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Undeadcannibal

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May 16, 2019
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Game Freezing





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What is your game version?
Xbox One
Do you have Space Race installed?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
I've been playing for a few hours now and for the first time I ordered my transport to load up on waste rock. The moment that he reaches the rock and starts to load up, the game freezes up but I can still move the camera around, all other buttons are non functional so restarting the game is my only option. It's easily avoided for now i guess but figured it needed reporting. No mods as is Xbox by the way

Can you replicate the issue?
Yes every time I do it the same thing happens

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I am having the same issue on a Xbox One S. I'm not sure that the transport is the cause. I tested by taking all transport vehicles and stopping auto on any that were on and put them in a single place and the game still crashed at what seems like the same spot. It crashes shortly after Sol 422 for me. I have tried to reload game 20 different times and even reinstalled the game. Everything seemed fine before the update.
 
I had a waste rock transport route setup and a few rovers on auto. I salvaged all of them and had no vehicles (besides Esocorp ones not in use) and games still froze. I'm not sure that this bug is related only to the vehicles. In fact getting rid of them seems to have made it worse. Before it would freeze about mid way through Sol 422, but this time it was right at the beginning.
 
Ok so after 2 days of wanting to throw my controller through my screen, I believe I have figured out at least my issue. I have tried everything above and more until I realized that i had some drones flattening a mountain. I canceled the flattening, and now past Sol 423 so, maybe the issue was the drones bringing waste rock to the dump. I will report if anything changes... I might even try flattening the mountain again to see. Hope this helps.
 
Very similar here. Played last couple nights for several hours with no issues. Long enough where I’m emotionally invested in my colony. Today I start playing & it “freezes”.
DETAILS- around 2 minutes of starting to play the game (doesn’t matter how long I’m on the title screen or messing with other options) mostly freezes. The music still plays & I can move the camera around & zoom in & out. NOTHING else works. No menu screens or ability to zoom out further than the normal play mode.
WHAT I’VE TRIED- restarting game.
Restarting XBox.
Deleting all but 3 saved games.
Loading a save from a half hour earlier.
Saving after a minute & then loading that save.
Deleting other games so my XBox has 40% free memory.
WHAT HELPED- nothing.
Please Help,
MF1N
 
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... drones flattening a mountain. I canceled the flattening, and now past Sol 423 so, maybe the issue was the drones....
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Trying modify the land does seem to have some glitches or I don’t fully understand how. I wasn’t even able to cancel it. However I did load a save from while I wasn’t doing an marscaping & it still froze after 2 mins of play.
 
I should have reported earlier, but my fix only lasted about 3-4 Sols and game froze again. Maybe other drones taking waste rock or maybe has nothing to do with waste rock at all. I don’t want to restart the game.
 
WHAT WORKED FOR ME. Since it seemed to always do it 2-3 minutes after starting I decided to do nothing & time how long it took to freeze. It never did. After 5 minutes I played with no problems. Took a break, logged off, came back, logged on, started playing right away & it froze. Rebooted, started, didn’t do anything but look around & assess my colony for about 2 minutes, started playing, & no probs. Seems like an odd solution but it seems to work.
 
Same here froze mid game in the middle of transporting waste rock and other items. Also the passenger applicant page is missing the entire section of selecting applicants and choosing the preferred skills etc.
 
Do you have automatic rover AI on for the transport? For me it happened when something that has the automated AI tries to move rocks (both RC transport and RC Dozers). After I turned off the automated AI I was able to get past where my game was soft locking.
 
OK so i disabled everything. I shutdown all drone hubs, got rid of all rovers except one of each and disabled them in one spot so I could keep an eye on them. Then i shut down all shuttle hubs and canceled all marscaping and let the game go. I made sure there was no movement of any kind except the colonist. I watched for 5 sols as everything started breaking and people dying, but no freezing. So i enable the drone hubs, and watch those guys go crazy trying to fix and do everything for another 5 sols. Still no freeze, and some of the duties were moving waste rock from mines and concrete extractor. Enabled the shuttle hub and it froze within half a Sol. Reloaded from before enabling shuttle hub and it played for a Sol or 2 before freezing. Tried a 3rd time and this time it didn't freeze but I stopped playing by this point, so that's where I'm at. I haven't tried to load the save that started all this and disable the shuttle hubs, after hours of watching hundreds of colonist die over and over... I was done playing for a bit. Maybe this will help.
 
I'm getting something very similar during my game (xbox one s). I'm around sol 140, with over 1k people in the colony and autosaving takes a very long time (easily over 30 seconds), but I set it to every sol, beacuse of the crashes. I couldn't narrow it down to waste rock, but it might be it, because I vae a lot of it and I'm moving it from side to side of my colony.

What I'm experiencing:
- game freeze during autosave - everything stops, only the music plays (new tracks are played also), I waited up to 15 minutes with this, but there's no other option than to forcibly shutdown the game from the console interface, after that it's freezing when I try to open the load game screen, only console restart helps (the save during which the freeze happened doesn't get written); manual saving seems to work flawlessly though, and a lot faster than autosave
- game crashes randomly during gameplay, the screen stops, the sound stutters for 2-3 seconds and I'm thrown out into the console interface

Both of these started after sol 100, this is my first gameplay, since the free weekend I've been playing like a man possesed (bought the game on monday). I hope a fix arrives very soon, because it's very disappointing to play like this.
 
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3 years later... problem still exists. This is Paradox: "we know that problem exists" approach is quite wide. It is a pitty, that spending over 1k EUR for their games makes you feel just like an idiot thinking that you will receive any help for money you spent...

Regarding why it happens... it seems that problem is created by large gamesaves in the late of the game when you have 10 domes, 2 k citizens etc. Loading savegame from the beginning of the play solves the problem. Surprisingly on the old Xbox series S this problem does not exists, game is little bit slower but it works. On PC, new X and new S it just does not work.
 
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