My WC1 SM1 mission got everyone killed...! Funeral Bug w/ Video!

sgupta

sgupta

1st Lieutenant
So I'm playing Wing Commander 1; finished the main campaign, and I'm on Secret Missions 1, Mission 9. It's a bear of a mission. My wingman (Spirit) died, so I decided to eject to get to a replay quicker. It started the funeral cutscene (attending), so I decided to watch since I hadn't seen Spirit's before...and hilariously, it went through I think every single wingman. Only Spirit was dead on the board afterwards, so I think this is just a bug, but it was pretty funny.

*SPOILER* This is the Exeter escort mission that turns into the Gwenhyver ambush. It's repeatable when A) Spirit dies [even if you kill her yourself] and B) You eject. I don't know if the particular savegame used matters...ie., I don't know if ANYONE's SM1 #9 savegame would do this, or if it just happens to be some combination of how things have been saved through my personal campaign. I've since determined no matter what happens, Spirit is killed in the mission (even if I land with her by my side), so I think this is related to the well-known KIA overflow bug, though I haven't seen any other mention of this specific part of the bug (though I'd be very surprised if I'm the first to discover it; if so, cool tho').

Video here: youtube.com/watch?v=32c2fNgx7as (I'm keyboarding through so it doesn't take quite as long as it would if I just hadn't). Pretty frakkin' funny - certainly a bad day for Mr. Blair. ^.^
 
Hey, thanks for sharing this. Could you confirm exactly which mission you're referring to?

By Mission 9 do you mean Jotunheim 1, flying in a Raptor with Spirit? Only I'm trying to see if this is a general bug, thus far I haven't been able to recreate it in DOS Secret Missions 1; perhaps it's just a Kilrathi Saga thing.
 
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-danr-, correct, flying with Spirit in a Raptor and it's (I think...that's my count anyways) 9th mission of the SM1 campaign (yes, Jotenheim). *SPOILER* You're supposed to defend/escort an Exeter called the Johann back to the Claw, but when you get there, it turns out it's the rumored Gwenhyver with 5 Rapiers defending.

This is *NOT* Kilrathi Saga. This is the DOS version of Wing Commander as well. (I do own Kilrathi Saga, but experienced bugs when trying to play some years ago [no background planets, nebulas, etc.], so I made a DOS machine to play the DOS version.

Whistler, indeed, I did transfer my WC1 pilot (last save you can have, right before the final mission) to SM1. It probably doesn't happen if you just start SM1 anew (since it's an overflow bug). Also, running WCSAV on the file fixed it, and I'm now past this mission with Spirit alive (and the mission played as normal with her by my side in debrief, etc.).
 
-danr-, I confirm what sgupta said: it's also in the DOS version of WC (I just had it last week, while replaying SM1 in Dosbox!!!)
 
Wow I made the front page! O.O I'm honored. lol I kind of blinked in disbelief when I came here today. =oP I was like...hey...my video looked a lot like tha...WAIT. ^.^
 
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