Random General Death on Load Up

[Rampage]

Load a saved game and immediately get hit with a notice that one of my generals has somehow died in battle. Its always the same general to die after he's been "marked" however, regardless of how many times I try and reload and hope its not going to happen again.

This sound familiar to anyone else, because as you can imagine, I'd very much appreciate a fix.

[Gigantus]

If a general has died in battle before saving then a restart will show that message. When did you save - just after a battle?

[Rampage]

Unfortunately that is not the case. One general will simply die randomly, regardless of who or where they are at the time.

I thought it was pre-battle save corruption, as mentioned in this thread which talks about the same problem: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...orrupted-Saves

but my loads are not pre-battle as far as I can remember of the past occasions this has happened. I was hoping someone might have stumbled unto the answer since then.

[Gigantus]

Does it happen with any save or just a particular one?

We do have a few 'kill_character' commands in the script which get issued during the Liu Bei mission - but I doubt they will be the reason for this happening.

[helloperator9]

I get the same thing, playing as Liu Bei, after recruiting Pang Tang. It's happened twice, each time to a general in Zhuge Liang's army - it'd be acceptable except the generals who've died have been Zhang Fei and Guan Yu! Each time it's only affected the autosave and quick save, and I've reverted to earlier saves without trouble.

It was never before or after battles they were involved in either so I'm stumped. It happens immediately upon loading the saves, just informing me of their deaths. Very odd, perhaps a scripting error?

[Gigantus]

I will have to check the script. There are some 'kill' lines - but they only involve the player's missions. There defection is simulated by killing the original character and spawning him again with the new faction, something that should not happen unless it's for the player.

[teoku]

I do happen to have the same problem. It occurs when a bribe at some generals and then have a faulty does not show. Then they dead when loading or end turn. I do not think it's related mission of Liu.

[Captain_Deckard]

This just happened to me (Liu Bei) with Lauo Huoa. He randomly died and no matter how far back I go when loading previous saves it always says he died when the game loads.

[Captain_Deckard]

I was able to fix it by going back further in my saves (I had stopped checking them just before the one that got rid of the error).

[Bingbangbong]

Happens to me sometimes when leaving settlements. The army sinks into settlement and when moved out after locating with list, the commanding general either dies or respawns in far southeast of map by nan man settlement. If I reload the general just dies outright

[Seether]

Does anyone have any logs of when these things happen (outside of pre-battle load/saves)?