B6 battle vierwer MIA.. Release in 2 weeks?

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Upon initiating a fight and selecting view, the battle viewer never showed up.  The map and UI was still there but completely non responsive.. Was just about to ALT TAB out & kill it when i heard the zap of lasers firing.  It was 2 7 ship fleets that were pretty evenly matched and being stuck on 1x it took awhile to resolve its self. If i randomly clicked around on the map where the BV buttons should be i could tell the buttons though hidden did their stuff.  Blind clicking i must have hit replay .. got to hear the whole fight over again.Never could/did the sopt to exit the BV so i had to kill the pgm.  this has happened twice in like 20 hours of play

 

Ticket ID #TRZ-162-50261

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I had the same issue once with the battle viewer in 5.2.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

welcome late nighter :grin: Strange 100+ hours in B5 many many fights,  and never saw before B6

 

All the things myself and other are seeing with B6 has got me wonder if there release date i 2w is a good ides.  I mean i like the game with all its faults because it in beta and we expect it.. I thing if if fair for me to voice the opinion... we beta testers have lived thorough the evolution and see that it just gets better all the time.

I like SD and GC1-3 and do not want to see then get slammed when the populous starts buying it in droves only to have be a disappointment Certain things may just be mino, others are long discussion on design (collapsing tech, YOR reproduction ..) None of theses should hold up 1.0

But just look at the support forum there e still many game breaking issues and unexplained crashes.

Now i am still having fun and i suspect every other beta tester out there is too Because we all know it is a bets.  I think it if fair to say that the majority John Q public gamers are going to be a tad upset at SD and the game many game breaking issues are not resolved.  And i would HATE to see flood of bad reviews once it really out there

the VERY DEDICATED AND TALENTED FOLK'S AT SD may just have a plan to pull the old rabbit out of the hat and hit a home run.  The size and complexity of this game requires a very diverse pool of tester to dig in and play every beta not only to see,try,test fixes and new features; But also no make sure that something new and unforeseen  breaks something that worked previously

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

SD does have one advantage --- they have a large and hard working group of testers --- but that's not the real advantage --- they listen to them and work the stuff they send in.

We shall see, it could go either way.  My point on release is only that they know best, so I am not going to worry about it.   Just keep catching those flies (er bugs).

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Seen this mentioned in other threads, and it's happened to me 3 times this morning, when it never happened in B4 or B5.

As the OP says, the interface and game is still running, but you just can't see it, although I can still see the cursor.
I even managed to let the battle finish and find the exit battle button, taking me back to the main map.
However the graphics never came back - each time I've had to alt+f4 and reload an autosave.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Happened to me in Beta 5, haven't had enough time to play 6 to see it yet. To me this is a must-fix bug.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've had that once in B5 but it worked itself out eventually. Haven't had one in B6.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I also find the battle viewer still often freezes.

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I appreciate all the feedback on this. We do have a fix cooking in a hot patch for this issue. :)

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Cool as long as your aware of the issue and working on it.