Game-breaking Glitch: Unable to advance encounter in last Sacred Coil mission

[Vertani]

In the final mission of the Sacred Coil path, during the second encounter, I cleared the room, which should have completed the objective. There are no more enemies in the timeline, nor any indication of incoming reinforcements even after several turns of doing nothing. But the objective did not register as complete. Thus, the encounter became impossible to end. Since I'm on Ironman mode (as any true XCOM commander should be), I can't simply reload an earlier save. I have tried validating game files, updating my graphics drivers, and restarting my computer, all to no avail.

I think it may have had something to do with killing zombies using automatic reactions instead of aimed shots, or possibly with shooting zombies with tranq rounds.

[Vertani]

Update: The glitch actually got worse! Now after loading this save where I can't advance the encounter, the game will often crash entirely.

[atamize]

I have the same issue, except it's with the Gray Phoenix mission. It says I'm supposed to enter the UFO, but there's no way to do such a thing.

[Talcrion]

atamize I believe that one you just need to head towards the door and another enemy spawns, but there is no indicator to do this if I recall correctly,

I had a like problem with the third sacred coil finale, wanted me to kill a unit that didn't exist, though luckily after 2 reinforcement spawns it ended automatically

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You can use console commands to force restart the mission if you want to preserve your ironman save file; otherwise, you'll be soft locked and have to start over.

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Check out this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/882100/discussions/0/2268068817154280868/#c2268068817154333941

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Wish I found this before I scrapped my first ironman playthrough due to the reinforcements not spawning bug...

[Nick]

Same issue. Killed the Gatekeeper (then the zombies) and the mission doesn't end.
Started the 3rd room encounter over and the same thing happened the second try too.
Can't progress until they fix. :(

Also used some tranq rounds and reaction shots on the zombies so potential bug avenue there.

[Meewec]

Originally posted by InmoniXian:

atamize I believe that one you just need to head towards the door and another enemy spawns, but there is no indicator to do this if I recall correctly,

i mean, there's a clearly marked ufo door that earlier in that same encounter it told you to prevent the aliens from getting to the ufo

[Vertani]

Thanks, I'll try the console commands and see if I can fix it.

[Vertani]

Update: I was able to successfully restart the encounter using console commands. Now we will see if the glitch recurs.

[LordLancelot]

@Vertani Could you tell the console command you used to restart the encounter?

I will add this solution to my guide.

[Vertani]

RestartLevel. Once you enable the console, it has a helpful auto-complete system, so if you type something resembling that you can probably find it.