 100% something with the zombie on this one.

Edited April 8, 2013 by Hairyscreech

[Okim]

Getting the same problem.

I`m fighting Sebilians on arctic map. As soon as they start to fire in their turn (frome the dark) - the game frozes. The thing to note is that there is a heavy Sebilian present on the map (the one with plates on shoulders).

This does not happen all the time though. On a third attemp to replay the mission i haven`t got any freezes, probably because i`ve killed all of the aliens in the turn i`ve spotted them.

[crusherven]

Hmm. I know I've had this happen as an alien is walking up to a door, but not firing.

[Okim]

Finished this mission. The Scout on this map was fully transparent and both i and aliens were able to move and fire through it. It was a real problem to clear the UFO as the game just didn`t allow me to target the last alien inside it. Instead it selected me the whole UFO as the target.

Only when Sebilian moved out of the UFO was i able to kill it.

Here is an archive with two savegames: http://www.okim.nickersonm.com/xeno.rar . One ('turn') is made right before i got to the UFO (notice that it has its doors opened and white snow texture instead of the normal UFO floor).

The second is the autosave made after the mission. Just in case.

Edited April 8, 2013 by Okim

[erutan]

I got this after a seb burst fired, missed my guys, and was running off. I was inside a scout in the developing country / central asia tileset. Almost done with the mission. T_T

[iwastherain]

I always get a hang on the mission on this save. This is an autosave at the beginning of the mission, I haven't noticed a pattern, but it has happened every time I've played this mission. Hope it helps.

[Bansheedragon]

I have this happen every once in a while as well.

I have not been able to reproduce it, and it usually happens when the "Hidden movement" image is on screen so I cannot see what is causing it.

According the the windows task manager, the game is still running.

There is no indication that the game has stopped, its as if the game is stuck in a loop of some kind.

[Sathra]

Since I installed Hotfix 2 my hidden movement freezes have stopped.

[Bansheedragon]

Since I installed Hotfix 2 my hidden movement freezes have stopped.

I only started playing a couple days ago, so have not been here before hotfix 2.

I encounter this problem every once in a while still.

Its not very often, but still annoying when it happens.