Major Bug: Immortal Empires game hard freeze during siege defense post 2.1 update

coelhogabriel

Same issue here. Defensive siege with Thorek. 2.0 was OK.

rockinronb

I am experiencing the same issue as posted. The video OP attached reflects my experience.

Ratatat

Same issue here. 3 separate sieges today (playing in defending positions) as a High Elf.

- Game freezes shortly after the beginning of the siege or a minute into it.
- Background sounds continue.
- I can still move around the map with my mouse, but can't interact with the UI/units.

steam_164510408019aUw5N8G

Yeah I just encountered this as well. 2.1 patch.

I picked Thorgrim Grudgebearer, abandoned all my army and suicided my general into a random settlement. Declared war on everyone in order to get somebody to attack my garrison so I could fight a defensive siege battle. Skarsnik attacks me with two stacks a few turns later. Within the battle, it locked up with nothing progressing. The timer was stuck at 2:43, and no units were attacking or moving. I was still able to move the camera.

No mods were used during this test.

Kristowis#2902

Same thing, the game seemingly pauses itself 2 minutes into the settlement defensive battle and all I can do is alt-tab out.

steam_164581593102Ublw0ZP

Same bug. Game unplayable until fixed. Is it possible for me to rollback to 2.0?

When I looked at the other support forums the only option was to rollback to 1.0.

Lethaface#2060

same issue

Dannmug

Same issue After 2.1 All UI and units freeze during siege battles the timing seems to be random but once it's happening in a battle it always happens in the battle and have not found a workaround yet, the camera still works but that's it. No mods ever installed. Playing realm of chaos campaign, not immortal empires.

Zokumei†Magician of Light and Darkness

Same issue here.........

Shasman

Same here

Replicated posts are
https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/321398/game-freezes-during-battles-after-2-1#latest
https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/321378/game-crash-after-2-min-in-battle#latest
https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/321315/battle-freezing#latest

Be sure to put your specs in your post, will help CA Identify the issues

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.60 GHz
32.0 GB Ram
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT

YoMeeks

Same issue here, usually happens right after a gate is broken while defending.

bojsi1

Same, happens most fights, it is game breaking.

ArthasCousland

Same

frkydeakybeatbox

Same issue here

Maugrem

I was hoping there would be a fix in this thread or a dev addressing it. I had to uninstall and reinstall the game after patching because it wouldn't load. Now my campaign cannot progress because I cannot defend my settlement because it freezes. So frustrated, wish I could just use the old version.

nickdiaz57

Same problem here, no mods. Defending Oreon's Camp from vampires. Soon after the battle starts, right around the time melee units reach each other, everything freezes, can still look around and move the camera, music still playing, can't interact with anything. Kind of a must-win battle that can't be won with auto resolve so pretty unfortunate

TheElectorCounts

Having the same problem with 2.1. I'm just over 100 turns in and the end game crisis just started. I can get about 2 minutes into the siege defense and then it freezes at the same spot every time. I have even tried uninstalling and reinstalling but that didn't even work. Hard to want to start a new campaign if this is what its fate will be.

stipliani

Same issue here. Settlement defense battle as Cathay against warriors of chaos. Freezes consistently after a minute or so. Can still zoom and pan around the map, but can't interact with anything else.

steam_164508685520oDavKiJ

Same problem

exveer

Same, happened twice on the same battle (happened once, alt f4'd, tried same battle, happened again), 3 and 7 seconds in respectively. Seemed to both happen when I hovered over enemy units.

Glaucus

Same. Want to mention that mine happens during the Realm of Chaos campaign.

leelareso#4913

same problem here rtx 3080/ ryzen 7 5800x. Im able only to move camera around battlefield all other is freezed. Edit This problem happend to me in normal battles too but less often than in sieges

steam_163071519771uh9aS4p

Same issue here.

CanadianMarshmallow

can confirm this is a thing, just had this happen in a defensive minor settlement battle against a khorne minor faction while playing as Alberic. the softlock happened the moment the notification came up for a building being damaged(a platform i had built in deployment phase). they summoned bloodletters directly infront of aforementioned platform and the moment a single bloodletter entity collided with the platform is when the softlock happened. hope this helps.

32GB of RAM
RTX 3080
intel i9 10th gen

cartouche30

Same issue here and the freeze happening when the gate is opened or/and it pass trough the gate by the AI.

Sebandirr#6265

Same issue here


Geforce 1660 ( 6GB)
RAM 16
Intel Core 5

Sebor02

Yep this is game breaking. Cant continue until this is fixed...

steam_166194930294yjcASNJ

Same issue for lot of people as i see (Same for me too).

The game is unplayable yet and we have no news to know if the bug is under investigation or more.

Defensive siege auto-battle isn't a viable option for settlements, i won lot when it's mark at defeat.

So CA please fix it quickly it's a blocking thing.

Configuration :

I9-9900k
64GB RAM
RTX3070 TI

steam_164508764711eu8wHfl

Same issue, siege battle runs for a few minutes, and then just after mine and the enemies reinforcements arrive it crashes. Music plays, UI works including unit picture in the corner being animated, but all models and map textures etc. freeze up.

I left this for a while to see if it would catch back up, but nothing after 15mins and have the force close the programme.
Entirely unplayable until this is fixed

PC details:

AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
RTX 3060Ti
32GB RAM

SusaVile#9835

I have used one of the savegame files that players left here and was able to replicate the issue.

It happens regardless of any actions I make. If I leave it without touching anything, it freezes; if I move the camera away from the action, it freezes; if I deploy nothing, it freezes; If I remove the UI using the "K" shortcut, it freezes.

I have noticed it always happens reaching a specific amount of supplies. For me, always 40.

Would like to ask the room, can you try and replicate the matter and seeing if it always freezes on a specific amount of supplies?