Bugs (EU2012)

This is the place to document bugs. In this case, bugs are errors that make the game work otherwise than intended. This is not the place for mods or for suggested improvements to things that currently function but would be "better" a different way. Those suggestions should go in Mods. Also, consider posting the bug on the [dedicated bug reports] 2K thread.

Mission Control zoom

• Effect: Clicking on the geoscope (the globe, not the "Mission Control" button) has no effect when any of the game characters are talking (voice over, text and their icon on the top right corner).
• Cause: Unknown, clicking is back to normal after the character is done talking and the text with the icon disappear.

"satellite down"

• Effect: When I was in the Situation Room, Central popped up and said "satellite down". I had not lost any satellites. I was maxed out before and after the announcement.
• Cause: Shortly before I had lost an Interceptor, so perhaps that or the remaining alien craft somehow triggered the sound bite.

Situation Room zoom

• Effect: Sometimes clicking on the Situation Room button changes the Situation Room from just its 2D map to the colorful panic levels and such, but the camera remains stuck out at the pan-across-the-facility level. You can click again, on either the button or the room, and it zooms in fine.
• Cause: Unknown.
• Status: reported on the [dedicated bug reports] 2K thread.

underground revival

• Effect: A soldier was shot unconscious in the corner of a tall dirt berm (full cover). I ran my Support near, leaving the corner space open where the body was lieing, but somehow the unit revived inside the dirt / under the elevated ground. The next turn he was able to move and climbed over like a wall.
• Cause: Unknown.
• Status: reported on the [dedicated bug reports] 2K thread.

grayed out buttons

• Effect: Rarely, a button is grayed out when it should be available. For example, starting in the Barracks looking at a Rookie, you can scroll onto a Sgt. or higher and sometimes the nickname button does not light up. If you leave and then come back in on that Sgt.+ it will be available again. This is also happening occassionally in combat with the fire button, though there the button still works by either mouse clicking or hitting the corresponding key (default = 1).
• Cause: Unknown.
• Status: reported on the [dedicated bug reports] 2K thread.

Disabling Shot vs Overwatch Aliens

• Effect: Weapon is disabled on the alien's next turn as per usual, but the alien can take an unlimited number of reaction shots during the player's turn. After discovering the bug (3 HP sectoid fired 5 reaction shots in a single turn at 3 different targets) was able to duplicate it on at least two other occasions.
• Cause: An alien ends its turn on overwatch. On your turn, you use a sniper to disable the alien's weapon... either to close the distance to kill it or to stun it.
• Status: Reported on XCOM 2k forum master bug thread.

Aliens teleporting

• Effect: Alien squads (unprovoked) are not actually moving around the map, but teleporting short distances, which can be witnessed with use of battle scanner, for example. Side effects include enemy squads appearing right on top of your troops, or inside a ring of soldiers. Also, you may notice on terror missions a civilian dying, while next turn you find last enemy squad on the map - a squad of 2 drones and a sectopod far away from that point. Also, sometimes, rarely though, even "provoked" aliens suddenly teleport on top of your troops.
• Cause: Aside from obvious lazy programming on developer's side, no discernable ways to reproduce the bug - seems to be totally random (can happen only with mobile squads, of course)
• Status: Reported on XCOM 2k forum master bug thread, with saves attached.

Movement into occupied tiles and dirt

• Effect: Sometimes, movement into a tile occupied by another soldier is allowed, putting two soldiers into a single tile. They both continue to function normally. Sometimes, when landing in a flying suit, your soldier will fall through the ground, appearing dug in the dirt (head popping), rendering him immobile for remainder of the mission.
• Cause: Unknown, but if you happen to be able to target occupied tile with movement command, it remains so until that soldier moves, so when bug is triggered, it is reproduceable.
• Status: Reported on XCOM 2k forum master bug thread, with saves attached.

Grappling hoook malfunction

• Effect: Grappling hook can do all sorts of wierd things on you. Sometimes, you will teleport to a different tile after hook animation plays (teleportation happens when your soldier takes his weapon out, staying on the target tile). Sometimes, hook will simply fail - your soldier will return back to his starting position. Reloading may or may not fix the bug.
• Cause: Unknown, usually not reproduced on reload.

Armor change clipping

• Effect: Often times when you upgrade your armor the previous armor will still exist on your soldier, causing the two to be together at once and cause a distorted, clipping armor effect. Usually this can be fixed by changing the armor deco (when this happens it defaults to deco 0), however with singular style armors such as the archangel there's no way to change its deco, meaning you're stuck with the effect on your armor.
• Cause: Unknown

Immobile after fall & revive

• Effect: A soldier was shot unconscious and fell from the top of a train car onto an adjacent wooden box. When revived, the unit could take action but could not move.
• Cause: Probably something related to an unregistered change in position from the train car to the box. In the image it appears the game thinks he should be up in midair instead of down on the box, which may also contribute to not being able to move (from midair).
• Status: Replied on the [dedicated bug reports] 2K thread.

Snipers can switch weapons after after moving and hitting Overwatch

• Effect: if a Sniper goes to Overwatch with his pistol it's possible to left click on the soldier and switch the weapon back to the Sniper Rifle. This allows for Move and Overwatch if the Sniper doesn't have the Snap Shot ability.
• Cause: Related to how soldiers can open doors, disable power nodes, etc. even after all of its moves are spent.

Archive

Bugs that have been fixed in a Patch.

'ghost' SHIV

• Effect: I built a normal SHIV in the Foundry and it was available to view in the Soldier list, but the SHIV itself was not there, just it's stats and the panel of buttons to the left (only dismantle was available) with an empty platform. Coincidentally, I could not load the SHIV in the squad prep screen for a mission.
• Cause: Unknown, maybe building multiple SHIVs at the same time in the Foundry. Barracks had plenty of room and both an Alloy SHIV and a Hover SHIV were present so those could coexist in the Barracks.
• Fix: 12Oct2012 patch fixed not being able to use damaged SHIVs.