Combat movement bugs in 1.03

[Chet]

After the patch to 1.03, the movement range is incorrect when you schedule a change in stance during your movement. The yellow outline will show you being able to go to a position (with the feet icon), and then when you click to go there, there's just a soft "beep", the yellow and blue outlines flash briefly, and then nothing else happens.

If you change stance first, and then try to move there (instead of using CTRL-Z and CTRL-X to schedule a change in stance at the destination), you will get a "correct" yellow outline for your new (lower) remaining AP. But of course, that's no good because now you've changed stance just to figure out where you can reach (and spent the AP).

It feels like the patch changes to "fix" AP movement w.r.t schedule stance changes isn't working correctly. I'm having to change my stance ahead of my movement and that's of course not what I want to do.

Here's a screenshot showing Livewire supposedly being able to move and change stance with her 12 AP, but clicking just goes "beep" as described above.

https://imgur.com/a/5jXKAiN

Here's a screenshot showing Kalyna _not_ changing stances and still not being able to move 7/7 AP!

https://imgur.com/a/UFepMMo

And, now I've noticed something else. When you're behind cover and set up a machine gun position, sometimes the preview shows you where the gun will cover after a 1-square movement (with the ghost of your merc in the new position), but then the actual deployment is in the original square and (because of the cover) useless.

Off topic: Please add a keybinding for "move merc" so I don't have to click on them to start movement.

[Obiwan]

they broke it, and it's not reduced to old saves, started a fresh game, grabbed a few randos. ran in headshot first guy, tried to move to maximum distance and sure as not it just "beeps" while you click implying it cannot be done.

you have the AP, you already changed stance ... so why is this a thing?

I really hope they push a hotfix before the weekend because as patches go this one really sucked the fun out of the game.

[Lanani]

Please report it via the in-game bug reporting tool, if you haven't already. Make sure to mention that the issue has only occurred since the latest patch.
To do so, press ESC while in gameplay and select "Bug Report", then fill out the form and send it off. Thanks.

[pascal.difolco]

I don't use that feature much, either you stay hidden crouched or prone, else you run and hit the dirt at the end of the move (so I keep 2AP unless the merc has the perk making it free)

[Chet]

Originally posted by Lanani:

Please report it via the in-game bug reporting tool, if you haven't already. Make sure to mention that the issue has only occurred since the latest patch.
To do so, press ESC while in gameplay and select "Bug Report", then fill out the form and send it off. Thanks.

I just loaded the affected save game and sent a bug report with the same title as this post, a short description, and a link to this post.

BTW, while I could paste into the title field in the bug report, I couldn't paste into the body of the bug report, which meant I did not reproduce all of the original text in it. Perhaps consider allowing paste there?

[Dragonforce Changed My Life]

I was out there recommending this game to all my friends, and then literally next day movement gets borked in a way so annoying that it borders on unplayable in difficult missions and LMGs get so eviscerated that they're not nearly as fun and cool and like why even use them on the hardest difficulty?

What the hell, guys? I went from playing this game for hours in my free time to not wanting to boot it up.

[Fideo]

The devs should head over to the forum and look at the feedback on patch 1.03, because it's a real piece of crap.

[Rampage]

its like they didnt even test it for 5 minutes

[Sardonac]

I'm sort of regretting not getting this game on gog instead of steam. At least then I could roll back easily to the previous version till they figure it out.

[Cryos_Feron]

Originally posted by Chet:

After the patch to 1.03, the movement range is incorrect when you schedule a change in stance during your movement. The yellow outline will show you being able to go to a position (with the feet icon), and then when you click to go there, there's just a soft "beep", the yellow and blue outlines flash briefly, and then nothing else happens.

If you change stance first, and then try to move there (instead of using CTRL-Z and CTRL-X to schedule a change in stance at the destination), you will get a "correct" yellow outline for your new (lower) remaining AP. But of course, that's no good because now you've changed stance just to figure out where you can reach (and spent the AP).

It feels like the patch changes to "fix" AP movement w.r.t schedule stance changes isn't working correctly. I'm having to change my stance ahead of my movement and that's of course not what I want to do.

Here's a screenshot showing Livewire supposedly being able to move and change stance with her 12 AP, but clicking just goes "beep" as described above.

https://imgur.com/a/5jXKAiN

Here's a screenshot showing Kalyna _not_ changing stances and still not being able to move 7/7 AP!

https://imgur.com/a/UFepMMo

And, now I've noticed something else. When you're behind cover and set up a machine gun position, sometimes the preview shows you where the gun will cover after a 1-square movement (with the ghost of your merc in the new position), but then the actual deployment is in the original square and (because of the cover) useless.

Off topic: Please add a keybinding for "move merc" so I don't have to click on them to start movement.

having the same problem, thanks for reporting it

[Tuckwit]

Audaki has provided a hotfix for this in the workshop

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3016983236

He's also done some other fixes (i.e. Vickis Elbow Grease bug) and other good mods