[V 5.3.1 - Ground Combat] Mission had no enemies

[herebeweeb]

First abduction mission on day 11 had no enemies. The first time the mission was loading, I exited the game by Alt+F4 because I had to do some work-related stuff. I boot the game three days later, load before the mission, start it, play and the mission ends after the abduction timer runs out. There were no enemies whatsoever. I don't think that is supposed to happen.

I noticed that the (auto) savefile before the mission was on version 5.0.0, but the savefiles on the missions are at version 5.3.1. It seems that the Alt+F4 happened during or caused a crash as I noticed there is a bug_report zip of that day in the BugReports folder, but it has only a single file. I'm attaching both zips.

bug_report_2024-12-20-10h50_st_5.3.1_user_f11.zip bug_report_2024-12-17-09h56_wn_5.0.0_unhandled_exception.zip

Edited December 20, 2024 by herebeweeb

[Chris]

7 hours ago, herebeweeb said:

First abduction mission on day 11 had no enemies. The first time the mission was loading, I exited the game by Alt+F4 because I had to do some work-related stuff. I boot the game three days later, load before the mission, start it, play and the mission ends after the abduction timer runs out. There were no enemies whatsoever. I don't think that is supposed to happen.

I noticed that the (auto) savefile before the mission was on version 5.0.0, but the savefiles on the missions are at version 5.3.1. It seems that the Alt+F4 happened during or caused a crash as I noticed there is a bug_report zip of that day in the BugReports folder, but it has only a single file. I'm attaching both zips.

bug_report_2024-12-20-10h50_st_5.3.1_user_f11.zip 5.26 MB · 0 downloads bug_report_2024-12-17-09h56_wn_5.0.0_unhandled_exception.zip 1002 B · 0 downloads

Hi - were you carrying on an older save? If you created the campaign in 5.0.0 then any missions on the Geoscape when you updated to the new version will have no aliens in them. 

You should be able to continue playing if you load an earlier save, or the post-mission save. However, personally, I'd just restart a fresh campaign in 5.3.1 to make sure things are as stable as possible!