Friday, January 23, 2009

Colony Free Mission Bug

Just when you thought Sega finally managed to pull off an update correctly, we have a new issue courtesy of this thread on the official PSU forums.

Many of the free missions on the Guardians' Colony, the HIVE, and Rykros are currently not appearing on Universe 1 (Leo) and Universe 2 (Caelum). On PC, selecting a free mission that does show up causes the game to crash to the desktop.

If that wasn't enough, there are a few reports that the Colony rare mission is randomly appearing at some of the bugged counters. Selecting it also causes the game to crash. This rare mission has not yet been released nor was it announced for the past update, so it's safe to say that this was probably an oversight.

Similar problems have occurred with other missions in the past, and they were fixed by taking the servers down for a little while. The same thing will probably happen here, so a rollback is not likely. I imagine that the only reason it was not noticed sooner is that everyone is busy with the Mission Carnival.

UPDATE: Sega apparently is aware of the problem, but is choosing not to deal with it at the moment due to a Carnival-related bug which occasionally freezes the game at Stage 7 of the bonus mission.

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