Crash due to formation change while crossing bridge

[Panzertard]

Just so Dragon can get hold of a test-mission, to confirm his issue is solved:

 

Hi Panzer,

 

I have a crash in "Defense Of Batumi".

I stripped down the mission.

There are only two groups of ground units in a battle against each other.

 

I think the crash happen when one specific unit will get destroyed... but sadly I can not say what unit.

Maybe a developer can debug this.

 

To reproduce: Just watch the show till the US forces passes the bridge.

<mission attached>

 

Good and stripped down mission - reproduced problem in 2 of 15 times with the original.

 

 

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Okai, managed to solve the puzzle.

 

Factors for the problem, all factors required

- 1 or more units died, but leader is alive

- 1-2 units stay behind (Bradleys firing TOW) - get stranded far behind while lead is near new waypoint.

- Need to cross a bridge.

- Group formation is changing while crossing the bridge.

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Workaround:

- Change "Line Abreast" to "Off Road".

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To reproduce every time:

- Made mission where Abrams #3 dies before bridge. (When in Zone, Trigger Explode Abrams #3)

- Make sure nobody in BLUE dies after this. (When in Zone, Trigger Set immortal)

- Make sure Bradley is busy as usual shooting. (unrelated issue, Bradley missing - should be fixed in later versions).

- Observe Lead Abrams almost get to the end of the bridge.

CRASH. Every time.

 

 

For v1121, sample mission attached. 400 seconds or more before crash occurs, LAlt+Z / LCtrl+Z / LShift+Z to compress time.

Can't seem to reproduce with the internal versions - assumed it's fixed.

v1121-cheat explode4-CRASH-at-formation-change.miz

v1121-cheat explode4-new formation-no-CRASH.miz

Edited June 12, 2012 by Panzertard

[STP Dragon]

Panzer, you are my hero!

Thank's a lot!

[STP Dragon]

Hello everyone,

 

sorry Panzer but I still have the crash after changeing the waypoint to OFF ROAD.

 

And I have two other crashes in "BlackGoldOfAnapa".

I stripped the missions down to the minimum.

I spend now over 4 hours to try to find a workarround but no luck.

I changed waypoint types, moved waypoints, changed trigger times, moved units... crash crash crash!

 

Please help me!! :helpsmilie:

 

To reproduce: Just start the mission and watch the show.

 

I'll give up for today :cry:

Batumi_Crash.miz

BlackGold_Crash_1.miz

BlackGold_Crash_2.miz

[Panzertard]

Okai, we obvisouly need to go back to the drawingboard.

Thanks dragon, you're delivering us Class A debug situations - much appreciated.

I'll have a look at it again.

 

EDIT:

Current Open Beta

Pretty definitive crashes - and easy to produce.

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Hint, Always Labels On debugging crashes. To observe who did what.

 

The good news is still:

With the internal version, I can't reproduce it anymore.

- Several runs of the both 'crash' missions. No crashes produced.

I still got to assume the problem has been fixed by some other crash-fix.

 

Sorry, I wasn't able to find a workaround for this version.

Edited June 13, 2012 by Panzertard

[STP Dragon]

Thank you for spending your time again.

 

I hope we will get the next patch as soon as possible.