rear escort getting stuck in special transport without warning

[Lurus]

I have sucessfully completed 4 special transport routes so far and had no problems with the escorts. However I just started the Nantes- Civeaux route hauling a heat exchanger and ran into an issue very early on into the route and was wondering if anyone else ran into a similar issue?

I left Nantes made it through the first three roundabouts and onto the highway and then exited and all seemed fine. I then proceeded around the next 3 roundabouts all while following my front escort with no warnings and all seemed fine.

I continue on following my front escort and as im rounding the first curve after the roundabouts I get told that I've driven away from my escorts and have to load a checkpoint.

It was at this point i checked for my rear escort and hes nowhere to be found but there was no warning to wait for him and if i move forward at all my front escort continues on as if nothing is wrong.

Ive waited a good few minutes and the rear escort never seems to show up.



TL:DR lost my back escort early in the Nantes-civeaux transport route and he wont show up and is causing failed trip at the same place everytime, as front escort keeps moving forward, once i presumably get too far away from back escort.

[Lurus]

To add as a reply I think I fixed my own issue but it might be good for others to know. I reloaded enough autosaves just to see where i could find my rear escort and it seemed like he got hungup at the exit from A83 and continued to block the right lane of the highway instead of following correctly off the exit.

Reloading back before that occurance made him follow me off and presumably i will now be able to progress properly.

However I guess its a good thing to know to not just blindly follow the front guy assuming the alert will come up if you lose your rear and perhaps check to make sure your rear escort is with you at times.

[Drevin]

Hmm, the game should not work like that. It is definitelly not your job to check the rear escort. In fact, it is even very hard to see it. Your job is to blindly follow the front escort and mind the integrity of the cargo. The front escort's job is to keep the speed as low as required by regulations (forcing you to do so also), to slow down if you slow down (and allow you to catch up), and to comunicate with the rear escort through radio and coordinate line changes.

It's basically a bug, which should get the attention of SCS.

[Lurus]

agreed very likely a bug either with that route in general or maybe something with the escorts AI which had me initally concerned that maybe the route wasnt beatable if he got stuck. I wasn't thinking the highway my thought was that somehow in the navigation of all the roundabouts the rear got lost or something.


I have yet to try the same route again as am trying to run every route first but when i reverted far enough in autosaves to before the A83 the rear guy went fine across it all and followed off the exit ramp.


It was like the rear guy just got stuck in like traffic and wasnt sure what to do about the exit and the traffic he was blocking and me and front escort jsut continued and were miles ahead until i got forcefully kicked out for losing my escort.



One thing that kinda suprised me once i noticed my rear was gone was that reloading the last checkpoint doesnt just automatically reset your escorts in their position near your stationary truck.

I feel like that would be easy enough to code to position the front and rear in a starting position upon a load save but I know I am not a game developer so that actually could be pretty difficult for all i know.




Thank goodness for the autosaves and i wouldnt doubt they knew some of these issues might exist with this new system hense why it says it auto saves more with the special transport loads.




Loving the dlc so far of what ive done little AI hiccup not withstanding which cost me liek 20 minutes of time probably through like failing a few times, backtrack to find where the stuck occured and to fix it and just waiting to see if he would show up.

[banger705]

i only had one problem with the escort in front got on slipway from nates and he stopped. with wait for rear escorted.... rear escorted appear behind me and the front escorted refused to move. don't know what happen if it was me moved around to much (reveseing to make room for traffic to get past).

i just cancelled the job. a redone it

[HiTmAn]

its happen to me twice too... and i just load quick save... its bug