Controlling Bots Removes them From Game

[Reduviid]

I'm playing a multiplayer save solo (sometimes my friends jump in to play, but other times I'm just messing around with bots). When I use the setclientcharacter [player name] [character name] command to control bots, the bots that I controlled end up disappearing from the save the next time I load in.

Why is this happening? Do I really need to use an LUA mod to swap characters without erasing my crewmates, or am I doing something wrong?

[sokolov]

If I remember correctly you just shouldn't Save & Exit at an outpost whenever you were controlling a bot. Pick a mission, start it and then leave the game.

[Reduviid]

Originally posted by Sokolov:

If I remember correctly you just shouldn't Save & Exit at an outpost whenever you were controlling a bot. Pick a mission, start it and then leave the game.

Interesting. Will try this when I play again. Thank you!!!!

[IPAlien]

Originally posted by Sokolov:

If I remember correctly you just shouldn't Save & Exit at an outpost whenever you were controlling a bot. Pick a mission, start it and then leave the game.

Unfortunately this doesn't help all that much since it can occur mid voyage when requiring to restart a round

[Reduviid]

Originally posted by IPAlien:

Originally posted by Sokolov:

If I remember correctly you just shouldn't Save & Exit at an outpost whenever you were controlling a bot. Pick a mission, start it and then leave the game.

Unfortunately this doesn't help all that much since it can occur mid voyage when requiring to restart a round

I found a pattern to it: if you switch bots in any mission, you need to pull into a station, proceed to the next area (doesn't matter if you selected any missions or not), then redock. After redocking at the station, save the game and quit. When you reload, your crew should still be there.

[Dragova]

It's the way the vanilla save system handles it that causes the problem. The LUA mod option would be preferable, but even I've been having problems with that due to some fluke in the LUA coding the devs of the multiplayer bot controller mod claim to have. Lots of problems could be solved if the devs of Barotrauma just made bot control a thing in multiplayer.