Bug in UI during Campaign Play

scJazz · #1 August 13th, 2005, 05:55 PM

If you are playing a campaign and have gotten past scenario 1 you might run into a situation where you can't open a saved campaign game.

1) Play and win Scenario 1
2) Save game at first Save Game prompt
3) Start Scenario 2 repair, upgrade, add core, purchase secondary, deploy, start turn for Scenario 2.
4) Do something incredibly stupid like charge APC carrying A0 into waiting enemy MBT and watch them die.
5) Decide that you are in fact too drunk

and try to restart the game by choosing End Game.
6) Attempt to open the saved game doesn't work. Slight screen "blink" but the save from the end of Scenario 1 doesn't load.

7) If you QTD and reopen MBT everything works fine and you can open the "End of Scenario 1 Save".

Mobhack · #2 August 13th, 2005, 09:56 PM

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scJazz said:
If you are playing a campaign and have gotten past scenario 1 you might run into a situation where you can't open a saved campaign game.

1) Play and win Scenario 1
2) Save game at first Save Game prompt
3) Start Scenario 2 repair, upgrade, add core, purchase secondary, deploy, start turn for Scenario 2.
4) Do something incredibly stupid like charge APC carrying A0 into waiting enemy MBT and watch them die.
5) Decide that you are in fact too drunk

and try to restart the game by choosing End Game.
6) Attempt to open the saved game doesn't work. Slight screen "blink" but the save from the end of Scenario 1 doesn't load.

7) If you QTD and reopen MBT everything works fine and you can open the "End of Scenario 1 Save".

An odd one that.

A generated, or user campaign?.

Cheers
Andy

Kursk43 · #3 August 14th, 2005, 01:14 AM

Hi Gents

I recently acquired the free download, and would very much like to print out the entire manual, but don't see an effective option available to do this.

If there's a particular procedure I need to follow, or way I could go about this, I'd be appreciative of the help.

Thanks

scJazz · #4 August 14th, 2005, 02:48 PM

User campaign but I don't think it matters. The whole thing acted like some parameter that a saved game would try to write/use had a dirty value.

I'm attaching the saves that this happened twice with.

Mobhack · #5 August 15th, 2005, 04:34 AM

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scJazz said:
User campaign but I don't think it matters. The whole thing acted like some parameter that a saved game would try to write/use had a dirty value.

I'm attaching the saves that this happened twice with.

Thanks for that - will investigate.

cheers
Andy

Mobhack · #6 August 15th, 2005, 04:42 AM

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Mobhack said:

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scJazz said:
User campaign but I don't think it matters. The whole thing acted like some parameter that a saved game would try to write/use had a dirty value.

I'm attaching the saves that this happened twice with.

Thanks for that - will investigate.

cheers
Andy

Unfortunately - both those need user campaign No. 19 to proceed...

Andy

Mobhack · #7 August 15th, 2005, 04:54 AM

I tried this one on a generaed campaign, kamikazing the HQ in an APC rigt into some tanks, and cannot get any problems loading the save from just before the kamikaze attempt.

It may well be user campaign related in some way, I'll try one later on.

However - it's rare and there is a work-around (exit game and then load the save).

Andy

DRG · #8 August 15th, 2005, 10:26 AM

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Kursk43 said:
Hi Gents

I recently acquired the free download, and would very much like to print out the entire manual, but don't see an effective option available to do this.

If there's a particular procedure I need to follow, or way I could go about this, I'd be appreciative of the help.

Thanks

There isn't a provision for this. It's only meant to be viewed as HTML

Don

DRG · #9 August 15th, 2005, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Mobhack said:
I tried this one on a generaed campaign, kamikazing the HQ in an APC rigt into some tanks, and cannot get any problems loading the save from just before the kamikaze attempt.

It may well be user campaign related in some way, I'll try one later on.

However - it's rare and there is a work-around (exit game and then load the save).

Andy

OK, I had, what appears to be the exact same thing happen to me this morning while testing something unrelated. I couldn't open a post turn 1 save for a user campaign but I could with a save for a generated campaign.. I tried three time and each time it kicked me back to the load save game list. I tried loading other saves and they worked and then tried the first turn of the 'Thunder in the Sinai" campaign becasue it ends after the first turn of the first game and saved that then tried opening the original user campaign save and it opened for me that time ( !! ). That one will be a real treat to debug unless Andy can get it to happen on his machine but the workaround seems to be simply restart the game. This was the first time I had seen this so it's a rare one

Don

scJazz · #10 August 16th, 2005, 11:59 AM

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Mobhack said:
I tried this one on a generaed campaign, kamikazing the HQ in an APC rigt into some tanks, and cannot get any problems loading the save from just before the kamikaze attempt.

It may well be user campaign related in some way, I'll try one later on.

However - it's rare and there is a work-around (exit game and then load the save).
Andy

The kamikaze routine with the HQ isn't part of the problem. It is just how I came to notice the problem. Since Don has repeated the problem I won't attach the Campaign. It is a very small problem and quite rare. Wouldn't loose sleep over this one...

Jazz