Game hung on "Alien Activity"

[Warlox]

My game got stuck somehow while the alien turn was occuring during an abduction mission. It's just sitting there showing the last alien move, but isnt responding to any input. The character UI is missing (since it was the alien turn) and I cant get out of it. Anyone else see this?

[Darkfyre444]

I think I just encountered this as well. The game appeared frozen, even though the animations were still moving. I couldn't click on any buttons with the mouse, nor would any of the keyboard shortcuts work. Esc didn't bring up the game menu. I literally couldn't do anything.

[JohnnyOmaha]

Also experienced this on Ironman mode. Was cool on load though, it took me back before the freeze on a CTRL + ALT + DEL. Trying to figure out if it was just me or not. Don't know how to replicate, just kinda gets stuck in a non-responsive loop. Animations still going, sound still going, just can't do anything but alt tab and close.

[Darkfyre444]

That's exactly what was happening to me. I had to ALT+TAB out of the game and close the game from windows because nothing else was working. I hadn't saved yet (and didn't realize that auto-save is turned off by default), so i had to start over. Not a big deal, as I was only on the second mission. The second time in that mission, it didn't lock up and I was able to move on.

[Brune]

In very far on a ver difficult mission with 100% of my squad. Hoping I can figure out how to not lose the entire progress of the mission before killing the process.

[Red Phantom]

I have learned a lot about this bug if anyone still needs help with it. I just posted the workaround I found in a couple of other threads but let me know if you still need it as well.

[doc]

Originally posted by PrometheanFrankenstein:

I have learned a lot about this bug if anyone still needs help with it. I just posted the workaround I found in a couple of other threads but let me know if you still need it as well.

Is there a workaround that doesn't involve aborting/restarting the mission?

[Red Phantom]

Yeah, your save can still be saved. I encountered it on classic ironman and my game was going way too well to abandon so I messed around until I figured it out.

When I had to do it I found that it has to do with alien spawns. There is one group of enemies on the map that either haven't spawned yet or that you just discovered, and they are the ones that are not taking their turn. When it happened to me it was my first encounter with Mutons.

When you reload a mission in progress all unactivated aliens are randomly distributed amongst the spawn points on the map again, so what I did to get past it is find a spawn point, then reload until the mutons in question spawned close enough for me to kill in one turn. Once they were dead everything continued as normal.

[Horrible Marksman]

I've only run into this bug once. The source for me was a slight variation of the one mentioned by Frakenstein. Mission starts, I kill a couple things, and then I mind control the last heavy floater. I use him as a scout and move him into the ufo and the fog. He finds nothing and I lose control of him a couple turns later. Now this is the odd point. This floater was the anchor for my bug. The game would hang about 3 turns later each attempt.

After a number of tests I realized it might be due to the floater, I rushed 2 soldiers forward and dropped him. The game still hung. I ran them forward and spotted him on the turn before, and he refused to move as the game still hung. I tried spotting him 2 turns before and then killed him, which worked to fix the hang. If my save was the turn before I may have been screwed I suppose, but it can potentially be fixed. I'm rather curious why the floater only caused the hang multiple turns later though.

Same basic idea as what Frankenstein mentioned, but with a slight difference. Also of note, I dropped a muton with my sniper instead of my psi and reloaded out of sleepy irritation. I'm guessing either mind control into the fog or the load--perhaps the combination--was my culprit.

[trooper404]

Getting stuck too. I reastarted the mission from mission control, still getting stuck during the mission.
Seems game is unplayable until they fix it.