#Colony Sickness Bug (Utopia + Story)

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lethal shoal
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I've been plagued (heh) by a bug in FP2 where some games will seemingly randomly trigger something either related to sick people healing / sick people being healed in a colony / city, where it causes the entire location to have everyone instantly become sick

It's been around since before the Fractured Utopias DLC and it disappeared for a while after it, so I assumed it was gone, but nah lol

The main thing which pushes me to make this is that I just recently discovered that it can happen in the Story too, which so far it's always been Utopia (usually colonies, once or twice the main Utopia city)

I'm gonna drop a save or two here when i figure out how it works, but Idk if u guys would need a save before it triggers too

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(What it causes a colony to look like)

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Since the number is so massive, pulling people back --> sending em back doesn't fix the issue

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And while in Utopia I believe u could just abandon the colony and return, this is the story, so nah

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Not only does this bug cause tons of issues, but it can't really be ignored in the story either, if it happens during the exiling ending with the faction colony + during Voracity, it'd could be a game ender / major annoyance

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Heck, I don't believe I'll be able to continue this save cause it seems to trigger in the same spot

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Getting another Save version, looks like the number changes each time?

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lethal shoal
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Colony Sickness Bug (Utopia + Story)

lethal shoal
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(Notably watching the Dreadnought may prevent it, same with me also unemploying workers --> making people homeless / cold, idk if it's relevant tho)

cedar pivot
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this just happened to me in Story Mode.

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i don't own the DLC.

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on PS5 btw.

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it triggered at the same time I completed Scouting of an area.

lethal shoal
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@cedar pivot Idk if they have seen this or nah but if it's still an issue, maybe mark that lethal emoji, makes em prioritize it more I assume

lethal shoal
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Happened to me again

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This is actually really inconveniant this time cause I'm near a whiteout + can't handle all these people, so it's driven me to just quit this game for now

lethal shoal
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Bug has happened to me again

indigo quartz
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Maybe its a sign that we must not play Colony

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They just suckass XD

lethal shoal
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So I needed it for BNW + couldn't even abandon it to fix the bug

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The second time this bug ended a BNW run I need to do to fully play the mod

indigo quartz
lethal shoal
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Happened again, main story

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Have to go back 20 weeks to an autosave

indigo quartz
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At this point dawg, there must be something you do that causing it. Whats the last thing you do to cause it to trigger? Whats the trigger???

real cipher
lethal shoal
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Where it's like "112 people got warm" or "124 people got better" and such

lethal shoal
indigo quartz
lethal shoal
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Ya

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Idk why

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It just sometimes flips to massive negatives

indigo quartz
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But how are you consistently getting that. I never get that bug ever with healing people in colony

real cipher
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It's gotta be related to the population bug

lethal shoal
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I'm just that lucky

indigo quartz
indigo quartz
lethal shoal
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Idk

real cipher
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I got the -millions healed in NL once

lethal shoal
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That's normal for me

indigo quartz
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Maybe i dont play colony enough to know

real cipher
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NL isn't a colony

indigo quartz
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NL?

lethal shoal
indigo quartz
real cipher
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New London

lethal shoal
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Didn't fire again

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The save above though always fired

indigo quartz
lethal shoal
indigo quartz
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Nice

real cipher
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CAN YOU REPRODUCE IT?

lethal shoal
real cipher
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IF SO PROVIDE A SAVE AND INSTRUCTIONS

lethal shoal
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@indigo quartz How do i reach saves again

real cipher
lethal shoal
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LOOK UP

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Cough

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I mean

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If u casually scroll up, u will see my archived sources

real cipher
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I don't see instructions to reproduce

indigo quartz
lethal shoal
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I have a save before and after

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It naturally triggers

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On the same day

real cipher
lethal shoal
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Unless something changes I presume, for example heat or pops

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I already said

lethal shoal
real cipher
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@surreal badger we seem to have a save that consistently reproduces the -healing bug in here which is probably also related to the population bug

indigo quartz
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Come to think of it, i got the pop bug while also trying to get algorithm sickness event

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Which means I have high disease

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But im pretty sure thats not just it.

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I have proteans save but maybe not now, today i gotta do report

lethal shoal
indigo quartz
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I think

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Or maybe the order is different

real cipher
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Appdata 11bit frostpunk 2 saves

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I forget if it's the local, local low, or roaming version of appdata

lethal shoal
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How to app data

indigo quartz
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You go to your user

real cipher
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Type %appdata% in file explorer's address bar

lethal shoal
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I'm used to Paradox files, not Frostpunk

indigo quartz
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File with your name

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Or that too

lethal shoal
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Btw if u guys want u can judge my playstyle + New London setup

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(I was spamming techs for the exiling Pilgrims route tho thats why the tech is weird)

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Notably, both bugs happened while I was looking at Winterhome

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While when I tried again I was in NL

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I already did similar things above + noted similar stuff so I won't repeat myself much

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But ya, 100% there's a tie between looking at the map and it bugging out

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Unless I'm just really lucky

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(For the help)

indigo quartz
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My pop bug happen without colony and while i was in city

lethal shoal
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Oh interesting

indigo quartz
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Yeah, i thinl there is similar but specific trigger

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I got gazzillion amount of population

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But im pretty sure i did something specific

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Fuckkkkkk i cant rmemeber

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Ill try to recreate it later

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I have the proteans speedrun save

lethal shoal
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It's always been the sickness bug

indigo quartz
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Do you get a gazzillion people?

lethal shoal
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No

lethal shoal
indigo quartz
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Ouh.... welp, nvm

lethal shoal
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Or

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Idk

indigo quartz
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That shit says 57 millions inhabitant healed

lethal shoal
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Read the name of the chat

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Negative

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And it's -57

indigo quartz
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Wait, so whats your population then

real cipher
indigo quartz
lethal shoal
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Well

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The issue is that u gain people

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Does it happen from population growth?

indigo quartz
real cipher
lethal shoal
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If the Sicknesses and population growths are both in the millions

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Makes sense it'd be the same type of code

real cipher
lethal shoal
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I just finished micromanaging the colony to be properly evacuated too

real cipher
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Okay but 11bit probably couldn't reproduce it since they've been asking for saves every time it's been reported
And now they CAN

lethal shoal
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I have a save from 2 weeks before but still

lethal shoal
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Idk what changed really

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But I'm sure they'll be glad to have 2 seperate save sets

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Makes it a lot easier

real cipher
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Yours is probably the closest save before the bug

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When i got a similar bug in the beta my last save was like 30 weeks before

lethal shoal
real cipher
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If you need to do the exact same things to get it again, you're NOT getting that if you need to do THIRTY WEEKS of exact same stuff

lethal shoal
lethal shoal
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It's certainly a head scratcher

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K

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Imma do a test

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Imma be watching the Dreadnought instead

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Of Winterhome

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Wait idk if it's 231 or 232

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But the colony don't matter

real cipher
lethal shoal
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I never changed it from autosettings

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And even then

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My computer struggles to load it lategame anyways

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Making it look better will probably make my computer explode

real cipher
lethal shoal
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Ah

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It was lagging a bit cause the pop loss lol

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How it usually looks

real cipher
lethal shoal
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My computer is hot

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Maybe it's dialed down or somethin cause of that

real cipher
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Yeah this is still quick pixly

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lethal shoal
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It aint the best but it works

real cipher
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Maybe it is actually running lower res

lethal shoal
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Thats with the zoom in tool

real cipher
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Okay it's not actually running lower res then

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Take better screenshots!!!

lethal shoal
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Is this automatic?

real cipher
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Automatic settings are determined based on your computer's specs

lethal shoal
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Aka, my computer sucks and it realized that lol

real cipher
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More of an ie than an aka

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Aka: also known as
"Automatic settings are based on your computer's specs" isn't also known as "your computer sucks"
Ie: that is
Automatic settings are based on your specs, that is, your computer sucks

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I've heard "in essence" used as a mnemonic to remember ie, but i just think of it as "that is"

lethal shoal
lethal shoal
lethal shoal
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K ya it still triggers with this save

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Assuming u are on a colony

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It triggers Week 431, day 1

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This save starts at week 430 start

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Was staring in the city at the time

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No bug

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It's so weird

indigo quartz
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So atleast you know a work around

lethal shoal
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It's still really annoying tho

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Cause A) if I don't have a recent save, I lose all progress