Can't talk to the Survivor?

[Clegane]

I'm on the mission where you meet the exalt and I have to talk too the last remaining survivor. For some reason none of my men can talk to him and that bug just cost me my playthrough since I had 2 soldiers poisoned with no medkits left. Anyone else have this bug? I'm in his raidius but still cant talk to him..

[Pesto]

I did not have that bug myself, I did want to shoot him though. That guy is a pain :)

[Clegane]

Yea, it's really frustrating sicne now I have to go back and restart my whole playthrough.. That's Xcom.. I guess?

[Elkantarr]

It definetly seems like a bug. I encountered the same problem on my classic ironman run. I wondered if i triggered that bug because I wanted my MEC Trooper to talk to this guy first and it didn't work. What solved the problem for me was the following procedure:

1. Stay outside the "line of conersation" of the survivor
2. Save your game
3. Restart X-Com Enemy Within
4. Load your game
5. Now you should be able to trigger the blabla for this guy.

[Clegane]

Yea, I did that and managed to fix it. It sadly cost me my ironman run but oh well.. that's Xcom!

[lemonpips]

Originally posted by Sarge Ger:

It definetly seems like a bug. I encountered the same problem on my classic ironman run. I wondered if i triggered that bug because I wanted my MEC Trooper to talk to this guy first and it didn't work. What solved the problem for me was the following procedure:

1. Stay outside the "line of conersation" of the survivor
2. Save your game
3. Restart X-Com Enemy Within
4. Load your game
5. Now you should be able to trigger the blabla for this guy.

I can confirm that this works as well. Thanks.

[640 1240]

This bug just killed off my 3 best soldiers in an Ironman Classic run. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Waywocket]

Originally posted by Elkantarr:

It definetly seems like a bug. I encountered the same problem on my classic ironman run. I wondered if i triggered that bug because I wanted my MEC Trooper to talk to this guy first and it didn't work.

It's interesting that you say that - I've not had this bug, but I have had a lesser bug with the guy on the trashed bridge council mission: I first moved my MEC trooper up to him, and the game didn't recognise it. It did allow me to move another soldier up to him next turn though, without having to save and restart.

[Mhblis]

Its the script not triggering properly it happens some times. I had it on the Van Dorn mission a few times. Often happens if you kill an alien inside of their blue circle. The corpse seems to prevent it from progressing.

I get around it by saving with all my soldiers out of LOS and then quiting out of xcom and restarting the game, reloading the mission. A simple reload doesn't seem to just fix it.

It is one of the reasons I won't play Ironman just to many of those.

[SpadeWings]

I know it's a year later, but I can confirm that approaching with the MEC causing that.

Trying the presented solution now.

EDIT: The presented solution works, thanks!

[Soma]

Originally posted by Elkantarr:

It definetly seems like a bug. I encountered the same problem on my classic ironman run. I wondered if i triggered that bug because I wanted my MEC Trooper to talk to this guy first and it didn't work. What solved the problem for me was the following procedure:

1. Stay outside the "line of conersation" of the survivor
2. Save your game
3. Restart X-Com Enemy Within
4. Load your game
5. Now you should be able to trigger the blabla for this guy.

I did not approch with a MEC (don't have these yet), but this solution still works. :)

[Ignite]

Originally posted by Elkantarr:

It definetly seems like a bug. I encountered the same problem on my classic ironman run. I wondered if i triggered that bug because I wanted my MEC Trooper to talk to this guy first and it didn't work. What solved the problem for me was the following procedure:

1. Stay outside the "line of conersation" of the survivor
2. Save your game
3. Restart X-Com Enemy Within
4. Load your game
5. Now you should be able to trigger the blabla for this guy.

Thanks!!! I'm on the "maximum suffering mode" (Iron man, Hardest difficultiest and so on). Don't want to lose my progress for this annoy bug. :)