Horde Night Problem

[lord_ahriman]

First time experiencing this problem: ElectricWireController.DamageSelf

 

Horde night was going well and then the famous and awful Null Reference Exception explodes so I had to shut down the game because I couldn't do anything due to enormous amount of errors. I play 120 minutes day, and the problem started close to midnight a few times, but I kept playing them it got to a point I couldn't move, throw pipe bombs etc. I'm attaching the log file to get some help:

 

https://justpaste.it/b0lck

 

Thank you in advance.

[meganoth]

Your logfile is unreadable since all lines are concatenated to a single line.

 

Generally, if suddenly null-refs appear, I would advise to stop the game, make a backup of the savegame and then start up again. If no further null-refs appear the damage was probably confined to memory and not saved to disk. If it reappears, then a check of the logfile is necessary to find out which part of the savegame was damaged and whether it can be repaired.

 

 

Edited August 15, 2023 by meganoth (see edit history)

[lord_ahriman]

1 hour ago, meganoth said:

Your logfile is unreadable since all lines are concatenated to a single line.

 

Generally, if suddenly null-refs appear, I would advise to stop the game, make a backup of the savegame and then start up again. If no further null-refs appear the damage was probably confined to memory and not saved to disk. If it reappears, then a check of the logfile is necessary to find out which part of the savegame was damaged and whether it can be repaired.

 

 

 

Got it done, though split:

 

https://pastebin.com/JgTTxQrt

https://pastebin.com/iDTaYWUu

https://pastebin.com/r4ZS2eJx

https://pastebin.com/5n3iU38J

 

I always backup after each game session, so I could reload it before horde night again. I was reading an old thread talking about same issue and the person said replacing fence post fixed the problem. To give you more info, I re-started game yesterday, dm on and stopped AI to check the electric fence posts. Demo explosion breached fence block protection, but it was just down by extreme use (49/200) and there was a loot bag touching the fence. I don't wheather could it be a problem, but I could post a picture if necessary. That said, I replaced blocks to seal the breach and then restarted horde. No problem at all. As i said I have backup to restart game before horde, so I could go to my backup horde defense (althoug it's in forest and the one that got me in trouble is in snow, therefore it will be a much easier horde, gs snow is 310) to avoid problems and after horde I could replace all fences.

[Beelzybub]

Would you say the loot bag was in the same block as the electric fence post?

Was it at the base of the 2 block post or was it touching the upper block of the

post? Ya pic would be great for repro testing.

[lord_ahriman]

On 8/18/2023 at 7:57 PM, Beelzybub said:

Would you say the loot bag was in the same block as the electric fence post?

Was it at the base of the 2 block post or was it touching the upper block of the

post? Ya pic would be great for repro testing.

 

Sorry for late response. I reinstalled and no problem day 49 horde night. I did upload my backup for day 42 in order to test it again and got the same issue mentioned, but no loot bags touching fence posts nor its protection was breached, just zombies being electricuted and tons of red messages appearing. I guess some corrupted file was the problem.

 

[TheSilentEnigma]

A couple of days ago, one of my players reported the same error during BM. And also when zombies pass through elecric fence. Then they left the server and next BM everything was fine. it is Dedicated server. I thought it was the mods, checked everything, but I did not find any errors in the configurations. And no error in the server output log.