blackscreen with loop of alien activity on mission startup

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Hefthyn
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blackscreen with loop of alien activity on mission startup

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1) The version of Long War you are playing.
none

2) The platform you are playing on.
PC

3) What other XCOM2 mods you are playing with.
None

4) The circumstances of the bug or precise steps to produce it.
In the first avenger defense mission, I load into the mission and all I see is a black screen with an endless loop of alien activity popping up.
I've tried reloading an earlier save, to no avail. And restarting the level with the console doesn't help either.

5) Whether you are able to offer a savegame for us to look at.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/86tvth54h9lp2fd/save19?dl=0
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johnnylump
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Re: blackscreen with loop of alien activity on mission startup

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So you're not playing with Long War ?
RXTXK
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Re: blackscreen with loop of alien activity on mission startup

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I had this bug happen to me today.

Using longwar2 v1.5

Sent a team out to infiltrate a mission, during the infiltration flyout the avenger defence proc'd.

The team I was sending to infiltrate were available for the defence.

Mission load screen is as normal, after mission load screen is complete black screen with the alien activity banner looping on and off at the bottom.

Restart mission results in the same black looping screen

Able to hit escape to bring up the menu, but cannot save from the menu.


Work aroundable by reverting to an earlier hard save, just annoyed as have lost the autosave to the previous mission where I got enemy protocol, superior hacking pcs and captured a mech, now have one very unhappy specialist who is missing his stuff.



edit: looks like a vanilla bug so the infiltration may be red herring https://forums.2k.com/showthread.php?42 ... nt-Mission
Dwarfling
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Re: blackscreen with loop of alien activity on mission startup

Post by Dwarfling »

Has something to do with the mission not loading properly. Usually happens to me with missions boosted by a Liberation that are launched immediatly without going to the avenger screen. You can end the mission with console commands but the mission comes out as a loss.
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