Area 51 - General Feedback thread

[Hobbes]

A terror mission is happening in Oslo, but it always crashes with "no xcom units could be placed on the map" whenever I try to land there.  RNG reseeding doesn't seem to work either, it crashes no matter what.

Which of the error messages do you get?

[FATAL]   A fatal error has occurred: Map generator encountered an error: Craft (MapBlock: SKYRANGER) could not be placed on the map. You may try turning on 'save scumming' to work around this issue.

or this?

[FATAL]   OpenXcom has crashed: Map generator encountered an error: no xcom units could be placed on the map.

[BBHood217]

The latter one, the one that says "no xcom units could be placed on the map".  I attached the save file so you can see for yourself.  I have absolutely no idea what could be causing this, or how to fix it.

[Hobbes]

The latter one, the one that says "no xcom units could be placed on the map".  I attached the save file so you can see for yourself.  I have absolutely no idea what could be causing this, or how to fix it.

I saw the save file but it never crashed upon reaching the terror site, with countless tries.

But from the site location I could tell which terrain might be causing the error and I think I found the issue, and I've uploaded a fix to the links. Can you please check if you still get the error?

[BBHood217]

No luck, it's still happening to me

[Hobbes]

And you have the Save Scumming option on? You already mentioned RNG, just checking.

[BBHood217]

Yeah.  No matter how much I reroll the RNG, it still happens.

[Hobbes]

OK, just did a number of attempts:
* If I try your save, without Save Scumming and without the fix I've already uploaded to 0.971, it crashes
* If I try with Save Scumming and without fix, I doesn't crash at first, but it will eventually crash once the bugged terrain is selected by RNG (there are 9 possible terrains, so it might take a while)
* If I try with Save Scumming and fix it doesn't crash

[BBHood217]

I finally got it working.

...and I have to admit something: I don't have save scumming enabled.  What I did was go to the inventory from the craft screen, that used to reroll the RNG at least back in X-Piratez but apparently not here?  Point is, it wasn't being rerolled so I kept getting the same outcome.  It's only when I started a new research topic (my prior rerolling method) that the mission finally worked without crashing.

I hope this wasn't too much trouble.  At the very least, there's no more chance of this bugged terrain showing up ever again.

[Hobbes]

...and I have to admit something: I don't have save scumming enabled.  What I did was go to the inventory from the craft screen, that used to reroll the RNG at least back in X-Piratez but apparently not here?  Point is, it wasn't being rerolled so I kept getting the same outcome.  It's only when I started a new research topic (my prior rerolling method) that the mission finally worked without crashing.

I hope this wasn't too much trouble.  At the very least, there's no more chance of this bugged terrain showing up ever again.

It was a terrain I used to test stuff, and then I forgot to remove it from the terrain list for those terror missions, my mistake.

My initial concern was if Downtown terrain was acting up again - it has a very complex map block placement script which potentially can cause issues with XCom craft placement, although the map generation rules should always leave enough space available, it's just a matter of the game engine trying enough times to place it. With save scumming on there shouldn't be any problems - but your answer to the error message told me the issue was something else.

In any case, I'm glad it's fixed

[BBHood217]

The jarhead corpse is missing its UFOpedia entry, but all it takes is adding in one simple missing line to fix it.

[Hobbes]

The jarhead corpse is missing its UFOpedia entry, but all it takes is adding in one simple missing line to fix it.

Jarheads aren't used and they'll be eventually removed in a code clean-up, thanks for the bug report.

[BBHood217]

Really?  I could've sworn I fought jarheads in an earlier version.

[Hobbes]

Really?  I could've sworn I fought jarheads in an earlier version.

And you likely did, they were included for a while until I noticed that their only distinguishing feature were the sprites.

[BBHood217]

That and I guess they were redundant now that the spacefarers can actually kill.

[Hobbes]

That and I guess they were redundant now that the spacefarers can actually kill.

I have a recollection that I wanted to use them for specific missions, but then circumstances turned against it. It ended up keeping their Puffer terrorist and giving it to the Spacefarers to make them more eclectic.