Cant make contact with connected region

[GameQ]

I made contact with Western USA but it didn't unlock the ability to contact Eastern USA or Mexico. I have 7/9 contacts. I've played this game many times and never seen this happen. Is this a bug in WotC?

Screen Shot: https://imgur.com/a/hzneO

[K. the Land-Surveyor]

Maybe it's related to not completing a Guerilla Op there yet? That's what the tooltip says. I've played this game a bunch and never heard of that requirement, but maybe that's what the hold up is.

[Pilgrim_Bear]

Originally posted by Twitchblade:

Maybe it's related to not completing a Guerilla Op there yet? That's what the tooltip says. I've played this game a bunch and never heard of that requirement, but maybe that's what the hold up is.

Don;t you have to establish contact in a region to receive Guerrilla Ops?

Try building a radio tower in West U.S., that might do the trick.

[GameQ]

So apparently i had to go from Western Europe to Eastern US. I Still have no idea why. I built a radio in Western US and completed a Guerilla Op in Eastern US and it still had not unlocked. So I just decided to go around the freakin earth.

Luckilly I had already built the tower in Western US, so by the time i go back around to the eastern side of the country, it was only 40 intel.

Really screwed up my attack plans though. I contacted Eastern US with only 3 days to spare on the avatar project. Hopefully the story mission decreases the progress (also have a Covert Op to reduce the progress for safe measure).

[phillip_lynx]

The connections between the regions are randomly generated each campaign ;)

[Pilgrim_Bear]

Originally posted by phillip_lynx:

The connections between the regions are randomly generated each campaign ;)

'Please tell me you're trolling.. This guy had to call New York from London, despite having a perfectly operational tower on Washington?

[merccobb]

There is something more going on here than just the "random connections for each game". This is the fifth or sixth post I have seen where the game clearly shows a connection (the red lines only appear to show the most direct path to get to a facility, hence they should only trace over existing connections) and yet contact is not being allowed. Nearly all of these have involved North America somehow, as either the origin continent or the destination continent. Something screwy is going on, in one case a player was completely isolated on NA as their starting continent, with only one red-line connection to Western Europe available to leave, and the game would not let him make contact. Thankfully I haven't seen it in any of my games yet, but there is definitely some sort of bug occurring here.

[phillip_lynx]

Originally posted by ClericMatthew1517:

Originally posted by phillip_lynx:

The connections between the regions are randomly generated each campaign ;)

'Please tell me you're trolling.. This guy had to call New York from London, despite having a perfectly operational tower on Washington?

No trolling. The connections are RNG. Have had some interesting connections in my 15 playtroughs.

And yeah merccobb, I have read these post too. Iirc, save game, exit game, load game helps mostly in this cases.

But a fix from Frieaxis would be nice.

[Pilgrim_Bear]

Originally posted by phillip_lynx:

Originally posted by ClericMatthew1517:

'Please tell me you're trolling.. This guy had to call New York from London, despite having a perfectly operational tower on Washington?

No trolling. The connections are RNG. Have had some interesting connections in my 15 playtroughs.

And yeah merccobb, I have read these post too. Iirc, save game, exit game, load game helps mostly in this cases.

But a fix from Frieaxis would be nice.

Aaand I just spent all my Intel to Asia, hoping to find the Psi Gate in Java.. I need to get to Chille first apparently.

[SinisterChinaPenguin]

I hit this bug where regions has lines to them but were not available for contact despite having capacity & intel. The contact icon just wasn’t there.

For me the fix was to go back to a save just before my LAST SUCCESSFUL region contact & play forward from there.

When I made contact a 2nd time everything worked as normal & new regions were available for contact & my campaign was saved from the recycle bin....

[Pilgrim_Bear]

Originally posted by SinisterChinaPenguin:

I hit this bug where regions has lines to them but were not available for contact despite having capacity & intel. The contact icon just wasn’t there.

For me the fix was to go back to a save just before my LAST SUCCESSFUL region contact & play forward from there.

When I made contact a 2nd time everything worked as normal & new regions were available for contact & my campaign was saved from the recycle bin....

Almost a 2 year necro bud. I thought the seed for contact-able regions was generated when you load up a campaign though, not after subsequent contacts. I may be wrong on that so I'll check out your fix at some point. Thanks.

[SinisterChinaPenguin]

LOL! it was causing me so much anguish I had to share the fix😀. I reckon it’s when multiple goescape events happen at the same time, some weird ass code path that wasn’t tested properly.