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So I seem to have an unusual save game glitch that also has broken the game beyond playability short of nuking the cloud saves and uninstalling the game itself (which I had to do).

(Spoilers) I had reached the mission: Old boy's club, made my through Parapsychology and met up with Marshall. In the next room past her, you find her rangers fighting Hiss. I managed to clear most of the enemies but died to an explosion. When I reloaded in and went back to this room, the dialog still played that I had to save the rangers, but there where no enemies fighting. I tried to activate the control center, but then her character model gets stuck in a t-pose and I'm unable to progress past this.. tried sever times to reload, shutdown, etc. Same issue.

The next thing I tried was to reload from the start of the mission rather than selecting to continue game. Lost some progress, no big deal. Then I notice things aren't triggering. Items and collectables are gone as if I had already collected them, but they're not in my inventory or part of the collectables list. I reach the Parapsychology room and the cut scene wont trigger. I also tried going into the files, deleting one of the previous saves, running back and its still giving the same issue.

Has anyone run into this glitch? I've seen a few bug problems posted but nothing like this. Really disheartening and I'm afraid of playing the game just to run into it again later.
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delicious_coffee: So I seem to have an unusual save game glitch that also has broken the game beyond playability short of nuking the cloud saves and uninstalling the game itself (which I had to do).

(Spoilers) I had reached the mission: Old boy's club, made my through Parapsychology and met up with Marshall. In the next room past her, you find her rangers fighting Hiss. I managed to clear most of the enemies but died to an explosion. When I reloaded in and went back to this room, the dialog still played that I had to save the rangers, but there where no enemies fighting. I tried to activate the control center, but then her character model gets stuck in a t-pose and I'm unable to progress past this.. tried sever times to reload, shutdown, etc. Same issue.

The next thing I tried was to reload from the start of the mission rather than selecting to continue game. Lost some progress, no big deal. Then I notice things aren't triggering. Items and collectables are gone as if I had already collected them, but they're not in my inventory or part of the collectables list. I reach the Parapsychology room and the cut scene wont trigger. I also tried going into the files, deleting one of the previous saves, running back and its still giving the same issue.

Has anyone run into this glitch? I've seen a few bug problems posted but nothing like this. Really disheartening and I'm afraid of playing the game just to run into it again later.
Hello,
I have had somehow similar problems.At first I played game until the containment sector but decided to start a new game.Beginning at executive sector was fine but when I reached maintenance sector,things went weird.
Containers were already opened and locked doors were already unlocked.Control points was already claimed and Ahti didn't gave me quests.He was just standing there without saying anything.Anyhow missions triggered when I went to mission areas.Also I didn't get evade power because merry-go-round horse mission didn't trigger.
It looks like game is messing my new game saves with older saves.So I deleted everything from my documents folder and started new game once again.So far everything has worked fine now.But this is very annoying bug.
Sorry to hear you had a similar problem.. hopefully they have a fix planned at some point.

I read through multiple forums that turning off the gog overlay might help alleviate some problems, but this issue doesn't seem to be exclusive to the gog version. I also noticed some of the achievements were bugged, although I don't really care about them too much. When I had tried reloading from the beginning of the mission to see if it would fix the initial bug, all of a sudden I got a bunch of different achievements all at once.
Post edited September 28, 2020 by delicious_coffee
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delicious_coffee: Sorry to hear you had a similar problem.. hopefully they have a fix planned at some point.

I read through multiple forums that turning off the gog overlay might help alleviate some problems, but this issue doesn't seem to be exclusive to the gog version. I also noticed some of the achievements were bugged, although I don't really care about them too much. When I had tried reloading from the beginning of the mission to see if it would fix the initial bug, all of a sudden I got a bunch of different achievements all at once.
Ah yes,I have turned overlay off but I don't think it is problem with this issue.I can't see any other explanation that game is somehow messing with saves.I just finished main game today and there was only one small issue.Traffic light in Containment area was appeared once again there after I had already cleansed it.But that wasn't big issue.
Achievements is not big deal for me if they are bugged.But of course it is annoying if you want collect them all.
(Minor Spoiler regarding Ability unlocks)

Hi,

Did anyone confirm a fix for this issue, as I appear to have hit the same bug regarding access to the maintance sector. Once I complete the hotline task and commence from the control point after initially opening up the ability points part. Everything from this point appears to have already been completed or open. I also noticed I was unable to do the merry-go round horse side quest and was unable to unlock the dash ability due to it not dropping me into the hole.

Just noticed after reloading the bugged save a few times that GOG have now given me two achievements for 80 and 120 collectibles

Fix Found - Quoted from another chat "I have the same issue. After starting a new game it seems some things are not reset making the game almost unplayable. My solution: turn off cloud sync for Control, Backup and delete your save game in C:\user\you\documents\my games\control . Now start a new game. You can turn on cloud sync again now. Now you have the real fresh experience you should have."
Post edited November 02, 2023 by CoolExp
I started a new game yesterday and I encountered this glitch once again. First of all, everything was fine until hotline mission. After that, things went weird again. Containers were already opened and control points(whitch I haven't reached yet) was already claimed. So if there is anyone still unfamiliar with this bug, turn Galaxy overlay and cloud saves off before starting a new game. Also clear savegame data.