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Offline Kiashu

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Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« on: November 10, 2008, 05:46:03 am »
Gidday all!

So, I bought myself the dropship, loaded it up with eight soldiers, flew off to the alien landing site and...

Only one soldier came out of the ship. The other seven were hiding on the dropship or something, I couldn't select them, not by keypad or by the 1-2-3-etc up the top of the screen.

Of course my poor soldier on her own did not do so well against five aliens...

Am I missing some obvious button to press to unload the other 7 soldiers?
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Offline Chriswriter90

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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2008, 04:52:47 pm »
Must be a bug, and a serious and rare one at that.
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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2008, 08:16:10 pm »
It's never happened to me... What version are you playing anyway?
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Offline Chriswriter90

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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2008, 12:12:33 am »
Quote from: Pwnzerfaust on November 10, 2008, 08:16:10 pm
It's never happened to me... What version are you playing anyway?
Hasn't happed to me yet on 2.2 or 2.2.1, that's why I said it must be a rare bug.

But that Is a valid question.
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Offline geever

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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2008, 12:00:56 pm »
If you got only one soldier that could be a map bug, IMO. If there was only one spawnpoint for phalanx (team 1) only one soldier could be added to the game (others were not hiding, but were not in the battle at all).  Which map was it? (I can't check it but maybe others. :) )

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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2008, 06:37:19 am »
What map do you use and what version of game?
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Offline stehertz

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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2011, 06:41:06 am »
Hey you guys. I ran into the same problem and it is not so rare It always happens a couple of battles into the campaign and makes the campaign unplayable. Since you can not win the battle win one soldier, your only choice is to abort and one will loose all 8 soldiers which could be all your veterans which off course is a big setback.

It seems to happen on the map called [city +]. That is the one with the big multi level blue parking house. The drop ship always parks next to the railways and there seems not to be enough space to unload the rest of the soldiers onto the map so they have to stay in the ship. They can be selected but not walk. Maybe there is no path available from the inside of the ship to the outside.

So this seems to be a map related but but there is also a weakness how the battles are managed. Right now there is only a RETRY and ABORT option. Maybe one should be able to RETREAT from a battle as well in order to save the soldiers ( or maybe have some random losses, somebody has to cover the retreat but not the whole team.


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Offline jerm

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Re: Soldiers hiding on the dropship?
« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2011, 07:07:43 am »
It's a bug for version 2.3.1. There's a patch to fix this problem somewhere on the board. Lurk moar!!!  ;D
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