Ambulances not moving

[dwarfstarr]

Anyone else having the issue where ambulances are frozen mid-drive in their parking lots. They can't be clicked on or reassigned.

[Aingel]

yup had to restart my hospital twice because of it now

[bethandmolson]

Yes. Happened to my one of my airloovators. Mucked up everything else.

[Titanius Anglesmith]

Same here, and I am also no longer getting any new emergencies and can't get my 3rd star on Ailing. Annoying I have to start again...

[Titanius Anglesmith]

this is a joke, how are we meant to play a game where the brand new mechanic suddenly stops working. It's happened to me three times now and the only solution seems to be start over.

[hellomidnight]

Yep, and the doctors and nurses are frozen too and can't be fired or moved.

[Six]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Titanius Anglesmith:

this is a joke, how are we meant to play a game where the brand new mechanic suddenly stops working. It's happened to me three times now and the only solution seems to be start over.

Never mind that but it breaks old mechanics too, I have lost a few hospitals in the game not involved in this DLC from the bugs and the DLC levels are unplayable, they all freeze after a few minutes of playing.

[[A]JumP[S]]

Can confirm I got the same bug. Some doctor/nurse just freeze and not dispatching the ambulance. We cannot select them from the screen. [But we can select them via staff menu, when trying to force them to take a break they might un freeze. Another note is that I've set their job to only drive the ambulance, so suspect that they might not knowing what to do so standing still?]

Firing them seem to make it worst as they will standing still.

From my feeling it's seem that when thing getting too hectic, [like high hospital level, have many patients that game start to slow down a bit] The AI start broken up, I got doctor refuse to stay finish the training, always try to get back to gp room [need to force pick them and drop in the training till the gauge is complete]


Edit: So I suspect because I play at max speed so probably my i8700k can't handle the AI. Today, I play the game with normal speed and everything seem to be function as it should. [But those staff that've fired yesterday still wander the hospital like a zombie and never leave]

[Darkskynet]

Yes, this is now happening to me! So annoying!!

[hellomidnight]

I've had some success with spacing the ambulances out. If you put them right next to each other they seem to bug more easily, but when I left a tile or so of space between them (and also some space between the first ambulance and the "wall") they didn't bug out on me.

[Titanius Anglesmith]

thats interesting, I'll give that a go. I wondered if it was more to do with the drivers themselves too. I seemed to be having a bug where drivers were getting unhappy and nothing I did would cheer them up until they eventually ended up leaving. I don't know if that's what bugged the vehicles out, or if they were getting pissy because they were stranded in a vehicle somewhere.

[hellomidnight]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Titanius Anglesmith:

I seemed to be having a bug where drivers were getting unhappy and nothing I did would cheer them up until they eventually ended up leaving. I don't know if that's what bugged the vehicles out, or if they were getting pissy because they were stranded in a vehicle somewhere.

I found when they are out in vehicles for long periods of time their energy levels and happiness will drop by a huge amount. They are exposed to weather and they can't refill their hunger, thirst or toilet needs, which all seem to drop faster than normal. If you send just one vehicle to an emergency that has a tonne of patients and don't micromanage it, that vehicle will go backwards and forwards to the same emergency over and over without the driver taking a break until all the patients are picked up or dead. They will quickly become unhappy and leave if that happens.

So I ended up setting a group of nurses to only ambulance and nothing else (my ambulance driving doctors seemed to get unhappy faster than my nurses, and they're more expensive), and left those nurses in the staff room on a forced break until I needed them. I'd take them out when I needed a driver, and as soon as they were done with an emergency they went straight back into the staff room until they were at full health and happiness again. I also sent multiple vehicles to the same emergency to reduce the time they were spending outside. I still had to increase their pay a bit and deal with occasional "I'm going to quit!" messages, but none of them actually quit. (It's a tonne of micromanagement and very annoying as your hospital gets bigger).

If they are stuck in the vehicles and the vehicles are bugged out and can't return to the hospital they will definitely get angry and quit, although I found they can't leave and they sit in the staff list, miserable and dragging my stats down forever. Same thing happens if I fire them while they are driving. So both the vehicle and the staff member have bugs, I think.

[Elle]

Yes, I have the same issue. The drivers get unhappy and stuck. If I pick them up and put them in the staff room or elsewhere, they are either invisible or stand still waving their arms around. If I fire them they don't go. The ambulance then won't dispatch and I had to delete it and buy a new one.

[LîmεDαncé]

Same same :-/

[Titanius Anglesmith]

Another thing I've done is disabled autosave, and im checking my taxis are enabled and moving before manually saving. Might be a good idea for others too.

[CMDR_Nef]

I've only just gotten a chance to jump into this DLC and was nearly finished with the first star of Alling when this bug started happening to me. My drivers are just standing around. The mechanics are stomping their feet at the ambulances as if they are blocked. I picked them up and moved them well apart from each other and the borders of the parking lot which solved the stomping but the nurses still just wander around.

In a possibly/probably unrelated issue all of my modded items are pixelated, unsubscribing and resubbing did not fix the issue.

I restarted and the same issues happened again. I'm stumped. I've had this profile since the launch of the base game. I really, really do not want to restart.