Crash - Repeatable - Mission "In Search of Past Glory"

[Semper Fight 0311]

I'm at the point in the mission where I am inside of a structure. I am supposed to drop down into a lower room. In that lower room there is a fallen ramp of concrete, like a fallen column or roof support, which leads slightly upward, to where it looks as if you can jump onto a ladder to continue upward to the walkway.
There are dogs in the room, or something similar, and they appear, when shooting them, to be just figments of my imagination, some psi thing.
On the upper level where the ladder you can jump to appears to lead, there is an enemy, I forget what they are called, but they use mental powers, to attack.
The issue: I CAN jump down, I can even shoot the "dogs," but once either the enemy above does his attack, or I am down in the lower area with the "dogs" for seemingly a few minutes, the game will completely freeze up, Or after the mental attack from the enemy above i'll see nothing but white, or black, or blue screen, with sound still playing, and even raindrops hitting on the screen, but I can't do anything, as if i've been teleported in the middle of the air, looking up, or something like that.
This is repeatable, and unceasing. I CANNOT proceed beyond this point in the game.
I have NO MODS installed.
Adding: IF I walk into the "magic bubble" as I call them, which is located in the path of the fallen concrete ramp, the game goes to white screen, and locks as well. The only way to get out of any of the "locked" or "frozen" scenarios described above, is to kill the game with Task Manager, OR sometimes the game will kill itself, and a "report error" box appears on desktop.
Adding: I AM, according to the game, apparently, being teleported very far from the location I was. Almost as if it's teleporting me through the world. When I look up, at the compass, and the quest marker, the distance shows "-2147483648m" above the quest marker on the compass,

[Okladom]

I'm at the same spot and experiencing the same thing. I've made it up the ramp a couple of times but missed the jump each time and then crashed after falling down. I had to bolt the anomaly to get up the ramp without crashing.

[Semper Fight 0311]

Originally posted by Okladom:

I'm at the same spot and experiencing the same thing. I've made it up the ramp a couple of times but missed the jump each time and then crashed after falling down. I had to bolt the anomaly to get up the ramp without crashing.

I tried bolting the anomaly. It didn't change anything. Game continually either teleports me to somewhere far away, and then must be force-closed, or it locks completely and shows as unresponsive in task manager, & has to force-closed.
It doesn't matter if I bolt the anomaly then run up the ramp, or run into the anomaly (testing the situation), or just wait until the enemy above does his telekinetic attack, or sometimes just hang out in the lower room shooting the dogs form a corner that is concealed form the telekinetic enemy above, it's the same end result.
I'm unable to proceed beyond this point.

[HiggsLP]

Yep the vortex anomaly will crash.
Just run up, climb ladder and get some shotties on that controller face.
Its no point on lingering down there anyways, just waste of HP and ammo.

[FeistyLemur]

I struggled with this for days as well. It's kind of a tricky jump to the ladder, but you don't have to fight the dogs, the faster you get out the lest likely it will crash. It seemed to be less stable if it froze the computer and I just force closed because as I was about to give up and assume i was stuck for now, I went back the second day and it seemed less problematic after a reboot.

So just pick a save slightly before the pit, immediately jump down bolt the anomaly run up and jump for the ladder, if you make it that far it probably will not freeze any more and you can deal with the controller in the next room.

Beware though there was another bug the first time I got it to work where it wouldn't allow me to save the game, so i pushed on thinking it would reset, it didn't so i had to do the whole damn thing over yet again.

All in all I had to reload and force close probably like 15 to 20 times before i finally got passed the mission.

[HiggsLP]

You can jump ladders instantly , if u press H to put all away in your hands....

[Semper Fight 0311]

Originally posted by HiggsLP:

Yep the vortex anomaly will crash.
Just run up, climb ladder...

All basic actions, such as "just quickly run through," etc., were tried well prior to my posting here. I CANNOT proceed, in any way, running through, quickly jumping onto the concrete ramp and trying to quickly jump to the ladder, etc. I wouldn't have posted here if the solution was as simple as "just bolt the anomaly, then just run through, jump on concrete, jump to ladder." I didn't list every attempted circumvention of the issues, as I felt that doing so would be a waste of time, and it would be a logical assumption that simple attempts to get "around" this Game Bug would have been attempted/tried. However, to be clear, simply attempting to "go around" the issue as you suggest, does NOT work in my situation.
Adding to Clarify: Regardless of what may work for others, I CANNOT make it to the ladder most attempts, much less climb it and "just go through." The game locks either after a short while, OR when the telekinetic attack occurs, OR as I run up the concrete ramp, etc. Then, either the game is completely "not responding" (according to Task Manager), OR I can hear sound, I can even see raindrops hitting on the screen, & I see a very large distance from previous location indicated under mission objective marker by compass at top of screen (as mentioned in original post), but the game no longer responds to inputs, & must be force closed anyway.
Bottom Line: They need to fix this. I just wanted to note it here, as i've done. I'll simply await some sort of fix.

[Wally_c64]

It crashed for me twice when I went up the concrete ramp and encountered the anomaly. Once I temporarily eliminated the anomaly with a bolt, the crashing stopped.

[impactos_enredos0i]

I have finished the campaign once, no problem like you describe, and no crashes too.
Coincidently I have completed this same mission some hours ago for my second playthrough, what I did was use a bolt to break the anomaly near the column after killing the psy dog, then ascend it and climb the ladder, and then finally kill the controller.

[Semper Fight 0311]

Originally posted by Wally_c64:

It crashed for me twice when I went up the concrete ramp and encountered the anomaly. Once I temporarily eliminated the anomaly with a bolt, the crashing stopped.

As i've mentioned, that does not work for me.

[Semper Fight 0311]

Originally posted by impactos_enredos0i:

I have finished the campaign once, no problem like you describe, and no crashes too.
Coincidently I have completed this same mission some hours ago for my second playthrough, what I did was use a bolt to break the anomaly near the column after killing the psy dog, then ascend it and climb the ladder, and then finally kill the controller.

I'm glad that approach worked for you. However, for myself, and apparently others, that does not work.

[T4lby]

For me it did not work either. I am stuck. This is a mayor bug, in the Storyline. Please someone fix it, asap!

EDIT: I was finally able to progress. Fought the Pseudodog, fight two Soldiers, bolted the anomaly (only Bolt, no Scanner in Hand) and jumped the ladder :-)

[Palicai]

Why do this to yourselves guys...

You like the game? Yeah?

WAIT.

[Terrabull]

Yup, I have exactly the same issue and have tried all the same things as you. Now just stuck waiting for a fix. Can't play the game anymore.

[T4lby]

Originally posted by Terrabull:

Yup, I have exactly the same issue and have tried all the same things as you. Now just stuck waiting for a fix. Can't play the game anymore.

H, see my post on 17 Dec @ 1:58am: "only Bolt, no Scanner in Hand and jumped the ladder". You have to trigger the anomaly, so that it disapperes ;-)

[Semper Fight 0311]

Originally posted by T4lby:

Originally posted by Terrabull:

Yup, I have exactly the same issue and have tried all the same things as you. Now just stuck waiting for a fix. Can't play the game anymore.

H, see my post on 17 Dec @ 1:58am: "only Bolt, no Scanner in Hand and jumped the ladder". You have to trigger the anomaly, so that it disapperes ;-)

That does NOT work for many, including myself. NO "bolt" action, with or without scanner (I never have the scanner in-hand anyway when I bolted it) changes the crash. I've got a better suggestion, no offense to you, but MY suggestion is that the Devs Patch/Fix the issue, instead of the "user" having to test 20 different ways to circumvent the Issue, hoping ONE of those ways "works" to allow use of the game. I like the game, and have enjoyed it quite a bit, and I ASSUME they'll fix it & give them the trust they will, as they seem to be doing what i'd expect with patching, and communications. However, let's not avoid the fact that the game needs some serious patching, and it's not on the "user" to "fix" or spend inordinate amount of time trying to "go around" the issues.
In the meantime, i'm just giving them a chance to Fix the issue(s).