Running Windows 7 with non Steam version. I completed American Mission 1 alone without saving either the two. I doubt it makes a difference, but I also killed 6-8 soviet soldiers, a vehicle, and a sandbags defense thing.

The second mission continues like expected, John talks to himself and then comes across Lisa and friends. Then you meet Khattam(?) and you move north more you find corpses. However, the corpses are gone. Now, I completed the mission capturing the northern base first and had Lisa die. I invade the eastern base through woods and killed the mechanic first, then the two soldiers. I capture the base and sent the soldiers west because immediately the guys come with their vodka and I shoot at them but let them get away. Suddenly, the "civilian" spawns and I decide to kill him. I thought he would try to run away but he kept following us so I sent everyone inside the depot in northern base. He then began firing on the depot and John kindly asked him to stop firing like he was going to listen. I then sent out Paul Khattam to shoot him, even if he is just a scientist with yellow health, and he immediately bleeds out. I then send out everyone at once to finish the mechanic off. I decided to let Paul die because I am trying to do the worse possible this playthrough since I have never done that before.

I send my two engineers (since all my soldiers died from the attack on the sandbags in north) to the vehicles to camp over the spawn in far west where the attack generates. I sat there doing nothing with my two engineers in vehicles and John on foot. Everyone was put in standstill mode (I think that is what it is called, the hold ground stance thing that generates the red exclamation point). The Russians spawn and died immediately since I am playing on Easy (I haven't played the game in awhile and I am always tempted to try-hard when on hard). Then Powell has the audacity to tell me I did well even though I had everyone die and completed no secondary objectives. The ending screen shows and I get only the no load medal. I click continue at the soldier progression screen thing and the screen goes black with the grid like + symbol. I alt tab and found that nasty popup error forwarding me to this very bug report down below! :O

Also, unrelated to all the above, but almost any mission anytime causes the game to close to desktop without any information when I click quick restart as if I selected exit program. I do not know what that is about, but it was a problem in last patch (12.2?) that caused me to updated to 12.7 to see if it goes away. Thanks for your hard work in keeping the game great over the years, I hope you guys make a notable appearance on the Steam version. I can imagine a lot of people new to the game not realizing there is a worth noting community.

New problem. Payback Time mission, the one where you attack the under protected Russian base where you first experience automatic turrets, had a nasty outcome. I recruited all soldiers except for the required mechanics. I recruited all soldiers with lowest soldier experience, and the three mechanics were all the lowest experienced mechanics (not sure if that is important). I did an all out rush that destroyed the southern base's powerplants which allowed me to finish the job. However, this push resulted in everyone but John dying. I ended the attack alone, taking out the supply depot. Then you get a message from the guy saying I need to return immediately. I pushed south and a random vehicle I didn't see comes in and attacks John. I was cocky and thought I could kill it since it is using guns, but it ended up killing John. However, Harris begins talking as if John is responding. After he was done, the mission ends as a success. I clicked continue which resulted in the game closing.

edit: I just tried the mission again. This time I didn't even destroy the second supply depot. Clicking quick restart again caused it to close and go to desktop without any warning sign or error popups.

Could you try This Version and see if it solves the problem when you loose a mission and the game closes?

It appears so, I haven't had a problem since. Thanks!



BTW, not sure if you guys are interested in nit picky problems, but if you lose Joan in the mission "From Future With Love" and play Natural Born Heroes, John still gets upset she dies but thinks it happened at Gamma (and not Epsilon).

We can't modify the sound files (Well we don't have any contact with the guys who voiced John in each of the different languages).

Are you not able to make it so the sound file doesn't activate at all either? That is too bad.

We can deactivate the sound file. I'll look into that and that bug in Payback Time when I get the time.