BUG: Aberline missions auto-fail on replay

[dimmu1313]

The missions which require capturing some person (alive for bonus) get stuck in a loop on replay where the mission immediately fails and restarts, ad infinitum. Menus don't work (can't hit escape or tab) so the only way out is alt+f4 to crash to desktop. Upon doing this and restarting the game, any one mission can be replayed without a problem, but then attempting to replay another mission in this group will again get stuck in the auto-fail loop. This has happened on 3 different missions in a row, where each time I have to kill the game and can then play the mission, but only seems to be happening with the Freddy Aberline misions.

EDIT: I'm attempting another Aberline mission, and this time restarting the game doesn't work. I've restarted two times and each time the game gets stuck in the auto-fail loop.

[Katkyte]

Did you find a solution for that? I have the same problem with trying to repeat the first templar mission... I didn't manage to kill him with a box of dynamite and now I can't repeat the mission... it autofails immediately -.-

[dimmu1313]

Well this was quite a while ago so I can't quite remember, but I think I just had to do things like min/max the window, alt-tab out, completely quit the game etc. I remember finding some methods like that as well as holding crouch during the loading screen and other weird tricks. Ultimately there didn't seem to be a pattern on getting it to work consistently, it just sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. The mission I mention in my original post I did eventually get to work, but I think it was after like 20 times of restarting the game, and eventually giving up, clearing other side missions and coming back to it. It's just a weird bug.

My advice is try a few things like I mentioned during the loading screen, but don't drive yourself nuts over it. Move onto something else and come back to it. I seem to recall that it worked the first time after I completed something else.

[UMTWL]

For anyone still struggling with this hell of a bug, It still exists and I got out of the loop. When you're loading in just spam some buttons like crouch or like in my case I spammed both map and pause and it worked. And you don't have to reload the game every time, just the reload after desynch is enough.

[M4D_MAXX_]

Originally posted by UMTWL:

For anyone still struggling with this hell of a bug, It still exists and I got out of the loop. When you're loading in just spam some buttons like crouch or like in my case I spammed both map and pause and it worked. And you don't have to reload the game every time, just the reload after desynch is enough.

Another User too mean it would help but one me it just works 1 time... but on my Playtrough the whole Templar Hunt and Bounty Hunt Missions had the bug...

im glad that i finish the game on 100% a few days ago... i removed the game then instantly from my pc

[Ubi_TheBerry]

Originally posted by UMTWL:

For anyone still struggling with this hell of a bug, It still exists and I got out of the loop. When you're loading in just spam some buttons like crouch or like in my case I spammed both map and pause and it worked. And you don't have to reload the game every time, just the reload after desynch is enough.

Thanks for sharing this UMTWL, I'm glad to see you were able to make it through the missions too!

- Ubisoft Support

[Vampeth]

I was experiencing this bug too. This is end of October 2023.
As soon as I started the Templar Hunt: Eveline Dipper, it auto-failed me instantly every time. So I read some of the suggestions from the early comments from this post and this is what I tried:

I always play on Borderless Window, so I thought to change it to Fullscreen (since I recalled a similar bug, but regarding the game's framerate in AC Brotherhood).
After changing to Fullscreen, tried to replay this mission and, at first it auto-failed, but I tried a second time, let it load without touching anything until it fully respawns the character and loads the mission completely. And it worked, the objective showed up and I was able to complete the mission.

Hopefully this lights a light and helps anyone experiencing this.

[M4D_MAXX_]

Originally posted by Vampeth:

I was experiencing this bug too. This is end of October 2023.
As soon as I started the Templar Hunt: Eveline Dipper, it auto-failed me instantly every time. So I read some of the suggestions from the early comments from this post and this is what I tried:

I always play on Borderless Window, so I thought to change it to Fullscreen (since I recalled a similar bug, but regarding the game's framerate in AC Brotherhood).
After changing to Fullscreen, tried to replay this mission and, at first it auto-failed, but I tried a second time, let it load without touching anything until it fully respawns the character and loads the mission completely. And it worked, the objective showed up and I was able to complete the mission.

Hopefully this lights a light and helps anyone experiencing this.

Interesting, i was able to finish all templar hunt missions after many try and error... but at the end... it was nearly unpredictable/guarantee at all what causeing it... and how to workaround it... i can't count how many times i had restart the game... after the last hunt was done...

And it's sad to see that Ubisoft wasn't able to fix it in now 9-10 months later

[Ubi-Galaxy]

Hey guys, I'm glad you were able to complete the mission!

Also @Vampeth thank you for sharing that workaround, it might be useful for other players experiencing a similar issue!

As for the problem itself, we can report it however the development for the game was concluded years ago so we can't guarantee that the issue can be fixed.

Thank you again for taking the time to report this.

- Ubisoft Support

[GhostShell]

Originally posted by UMTWL:

For anyone still struggling with this hell of a bug, It still exists and I got out of the loop. When you're loading in just spam some buttons like crouch or like in my case I spammed both map and pause and it worked. And you don't have to reload the game every time, just the reload after desynch is enough.

This is working. Thank you very much.

[Ubi-Keo]

Hi GhostShell,

I'm pleased to hear that the workaround worked.