erm - i can't end the first mission?

[james]

Ok, this might be me doing something stupid, but i've tried it twice so far.

I get to the end of the first level, walk to the marker, the screen goes all cutsceeney with black bars at top/bottom, and then the mission never ends...

It's the Steam version of the game, and everything seems to work fine, i played through the tutorial, just this weird not ending thing stopping me going any further.

[Lee]

Hi James,

Sorry to hear you are having a problem finishing the first level. You aren't doing anything stupid - there must be a problem with the level logic.

Just to help us out, could you give us a little more information? Did the game come back out of the cutscene and go to the main game camera or did it stay in the cutscene? Did you get both heroes and Mainwaring into the end zone? Did you have a walker taken over at the time? Was there any other objective listed in your objective panel before or after the cutscene triggered?

Hopefully, we'll find the problem shortly and get a new version released.

[james]

Hi James,

Sorry to hear you are having a problem finishing the first level. You aren't doing anything stupid - there must be a problem with the level logic.

Just to help us out, could you give us a little more information? Did the game come back out of the cutscene and go to the main game camera or did it stay in the cutscene? Did you get both heroes and Mainwaring into the end zone? Did you have a walker taken over at the time? Was there any other objective listed in your objective panel before or after the cutscene triggered?

Hopefully, we'll find the problem shortly and get a new version released.

ok,

I't not coming back out fo the cutscene.

I did it first with both heroes and Mainwaring into the end zone, but the walker had died then, and 2nd time round i did it with the walker as well, same thing.

I don't think there were any other objectives listed - i'd cleared all the secondary ones like closing doors and collecting things etc.
Just on my 3rd try now, with a new profile, so i'll make some notes on exactly what i do this time.

edit : ok,
This time i got everyone up to the zone - my goop bar in the middle of silver.
cut scene kicks in, whatserface says something about the beam, and the camera pans over my units.
camera gets closes and stops, and stays there.
idle unit animations are still going, and not much else.

also, i can still select units with the number keys while this happens - even though there's no interface, their little circles on them light up etc.

edit again, playing full screen at 1280x1024, if that helps.
latest nvidia drivers (updated them yesterday).

[Lee]

Thanks for the extra info James. I'll try and reproduce this and get it sorted.

[Lee]

Okay, I think I've narrowed down the issue. I managed to get the first level to *not* complete by going over the first bridge before Theora has had chance to tell you about bridge controls. The bridge in question is the one directly next to the 3rd spawner building you close. Theora starts telling you about the squad on the other side of the chasm an she then goes on to tell you about controlling bridges. Make sure you wait for Theora to complete what she is saying, or at least click through her messages, before raising and crossing the bridge. You should see a 'get to zone' marker appear on the nearside of the bridge, enter that then raise and cross the bridge as normal.

Additionally, make sure you remember to capture the second obelisk, the one just inside the New Order base. It is possible to get right to the end without doing this and this also causes the end cutscene to fail to complete.

James, hopefully this will let you get past the first level. Let me know how you get on. Apologies again for this. We tested this level so many times so I've no idea how this rather obvious error slipped though. We'll get this issue fixed properly and a new build published on Steam and on our website, but unfortunately, we can't do that until the Steam guys get back in the office on Monday.

[james]

Thanks Lee, I'll give this a go now.

I have been capturing both obelisks, but i think it may be due to her not finishing telling me.

[james]

yay, worked

Just had to let her blab on a bit longer.

Thanks for the help, much appreciated.

[Lee]

Excellent news. Thanks for checking that James.

[EE]

can't finish it either. Had played it twice. But the first time it seemed i hadn't destroyed the first Walker completely. Second time i completed all objectives. She said something to beam us up or something, but yes....stuck at cutscene on hill in close-up. Had also all obelisks under control. I play without sound, cause i prefer to play music instead.

Will wait until its patched cause i don't see an option to save in game.

[Mal]

Hi guys, this issue is resolved, you won't get these errors in the current version.

[jezko]

Hi all,

It seems that this bug is back in version 1.19. At the same point, the cinematic begins and then i get stuck. I already tried twice and get stuck at the same point. I didn't try already to wait for the end of the explanations...

Cheers,

[Lee]

Hi Jezko,

Just to check, you are talking about the first mission after the tutoril in the full game yeah? The one where you rescue Mainwaring from the cages and go up to the top of the hill?

[jezko]

oops, no I'm talking about the demo version, but I tried again and it seems that this is the end of the demo mission anyway.

[Lee]

Ah okay. Was it after the door opens and two large walker things come at you? That's been reported before and we haven't yet managed to track it down but we'll keep looking. Thanks for the report.

[jezko]

Hi,

Yes it's exactly there. Just before the fist against the two last droids.