#Null pointer dereference crash after continuing game.

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🛠️ Description: the game crashes every time after 7 seconds in-world play after restoring from save game. Logcat shows a null pointer dereference in GameThread. Going to an older save game extends time until roughly the same place as before is reached.
🛠️ Steps-to-reproduce: Continue the game and do anything. Or nothing. It always crashes after 7 seconds of game play time. Time in menus don't count toward the 7 seconds. Saving and loading still work but do not affect how long before the crash occurs, which is always after a total of 7 seconds has passed in the radius after launch.
🛠️ Frequency: always. I have reproed over 50 times in a row trying make progress in the game 5 seconds at a time.
🛠️ VR headset and controllers: MQ3 with stock controllers.
🛠️ _Using Steam VR (for Oculus users): No
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Update: i did find that if every 5 seconds I save the game and then immediately reload from that save, that I can defer the crash temporarily and continue as long as I repeat the cycle. Is there some codepath that is briefly disabled after restoring from a save game? NPC logic perhaps? I'm going to try doing this save/load loop long enough to make it back to home base and see if that makes a difference as it would be nice to play this game again.

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Update2: made it back to unscp headquarters with by saving/loading every 5 seconds described above. Finished the mission (return broken sensor) and now returned to Forest. Crashing stopped. Presumably leaving the map entirely reset something? May be unrelated, but early in the level, I did encounter a glitched npc that jumped down from an observation tower, plunging under the ground and then launching straight up into the sky, disappearing into a speck as he was shouting and shooting. Funny. Oh well. At least I can play again.

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Update3: i got it to start happening again. Similar mission. Same location. Retrieving a sensor in the north end of the map, northeast of the bridge on Forest. Started crashing again after picking up the sensor. By repeatedly saving after 5 seconds and relauncing the game after each crash, I finally got it to stop crashing a bit after crossing the bridge gping west.

ashen nimbus
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I think that save is gone for good

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Does it happen in every save?

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Yes. Every save game after it started happening would crash in about 7 seconds after loading until I crossed the bridge heading west. I would save after counting to 5 to make progress. A little past that, the save games didn't crash anymore and I could play normally again.

ashen nimbus
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Have you tried uninstalling it and re installing it?

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Not yet. Can backup my save game files? It has taken me a long time to get where I am, and since it is not happening now, I woukdn't immediately know if it is fixed.