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Unofficial Poll: Have you been able to finish a game completely in Beta 4?

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StevenAus22
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Reply #26 August 25, 2012 3:36:13 PM
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Nope! I had a great game going then... save corruption! other games were quickly turned into the AI's favor as large roaming slags like to gobble my citizens. Or just placed with factions on all four sides of me.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #27 August 25, 2012 5:40:12 PM
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Certainly this Beta is far more buggy and, frankly, even slower than Beta 3, which makes the game unbearably slow on my PC in the mid game.  It seems to crash more often than not, when entering battles or even between turns, if there are a lot of AI players.

Have I finished a game?

No, and I don't really expect to, as even on the small map, it is bugging out.


 

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StevenAus22
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Reply #28 August 25, 2012 7:14:39 PM
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I have been unable to complete a single game due explicitly to 100% (so far) save corruption.

 

I have had one game that I was able to reload which then corrupted on the next save.

 

I'm not playing FE any more until this is fixed, as I'm tired of taking the time to find passable starting locations and solidify a good start to lose the work to corrupted saves.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #29 August 25, 2012 8:05:43 PM
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I had three CTDs, but I've been playing quite a bit.  As I save a lot, they didn't prevent me from finishing any of my games.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #30 August 26, 2012 1:39:52 AM
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Not even close here.

 

I've played at least 5 games from the start until unavoidable crash (and savefiles also keep crashing), mostly on large maps, but i've also tried medium with the same result. Not tried small maps yet.

 

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StevenAus22
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Reply #31 August 26, 2012 2:15:41 AM
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Yeah, the game is a bit of a cluster pudding at the moment.  I hope they get things fixed soon.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #32 August 26, 2012 10:02:56 AM
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Seems to me this save corruption & crashing bug is the biggest problem with FE at this point. I never had this problem with the earlier betas, but try 1 game of beta 4 and there it is. I've already reported the issue myself along with the corrupted save game file and crash dump:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/429743

I'm really hoping this gets fixed with beta 5. As awesome as FE is (and it's fast becoming my all-time favorite TBS game), the game will be dead on arrival if it gets released with this bug still in it. I really really really hope that doesn't happen, because FE deserves a chance to shine. Please, Stardock, making fixing this your number one priority!

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StevenAus22
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Reply #33 August 26, 2012 10:21:46 AM
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Yes, we want the monkey to sing on a banjo for the frog!  (And no, I'm not sure whether it is in fact a monkey and what's being played is a banjo - probably a guitar at second thought - but banjo sounds cool so I'll leave that in. )

PS: Since I thought mastroego's question was a good one I decided to be proactive and ask it.  Hopefully a lot of positive stuff will come from the seed of this goodwill.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #34 August 26, 2012 12:07:03 PM
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Not yet.  In the one game I played, I had a weird form of save corruption where you could load and play the game fine, but attempting to make a new save invariably resulted in a crash.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #35 August 26, 2012 8:16:12 PM
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@StevenAus: it is in fact a monkey, but make what you will of the musical instrument. And I'd happily sing for the frog if that's what it would take to bump this issue to the top of their bug list.
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StevenAus22
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Reply #36 August 26, 2012 8:38:08 PM
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Quoting Tohron,
reply 35
Not yet.  In the one game I played, I had a weird form of save corruption where you could load and play the game fine, but attempting to make a new save invariably resulted in a crash.

 

I think that's actually the garden variety form of save corruption.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #37 August 26, 2012 8:54:16 PM
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No.

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StevenAus22
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Reply #38 August 26, 2012 9:00:14 PM
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Yes.

 

Large map, 5 AI opponents, all victory options. Won by casting spell. Along the way had numerous crashes to desktop, but not so many that I got fed up.

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