v18.3hf2 [ground combat] alien base freeze, and charlie CTD with landed escorts

[smoitessier]

Found a large alien base but once loaded into it would freeze after selecting my start position, after a few reloads just prior, I was able to get into it, wonder if it's a AI unit which is the problem, since i think they are randomly spawned?

Also my Charlie intercepted a carrier and 2 heavy fighters when they were landed, i won the carrier mission, but once back to geoscape it still showed the 2 fighters as landed so i tried to jump on them with the chopper but i got a weird crash, a freeze with a lot of big portraits of my guys on a black background (they were all the same portrait) followed by CTD.

the two saves are zipped

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/485257/xenonauts%20v18.3hf2.zip

[stx]

Found a large alien base but once loaded into it would freeze after selecting my start position, after a few reloads just prior, I was able to get into it, wonder if it's a AI unit which is the problem, since i think they are randomly spawned?

I believe there is something wrong during the deployment phase.

Preconditions:

1) deployment phase

2) after positioning all the soldiers

3) the cursor is in a "walled" cell (black area, but with the circle cursor, probably a wall),

When pressing the end turn button, the game hangs.

If the cursor is in a position where there are tiles, then the freeze does not occurs.

I do not have a screenshot, but I believe this is the cause.

Moreover, if I save during the deployment phase, upon reloading the game skips the deployment phase. The game engine starts the turn with the soldiers in the positions they had at the beginning of the deployment phase.

[2nd Face]

Have the same problem in version v19 hotfix.

Loading the autosave generally solved it for me, skipping the deployment is not that big of an issue.

But strangely the special ability of the Praetor Leader is disabled on a reload as well. I can see the text but it just doesn't do anything.

Thanks for the workaround sxt. I'll try if this works for me as well.

[Lobster_Man]

I'm on v19 experimental, same bug as above (on my first large base). Cannot get past deployment without freeze. I tried reloading several times, positioning different during deployment, but no luck. I'm at work now so I'll try the suggestions also and report back.

[Lobster_Man]

I got it to work. My god was that a hard mission.