Game-breaking Bug; Apex Mission

[Kuromiya]

Game locks up during the Apex mission. This usually occurs at or a few turns shortly after the part when two groups of Communion cultists come out of the elevator doors. Movement and aiming can no longer be selected, any saves made get erased, and trying to reload the game results in an indefinite hang/ app crash.

I've checked around the forum, and it seems people were reporting similar issues in earlier patches - which,to the best of my knowledge, never got resolved.

Using the debug console, the red error text reads:

NullReferenceException: Object Reference not set to an instance of an object
GumboMemory.savetoAi (isogame.characterGumboInstance gumboinst)
GumboInstance.savetoAI (isogame.characterInstance charinst)

[Zemnexx]

I had similar issues, opening the main menu and constantly clicking around eventually brought it back.

The issue will reproduce though right after completing the Apex mission and just needing to walk to the elevator to exit the mission, the entire game will lock up. I was able to finally fidget with it long enough to get my character to the elevator by opening and closing the menu and zoomin all the way out and clicking the doors and then the elevator activarors. It will register the activators on the doors but not movment, but will auto move the character to interact with the door and elevator.

This is a stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ issue to have, all things considered and the fact that we even have to do this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. How have they not fixed such game breaking bugs? They will definitely be getting a bad review despite my finishing the game.

[DawdlingDan]

Originally posted by Yui:

Game locks up during the Apex mission. This usually occurs at or a few turns shortly after the part when two groups of Communion cultists come out of the elevator doors. Movement and aiming can no longer be selected, any saves made get erased, and trying to reload the game results in an indefinite hang/ app crash.

I just had the exact same happen to me on the Apex mission just now after I quick saved (F5 key). It deleted my save too...

[Valendra]

Sigh, yep, it just bugged out for me. I tried fidgeting and console debug options, no dice. I tried to do a manual save, a quicksave, and then exit the game to reload it. All that's left is the autosave at the beginning of the sequence, so I guess my saves got deleted, too.

That "defend the terminals" sequence was awful, too. It went on for way too long. I don't want to do it again knowing it'll just bug out repeatedly. Just when the story got interesting, too.

I see 3yo threads with this problem, too, so I'm guessing nobody'll ever fix it.

[DawdlingDan]

I ended up getting through it and beating the game. You can't save throughout apex mission.