Mission 5 Glitch

[ChaoticAzure]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but proceeding past Mission 5 is currently impossible. After you clear the fires out, there's supposed to be a cutscene of a henchman shooting a pistol to warn the enemy. In its current build, this cutscene doesn't happen, so it doesn't matter if you destroy the enemy lab or not, the mission can't be finished.

[the2ndSign]

Make sure you're actually waiting to put out the village fires until you send Rex to talk to the villagers. Doing this too early can screw with the triggers on the mission.

If that's not working, the best I can tell you is to get an M6 save from another player. Nordic have been aware of this issue for awhile and apparently it's supposed to happen less often now.

Are you playing the campaign on vanilla IC?

[ChaoticAzure]

Uh... I'm assuming you mean I send Rex to the villagers twice? Since you have to send him there to get the Archerfish DNA in the first place. If that's the case then I haven't been trying that and thank you for providing something I didn't think of.

And yes I play it on vanilla IC. The campaign doesn't show up at all if I have the Insect Invasion Mod on (which is normal, of course)

EDIT: Ooooh. It's not that, it's that I was completing the objective way too fast. I always put the fire out before Lucy prompts me that the fire has reached the village. Whoops

Thank you for lending assistance either way. I appreciate it.

[the2ndSign]

As I said, completing the objective too early can cause issues. Glad it's solved though.

[JackOfAllTirades]

So for anyone wanting a step-by-step (years after this, of course :) ) -

Pre-prep - Do NOT send Rex into the village until Lucy warns you that the fire is too close to the village. It might set off your panic response, but don't worry, you'll be fine wit the following:

1. Build 1 Lightning rod, and when able, an electrical generator on the geyser
2. Get Research level 2 as soon as you can afford it
3. Build a water chamber and a creature chamber

Optional but handy 4: Use rex to get giraffe DNA

There's other things that help, but those are the main three.

Once Lucy remarks about the fire being close, immediately send Rex into the village, where he will get the archerfish DNA. After the cutscene is complete, IMMEDIATELY build a creature with an archerfish head (I preferred Giraffe/Archerfish, and gave it swimming), Crank out 6-10 Archeraffes ASAP, and split them in two groups. One is to prevent the fire from destroying your base, the other is to go to the village. Do NOT put out those fires in the village until the villagers actually cry for help, since their huts are on fire. Your Archeraffes will easily stop the flames in the village. IF you did it properly, they reward you Dragonfly DNA.

Lastly, put out those fires in the canyons that were threatening your base. You can work on this while saving the village. Watch out for some enemy archeraffes that will try to stop you. If you've done everything properly, you'll get a cutscene where a henchman alerts the enemy with a gunshot. If you don't get that cutscene after eliminating all the fire... well, you'll want to restart. But everything I listed in order SHOULD work.

Good luck!

[ChaoticAzure]

Thank you very much for offering further, and more detailed assistance.

Fortunately, I am no longer in need of assistance as I have managed to get my timings right to get the cutscene to proc properly. Admittedly, I don't remember if this was a thing back on it's original release, which is humorous in hindsight.

[Sleekie]

As an addendum to the above, get research level three as well because you'll need that to create the archeraffes. You won't have time to sit and wait for it after the cutscene.

[RCMidas]

You know, with a little bit of micro and luck, you can get Rex and Lucy into and out from the nearby resource deposit that's normally cut off by the flames and grab everything there. Bit of fire damage on the way back out, sure, but you can start immediate work on incorporating things like chameleons or baboons into your army.

For instance, the remarkably effective Baboon-Archerfish for this exact mission.