End Skirmish Game Issue

[Darius (Rar-Zec)]

So, I recently played a game where I killed or destroyed the enemies structures and units. The odd thing was the game never completed where you win the match. I checked the water and the land, nothing came up. I check the tress as well. x3 This is clearly some form of bug I encountered. Not sure if alt tab a few times does that, though I done that plenty of time. Has anyone else encountered this issue at all?

[Nyerguds]

Submarine or something maybe?

[lot]

it usually sub, play short game then no need to seek inside the water

[Darius (Rar-Zec)]

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

Submarine or something maybe?

None of that as I was playing against allies.

[Darius (Rar-Zec)]

Originally posted by lot:

it usually sub, play short game then no need to seek inside the water

Not possible as I was playing against allies.

[Cat]

Happens to me but most of the time, it's submarines in the water.

I also had an enemy spy as the last unit which I had trouble finding because all my buildings were destroyed and he was just standing idle looking innocent.

Maybe it could be a bug. I once played a 4v4 skirmish and after destroying everything, I couldn't locate the last hidden enemy so I was hoping my computer allies could but they didn't, even when their superweapons are ready, they didn't fire it (usually they will as soon as it's ready).

[kavu91]

It's probably an air unit. Had it happen a few times before, (and in Tiberian Sun too, with the AI's Banshees). Most Air units in RA2 have curved movement queue, where they're forced to do wide turns if they want to move back. When AI gets their scripted-routing overloaded or bugged they'll get stuck - which can happen off screen by the edge of the map.

Related: In 1 (Player) vs 7 (Brutal AI), after a while, the Allies' Jets are scripted to cheat by being able to build more than 4 jets per 1 Airport. Sometimes having 6 or 8 jets. The jets that can't reload sometimes/often are scripted to make the other landed jets queue out, and they'll be stuck in the air trying to let each other in the airport to reload - which is likely a bug. Sometimes AI place their Airports (or War Factory, for other air units) by the edge of the map, and those things can happen together.
Not sure if Players can make Jets, Helicopters, or Rocketeers, get stuck off screen, but Yuri's UFO can go off screen and get stuck - from experience - though it can be recovered.

As for alt-tab, sometimes it's okay to alt-tab, sometimes the game crashes for unknown reasons. I don't recommend alt-tabbing unless you save often. Just play short game, since it's a game play bug.