Boarding Combat fail

[xdesperado]

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Kept getting message that Soldier was in invalid position, wouldn't let me move, skip or fire.
Only option was to retreat costing me a winnable fight.
Re boarded but not all selected members of my crew showed up for combat and again was stuck with soldier being unable to move or fire.
Above pic was from about my 3rd or 4th attempt to board ship and continues entering combat minus selected crew (not dead or disabled I checked for that prior to selection) and with the soldier in last slot unable to take any action as everything says invalid position regardless of attempted action except retreat.
My good game is ending with this combat as I'm getting crushed in ship to ship combat and what started as an easy win for boarding turned into this bugged mess.

PC Win10x64

[Cory Trese]

I am very sorry that you have had a "bugged mess" but this is a phase 1 alpha. I've played around 500 hours of the game, and tried to get out as many bugs as possible, but there are still many that remain. If you want to take a break and wait for Phase 2 and Phase 3 before trying to play, I totally understand that. The game will be much more stable and free of bugs in the later phases of the alpha, and will for sure be more fun to play.

I really want to work on this report, but it is run together and a bit hard to understand. I understand you are frustrated about the game's bugs, but I am struggling. Just a bit more detail and information would help me a lot.

If needed, lets split this up into a couple of different threads if possible.

This thread will be about the position of the soldier and nothing else.

1) Do you know how he got to that invalid position? Did you move him? Did an enemy Talent move him?

[xdesperado]

Sorry for venting my frustration your doing great and I'm honestly enjoying the game despite the various bugs that crop up.

The soldier didn't move or get moved and hadn't been attacked.
In the first boarding attempt I had killed 2 enemies and had one of my people killed (disabled) prior to his first chance to act and I'm guessing because the formation hadn't automatically closed up when my crew was lost is what caused this issue.
Subsequent attempts at boarding continued having gaps in both my own and enemy formations.

[Cory Trese]

Oh very interesting. That is a case I'm not sure we're handling. You like put someone in position 4 and then started combat without someone in position 3.

And you think the enemy did as well. That's very curious. Maybe there were out of Crew as well. Hmmm

[Cory Trese]

Ticket #3365 ST2 - Bug - Collapse Boarding To 0 when Under 4 PCC

[xdesperado]

Feb 3, 2017 22:30:33 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Oh very interesting. That is a case I'm not sure we're handling. You like put someone in position 4 and then started combat without someone in position 3.

And you think the enemy did as well. That's very curious. Maybe there were out of Crew as well. Hmmm

No I had selected 4 crew to enter combat but some didn't show up leaving gaps in my formation.

By the way eventually I tried leaving him out of the boarding action and sending 4 new crew in and handily won the subsequent action. Then got hung again when the enemy captain and lone enemy soldier spawned in back 2 spots of their location and none of my 4 would fire their pistols despite the more forward enemy being shown as in range.

[Cory Trese]

Fixed a set of bugs in there. This report was very helpful, thanks.

[xdesperado]

Feb 3, 2017 23:45:23 GMT -5 Cory Trese said:

Fixed a set of bugs in there. This report was very helpful, thanks.

Again I want to apologise for coming across rudely in original post.
We're here to help you through the Alpha process so you can deliver the best possible game to everyone.
Your doing a great job and glad my post helped you squash some bugs.