Settler died in hot air balloon explosion while exploration

[Halunke128]

Desert scenario, early summer, clothing suitable for exploration (fur jacket,thermal pants and so on) Name of the exploration: hole in the ground, survivor is on the way back, integrity 100/100, survivor has life-threatening heatstroke, beginning severe heat wave, halfway back the balloon explodes and survivor dies. Is there a way around this? unfortunately I can't undo the exploration.
Thx for tipps

[Legadian]

Your map seed, by chance, isn't: Earth - North America Region, is it?

Because that would explain A LOT.

In all seriousness, the only way around it is to not send that survivor on that mission. So, unless you have an old save.....

[Martin]

Roflmao... hahaa!! Ah god..

Yeh that would explain it.

I've only seen 1 other thread on this forum about a survivor dying on expedition, that thread the survivor crash landed.. and part of the issue was that they weren't removed from the list at top of the screen if i remember right.

I've never experienced this myself, I have had injured and severe heatstroke people return, but usually at night so they are reducing in heatstroke. So you're quite lucky in that regard.

As for undoing it, do you have autosaves off? If you do and haven't made any save games.. I guess no there isn't. Do you even have a corpse to bury?

On a side note, I'm just waiting to read in the news how someone used an F15 to shoot down a goose, because the M16 wasn't enough overkill.

[Kelreena]

Originally posted by Legadian:

Your map seed, by chance, isn't: Earth - North America Region, is it?

Because that would explain A LOT.

In all seriousness, the only way around it is to not send that survivor on that mission. So, unless you have an old save.....

Well played sir, well played.

[Rogue]

Actually this is due to the heatstroke, he died to it and thus the balloon exploded... It's not because it's an exploding balloon event. Same thing due to injury (roll that dice for a high risk option...), bleeding or starving on a long trip(multiple days) and died on the way back, balloon explode.

Never send someone out during extreme heatwave or cold snap unless the trip is short (mere hours, and you are wearing appropriate clothing). Best is to wait till extreme event is over, then send them out.

[johnisaroundhere]

Originally posted by Legadian:

Your map seed, by chance, isn't: Earth - North America Region, is it?

Because that would explain A LOT.

In all seriousness, the only way around it is to not send that survivor on that mission. So, unless you have an old save.....

Brilliant :)

[Martin]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Actually this is due to the heatstroke, he died to it and thus the balloon exploded... It's not because it's an exploding balloon event. Same thing due to injury (roll that dice for a high risk option...), bleeding or starving on a long trip(multiple days) and died on the way back, balloon explode.

Never send someone out during extreme heatwave or cold snap unless the trip is short (mere hours, and you are wearing appropriate clothing). Best is to wait till extreme event is over, then send them out.

Yep and remember you can cancel the expedition.

However, the extreme event can occur and the survivor can get the heatstroke, even severe heatstroke, whilst having completed the expedition. As the game wears on, the expeditions take longer and longer.. so essentially.. they will die eventually, no matter how cautious you get.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by Rogue:

Actually this is due to the heatstroke, he died to it and thus the balloon exploded... It's not because it's an exploding balloon event. Same thing due to injury (roll that dice for a high risk option...), bleeding or starving on a long trip(multiple days) and died on the way back, balloon explode.

Never send someone out during extreme heatwave or cold snap unless the trip is short (mere hours, and you are wearing appropriate clothing). Best is to wait till extreme event is over, then send them out.

Yep and remember you can cancel the expedition.

However, the extreme event can occur and the survivor can get the heatstroke, even severe heatstroke, whilst having completed the expedition. As the game wears on, the expeditions take longer and longer.. so essentially.. they will die eventually, no matter how cautious you get.

Each expedition has a time associated to it... It a risk if you decide to send someone out on a 5 days round trip vs 1 that's only 3 hours when he's not Quinn or has a weak temperature tolerance range.. You can also predict when an extreme might happen too, due to seasons.

Oh yeah, there's also the happiness value when selecting the explorer. Don't want them to return and instantly meltdown. Sad wander or hiding okay... Berserk? Ouch.

[Halunke128]

My first assumption was that my survivor died of heatstroke and that's why the balloon exploded, but I was unsure if there was another reason. The problem with the character image of the dead man, on the bar at the top of the screen, is still there. Of course you should not start an expedition during a serious event, but it was a long expedition and the event occurred during the expedition on the way back.

Thank you for your help.

[Martin]

Yeh it sounds like there's a bug with the game if your guys die on expedition then, the last thread to report a similar also had the issue the the portrait of the avatar was still on the screen. If you have a save with the game bugged like this might help them if you report it using the ingame tool.