[0.74.9] Squad disappeared upon game load

[w.evans]

Version:
0.74.9

Description:
Squad does not appear upon save load. The squad is still listed in the "Squads" menu, but none of its members exist.

Steps to Reproduce:
Load the save.
Sorry, I know that that doesn't help reproduce the problem in cases other than in this particular save, but I wasn't doing anything in particular, just walking around north of Telbooze (I think that's the name of the town. The Dead Cat town southeast from Brink.) Was shortly after my squad finished off a bunch of dogs and a bunch of dust bandits in quick succession, if that helps.

Consistency:
Could be isolated.

Reported On:
15.June 2015

System specs/OS:
Windows 7 64-bit
i7-2670QM (Laptop)
Nvidia GT 540M
8GB RAM
SSD

Severity:
Game breaker for this save, but I can just go back to an earlier one. (And possibly roll back to 0.74.7. A pity. The lights working consistently was nice.)

The save file can be downloaded here.

EDIT: sorry, meant 0.74.9, not 0.47.9

[w.evans]

Forgot to add that this always happens (happened several times now, in and around Telbooze) after a character gets stuck while moving:

• A character will stop moving, but will continue showing the "running" animation.
• While in this state, the character does not respond to any keyclicks or keypresses.
• Picking the character up and setting the character down does work sometimes, if the person doing the picking-up doesn't get stuck as well (and if it's caught early enough so the whole squad doesn't get stuck.)
• When the game is saved while the characters are stuck, loading that save results in the characters disappearing completely. Once happened that loading a save right before the characters got stuck still resulted in the characters disappearing. Have NOT tested saving with only some characters in the squad stuck yet.
• Also, once a character got stuck, then disappeared without save-load. The character's icon was still in the list of characters, but double-clicking on the icon results in the camera zooming to the character's last location. Trying to pick the non-existant character up results in the picking-up-character getting stuck.

[CrusaderSix]

I do get this as well.

Someitmes loads and sometimes doesnt

[w.evans]

@CrusaderSix, actually seems fixed since the latest experimental update. At least, haven't encountered the problem anymore. And the area around Telbooze seems safe to explore again.

At least, marking this provisionally fixed with a question mark until someone reports that it's happened again in 0.74.10.

[Albibak]

Hello,

It's happening to me on a regular basis on 0.74.10.
The "loading" window never goes away and no squad at all appears on the squad tab on the main screen (I use 5 squads of 7). If I go to the squad screen, all my squads are there but they are all empty.

While this happens, my camera movements are not restricted to a certain distance from where my toons are. I can explore the map freely until I hit a new area to load at which point I either get all my toons back and the game crash after a few minutes or nothing special happens and I get to explore the map further.

I have some toons in the area north of Telbooze too so maybe there's a link with the ghost outpost bug.

Cheers

Albibak

[w.evans]

Thanks. Removing the "fixed" tag.