Overview
Workarounds and ways to avoid all the gamebreaking bugs present in the game.
Introduction.
While 9th Company-Roots of Terror is an interesting little strategy game, it sadly suffers from a bunch of bugs, I seem to have worked out how to avoid them, if you encounter any other bugs/ways to avoid them, message me.
Minor Bugs.
The AK74U doesn’t share ammo with the full size AK nor can it get AK ammo from the AK ammo crates, since no enemies use it, this makes AK74U ammo extremely limited, I therefore do not recommend using it on most levels.
The AI in this game makes no attempt to avoid friendly-fire, I highly suggest turning off Friendly Fire if you don’t want your units instantly killing each other by shooting their friend in the back of the head at a point-blank range.
A bug in the English Steam version (Russian walkthroughs online do not have this bug however but I’m unsure if this is due to them being Physical or some bug unique to the English digital version.) makes it so that vehicles without drivers can still move on scripted paths/when ordered to by the player, this isn’t a problem usually but the bonus level (Unlocked if at least one of the following :Dygalo or the film’s main characters that get introduced later on with unique character models survive.) requires the player to hijank enemy tanks, you may mistake the unmanned tanks moving for them being mounted by the enemy and they’ll try to “escape” as their scripted movement kicks in, block them with your starting vehicles if possible and get your own Tank crew inside the unmanned tanks so they stop moving as soon as possible.
“Vehicle is moving” bug for entering turrets, the turret is still trying to “Aim” at one of your soldiers due to an error when the enemy using it was killed, move any soldiers nearby til’ you find the one the turret is tracking and have them move far enough away it can no longer see them, you should be able to get on the turret now.
Pressing F12 Hides the Hud, this will make the menu screens entirely blank, simply press F12 again when this happens.
Pressing the U key messes up the screen, just like the F12 thing, just press U again to fix it.
Mission Breaking bugs
Save game bug
If you save and quit mid-mission, if that mission has a automatic bit where it moves the Camera later on, the game will fail to pan the camera/update your objectives and you’ll get spammed with objective messages that pause the game, it’s therefore best to just play the missions in one sitting to avoid this bug.
43KM Mission
You cannot save and load for the first half of the mission or the triggers will bug out after you beat that, you’ll get a defend section.
To defend against if the mission doesn’t end properly.
You need a save roughly 12 minutes left on the survival timer. (this is what worked for me, don’t worry, there’s no more camera pans so you can safely quit and try again later if it doesn’t work.)
So, you beat this mission and seemingly nothing happened? well that’s the result of a bug, after a certain point, the enemy is supposed to panic and retreat, which wins the mission however sometimes this doesn’t happen.
So load your save ( It needs to be at least before reinforcments show up, I think.) then hold ALT and press 8, you now have a helicopter cheat spawned in, use it to easily hold off the attackers, if you want to be fair, turn on friendly fire and kill anyone who originally died, as long as your helicotpers aren’t too close to the enemy spawns, they should eventually retreat, if they don’t, well you only had to close two pop-ups, so just repeat this trick on the defend section til’ eventually it doesn’t bug out .
Prisoners Mission
It seems there are several failure states that give this mission, an invisible time limit and if you go into the village/ maybe kill every single enemy (since apparently you need an injured one to interrogate.)
So don’t go actually into the village, just sit on the outskirts and kill everything but do it somewhat fast, eventually you’ll get a message about the prisoners in a barn, that’s the single hut close to where the other squad of reinforcements you have to place to be ready to ambush anyone leaving are so select them, kill the handful of troops guarding the prisoners and have someone enter the hut they are inside to win the mission.
Convoy Mission
During a late mission where you need to protect a Convoy, the Convoy timer will end instantly if you save and load during the first half.