[ V18 (Hotfix 1) ] Various Bugs

[pnk99]

I want to first of all congratulate the dev team for their outstanding work. V18 has been incredibly stable for me, night and day from the previous builds.

Here's a laundry list of bugs. I think some of them may have been reported elsewhere, but I figure this will just be +1 then:

Geoscape/Base Management:

(1) Once I make the upgrade to Alenium explosives and Laser Weaponry, if I try to equip a profile containing outdated equipment (basic frag rockets, basic frag grenades, etc), or if I equip a profile with limited quantity equipment, such as laser weaponry or armour, I lose the previously equipped equipment e.g. I'll lose Wolf armour or laser weapons.

(2) I lose equipment if a soldier is injured (not wounded) and fully heals while still wearing equipment.

(3) When I come back from missions, my soldiers are wearing the equipment as it was changed during the mission, rather than what I assigned them before it (e.g. used grenades are gone, weapons switched). A minor inconvenience, but, the real problem is the ammo amounts in the primary weapon. They will have whatever ammo was left over from the mission, such as 6/12, which rolls over into the next ground combat mission, leaving me in a bind if I forgot to check.

I deal with this by simply un-equipping and re-equipping, but it think that it possibly causes me to get cloned weapons. I'm not entirely sure that this is the cause, but I definitely am getting free weapons occasionally.

(4) Pressing escape while a soldier is selected on the personnel list screen causes the assignment menu to pop down. Accidentally doing this for multiple soldiers and then trying to leave caused a CTD. The CTD doesn't always happen, but I think the problem might have been when I was training soldiers, since I think the menu can't be open for them.

Ground Combat:

(5) I'm sure this is reported elsewhere, but if I reload a ground combat mission, I can no longer see inside the UFO, all units can shoot through walls, and I don't get points for securing it.

(6) Point blank shooting (aliens in immediately adjacent tiles) is bugging out. The soldier doesn't turn in the right direction, and half the time doesn't even shoot in the right direction. Most noticeable with burst fire (specifically when dealing with reapers that sneak up on me)

(7) When I get a severely damaged Corvette (engine/reactor? exploded), the tileset is completely missing inside the inner chamber i.e. I just see ground tiles underneath the barriers/screens.

(8) When my soldiers reaction fire upon Reapers, it's hidden by the Hidden Movement screen. I do get an overlay saying Reaction Fire though. I'm not entirely certain that it's only Reapers, but I do know that I never see Reaction Fire against Reapers.

(9) When I upgrade to Alenium rockets, the rocket launcher still has a basic frag rocket loaded by default on ground missions. No way of changing it in the equip screen, and frag rockets aren't even equip-able anymore.

Finally (whew) I do still get the very occasional scout/landing ship, and Hidden movement lockup during the Alien's turn before the civvies move, but I don't need to go in depth with that.

These are minor nuisances, but thankfully overall the game is extremely playable at this point, sans balancing of course. Again, thanks for all your hard work, keep it up!

PS I should also note that I'm playing in Wineskin on Mac. I'm assuming that these aren't Mac specific, since problems specifically with Wine tend to be of the CTD nature.

Edited April 8, 2013 by pnk99

[radiorob]

I'm sure this is reported elsewhere, but if I reload a ground combat mission, I can no longer see inside the UFO, all units can shoot through walls, and I don't get points for securing it.

Yes, I have a problem with ground battle after reloaded save, too. All types of UFO are "without the walls" -> aliens can shot from inside in all directions( not only through the opened doors) and not transparent when soldier entered the alien`s spacecraft.

and I don't get points for securing it

Small trick to secure UFO Shoot with any weapons through the ship. Point beyond, in V18 is new feature, line of sight. When enemy is in line, you will be able to see a small red circle -> alien!, green friendly unit. MG or other automatic weapons are the best choice to clean and secure UFO

[Matthew]

They are all known issues and we are working on them.

Next time please open separate threads for the issues, or at least break them down to 2 threads the Geoscpae and Ground Combat threads. Thanks.