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Can't hire leaders, it wedges the game.

What I mean by wedged: there's an awful sound like it's playing the first snip of the toast sound and I can't unpause the game. When I hit triangle to unpause, it flickers and then immediately goes back to red/paused. I can do everything you can do while paused, but can't unpause it.

Quitting and reloading didn't unwedge it.

1. What platform are you using?
PS5

2. What version of the game are you using?
V: Caelum v3.9.3.131532, R: 09.01

3. What DLC do you have installed?
All of them

4. When did this start happening?
Today, after installing the latest update + both new DLC.

5. Can you replicate it, if so, please explain how
I've tried several different ways.

First was having a new science ship and using the manage leader button to hire a scientist.

Second (after loading an autosave) was hiring a scientist from the leader screen.

Third was hiring an admiral from the leader screen.

Fourth was starting a completely new game (with default United Nations of Earth) and hiring a general from the leader screen. Wedged every time.

I can't think of what other variables to toggle to find a workaround. Is anyone else succeeding at hiring leaders?

6. Does this happen on all saves or just specific ones?
All that I've tried.

7. What steps have you taken to try and solve this yourself (reinstall, Google error code etc)?
Looked through the bug reports in the forum.
 
Update: I figured out the cause.

In settings you can now tell it to auto- pause on certain toasts as well as notifications, and apparently I had enabled pausing on the new leader acquired toast.

When it auto-pauses, you can't un-pause it. It gets wedged. I'll edit the post title to reflect this.

I haven't tested any other auto-pause toasts, so I don't know if it's all of them or just this one.