Mooncrash bug? "deceased, no reason for death provided"

[Machine Spirit]

I had to reset my sim because I ran out of characters (some escaped, some died), so I decided to go Vijay first, equiped a load of items for him and went to launch the sim. I didnt even get into the game, it loaded for a moment and a message appeared "deceased, no reason for death provided". Seems like a lot of resource was wasted for nothing, I didnt get anything refunded. Is this a bug or part of the story?

It was a fresh game, so corruption level was 1.

[Machine Spirit]

It has just done it again, starting a new run but this time with the engineer. I bought 19k worth of equipment and it killed her off immediately without even getting into the game. Sort this out please Arkane or I will have to change my review to negative. For me this is a game breaking bug, it is essentially wasting a ton of work/points I am building in previous runs.

Screenshot: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1437960291

[Berghain]

Sorry you're having this problem. I saw people on Youtube streaming the game with characters dying out on them live. Mind boggling that they haven't adressed this yet, especially with the patch that rolled out this week. Guess it isn't called moonCRASH for nothing.

[Machine Spirit]

I've found a workaround until this is patched. On the above screen, don’t advance, don’t start with a new character, instead immediately exit the game by pressing Alt + F4 and when you start Mooncrash again you will have your character and points back, as if you never launched the sim.

This error may occur due to a combination of items I am taking, or maybe it is just 1 item that I took on both runs. The items are the only thing I can think of as the cause, but I took around 19k worth of items the first time this happened, so it may take a while for me to whittle down exactly what item combination is causing this.

[Dr John]

Same here, after a good run and escape, I had lots of points that I spent half of on the next run through, and as soon as the sim started, it ended with the message about no reason for death provided message. I should have thought of the Alt-F4 method, next time I will.

[Chibolete]

Bug still wasn't fix.
Didn't know about the alt+F4.
Just lost ~50K while trying to save all 5 people...

[klosterhiem]

Yep, this exact thing just happened to me, too. 10K points down the drain. Completely game-ruining. Why bother playing if a there's a decent chance that a multi-character run just breaks with permanent resource and progress loss because the game is bugged? There's no way to trust it after this. Unfortunately can't refund it since it was part of the deluxe edition. I was really enjoying it, too...

[Machine Spirit]

The alt+F4 thing still works. I know it's not ideal but it is better than losing your points. I doubt it will get fixed now, they probably cant replicate the error.

[Odjobb]

Either its a bug, or its intended. Since we are running a sim through an operator, which is likely corrupted by the typhon...the typon in its may just be saying we cant spend so many points at once and defeat it.

Or it could be a bug...if it is a bug...it just happened to me day before yesterday. Was not pleased, but the idea of it being due to a stubborn typon infesting the operator kind of amused me.

[Calimarfornian]

Still happening :/

[Konoko]

Originally posted by Machine Spirit:

The alt+F4 thing still works. I know it's not ideal but it is better than losing your points. I doubt it will get fixed now, they probably cant replicate the error.

Saved me a lot of time, this one.

[Neon Slime]

sorry to necro but alt-f4 is still the fix. Luckily I thought to try it and saved myself a chunk of sim points.

[Machine Spirit]

Yeah as far as I know they never fixed this bug, so alt+F4 is still the workaround.

[ULTRA]

Great expansion other than the hubris of trying permadeath/ironman mechanics on a game as unstable as this