Official Alien RPG Bugs Thread

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Originally Posted by ghost1850

Hi again,
My players get an error whenever I add any character into the combat tracker including another PC or their own character. I do not see the error on the GM side of the console. No extensions loaded, 2 modules loaded (Player Section and Game Mother Section). My players only have the Player Section loaded. I have created a new campaign, but the same thing happens. The error that comes up is:
[ERROR] Handler error: [string "ct/scripts/clientct.lua"]:28: attempt to index field 'summary_targets' (a nil value)
As far as I know, it did not affect anything else, it just pops up the error and annoys them. Let me know if you need the logs. I could not replicate it on any other system I have but this one. Thank you.

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I can reproduce this.

Clear campaign, no ext ect... GM host locally, Player client connects and assigns themselves a PC. GM client drags to the CT and the Player client gets the '[ERROR] Handler error: [string "ct/scripts/clientct.lua"]:28: attempt to index field 'summary_targets' (a nil value)' error.

It only throws for PCs which are assigned and have a player connected, not for PCs without connected players.

I just pushed an update to the Alien ruleset that should get rid of this script error on the player client when adding entries to the combat tracker.

Regards,
JPG

I am having issues with the PC Ship window, specifically, the CREW tab. In a brand new campaign, no extensions, only base modules (Alien - Game Mother Section, Alien - Player Section, Alien - Ruleset Manual) loaded, I click on PC Ship on the right nav, then + to create a new ship. When I click the CREW tab, I get a series of console errors:
Attachment 54366

This also happens when I use the USCSS Montero from Chariots of the Gods, which is the campaign I am working on.

Just pushed a hot fix for this issue. Can you please run a new Check for Updates, and try again?

Also, in the future, could you click the Compile Logs button to get the full logs; as the actual issue was not on the screen that caused the cascade.

Thanks,
JPG

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Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

Just pushed a hot fix for this issue. Can you please run a new Check for Updates, and try again?

Also, in the future, could you click the Compile Logs button to get the full logs; as the actual issue was not on the screen that caused the cascade.

Thanks,
JPG

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I ran the update but it did not seem to update anything that I could tell. I have attached the full logs.

Attachment 54370

I just pushed another build, in case the last build didn't go through. Can you check again?

Thanks,
JPG

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Originally Posted by Moon Wizard

I just pushed another build, in case the last build didn't go through. Can you check again?

Thanks,
JPG

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It looks like it's working now. Thanks for being so responsive!

Hello, I am experiencing similar PC ship issues, this time when assigning a PC to a ship station (the Montero in Chariot of the Gods). Relevant logs attached. Thank you for looking into this.

Assigning crew to a PC ship (that has been shared), triggers the following error (see log below).

[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] Frame tabs contains out-of-range values in BottomLeft.
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:33:46 PM] [WARNING] template: Could not find template () in class (charship_main)
[10/30/2022 8:34:18 PM] [ERROR] Script execution error: [string "AlienRpg:campaign/scripts/charship_crew.lua"]:131: attempt to index local 'charNode' (a nil value)

-No extensions loaded

Thanks for the reports. We will look into the PC ship issue soon.

Chariots errata:
Cham Pregen character is missing
Why does John have Heavy Weapons ammo? Is this as designed? Bolt gun?
Clayton typo "Copany Agent"

Any ETA on fixing the issue with assigning characters to ships?
Thanks in advance.

Hi, I am on business trip in very remote location where I can't undertake any development activities and Internet access is quite rare. Earliest next week we might pick this up. Apologies for the delay and thank you for the patience!

Adding as bugs, as haven't received a response:

It should be possible to edit consumables manually (air, food etc). We can't figure out how to reduce/increase consumables manually - even the GM can't. Even if you remove and put on your spacesuit, it just adds Air to consumables rather than resetting it, which isn't desirable behavior. So when someone removes a suit and puts it back on, we have to go through consumable rolls until we hit exactly the amount the suit has.

How do you track individual ammo for something like the Bolt Gun? You have to reload it after each shot, but how many ammo does it have in each reload?

Tracking and managing consumables involves some manual activities. This is reflected in the ruleset manual

For the ammo tracking, we have the graphical trackers that you can use in general. There is no implementation on per weapon basis though either can be done by nesting ammo clip under the weapon or I make it as feature request for next version of the ruleset.

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Originally Posted by Valyar

Tracking and managing consumables involves some manual activities. This is reflected in the ruleset manual

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Managing them manually is fine, but at the moment it's not even (easily) possible with the ruleset, since the player of GM can't edit the numbers on consumables on the Main page.

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Originally Posted by Magnimost

Managing them manually is fine, but at the moment it's not even (easily) possible with the ruleset, since the player of GM can't edit the numbers on consumables on the Main page.

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Editable boxes are on the inventory page. This is by design.

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Originally Posted by Valyar

Editable boxes are on the inventory page. This is by design.

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Oh I see, thanks! That's a peculiar design choice - the same confusion is with skills and abilities which can't be edited on the combat tab, but can on the main tab.

Therefore follow-up bug report: the dark shading of Attributes, Skills and Consumables on the character sheet suggest they can be changed on the main tab, but the latter can't. Consumables should be lighter shade of gray on the main tab. They are correctly shaded darker on Combat and Inventory tab.

Also, Air consumable increases when the item is picked up in the UI. It should increase only when equipped.

• Clicking on AR in Combat Tracker should trigger Armor Rating roll - it doesn't
• Xeno attacks aren't randomizable - you can only click on an individual outcome, not roll for a random one
• Xeno attacks contain spoilers or editorial text (Drone Headbite: "However, should the GM wish it...")
• Attack resolution in Combat Tracker shows up at the wrong slot or doesn't show up at all, haven't figured out what it does or how it works
• Combat Tracker initiatives don't always go in the order of initiative, and jump around when advancing. Haven't found a pattern.
• None of the stunts work from PC character sheet Combat tab, no matter how many successes are rolled: "ERROR: not enough succcesses to do stunt increase_damage"
• It is unclear from documentation when/where/how CTRL+mouse wheel is to be used to increase base damage of an attack
• Where does the "Apply" button show up for the GM to automate AR roll and damage? (see attack resolution above)

Destroyer of Worlds errata (spoilers)

• Pregen characters are missing portraits. Pictures are in Images, but not as portraits on the character sheet. Dragging the images to the char sheet doesn't work.
• "Fort Nebraska (PC version)" should be a "Handout" instead of a "Map" for consistency (handouts for players, maps for GM)
• "Handout - Fort Nebraska" should specify it is Sub-level 03 - not the whole compound
• Following images (maps) should be marked as GM versions so he doesn't share them accidentally
• Climber Car
• The Insurgent Compound
• Would be nice to have metalinks (e.g. Story DoW - 04 Moonside Locations should have links to Oblivion Bar entrance. Navigating the obtuse FG UI is tough as it is, made worse by the need to hunt down where everything is manually during a game since there's no text search option like there is with a PDF.
• Also would be nice to have metalinks on the maps. E.g. each GM map to have a link to the corresponding Story entry.
• Typo: "Handout - Insurgent Compount"

The order jumping around on the CT is frustrating. Please fix!
Links on the maps would be very helpful.

1. Dragging "equipment" to "gear" box on NPC sheet does nothing. Can't add equipment to NPC, only weapons. Can't add armor.
2. Can't remove "talent" from copied NPC. Copied an NPC. Attempted to modify the NPC by removing the talent. Can delete text but not link. Right click does nothing. No edit button.

OK, I am back. I will start catching up

Will focus on the crew assignment bug first and rest will follow.

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Originally Posted by Magnimost

Chariots errata:
Cham Pregen character is missing
Why does John have Heavy Weapons ammo? Is this as designed? Bolt gun?
Clayton typo "Copany Agent"

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Cham is there, Lyron Cham, Roughneck.
Typo will be fixed.

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Originally Posted by Magnimost

Oh I see, thanks! That's a peculiar design choice - the same confusion is with skills and abilities which can't be edited on the combat tab, but can on the main tab.

Therefore follow-up bug report: the dark shading of Attributes, Skills and Consumables on the character sheet suggest they can be changed on the main tab, but the latter can't. Consumables should be lighter shade of gray on the main tab. They are correctly shaded darker on Combat and Inventory tab.

Also, Air consumable increases when the item is picked up in the UI. It should increase only when equipped.

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Good catch, I will play with the templates to make the editable/non-editable fields much more distinguishable from each other.

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Originally Posted by spoofer

The order jumping around on the CT is frustrating. Please fix!
Links on the maps would be very helpful.

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What is this order jumping? Can you show me, I am not sure what do you mean.
What links on maps? Maybe this is feature suggestion?

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Originally Posted by similarly

1. Dragging "equipment" to "gear" box on NPC sheet does nothing. Can't add equipment to NPC, only weapons. Can't add armor.
2. Can't remove "talent" from copied NPC. Copied an NPC. Attempted to modify the NPC by removing the talent. Can delete text but not link. Right click does nothing. No edit button.

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In 3.4 I [Added] Gear section in NPC profile. This field is not supported by automation and here will be placed all items that shouldn't appear in Combat Tracker. In general Equipment will convert Weapons to Coriolis notation when dragged, this is for the automation. Everything else must be typed. Armor is not assigning armor value automatically. Since I already implemented this in Forbidden Lands, I will cherry pick the code. Registering as feature request so I don't forget once more important bugs are fixed. I hope this makes sense.

For the talent - can't replicate. I copy the NPC, unlock and delete the talent. If you referring to the talent link under special abilities, you have to convert to body text with ctrl+1 or 2, as it is rich text format and there is link.

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Originally Posted by Magnimost

• Clicking on AR in Combat Tracker should trigger Armor Rating roll - it doesn't
• Xeno attacks aren't randomizable - you can only click on an individual outcome, not roll for a random one
• Xeno attacks contain spoilers or editorial text (Drone Headbite: "However, should the GM wish it...")
• Attack resolution in Combat Tracker shows up at the wrong slot or doesn't show up at all, haven't figured out what it does or how it works
• Combat Tracker initiatives don't always go in the order of initiative, and jump around when advancing. Haven't found a pattern.
• None of the stunts work from PC character sheet Combat tab, no matter how many successes are rolled: "ERROR: not enough succcesses to do stunt increase_damage"
• It is unclear from documentation when/where/how CTRL+mouse wheel is to be used to increase base damage of an attack
• Where does the "Apply" button show up for the GM to automate AR roll and damage? (see attack resolution above)

Destroyer of Worlds errata (spoilers)

• Pregen characters are missing portraits. Pictures are in Images, but not as portraits on the character sheet. Dragging the images to the char sheet doesn't work.
• "Fort Nebraska (PC version)" should be a "Handout" instead of a "Map" for consistency (handouts for players, maps for GM)
• "Handout - Fort Nebraska" should specify it is Sub-level 03 - not the whole compound
• Following images (maps) should be marked as GM versions so he doesn't share them accidentally
• Climber Car
• The Insurgent Compound
• Would be nice to have metalinks (e.g. Story DoW - 04 Moonside Locations should have links to Oblivion Bar entrance. Navigating the obtuse FG UI is tough as it is, made worse by the need to hunt down where everything is manually during a game since there's no text search option like there is with a PDF.
• Also would be nice to have metalinks on the maps. E.g. each GM map to have a link to the corresponding Story entry.
• Typo: "Handout - Insurgent Compount"

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• On the portraits - each module comes with portrait pack. You have to switch to Portraits in the Asset window in order to drag them to the PC Sheet. FG does not support export of pre-gens with portraits, must added manually.
• Try to increase the width of the combat tracker to see the various buttons
• You need to have targeting and proper order of executing the reactions, as we are tracking them accross the board.
• I am not sure what this bounding initiative is, will investigate.
• Xenomorph attacks are not yet randomized, this is future enhancement.
• Same with AR rolling from CT - it is for information purposes only (as Stress Level and Air Supply)

The Destroyer of World

• I will try to find time to update the module with those cosmetic changes, though I have no bandwidth to convert it to newer format.

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Originally Posted by Valyar

In 3.4 I [Added] Gear section in NPC profile. This field is not supported by automation and here will be placed all items that shouldn't appear in Combat Tracker. In general Equipment will convert Weapons to Coriolis notation when dragged, this is for the automation. Everything else must be typed. Armor is not assigning armor value automatically. Since I already implemented this in Forbidden Lands, I will cherry pick the code. Registering as feature request so I don't forget once more important bugs are fixed. I hope this makes sense.

For the talent - can't replicate. I copy the NPC, unlock and delete the talent. If you referring to the talent link under special abilities, you have to convert to body text with ctrl+1 or 2, as it is rich text format and there is link.

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Thank you very much. I figured out the gear box, but forgot to come back and delete the post. As for talents, thank you for the advice. That works!

I love this ruleset, by the way. I think the FGU version is wonderfully done.

Has this been mentioned, yet? I get "[ERROR] Script execution error: [string@AlienRPG:scripts/action_panic.lua]@93: attempt to index a nil value."

That happened every time trying to roll panic from the little yellow icon to the right of the Stress track. The odd thing is that it worked a couple of days ago but that is happening now. I'm going to restart things and see if it makes a difference.

Also, a plea for being able to adjust consumables like Air. They play a significant part in my current adventure.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by om

Has this been mentioned, yet? I get "[ERROR] Script execution error: [string@AlienRPG:scripts/action_panic.lua]@93: attempt to index a nil value."

That happened every time trying to roll panic from the little yellow icon to the right of the Stress track. The odd thing is that it worked a couple of days ago but that is happening now. I'm going to restart things and see if it makes a difference.

Also, a plea for being able to adjust consumables like Air. They play a significant part in my current adventure.

Thanks.

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Are you using mods?

The AIR can be adjusted from Gear tab on PC sheet, as all consumables.

Recently I am seeing this error when a PC rolls panic. It is not every time though.
[ERROR] Script execution error: [string "AlienRpg:scripts/action_panic.lua"]:93: attempt to index a nil value

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Originally Posted by spoofer

Recently I am seeing this error when a PC rolls panic. It is not every time though.
[ERROR] Script execution error: [string "AlienRpg:scripts/action_panic.lua"]:93: attempt to index a nil value

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How much is the stress level when this happens?

I cannot reproduce this. Sorry. The players were using pre-generated characters, two characters per player.
Here are some more bugs.
Typo in the Colonial Marines reference manual: "(including offifficers fighting in the field)"
The character builder's pre-defined gear selection mode does not do anything.
The Colonial Marines item "Dog Tags Military ID Key" is missing from the PC builder free form gear selection.
The Colonial Marines item Bi-Mex Anti-Flash Sunglasses seem to not exist.
There isn't a place to record your rank on the character sheet.

I will look into the typos and see where I can put the rank in future update on the character sheet when you are playing CM. Any preference if it should be on main or notes tab?

Not all items are sorted in the free-form gear selection, I have to limit to what a PC can use and depending on the item classification it might be out of the filters. We didn't want ship weapons and etc to be available, so some filtering is in effect and those items might be "victims". Will check, but I don't think this is big issue to add afterwards.

I am not sure what do you mean by "pre-defined gear section mode does not do anything". When you use CM professions or?

Thanks for all of your hard work. Here are a few more...

1. [AGILITY -1] in the CT does not work when the player fires a weapon via the combat tab, but works when rolling from the main tab.
2. The next actor button in the CT is supposed to shift the current turn to the next actor in order. I have three PCs with initiative values assigned in the CT. It works. I then added a new actor via the create item option in the radial menu. It does not have an initiative value. Now when I click next actor, the turn order jumps all over the place.
3. The game sometimes reports stunts and sometimes does not. See image.

Attachment 55712

I am expected the something to appear here (image), ideally the A and B lists, my pre-determined gear, etc. Am I missing a step?

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Thanks for the report, I will add them to the backlog and prioritize. Game reports stunts from skill checks but when pushed we use more generic term, should be OK.

The CM careers are not having the pre-defined gear listed. The approach from the core book with picking two items and the pre-defined list in CM requires some coding to make it work, as I don't think you would like to select pre-defined gear. I will think how to make this convenient for the next release.

Hi, i got the core rulebook both in fgu and physical, and going thru the physical version i noticed there are weapon art missing in the fgu version ( for example the M56A2 smart gun, and the incinerator) is this by design or is it a bug?

Hi all, searched this thread & the forum in general and didn't notice this posted anywhere.

When using the "block" reaction, you can only choose the effects from stunts - the first six isn't included. This means that the PC would have to roll two successes to choose one effect, and a single success does nothing.
Example image:
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1. Cultist attacks - success with stunts. Everything works normal.
2. PC blocks, standard success - no options to add effects.

Clicking one of the reactions in the PC sheet results in the following:
`[ERROR] Script execution error: [string "AlienRpg:scripts/manager_combat2.lua"]:257: attempt to index a nil value`

I will check the rules tomorrow and figure this out.

Hi, there is some text and icons that are bleeding outside their boxes in the character sheets. Old campaign without any extension.Attachment 58826
Attachment 58827
Am I the only one to get this?
Thanks.

MOD: Moved post to bug report thread to help get more view for the developers.

Recently there was some overhaul of the windows and frames to a more standardized way in the base system. Aliens may need some adjustment to this update. I am not the developer that worked on this project, but wanted to shed some light on why this may have some issues at this time.

I just pushed a hot fix for the Alien character sheet layout issues. Please run a new Check for Updates.

Regards,
JPG

Thanks, it works nicely!