AoW: Planetfall - Soft lock on killing Assembly Inspector in water maps

[Vicus 92]

One line summary of your issue
Soft lock on killing Assembly Inspector in water maps

What platform are you running the game on?

Steam

What operating system do you use?
Windows 10
Which version of the game are you running?
1.201.40127

What expansions do you have installed?

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Killing an Assembly Inspector unit over water attempts to play an animation, which freezes part way though, locking up the game.

The game remains responsive, but appears to be waiting for an animation to complete before allowing you to take your next action.

I recreated this three times, loading to before the battle began each time.

Saving part way through the battle, after the soft lock and loading the save bypasses the animation, therefore lets you continue playing with the Inspector unit killed.

I'm unsure if this constantly reproduces the error in all scenarios, but it did for my Vanguard campaign on Sorinus Alpha.
Have you tried verifying your files?
Yes

Steps to reproduce the issue
Kill an Assembly Inspector unit on a water map.

Attach DxDiag (PC) or System Info log (Mac)

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[Triumph Jordi]

Hey Vicus, thanks for the report. We are aware of the issue as it's not specific to water maps but we haven't found a consistent reproduction method. If you have a save where it occurs regularly/consistently please upload it here and we'll have a look.

 

[Vicus 92]

Hey Jordi,

Would do, but the auto save prior to this instance has since been overwritten.

From what I could tell, it was recreated with any ranged unit getting the killing shot (Reloaded 3 times with the same result, but don't think it was the same unit getting the kill each time) on the same water map. Only occurred when killing the single Inspector unit the AI had.

Can't give you more I'm afraid. Hope it helps!

Cheers.