Weird escort car bug (special transport)

[HypnotizeD_X]

I had a look around, and didn't see anyone else with this problem.

Basically, the escort car drives off without me

Even if I reload a checkpoint, it's gone. Kind of annoying, considering I was nearly at the destination.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1556965976

[mitsoswu]

are you using any Map mod ?

[HypnotizeD_X]

Nope. Total vanilla game except DLC.

[mitsoswu]

try to save the game on that point ....and re-load that save again.

[Ryu]

The message is saying that you have driven away from your escort, not that they've driven away from you. This happens sometimes when your rear escort gets caught up with the AI traffic and stops for some reason. You should have gotten a warning prior to when this video starts about getting too far away from your escort.

[HypnotizeD_X]

Yeah, I tried just waiting around, but either the lead vehicle p*sses off and I fail, or I get too far away from the trail car and fail. Restarting didn't help, so I've had to abandon

[Ryu]

You could have tried loading an older auto-save. While doing the ST loads the game makes more frequent saves along the way.

Every now and then an ST run gets hosed. I've had AI get between me and the rear escort preventing us from making a lane change to avoid an exit, I've had the rear car have an accident with AI causing them to stop for a very long time until the AI decided to finally bugger off, and I've had an AI get in front of the lead escort and then stop at a roundabout where the police were blocking traffic and then refuse to move, stopping my whole convoy.

[HypnotizeD_X]

Originally posted by ~{DCMT}~ Ryu:

You could have tried loading an older auto-save. While doing the ST loads the game makes more frequent saves along the way.

Every now and then an ST run gets hosed. I've had AI get between me and the rear escort preventing us from making a lane change to avoid an exit, I've had the rear car have an accident with AI causing them to stop for a very long time until the AI decided to finally bugger off, and I've had an AI get in front of the lead escort and then stop at a roundabout where the police were blocking traffic and then refuse to move, stopping my whole convoy.

Urgh, so it's actually really buggy at the moment?

[Ryu]

Originally posted by HypnotizeD_X:

Originally posted by ~{DCMT}~ Ryu:

You could have tried loading an older auto-save. While doing the ST loads the game makes more frequent saves along the way.

Every now and then an ST run gets hosed. I've had AI get between me and the rear escort preventing us from making a lane change to avoid an exit, I've had the rear car have an accident with AI causing them to stop for a very long time until the AI decided to finally bugger off, and I've had an AI get in front of the lead escort and then stop at a roundabout where the police were blocking traffic and then refuse to move, stopping my whole convoy.

Urgh, so it's actually really buggy at the moment?

It's just the crazy AI, not the game being buggy. Those three incidents I mentioned are the only 3 times I've ever had a problem with Special Transport. Just relating that things happen that we can't always predict. And when you get stuck, reloading will eliminate the AI traffic that is causing the issue. ;)