Game-wrecking bug

[RoyHaggerty]

End of Chapter 5, delivering the mysterious family to their destination. I get the message about "are you sure you want to proceed", and then I get told that I have left 3 or 4 (I've had both) soldiers behind.

Except the soldiers are on my train. In full health, with full morale. They're not anywhere else.

I've reloaded previous saves and tried all sorts of changes - deleting all squads, offloading some inventory to make sure I'm under the limit, making sure none of them have roles on the train. But every time I click to end the chapter, I'm told I've left these guys behind.

It's driving me nuts, as my whole game has been trying to keep everyone alive! Anyone else encountered this, and is there a fix?

[Ghoul]

Yeah. This bug is well-known, I had that terrible experience yesterday, but not a single word from the devs about a patch... This is game breaking and I´ll ask for a refund untill it is fixed.

[RoyHaggerty]

Actually causing me distress! I've developed a bit of an affection for my individual soldiers, and I've taught myself stealth (which is a gameplay style I normally hate), taking hours over missions, just to make sure everyone stays alive. So to have this happen for no reason, and just lose those guys who I've been shepherding from the start, is a gutter.

Not sure I want to carry on playing this until that can be fixed tbh. Which is a shame, because otherwise it's a great game.

[Ghoul]

Originally posted by RoyHaggerty:

Actually causing me distress! I've developed a bit of an affection for my individual soldiers, and I've taught myself stealth (which is a gameplay style I normally hate), taking hours over missions, just to make sure everyone stays alive. So to have this happen for no reason, and just lose those guys who I've been shepherding from the start, is a gutter.

Not sure I want to carry on playing this until that can be fixed tbh. Which is a shame, because otherwise it's a great game.

Yeah, that´s a real shame, the game is great and you get attached with some soldiers real easy. This game brings something new and fresh to the table of strategy games.

[RoyHaggerty]

Argh. Went back and tried the alternate ending to that chapter (chapter 6, not 5 as I said earlier). No change. No matter what I do, I'm told that I have an abandoned side quest (I don't), and that I've left 3 or sometimes 4 soldiers behind - all of whom are on my train when I pull into the station.

It's a fullstop from me. Gutted. I'll look back from time to time to see if a bug fix comes out, but this is *such* a major gameplay bug.

[Ghoul]

Originally posted by RoyHaggerty:

Argh. Went back and tried the alternate ending to that chapter (chapter 6, not 5 as I said earlier). No change. No matter what I do, I'm told that I have an abandoned side quest (I don't), and that I've left 3 or sometimes 4 soldiers behind - all of whom are on my train when I pull into the station.

It's a fullstop from me. Gutted. I'll look back from time to time to see if a bug fix comes out, but this is *such* a major gameplay bug.

You can see that this bug is going to happen when you can´t assign the "future-to-be-missed" soldiers to a squad...

[Guulev]

Originally posted by RoyHaggerty:

Argh. Went back and tried the alternate ending to that chapter (chapter 6, not 5 as I said earlier). No change. No matter what I do, I'm told that I have an abandoned side quest (I don't), and that I've left 3 or sometimes 4 soldiers behind - all of whom are on my train when I pull into the station.

It's a fullstop from me. Gutted. I'll look back from time to time to see if a bug fix comes out, but this is *such* a major gameplay bug.

Same here. Love(d) the game, hate the bug. Will wait till this gets patched and start a new (lost 3 of my best units ;_;)

[FeedMeGarbage]

https://redmine.thqnordic.com/news/26

[wery]

Hi, we're currently looking into the issue.

Could you please report the problem via Redmine and provide us with your save files and logs? https://redmine.thqnordic.com/news/26

So far, we think the issue is connected to the auto-assigning of soldiers. So, a possible workaround is to turn it off and load an earlier save.

[RoyHaggerty]

Thanks for the response. I tried that. I already switched off auto-assign when I enter combat missions because I lost a guy in an earlier chapter to the bug which turns them into engineers during the mission, and leaves them behind.

So I reloaded a save from immediately after my previous combat mission at Tayshet. I made sure auto-assign still wasn't on. I also, for good measure, removed all soldiers from any role on any train car. (except the engine, which was necessary to keep moving, but *not* auto-assigned). I then tried to add all soldiers to squads. However, even before getting to the final destination, I had some soldier who could not be added to a squad despite having no role preventing them. It was those soldiers who were then "left behind" when reaching the destination.

I did report this when it first happened and sent you the save file. I hope you can fix this. I did really enjoy the game and would love to finish it, but can't go any further at the moment.

[Dragonzord]

Originally posted by wery:

Hi, we're currently looking into the issue.

Could you please report the problem via Redmine and provide us with your save files and logs? https://redmine.thqnordic.com/news/26

So far, we think the issue is connected to the auto-assigning of soldiers. So, a possible workaround is to turn it off and load an earlier save.

How do you, a week+ later, still have no idea how this is happening? This is actually game breaking and you can't figure it out in a week of investigating?

[Wolfgang Van Pelt]

It is happening to a lot of people , how did this bug get past the testing phase? in a game where the main focus in managing your soldiers...I mean I love the game but I stopped a week ago when the bug occured to me.

[Dragonzord]

Considering the devs, after over a week of investigating, cant figure out what's causing this game breaking bug... Refunded.

[wery]

Hello, we will release a patch containing fixes for multiple issues as soon as possible.

[Jon dough]

The developers must have known how buggy this game is,why was it released?.I do enjoy the game but spend more time re-loading than playing,I would also like a stop throw grenade button,on 4 occasions, the battle is over and grenade is still to be tossed,lol.I have received one successful bug report sent,the last 2 reports,send and re-load,or send and close,shut the report straight away,on the 1st report I thought there was a successfully sent message?

[wery]

Hi, we released an update for Last Train Home today, and the issue should be fixed. Please download the current version of the game and try it for yourself.

See full Patch Notes here: https://thqn.net/lth-patch1