Crystalline Bane still bugged?

[Volgrand]

Hi there.
I just killed the crystalline kraken by combining bombardment and finishing it with ground combat. To my surprise, now in v3.4.5, the bug happened again, and the crystalline bane is still on my planet despite I got the message saying that I was getting my rewards.

Is there any fix for this? I'm playing a very good iron man game and it would be a shame to have to deal -again- with a bugged planet.

[Acadeimos]

So apparently, after reading some other discussion posts, ANY orbital bombardment on the planet will leave the planet with the bugged modifier. I'll assume you've probably finished the game you had last year, but it should be noted that if you also fail the INITIAL ground assault on the crystalline bane, the bastard will despawn and you won't be able to get the achievement. At least, that's what happened to me.

The thing was still alive after it ate all except for one of my colonists, and then I had sent a 1k ground fleet to poke it. Obviously, my boys died, but I quickly lost my colony and the chance to kill the little bastard soon after.

[Ryuseimaru [GER]]

I just had a similar thing happen.
Crystal Bane spawns.
I attacke it, but I miscalculated my army, it gets killed.
My colony dies.
Crystal bane is gone, but modifier is still there, leaving the planet entirely useless.

[Acadeimos]

Yep. I got the achievement after getting lucky again as a Subter empire. You've gotta bring an armada of ground troops (9k Robots or Things that do to a lot of non-moral damage) WITHOUT bombarding it (As in, don't move any ship fleet into orbit of the planet unless it's a ground legion). Then it works and gives you the achievement properly. Don't worry about it despawning. I had the Crystal bane all the way to my endgame date and just marauded it into oblivion.

[desolater_4]

The easiest way to kill it now is to get the paragon general who has a set chance to automatically kill enemy armies. He killed it straight away for me.

[Spicemeister]

the bug is back in 3.13

[ナルゴ]

Yes. Bugged as of 3.14