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Hi,

I've been having this issue plenty of times now, even after installing the latest version 1.022, so since I haven't found any thread about this issue, I figured I would open one myself.

It usually starts mid mission: drone vision (for all drones) does not work properly. At the beginning it seems as if the room where the drone is when the bug starts is moving together with the drone. It is possible to somehow see the real room you are navigating in the background, but doors or other drones/items don't show up (or are difficult to see). This happens with all the drones. Degauss doesn't do anything. After a while the drone's view turn into a red/yellow/green screen and nothing can be seen. Since it's still possible to move around (and the console works perfectly), I'm usually able to finish the mission, but boarding another ship doesn't fix it (see attached screenshots of such case). Restarting the game (as in exit the application and open it again) works though.

It happened a couple of times that after ending a mission with this bug the "results" screen froze and I had to force quit the game... when opening it again I had lost my previous "save", and was presented with new starting set of drones. Objectives were preserved though.

I haven't find out what triggers it, so far seems to show up after I've been playing for a while, say, boarded 4-5 ships.

I'm playing in a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.11.5, Intel Core i5 2,4 GHz, 8 GB of memory. I have the log of the latest time I got this bug, I can send by email if it helps :)

It's not a critical bug, but it can get annoying when it happens :) In any case, the game is great, I'm enjoying it a lot!! Thanks!
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killerrabbitt: Hi,

I've been having this issue plenty of times now, even after installing the latest version 1.022, so since I haven't found any thread about this issue, I figured I would open one myself.

It usually starts mid mission: drone vision (for all drones) does not work properly. At the beginning it seems as if the room where the drone is when the bug starts is moving together with the drone. It is possible to somehow see the real room you are navigating in the background, but doors or other drones/items don't show up (or are difficult to see). This happens with all the drones. Degauss doesn't do anything. After a while the drone's view turn into a red/yellow/green screen and nothing can be seen. Since it's still possible to move around (and the console works perfectly), I'm usually able to finish the mission, but boarding another ship doesn't fix it (see attached screenshots of such case). Restarting the game (as in exit the application and open it again) works though.

It happened a couple of times that after ending a mission with this bug the "results" screen froze and I had to force quit the game... when opening it again I had lost my previous "save", and was presented with new starting set of drones. Objectives were preserved though.

I haven't find out what triggers it, so far seems to show up after I've been playing for a while, say, boarded 4-5 ships.

I'm playing in a MacBook Pro, OS X 10.11.5, Intel Core i5 2,4 GHz, 8 GB of memory. I have the log of the latest time I got this bug, I can send by email if it helps :)

It's not a critical bug, but it can get annoying when it happens :) In any case, the game is great, I'm enjoying it a lot!! Thanks!
I'm glad you like it! Now for the "bad" news...I'm afraid you've encountered a known, and serious issue that affects very specific MacBooks (primarily), and we believe only those with the Intel iris graphic card. We call it the Mac Rainbow Bug.

There's not as post here about it, but there's a thread that might be good for you to see on Steam that's dedicated to this bug: http://steamcommunity.com/app/254320/discussions/0/364042262873891466/

If you do not have a steam account, I can copy the relevant text here. The basic summary is this bug affects various games (boo) and so far no known fix (double boo). We're going to be contacting Unity this week to see if we can get some love, but there's a game by Blizzard (Hearthstone) that has it, and we are a little doubtful of our success in getting their help if THEY can't get Unity to fix! Our mac players there have also mentioned other games that have the same issue on their hardware.

Please read that thread if you can. Some players have found "workarounds" by lowering quality settings so they last longer.

We are also adding an option to the game (hopefully patched this week), specifically motivated by this bug. That will let you kill the mission and replay it. Currently if you kill it (or the game finally crashes before you can get out), the ship is marked as visited so that not only do you get kicked out for a reason not your fault, you don't even get to try it again. We're adding that to help ease the pain a bit while we continue to wrestle with it.

Sorry about this, and I so wish my reply was better and a more hopeful one!
Post edited May 30, 2016 by meisjp
Hi! Thanks for the answer!
The link to the steam thread works even without an account, so I've been able to read all about it and yes, as you guessed, the Mac Rainbow Bug is my issue (love the name!) I'll check it for updates and try the workarounds they mention :)

The option to exit the mission and still be able to visit that same ship would certainly help, specially in the cases where the drones view is not working when boarding a new ship, as otherwise it's a waste of (precious) fuel. Hopefully you'll find a way not to make it an obvious choice for those not having the bug, so it doesn't disrupt the "no second chances" game mechanic :)

Good luck with this nasty bug!