Convoy gets stuck

[Senlin]

So, I returned to the game recently and I'm astonished to see the same bug that was in there a year ago. In a convoy mission a couple of the convoy vehicles got stuck and stopped moving on their turn. I defeat all enemies, 2 convoy vehicles reached target, 2 other are stuck a few turns behind.

I'm playing ironman. Is there anything I can do here, other than withdraw from the mission?|

[Senlin]

Ah, ok, it turned out not to be a bug. You need to keep at least one mech close to the vehicles for them to move. Which is quite unintuitive, as the text says the vehicles will stay close to you and it's the other way around (they only move if you are close and they have no trouble charging towards the enemy and leaving you behind...).

[Aries the Grim Fool]

Well, there's still the chance they might get stuck.
Had some drops where pathfinding on the sods will break for one reason, or another. Had to restart a few missions because the last vehicle would refuse to move because the 3 others in the dropzone blocked it :D.
Should this happen, seeing you're on ironman, you can basically cheat by Alt+F4 and simply reboot the game.
I basically don't do escort missions due to this (apart from the fact that they're simply boring to do as well).

[Senlin]

Yeah, they are extremely boring, so normally I avoid them as well. It doesn't help that the game takes so horribly long to process each turn with really pointless delays every move, even with the speed option turned on. I thought they would have polished those things by now, to be honest.

[HelsDottir]

I could never understand why each vehicle in a "convoy" has to move independently, I've driven in plenty of RL military convoys and the whole bloody idea of a convoy is that you move together as a unit following the lead vehicle. Sitting for 5 minutes while each vehicle in a convoy mission calculates it own path and moves doesn't make for fun gameplay.

[blackledr]

Try and save then reload after you've destroyed all the mechs and cleared the area.. make sure you're back next to the convoy....

[Itchies500]

Originally posted by blackledr:

Try and save then reload after you've destroyed all the mechs and cleared the area.. make sure you're back next to the convoy....

Ironman - there is no saving and reloading.

[awc]

I've run into where each vehicle in the convoy has decided on a mech that it must remain near and if that mech goes too far away it won't move.

This has meant running back each member of my lance one by one until I guessed the correct mech to make it move.

[HelsDottir]

Originally posted by awc:

I've run into where each vehicle in the convoy has decided on a mech that it must remain near and if that mech goes too far away it won't move.

This has meant running back each member of my lance one by one until I guessed the correct mech to make it move.

It's usually the one that triggered the convoy

[Bad Brad]

Right just keep at least one mech right behind the last vehicle and you're fine

[Demon7S]

Deal with convoy stuck bug. The problem solved and mission well completed. This way available to fix almost any bug or switch on a GOD MOD without reloading of game and even in case of Ironman option. Pls look below:
https://youtu.be/uXb4DIG9wXk

[Bosmang]

So, if you do actually encounter a bug in Iron Man mode, you can kill the game in your Task Manager, then restart the game to try again.

It sucks, but it's better than failing a mission because of bad code.

[SirKnechtalot]

Nope killing the game via task manager won´t enable a replay of the mission in iron man mode. It´s pretty anoying to not insert some wait 2 turns and recheck pathing comand for those little buggers.
So i have to fiddle with the code and enable godmode to not "fail" the mission? Geez...

[Ichthyic]

Originally posted by Demon7S:

Deal with convoy stuck bug. The problem solved and mission well completed. This way available to fix almost any bug or switch on a GOD MOD without reloading of game and even in case of Ironman option. Pls look below:
https://youtu.be/uXb4DIG9wXk

so basically you use the debug mode to kill off the broken transport?

btw, your english is not bad.


yeah... after playing this game since beta, and at least 12 career playthroughs, i FINALLY had this bug happen to me. the last vehicle in the convoy tried to go around the others and ended up in the water. there was not a path forward for it, and it refused to backtrack to where it could pick the road up again.

it does not at all matter how close your mechs are to it if a vehicle in a convoy ends up in a path where it cannot move forward. it is then just stuck, forever. they do not backtrack.