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Do you have a save game that would allow for consistent recreation? Or does the problem only occur after playing for a while? |
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It happens all the time, new games, old saves, but for different categories in the Objectives tab. I do see buggy categories below Beginner Tips on a new campaign, so maybe which ones are having issues is dependent on how they are currently populated or in what sequence the objectives were added. The Objectives tab can be buggy immediately, though usually it starts out looking normal. |
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I'll be curious if you still see this in the new version 0.784 that I'm about to push out. It's not explicitly trying to fix this issue (which I've not seen first-hand, but someone else also mentioned it IIRC), but it fixes a number of issues that are close to it. So it might have been fixed in the crossfire. |
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It's still buggy. I've noticed that the first time I load a save after launching AIW2 the Objectives tab works perfectly, but then it gets jumbled up on successive loads. This makes me suspect something like objects pooled for reuse that aren't being fully cleaned up or re-initialized properly or unlinked from those categories. The issues in other tabs remain too. Incidentally, Critical Destructables should maybe be renamed Critical Targets, since it includes Hack Super Terminal. Example: I just tested fresh launch & load, and completing one objective caused one glitch. I killed a Destructible, so now Beginner Tips has an extra label underneath, as though the removed label picked up different text and is rendering underneath the next category header. Destructibles got one box shorter, and collapsing Destructibles hides that extra label. As in the screenshot I uploaded earlier, it's the yellow Agravic Pod text from the first New Fleetships objective which is rendering underneath Beginner Tips. Interestingly, if I quit and reload the same save, I get the same Objectives tab state every time, whether it's correct or jumbled, down to the exact same wrong labels in the same wrong places. I also suspect that quitting to menu and loading a save, such that the Destructibles category for example goes from very long to very short, is part of the issue because the visual jumbling happens in the space that the previously-large category occupied, and it becomes visually fixed while that category is hidden. I've not tested it precisely, but to recreate the bugs I would try successive loading between saves from a new campaign, an explored galaxy full of objectives, and a late-game with semi-finished categories. I'm not familiar with .NET or C#, but suspecting possible allocator or pooling mis-behavior makes me think I should mention that I'm on Windows 7 and my .NET updates are usually a month or two behind since I run Windows Update manually. One would hope the platform fundamentals are sound enough not to break games routinely, but naturally I don't take it for granted. |
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Fixed enemy ship icons not collapsing. |
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Fixed mercenary tab collapse issue. Do note that I am making each issue into a separate one, rather than this big issue that we can't mark as resolved until everything is done. |
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We're manually pooling things, so you're not incorrect about that -- it's in our code, though, not the platform code, where the issue would be. Is there a savegame you have where there's a simple steps to go through for us to be able to quickly repro the objectives issue? I haven't been able to duplicate that with some casual attempts, and ideally I'd have a case where I can load the game and recreate it in under 10 seconds so that I can use it as a unit test. |
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Just unpause and let it run for a second. |
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Thanks! I'll take care of that. Can you rename the critical destructibles thing? |
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Got it -- thanks! * Fixed a couple of bugs with buggy objectives tab display because of various pooled data not being cleared properly. |
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Renamed Critical Destructibles to Critical Targets, and modified the description to say "... destroy or hack ...". |
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It's all fixed. I can't seem to close the issue on Mantis. |
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Done that for you then. |
- Anonymous
