Experimental Ammo Bug

[Sines]

Twice now, I've had the Experimental Ammo Project end with the Proving Grounds Window showing up far away, like it was still zooming into towards the player, but I can interact with it and use it. There's no ammo pop-up. This happened twice in a row on the same game, I've not had it work properly this game. I have no mods that interact with the Proving Grounds, to my knowledge.

After both cases, I used a RNG to pick an ammo at random and console it into my inventory. I'm not sure if the Proving Grounds actually used up my cores, however.

Anyone encounter this bug, and know what causes it or how to prevent it?

[Belazur]

I've had this bug of the de-zoomed window, you can just exit and go back in, it will be back to normal.

[Sines]

It does go back to normal when I do that, but I still don't get the ammo. Hence the console-commands to give me some.

[Belazur]

Oh, I didn't notice the lack of ammo pop-up, maybe I didn't paid enough attention or you have a different bug then. Maybe it's been made but the game doesn't alert you? You have tried equiping it or looking for it in the item list?

[Sines]

First thing I checked for. Not in the inventory list, and not available for equip on the soldiers. Hence why I had to resort to console commands.

[MikeHB]

I've had this too. No mods directly affecting Experimental Ammo (although some affect the Proving Grounds re Elerium Grounds, Heavy Weapons Tweaks, Handy Heavy Weapons) either. Doesn't happen for Grenades or Armour.

[MikeHB]

Any fixes yet?

[Sines]

Nope. I've even had it happen a third time. However, I do wonder what would have happened if I clicked "Ignore" when I had the completion pop-up.

[Pujii]

I had something like this happen once, it was when an important research finished the same time as a product was made. The item window popped up for a split second but then was overriden by the lab and Tygan's spiel, afterwards the other window was gone and wasn't in my inventory. Only after I went to the map and it did it's location updates I returned to the ship and the item window returned and I was able to get it. No mods of any kind btw.

[Blaze]

I'm having this exact issue rather reliably. This is gonna really piss me off if there's no fix for this, because I want to be able to use experimental ammo without ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ console commands.

[Sines]

Unfortunately, I've not encountered anything about a fix. I haven't played a new game since the one I was speaking about, however, so perhaps it is somehow attached to a campaign and will go away next time through.

And, as far as glitches go, it's a trivial one to fix with the console. So I can't get TOO worked up over it.

[MikeHB]

I've started a new campaign since experiencing the bug, and it's occurred again.

Technically the entire Proving Grounds could be completely replaced by console codes and keeping an eye on the clock, it's still expected these things should work by default.

[WeArrLegion]

I just encountered this for the first time ever too.
Never had any bugs or general issues with the game at all.
Now it will research the ammo, take time and cores, upon finish it dezoomes and no matter if I click ignore or accept the ammo doesn't appear in the inventory. It has taken 4 cores now and I need my special ammo :P :(
Any fixes yet?

[Fringehunter7719]

I recently gave this reply in another thread, it may (or may not) be of any help:

Originally posted by Fringehunter7719:

I had the no reward bug when I reinstalled recently. Google suggests its a problem associated with mods that alter the loot table. "Googling XPAD XCOM 2 ammo" turned up lots of discussions here and on reddit with useful advice, you may want to try that.

I fixed it by deleting my config folder, verifying my files in steam and then starting a new campaign, but I'm not sure if there's a less painful way.

Good luck with your problem.

[Jim Skynner]

had this happen in a commander playthrough went to a site for ammo grenade only got grenade no ammo =/ no mods either.

[Sines]

More than just crafting :/

Wonder how common this is... maybe it'll be fixed (even if only incidentally) when the expansion comes out. At the very least, you can just grab an RNG and a console command to resolve it.