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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / news: immortal ghost alien goes off the grid and becomes invisible!

« on: June 09, 2012, 12:49:52 pm »

Yes, what the subject line says. Spooky Shit #2: I had this alien sitting in one square for half dozen turns, untargettable and somehow between the squares, projectiles and knives whizzed right through, and the dozen grenades at it's feet didn't work any better to make it fall down or stop shooting back - untill it became invisible and started walking around, only noticeable by the energy weapon shots from here and there....

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FAQ / [CLOSED] smoke grenades and frame rate [FIXED]

« on: June 08, 2012, 11:35:25 pm »

When  I deploy a smoke grenade, my fps drops from 40-ish to 4-ish, regardless of if the smoke is on-screen or not. At first I didn't think much of it, okay maybe it's a cpu-intensive smoke effect or whatever and it's an old computer, but when playing the train map I noticed that there's a chimney with smoke rising from it and my fps is totally unchanged, hmm...

What could be going on, might there be something in the logs that may cast some light on this issue (which log file)?

EDIT by Admin: Fix can be found here: http://ufoai.org/forum/index.php/topic,6755.msg56217.html#msg56217

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Feature Requests / soldier list highlight on removal

« on: June 04, 2012, 08:49:54 pm »

When going through the employee list for soldiers right click on the check box to remove a soldier -> soldier on the very top of the list gets highlighted. Would be much more convenient if selection jumped to next or previous soldier from the one that got removed.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / panicking soldier able to move and fire

« on: June 04, 2012, 12:36:51 pm »

is this a bug that a panicking soldier is able to move and fire? I didn't get the logs for this, sorry about that :^/

The tu cost for movement indications are absent, but I could walk around and shoot while the "currently panicking" text is there.

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Discussion / 2.4vs2.5 closing fire mode menu in battlescape

« on: June 04, 2012, 12:32:58 pm »

Was there a design decision, to allow closing the firing mode menu only by right-clicking on it? Previous versions allowed clicking elsewhere to close that menu, but no more.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / incorrect hit probability

« on: June 03, 2012, 09:54:18 pm »

sometimes I get a zero hit probability when it should be, and is, an easy shot, like in the screenshot.

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Feature Requests / geoscape message line updating

« on: June 02, 2012, 11:14:24 pm »

Not sure if this should go here or in the bug forums/tracker - if I hover over the message line at the top of the screen and scroll the mouse wheel, I can look at older messages, and when I move the mouse away from the messages and the message list snaps back to a single line it continues to display an old message that I was viewing; all good so far, but when a new message arrives, the list is just moved one notch so another old message gets displayed a second time which is very confusing. When a new message arrives, it should be displayed instead of an old one!

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / lost ability to click anything on battlescape

« on: June 02, 2012, 09:09:05 pm »

during a battle the mouse cursor changed to a bare crosshair symbol and stayed that way, so I wasn't able to do anything with the mouse. Cursor movement was okay, but I could only point it around. Last thing I did before it broke was to click n' browse different firemodes of an electro laser, and then I tried clicking on a gray fire symbol (empty hand, just checking if it was possible to punch an alien ). After that it was like in the screenshot. It didn't allow me in the menus either, so I went to console and quit.

I don't see anything wonky in console log, are there other logs of interest? This happened on ferry map.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / map glitches

« on: May 31, 2012, 02:31:47 pm »

See screenshots.

In small house map enemy not targetable for some reason, squares on sides and in front are. I took the shot aim at the square behind it, and scored a hit. screenshots 00-02

In city tower map there's an impassable square next to a table. Screenshot 07, impassable square one "north" from the selected one.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / sudden crash

« on: May 31, 2012, 02:03:48 pm »

crash dump txt attached

there seems to be nothing related to this in the console log, last markings are over 20 sec before the crash.

...
2012/05/31 14:08:25 ...subsystem 'transfer' - saved
2012/05/31 14:08:25 ...subsystem 'xvirate' - saved
2012/05/31 14:08:25 ...subsystem 'messageoptions' - saved
2012/05/31 14:08:25 XML Written to buffer (776972 Bytes)
2012/05/31 14:08:26 Music: geoscape track changed from Crystan-Geosphere04 to Crystan-Geosphere03.

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Linux / compiling 2.5

« on: May 28, 2012, 11:38:27 pm »

Trying to get the dev version for the first time: I've been following the instruction on how to get the source, and apparently I downloaded 850 megs of data

Code: [Select]

git fetch --depth 1
remote: Counting objects: 10914, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10239/10239), done.
remote: Total 10914 (delta 926), reused 7963 (delta 544)
Receiving objects: 100% (10914/10914), 857.07 MiB | 508 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (926/926), done.
From git://ufoai.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/ufoai/ufoai
 * [new branch]      master     -> origin/master
after this the tutorial continues with

Compile the game with:

$ ./configure

but I get

Code: [Select]

./configure: No such file or directory

Apparently I'm doing something wrong here...

And where did that 857MB download go? I'm not seeing any files :^/

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Bugs in older version (2.4) / server crash when civvie dies on alien turn

« on: May 27, 2012, 11:11:26 am »

insta-crash straight to desktop on alien turn when a civilian was killed by alien. log:

2012/05/27 12:04:42 k has taken control over team 1.
2012/05/27 12:06:58 Soldier left the rescue zone
2012/05/27 12:07:38 Team 1 ended round
2012/05/27 12:07:38 Team 7's round started!
2012/05/27 12:07:43 [STATS] alien (Fhzwh Vso Zhozf) kills civilian (b c) with Short Burst of needlergun_ammo (entnum: 145)
2012/05/27 12:07:54 ********************
2012/05/27 12:07:54 ERROR: CL_ParseServerMessage: Illegal server message 27
2012/05/27 12:07:54 ********************
2012/05/27 12:07:57 Shutdown server: Server crashed.

edit - don't know if this could be related to http://ufoai.org/forum/index.php/topic,6709.0.html

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Bugs in older version (2.4) / server crash on killing last alien

« on: May 26, 2012, 07:39:52 pm »

from log:

2012/05/26 20:34:01 Team 1's round started!
2012/05/26 20:34:24 Team 1 ended round
2012/05/26 20:34:24 Team 7's round started!
2012/05/26 20:34:25 [STATS] k (Afra Luo) kills alien (Uonak T Zruujk) with Single Shot of shotgun2_slug_ammo (entnum: 120)
2012/05/26 20:34:29 ********************
2012/05/26 20:34:29 ERROR: LE_NotFoundError: Could not get LE with entnum 5897 (src/client/battlescape/events/event/actor/e_event_actorstats.c:43)

2012/05/26 20:34:29 ********************
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Shutdown server: Server crashed.
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Unload the game library
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Disconnecting...
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Client stream was closed
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Remove pending event 23
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Remove pending event 23
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Remove pending event 23
2012/05/26 20:34:31 Remove pending event 23

last alien had it by the way of reaction fire, brief mousefreeze, back to geoscape. complete log attached.

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Bugs in older version (2.4) / alien corpse appears to block line of fire

« on: May 25, 2012, 08:30:27 pm »

doesn't occur often. see screenshot.

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Discussion / order an interceptor to use specific weapons?

« on: May 25, 2012, 08:23:21 pm »

Question is the topic line - is it possible?

This would be useful when intercepting scouts, I'm playing on the hardest difficulty where funding is minimal so it sucks to use a couple missiles to take out a puny ufo that could just as well have been gunned down with a shiva.