[Bug .0952] headless custom units and sovereigns

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Whenever I start a new game, any custom units I had made previously lack traits, clothing, and heads,  I usually end up retiring and re-creating them. Custom sovereigns who show up leading rival factions, have no heads (I can only defeat these abominations).  

This is consistent behavior and shows up in both new games and loaded saves.  All saves are from .0952, no really old games.  Let me know if you have any other questions.

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

also, I haven't tried re-downloading or re-installing yet.  

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

reinstalled.  problem has not reappeared for trained units. 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

I have also had this happen twice. Whenever it occurs, I restart the game and everything is fine again. I am unsure of what causes it, and don't remember what I was doing prior to it occurring. honestly, I've also put maby 30 hours into beta5 as well and it is very rare.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

It happened to me again after I reinstalled a few days ago, but I restarted the game and it was fine.  It seems to be occur a little more regularly for me.


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Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top


I don't think a reinstall deletes the folders in your documents, where all your custom units are stored.

For example this headless problem only occured when I restared a game after loading one.  (From which I learned is a big no-no right now as they are not clearing stuff when you quit a game yet).

When this happens does it happen after a reload or something like this? You should also check to see what custom units are in your folders as I think a problem might lie in the reading large amounts of characters in there. (I can get this glitch with as little as 5 sovereigns in the reload). I don't make any custom units, so I guess I haven't been able to check this out that way.

I will try to make lots of custom units and see if I can get this equipmentless (empty) character problem and see if that does it. This bug has me curious.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top


I created roughly 12 custom designs and restarted a game (like I did in my headless post) and it produced the same result to which you see. I don't know if you are restarting a game after you load a game or played a game, but this seems to be what causes this headless animation for me. Also, you should post this in FE Support.

Maybe you should check your units sub-folder for fallen enchantress under your documents and see how full it is.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

It happens in both new games and loaded saves.  Yesterday it happened at the new game screen.  I have 17 units in my units folder, I only deleted one duplicate sov file, but it's only happened once since then.