[1.4.6] Critical bug: Game hangs up on 100 % and won't load

[Mankeli]

Game hangs on 100 % ready and won't load. This is both when starting a new game or loading an old game.

What is baffling to me is that if I'm logged in, then I CAN start a new game and it seems I can also load a game which has the ashes and orcs add-on enabled but I can't load games that do not have those add-ons enabled (not started in online mode).

And no, I don't play through steam.

Log shows ends in this:

Lua Error: /engine/Particles.lua:63: cannot open /data/gfx/particles/steam_generator_fumes.lua: Bad file descriptor
At [C]:-1
At [C]:-1 error
At /engine/Particles.lua:63 loaded
At /engine/Savefile.lua:493 loadWorld
At /engine/Module.lua:1034 instanciate
At /engine/utils.lua:2221 showMainMenu
At /engine/init.lua:165
At [C]:-1 dofile
At /loader/init.lua:217

[Stuntofthelitter]

I repaired this for Mankeli, but this is an issue I've seen come up in various ways before.

In this case the particle from having a steam generator equipped was the issue. In the world.teaw file there's an entry for the last winner (d["majeyal_campaign_last_winner"]). That character is stored and referenced, and in this case happened to be a sawbutcher. That character of course had a steam generator equipped.

With Embers turned off the relevant particle doesn't exist. This bit gets loaded up and it chokes. I've seen this commonly happen in the past when Ashes is disabled.

Deleting the world.teaw fixes it, but this loses a bunch of other data and isn't ideal. For anyone else who runs into this I can fix it for you, just open a ticket and send me the world.teaw from your main save folder http://www.te4support.org/

[Dracos]

@Stunt: I admittingly have also gotten around this by adding embers to the addons for a save in desc.lua.