(0.58.2) Crash on loading - buildings related

[Etherfly]

I have an issue similar to what many others are experiencing: occassionally when loading a savegame the game crashes. What I have noticed is that it only crashes when the player faction has buildings. Thus I can easily reproduce this by placing a building, saving and loading. This pretty much makes many things impossible to do.

Crashdump uploaded.

[AviticusDragon]

Try importing your characters into a new game. Unfortunately some new updates break your current game

[Etherfly]

Thanks for the tip. Imported and played for an hour without problems. Started a base. Noticed that Brink was unpopulated after quite considerable time, thought I would save and reload. Well, this crashed the game and every subsequent attempt to load this savegame ended with a crash. Uploading the crashdump.

[Etherfly]

Okay, I think I have found a workaround. Hope this will prove useful:

1) Load game, resetting squad positions. You may get a world with no buildings and your characters may not move.
2) Save and load again. This will bring the buildings back and let your characters move.

This enabled me to continue in my current game with my base intact.
HOWEVER! When I saved and loaded again, I got the same crash. It seems like it is somehow related to state the world may get sometime into the game. Maybe it has something to do with squads, cannibals maybe, doing something they shouldn't. Maybe killing all cannibals will work? This somehow gives a clear purpose to my game of Kenshi

[drakken]

I have the very same problem and same with the fix the game keep loading and the squad can't move and i see no building, i will save and load again then, thanks for the tip!

[drakken]

worked but crash to desktop as soon as i selected a character.
i will try more.


ok the same problem is happening again and again.
if i move with the arrows the game is not crashing i i double clik on a character i am CTD.
I am waiting for a fix ^^

[drakken]

i have imported my gang into a new game without buildings the game was working well for several hours but i am CDT again and this time i have no village, i am only roaming the land.

[Etherfly]

I was able to research this further.
The method I used above proved to be not so absolute. When I was getting the crash even after resetting squad positions. I found that the following helps:

1) Load ANOTHER savegame, that you know is crash-safe (so that it doesn't crash right after loading).
2) Load your current savegame, resetting squad positions.

This will yield a bug where your character, wherever he was in the save, will probably teleport to where a character from another savegame was standing, BUT the game will run.
In case this matters I have all error fixing settings enabled.

P.S.: I am playing the role of a lonely samurai, so I only have one character to control. Now I realize that this may actually be a deciding factor for whether the method will work. Still, I hope this at least gives some insight into the problem.