Strange bug during eavesdropping Thread - Dawnstar

Had a strange issue in the eavesdropping mission.

When I respawned I still couldn’t do anything except steer with the mouse. Luckily alt - enter worked and I could exit the program!I restarted the program and it all worked fine... I didn't have time to replay the mission.

The same situation for me, even if i choose first option, to talk my way out. After restart mission everything is ok to this moment, and then the same again, and again ...

Hmm.. so it's after you destroy the ships? Someone mentioned something similar earlier but we couldn't pin it down. Thought it was when you made the choice. Thanks, will take a look.

After i make a choose first oprion "hero" when i aproach police escort waypoint, ewerything works but in a moment when pirates shows, then buttons stops responding. Didn't try second option but i think it will be the same like s0lidb0b has.

Well game is unplayable for me at the monent

So it breaks on both choices? That is really odd. There's several people that have already beat the game.

Will check it out and try to fix it ASAP.

Edit: Are you refering to the Eavesdropping mission, or a mission that is later on? Sounds like it might be breaking for some people when you make a choice and ships spawn. Still odd, we tested it a dozen times before release, but guess it's still broken for some and needs to be fixed!

Edited by: WraithEnt

Yeah, for me it breaks no matter what choose i take. Reaction is always the same, i can fly around and play stupid but can not do anything else. I tried to verify files in Desura, and tried this mission on more time, same effect. Deleted save file and tried new game, well ... same effect ... i dunno maby its something wrong on my side, maby computer but, until this moment everything works perfect ...

Edit: Well i can't remember mission name, i mean mission you get from Galactic Mob director, after destroying Aether battleships. The one which contraband on your cargo and police.

Edited by: Baxianus

Okay, thanks. The extra info is helpful.

It sounds like the problem is when you make a decision that spawns ships at the same time. That narrows down what we need to look at, thanks.

If you choose the other option you should be able to continue for time being at least. Sorry for the issues.

Well i will try to choose another option then, and will post what happend.

Edit:

Ok i tried option to fight my way out, i was able to kill first two police ships, after that waypoint shows up and i needed to fly to it. After i aproach waypiont, adittional police ships shows and then, my controls stops working, the same way like earlier.

What i can say, it happens everytime when i fly to waypoint and then spawn new ships pirates/police depends on option i choose, and only then. As long as i fly around and don't aproach waypoint everything works perfect.

Edited by: Baxianus

That is really weird, will check it out.

Edit: What are your computer specs like? Wondering if this is a sort of performance issue where the game is doing something before the player is updated properly.

Edited by: WraithEnt

Well i play on notebook :
Intel Core i5-3210M 2x 2.5 Ghz
Ram - 16 GB
Graphic Card : ATI Radeon HD 7670M
System: Windows 7 x64

I tried once more and like i said, game until this mission works perfect, but when there is some mission with objective i need fly to, and after that game spawn additional ships, then controls stop working ... i know it's weird, and i dont even know if i can explain what's going on properly ...

Are you using extrenal mouse and keyboard? As maybe its a power issue?

Yeah im using external keyboard and mouse, since im using external screen. But both are working all the time, as i said earlier, i can fly witch mouse, just can't shooting things And keyboard. well, i tried both, external and the one in my notebook. No difference. Alt+Enter and Ctrl+Shift+Esc works, so i can close game, just game itself is not responding to keyboard and mouse buttons.

So it stops responding to all controls? Not just the mouse?

Or you just can't shoot enemies?

Edited by: WraithEnt

nope, stop respond to anything, can't turn on my cruise engine, can't open inventory, can't open skills.
BUT ... ive tried one more time .. i know .. im so stubborn ;p AND .. i observe one more interesting thing ... when im close to waypont when ships should spawn AFTER i fly through, i can hear shooting already.

Two police ships are waiting for me and im aproaching them but i can already hear fight between police and pirates but there is no pirates yet. And when im finally fly through waypoint and pirates finally spawn, then i cant do nothing. But ship still react on my mouse, so it fly where i point mouse, except this i can't do nothing more.

I hope it helps

So you can still fly around with the mouse but can't do anything else?

Edited by: WraithEnt

WraithEnt wrote: So you can still fly around with the mouse but can't do anything else?

You hit the jackpot

Edited by: Baxianus

I have to say, that is quite crazy. But we'll fix it.

My message is that it's performance related (not really your computer), but tons of things are going on at once and the player's code stops responding because it didn't update fast enough. Putting in some failsafes to help protect the game from that. Other than that we'll test as much as we can.

Im glad to hear that Becouse game is really great and i really want to finish it And with my luck to strange bugs in games, i should consider work as beta tester ;p
Good luck with that one and thank You for all Your help

Definitely will be fixed in the next build.

Glad to hear that Thank You very much for help