Manhattan... Unplayably Buggy?

[jasonnoguchi 11]

I was playing manhattan and it has to be one of the buggiest mission i have ever played which ended up "unresumable".

First of all, when I escorted the woman to the LZ, 5 times the helo which was supposed to pick her up crashed, making the task uncompletable.

Then after 5 reverts, the scenario run as it should at last and I went back to refuel my LAV at manhattan base just to find Capt Shaftoe in a pool of blood, dead, behind the table he stands. Don't know if that will have an effect on the mission ending but he never spoke to me through the comms ever again.

After which, I went to Gorka to investigate the weapons cache, made a save and then exited the game. A while later, I came back to the game, hit resume and it started up with some stupid bin error on some russian radio thing... yes, probably a bug with the russian announcement thing and the mission will not resume...

I now had to start manhattan ALL OVER AGAIN after 3 days of play. Very nice, NOT! I've decided to restart manhattan again, this time using the ACE mod for additional features.

Bugs bugs bugs... what a buggy mission.

[sabre4809 0]

Patched the game at all? As I have never had any off those myself, although Shaftoe Dead is a known bug but fixed in 1.03 patch I believe.

[jasonnoguchi 11]

I did not play the campaign on beta because I am afraid changes in the version would delete stuffs that will make resuming the mission impossible.

[jw custom 56]

I haven't played the campaign but from what i've read you should avoid saving the game and that should save you from a lot of problems!

[jeffroland 10]

The Shaftoe thing is a well known bug and I think some people still have a problem with it even in 1.04.

The helicopter crashing is NOT a bug, it is being shot down by the enemy and is a legitimate outcome to the mission. You must realize that it's possible that you will not be able to accomplish some of your tasks, just like in real life.

Not sure about your bin error but it's moot since you have to restart the entire mission because Shaftoe is dead.

[cri74 10]

Using addons might not be a good idea, at least if you wish to play with addons then do so from the beginning untill the end and remember to load the exact same addons each time you play SP

[jasonnoguchi 11]

The Shaftoe thing is a well known bug and I think some people still have a problem with it even in 1.04.

The helicopter crashing is NOT a bug, it is being shot down by the enemy and is a legitimate outcome to the mission. You must realize that it's possible that you will not be able to accomplish some of your tasks, just like in real life.

Not sure about your bin error but it's moot since you have to restart the entire mission because Shaftoe is dead.

Yes, i noticed that the lagushina mission can become uncompletable and that I have to kill her in those cases. At least they should provide an alternative ending in that case like sending her to manhattan or something... I don't wanna kill civilians and I hate it for her to stick with me always too :(

Anyways, I tried manhattan a few more times since and lagushina mission has been unusually smooth. I parked my LAV in the middle of the field, report in, my 4 detects 2 cars coming, destroys them, helo comes, picks her up.... no fuss. :)

[special_air_service 10]

what solution to avoid shaftoe dead ?

Edited December 29, 2009 by Special_Air_Service

[jasonnoguchi 11]

I did manhattan again with the beta patches and I chose read myself and completed the whole thing without Shaftoe dying. :)

[special_air_service 10]

I did manhattan again with the beta patches and I chose read myself and completed the whole thing without Shaftoe dying. :)

Hey good news, what version of ur beta patch ?

[jasonnoguchi 11]

The latest. I have the beta patches updated automatically daily using the ACE SIX updater.

[SoulSkorpion 10]

The chopper never shows up for me. We roll into the LZ in an APC, blow the shit out of the guys trying to ambush and then.... nothing.

To say nothing of Starforce 21 not landing where I ask it to but hovering forever and ever and ever over the forest and never coming down, or leaving with half my team aboard, or...