Soft Freeze bug

[Priestie]

Does anyone else ever get a bug where when loading to a save game in combat, after taking any action, the game gets stuck after the animation? Specifcially my mech moves, and then the game zooms in to show the shot, but nothing happens. I can still go into settings, load the game etc. But nothing progressess.

[Priestie]

Post script. I loaded two earlier saves in the same mission, and they both soft freeze after any action.

[teon72]

got the same here, try to reload and it does the same

[wesnef]

Hmm, don't recall hearing of this one before. :/

[clayog123]

See my post "Corrupted Saves" from Sept 12. Best answer to issue I received toward the end about saving during combat...

[Lesperanza]

yes this has happen to me a few times, either reload a save file prior to the event happening and or try swapping out a mech and reloading the match.

[Delacourt '27]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637090/discussions/0/1743346190270903782/

I posted the answer to clayog123's discussion, at least for my encounters. Both are the same problem.

[{|WG|}BosSkaggs]

What worked for me and my son, we both HAD this issue once in game for a while, kept going back and reloading different saves but it always re occured. seems ridiculous but verify the installation in steam, shut down and restart your comfuser, restart steam and load your file, has not re occured for me or him since then. hope that helps.

[Priestie]

Thanks guys your the best!

[Nimrias]

I have experienced this same issue in a new (not saved/loaded in combat) single player skirmish.

[Priestie]

it seems to happen more if I load the game back while the computer is taking a turn. I have a pretty small sample size, but I think there is some degree of correlation. BosSkaggs' workaround does however work. THough it takes a SUPER long time to validate this game for being as small as it is...

[your.sheepy]

Because it has many small files to validate - each pilot, each weapon, each variation of earh weapon, each enemy pilot, each enemy lance... such is the cost of "easy to mod". It's a relatively small price to pay, since players are not expected to validate files often.

[Priestie]

Because of this glitch I actually have to validate once every other day... So... Ya.

[brassring39]

Played like 65 hours upon release and never had this problem. Started new game yesterday and today its happening all the time. So WTF. If this keeps happening after I validate the files this game will be uninstalled and I will never look back.

[Delacourt '27]

Since not all want to click on the link, this is what I posted over the other discussion.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/637090/discussions/0/1743346190270903782/

Originally posted by clayog123:

I save after every good round of combat, then next time it is my turn the game will freeze up in the over the shoulder view when weapons are ordered to fire and nothing happens...just hangs. Reload and nothing, went back 2 previous saves and same issue. Exit game, restart, same issue. Any help?

Restart the game fix the problem for me.

The main cause of the problem is that the game do not pause when the option menu is open. So the animation during the enemy turn, or the chating NPC due to story, Argo mission, during your turn, will cause problems to animation after the reload.

So I have tried to reload during my turn and not interrupt any animation, no glitch so far.

[Priestie]

I think I tracked down the issue. I've been able to repeat the bug. Loading the game while it is doing anything causes it 100% of the times i've tried to recreate the glitch. It's easy to get frustrated and want to load the game right away when something crazy random and horrible happens (which seems very common for the RNG in this game), but just take a sec and wait for the game to finish its turn before loading.