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bug: cannot stun anything, aliens keep reappearing invisble


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Guest octeuron

playing CE version on win xp with ldr patch

 

came across a bug ive never seen before; everytime i try to stun any alien, they fall but game still shows that 1 alien is in view and technically there is although he disappears. if i keep stunning with the rod, he instantly reappears only to fall and the process can be repeated indefinitely. i can only kill him, but when i do and walk over him, there is no corpse - only the weapons.

 

is there a fix for this?

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Is this happening during a base defense mission? Possibly on superhuman?

 

Just guessing the cause, but from what I remember it's possibly the bug that's associated with having too many objects in the battle that the item table is full. When the aliens fall they cannot create the body object to represent the unconscious body.

 

- NKF

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Guest octeuron

not base defence. just regular ufo mission and every single one.

cannot capture/research live alien.

could it be that i loaded an old save on a different computer?

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I can confirm that bug ( in unmodified version of ufo )

 

I had come to this bug many!! times ... but ONLY in alien bases, not on regular missions

perhaps other missions with larger alien number, which in turns converts to many items on the ground to be created

( as NKF suggests ) can produce the same bug

 

I solved this by hitting alien with small launcher stun bombs ( I assumed you want to capture not to kill )

instead of using stun rods on him, over and over again

same behaviour as you observe, no alien corpse only weapons

but this time no flashing number indicating alien ( which I could not see ) in visual range

at the end of mission I captured alien stunned in this way ... any-way :)

 

yarrow

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yarrow, yes this is the same exact bug that you describe.

 

but i did notice that it may be with only specific aliens.

i cannot stun mutants and snakemen with rods regardless of ship size

but floaters and sectoids i can

 

and yes i can stun anything with stun bomb (at least there is a workaround although annoying sometimes)

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I dont think it is connected to alien race or rank

because sometimes I couldn't stun sectoid commander,

other times it was muton soldiers ( mutants are in fallout :) ) or snakeman engineers

In every game I started, I had 'stun rod problems' with different alien race / rank combination

 

I think its rather connected to stun rod itself

its pure guess here, but seems logical

after all, I got no such problems with small launchers

 

and since I found the perfect workaround ... problem just vanished to me

 

ps.

any area weapon should do 'the trick'

any HE ( greanade or weapon ammo ), small laucher / stun bomb ... blaster bomb ^_^

 

yarrow

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