Banner Saga - Bug Report Thread

Hi there! Just got Banner Saga off of Steam and having a good time so far. :)

There seems to be a huge graphics bug though. For some reason all the characters show up as white and apart from 3 characters (who for some reason all have bows??) everybody's male. That can't be right. I mean, the Danelaw was alot more diverse than Yorkshire is now. link Also, 3 out of 6 Viking women were buried with weapons, all of them swords.link So everybody being white dudes is clearly a bug, right???

Does anyone know how to fix this? It's getting really annoying. :(

So I loaded up my copy of TBS and was super excited to play!

...only to find there was zero audio. My headphones were plugged in - I proceeded to check my speakers, and then all my sound systems. Everything was fine. I could hear sound in every aspect of my computer, even other Steam games.

Has anyone encountered this?

Right in the main menu, I can see obvious tearing, and there seems to not only be no v-sync option in the settings, but forcing it in my video card's control panel doesn't work.

Tearing is a total game breaker for me. Is there any workaround for this at the moment?

Haven't seen any tearing through the game, but it's there when viewing credits. Apparently there is no v-sync currently

Strange. Have your resolved that? Have you ever played Factions? Did the sound work fine there? I would attempt to update the Adobe Flash player first...

No tearing in the game itself for me either. It works fine.

But, in the main-screen/menu and credits, the scrolling-down of the text is a little "choppy"... I mean it's there alright, but it hurts my eyes trying to focus on little details.

With people slowly reporting their various problems, I figured we could use one main topic so the guys have easier way to check what's up.
Mine are below - those are by no means serious ones, just thought Stoic will want to patch stuff at some point (after they're done celebrating a successful launch).

- Iver's description after his "transformation" reads {ENTITY:iver_desc}
- Nid is a monster. I promoted her right after she joined and she got something like 10 points (12 exactly - she gets 10 bonus points). She is now level 2 with only two points missing to be completely maxed.
- Game crashes after a longer session, just like Factions did.

I experienced a bug where the game left windowed mode, froze on the loading screen, and minimized to a smaller screen size. In both cases I was exiting a battle

I found a minor spelling mistake in Chapter 2. During a conversation with Tryggvi after leaving Stogr and passing the godstone. I asked for more of his particular brand of advice and he said something about never trusting people; something about staring you in the eye through a helmet and lying. There was "your" istead of "you."

"Spoiler" you have been warned. While I was trying to destroy the bridge, anytime a varl got to choose who to attack (was standing next to 2/more people) he would not finish his turn. at that point I cannot take any actions besides opening the menu and either closing or reloading the game. next time I try im going to just have to hope to set it up with them all stuck with only one option to attack, but that hasnt been fruitful so far.

Here's some from me:

• Sigbjorn's description (when in PGs/Heroes screen) is the generic WH from Factions, not personalized.
• Typo -- Right after/before meeting Sig, there's a typo saying something like "...they caravan..." (the "y" shouldn't be there).
• Buff/Debuff icon flashing on all character portraits (check pic below)
• I think I had an issue with the Silver Arrow vs. Bellower, but didn't grab a snapshot. So, his ARM was at 10 and so was Rook's STR. Rook was in-range and the UI lighted up the purple tiles for the Silver Arrow attack. However, even though Bellower was in-range (one of his 2x2 tiles was), I couldn't select him as a target!

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...OnAllUnits.jpg

Spelling mistake first time talking to Yrsa; "She watches you approach with her held tilted back, and points a thumb toward Ludin's tent." Direct quote.

Just two bugs:
- stopped responding after a few hours. Only happened once, and I was alt+tab'ing a lot.

- when I used Rook's "Mark Prey" ability on a dredge ranged unit (slinger?): the ability triggered, multiple units attacked the dredge (including ranged attack from 2 of my archers) slinger moved (was moving while taking damage, if I remember the animation sequence correctly). After moving and damage had been dealt (it survived), the combat turn didn't progress/move to the next turn.
Everything else in the UI seemed fine, but I couldn't do anything to continue the fight. I loaded a game and went through the fight again w/ no problem, and I've never encountered that or a similar bug again.

I think I also saw some typos and maybe a grammatical error or two, but I didn't take note. Sorry.

When I boot up the game and it enters the title screen I see no menu and no matter what button I press or wherever I move the mouse and click I cannot go any further.

I somehow managed to make the menu appear once and got into the game. I was able to load the game and everything worked just fine.

But now when I could play the game again, I press escape on the title screen and try to resume or to load a game it doesn’t work. There is seemingly no games to load when I click resume it goes back to the title screen.
Here are some pictures to show you what is happening.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...25669306_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...58629927_n.jpg

Can corroborate this, but mine happened in another transition, think from a conversation into a city view
- Iver's description after his "transformation" reads {ENTITY:iver_desc} as well
Sigbjorn's description (when in PGs/Heroes screen) is the generic WH from Factions, not personalized.

and a new one:

several typeos:
Iver carrying (SPOILER) Allette with his Arms
The description of the Ventur Sea, last sentence seems to be wrong, It says: "...and no ports of note alone the east coast..." , feels like alone should be along

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Originally Posted by gotthammer

when I used Rook's "Mark Prey" ability on a dredge ranged unit (slinger?): the ability triggered, multiple units attacked the dredge (including ranged attack from 2 of my archers) slinger moved (was moving while taking damage, if I remember the animation sequence correctly). After moving and damage had been dealt (it survived), the combat turn didn't progress/move to the next turn.
Everything else in the UI seemed fine, but I couldn't do anything to continue the fight. I loaded a game and went through the fight again w/ no problem, and I've never encountered that or a similar bug again.

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I think this is the infamous game-stopping bug that they've been hunting for a long time! Where there any burning coals around? I would suggest that you find & backup the game logs, where this bug happened, and email them to Stoic.

Okay, so I caught a bug on video. It's also relating to the slingers, but it didn't hang the entire match. In the fight, I had used Tempest on two adjacent dredge, the grunt died from the attack but the slinger was brought to 1 STR, which he then took the shockwave's splash damage, killing him as he started his move animation away. As you can see in the video, he got stuck looping the move animation (complete with repeating footstep sounds and everything) though he was dead.

https://www.twitch.tv/lolisauce/b/495595333 (skip forward to 1:50:45)


Sounds like these slingers have been causing some issues, eh?

Transition from chapter 4 to 5, I started the dialog at the end of chapter 4 and when it should jump to the scene with Juno it went from fullscreen to windowed and the screen stayed black with the 'loading' text in the bottom right corner.

I chose Rook to carry the arrow, but it's not showing up in his action selection, so I can't tag Bellower with it and proceed.

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Originally Posted by gotthammer

- when I used Rook's "Mark Prey" ability on a dredge ranged unit (slinger?): the ability triggered, multiple units attacked the dredge (including ranged attack from 2 of my archers) slinger moved (was moving while taking damage, if I remember the animation sequence correctly). After moving and damage had been dealt (it survived), the combat turn didn't progress/move to the next turn.
Everything else in the UI seemed fine, but I couldn't do anything to continue the fight. I loaded a game and went through the fight again w/ no problem, and I've never encountered that or a similar bug again.

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I just had exactly the same issue, using the same ability. I have the log if needed, but can't seem to attach it here.