2 years later and the overwatch bug is still alive.

[Dersh]

I think its really sad that two years later one of the most annoying bugs is still in the game. Infact I forgot how annoying it was the first time I completed the base game having to maintain about 10 saves to have enough points to go back to once this bug happens. Not only that I was stupid and just assumed some QA bug fixes went into Enemy Within or assumed it had been fixed through the passage of time.

What a joke, but now I know not to support this company in the future unless the title is on sale dirt cheap.

[Ozymandias]

I don't know what bug you're talking about despite your clear description, but according to steam I've only played for 726 hours.

[Stardustfire]

Im with Ozymandias, no idea what kind of bug the TS speak about.

[Dersh]

Its a bug usually caused by using the overwatch action that causes a team member to be unable to move, usually you can switch to another character or secondary weapon to counter it and move the character again however it often degrades to the point where you can no longer select other team members, the UI is unusable/frozen and you cannot get to the main menu or do anything leaving the only option to force quit and restart the game loading a save before the bug happened.

[spacealf]

Never had it happen. Try different video card drivers.
http://www.guru3d.com/files-categories/videocard-drivers.html

or check your computer for hardware driver updates or other issues.

http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml

[Dersh]

It was when the game first came out a bug that affected a lot of people. This is a post about it from around oct 2012. Its basically a bug where you cant move your soldiers and the UI locks up. Normally you can switch to a secondary weapon will allow you to move your soldier again, but if its a soldier who for example has a rocket launcher thats spent and the other team mates have no turns left, it results in having to force quit as you cant even get to the games menu.

Its a well documented bug, heres a few examples.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/200510/discussions/0/864949037783891304/
http://steamcommunity.com/app/200510/discussions/0/828925849131883657/
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2966964

Yeah I don't think video card drivers are going to help in a situation caused by the developers coding. I am using up to date video card drivers, its still a problem in the game, I see the issue every play through. It was a problem 2 years ago with up to date video card drivers then, It was a problem with windows 7 and 8 and 8.1 with this game. In the past this issue persisted whether I used used drivers from Guru3d.com or from my card makers website. I am not even using any of the same hardware I had when the game first came out.

[Kaisha]

You'll only find fanboi's here. There are tons of day 1 bugs still in the game, but that won't stop them from singing its praise or denying their existance.

[Milk]

Did you try reloading the mission? That usually fixes most of my bugs.

[red255]

Publicado originalmente por Kaisha:

You'll only find fanboi's here. There are tons of day 1 bugs still in the game, but that won't stop them from singing its praise or denying their existance.

I've never had it happen and I've played hundreds of hours. I assume its due to your specs over anything else. but since he didn't POST them I can't even tell if they MEET the game's specs.

Had some pretty squirelly things happen, started playing EU and it IS far more buggy over EW.

Had my first mission.... and it activated the wrong pod. Never had that happen before. it just there are 2 pods of sectoids. and the one I didn;t see activated, then next turn because you know I saw they other pod, it activates, but that activated every enemy on the map.

[Milk]

There's also that pod of pre-activated aliens by the police car on the hurricane street map. Haven't encountered that map yet though on EW.

UPDATE: Speak of the devil

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=360786272

[Sukoo]

t.t

[Dersh]

Yeah I actually had to restart the game from the beginning because I didn't keep enough saves, by the time I noticed the bug it was already in all my in mission saved games. I wasn't far into it but I had long since forgotten my save game protocols to prevent getting stuck. You do have to go back to a save before its happened, especially if your unlucky and its progressed where everything is locked up and you can do anything. If you just reload the save with the bug that out come will only happen again. Thats why I was always paranoid about using the overwatch action because it was usually right after using that on a character, the next turn the move bug and ui lockup would happen.

I am playing the game again now that I know this bug is still there, I keep 5-6 saves in the main base, and 10+ of whatever level I am on. I also always save as soon as the mission starts, not because I care if I lose troops, but because if I forget to save enough I end up losing a few hours worth.

Well Red255 your lucky in my opinion if you have never encountered this issue as everyone I have talked to on my friends list who owns the game knows about this bug. It used to happen to me multiple times every time I played.

Since your wondering the specs on my machine:
I7 4960x 3.6 ghz (6 core, 12 logical and not overclocked)
Asus P9X79 WS mobo
Adata DDR3 2400 PC3-19200 16gb (running at stock speeds, not overclocked to 2400mhz)
256gb Adata SX900 SSD (primary hdd) 550mbs/w 530mbs/r
Evga geforce 580GTX (aging but certainly sufficient for this game, if not most games. Including skyrim with 4k textures and 200+ mods, mostly graphical ones)
I also have a Cooler Master HAF case, whether over clocked or stock, with mechanical fans motherboard temp never rises past 28 celcius, and cpu never gets hotter than 31 celcius at stock, 34 celcius overclocked.

[frdnwsm]

I have had this happen a couple of times, early on when I first began playing. I am not a techie type person, but occasionally I got it to work again by htting escape and then going right back. Sometimes that didn't work either. I dumbed down all the visual options to the least detailed, and that seemed to help. Haven't had it happen in quite a while now, thankfully.

[Kaisha]

Publicado originalmente por red255:

Publicado originalmente por Kaisha:

You'll only find fanboi's here. There are tons of day 1 bugs still in the game, but that won't stop them from singing its praise or denying their existance.

I've never had it happen and I've played hundreds of hours. I assume its due to your specs over anything else. but since he didn't POST them I can't even tell if they MEET the game's specs.

Had some pretty squirelly things happen, started playing EU and it IS far more buggy over EW.

Had my first mission.... and it activated the wrong pod. Never had that happen before. it just there are 2 pods of sectoids. and the one I didn;t see activated, then next turn because you know I saw they other pod, it activates, but that activated every enemy on the map.

Just because it hasn't happened to you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

[KT Chong]

Here is a "beneficial" overwatch bug for your squad-sight snipers:

Normally, a squad-sight sniper cannot move and then fire or go into overwatch with her sniper rifle. So. You move the sniper. Switch her weapon to pistol. Put her on overwatch. Which ends her turn. (Make sure the sniper is not the last soldiers in your squad to end a turn.)

Then, you click on the sniper to select her again. You can switch her weapon back to sniper rifle. Now she is on overwatch with her sniper rifle.

Apparently it is a programming oversight that has been around since day 1, but the developer has never bothered to fix it.

[Milk]

^I thought they patched that along with activating things after using both moves.