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So I finally got to “writing it up”. I don’t know if you need HTML, so I just copy’n’pasted from the FAQ to hopefully make your life easier:

Act 2 - Mission 8 Corporate Holdings

Q. My game crashes during this mission. What to do?

A. Completing this mission is optional to the progression of Act 2.
There are no known side-effects to not completing this mission.

Alternatively, you can use the following workaround to complete the mission while avoiding the crash: Jump from Pestur to Dadgda Alpha Prime to trigger the mission, then immediately jump back to Pestur without destroying the mines. Wait in Pestur for the mission to complete (the "destroy mines" objective will fail, but the remaining objectives will complete and Jarvis will thank you).

I also wrote a small reference for the walkthrough:
Mission 8 Corporate Holdings

Note: This mission may crash EoC. See the FAQ for a workaround.

Activation Info: System: Dagda Prerequisites: + You need to must complete Act Two Mission 18 to trigger this mission.

[Actium]

So I finally got to “writing it up”. I don’t know if you need HTML, so I just copy’n’pasted from the FAQ to hopefully make your life easier:

Act 2 - Mission 8 Corporate Holdings

Q. My game crashes during this mission. What to do?

A. Completing this mission is optional to the progression of Act 2.
There are no known side-effects to not completing this mission.

Alternatively, you can use the following workaround to complete the mission while avoiding the crash: Jump from Pestur to Dadgda Alpha Prime to trigger the mission, then immediately jump back to Pestur without destroying the mines. Wait in Pestur for the mission to complete (the "destroy mines" objective will fail, but the remaining objectives will complete and Jarvis will thank you).

I also wrote a small reference for the walkthrough:
Mission 8 Corporate Holdings

Note: This mission may crash EoC. See the FAQ for a workaround.

Activation Info: System: Dagda Prerequisites: + You need to must complete Act Two Mission 18 to trigger this mission.

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My somewhat educated guess would place the bug related to an external library. When I first played the game 12+ years ago on Windows XP, I’ve completed the mission hassle-free. Ever since Windows Vista (or 7?) and now even on Linux with Wine, the bug occurred reliably, with the EoC executable being identical.

Don’t waste your time trying to debug an almost two decade old application, it would be much better spent on your remake 😉

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My somewhat educated guess would place the bug related to an external library. When I first played the game 12+ years ago on Windows XP, I’ve completed the mission hassle-free. Ever since Windows Vista (or 7?) and now even on Linux with Wine, the bug occurred reliably, with the EoC executable being identical.

Don’t waste your time trying to debug an almost two decade old application, it would be much better spent on your remake 😉

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I just stumbled upon this by chance, when I jumped to Dagda’s main L-point by accident and noticed that the mission started and objectives (except for the final one) got completed in rapid succession without having jumped to Dagda Alpha Prime. With that observation, figuring out the workaround was not difficult.

@schmatzler: Maybe it’s worth it to add this workaround to the FAQ to make sure no one playing this game will get stuck on it. I’d write a paragraph you could add, if you’re interested.

[Actium]

I just stumbled upon this by chance, when I jumped to Dagda’s main L-point by accident and noticed that the mission started and objectives (except for the final one) got completed in rapid succession without having jumped to Dagda Alpha Prime. With that observation, figuring out the workaround was not difficult.

@schmatzler: Maybe it’s worth it to add this workaround to the FAQ to make sure no one playing this game will get stuck on it. I’d write a paragraph you could add, if you’re interested.

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This bug also appears to be affecting EoC running under Wine on Linux, but I just figured out a reliable workaround:

1.) Jump from Pestur to Dadgda Alpha Prime to trigger the mission
2.) Immediately jump back to Pestur without destroying the mines
3.) Wait in Pestur for the mission to complete (the “destroy mines” objective will fail, but the remaining objectives will complete and Jarvis will thank you)

That’s it. Tried it twice and worked both times.

[Actium]

This bug also appears to be affecting EoC running under Wine on Linux, but I just figured out a reliable workaround:

1.) Jump from Pestur to Dadgda Alpha Prime to trigger the mission
2.) Immediately jump back to Pestur without destroying the mines
3.) Wait in Pestur for the mission to complete (the “destroy mines” objective will fail, but the remaining objectives will complete and Jarvis will thank you)

That’s it. Tried it twice and worked both times.

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