0.49.19 Nightly from 2/27/2024 - Uncaught Exception when loading saved game causing soft lock

[BLR-IIC]

I tried loading a saved game which I loaded before earlier in the game without a problem. I saved it last night before the movement phase began and tried loading it tonight and got repeated Uncaught Exceptions. I click OK on an Uncaught Exception box and another one popped up. This wouldn't stop and the board never loaded, even though the unit display was on a friendly bot-controlled off-board Ballista. I had to close the Java process via Task Manager. Log and savegame attached.

megamek.log
CompanyGame1.sav.gz

[Sleet01]

It looks like the board is trying to update and querying the off-board unit for its elevation, probably in order to draw its shadow or position it for isometric representation - despite this being unnecessary for an off-board unit.

Definitely a bug.

[Sleet01]

Actually, @BLR-IIC , do you have the HTML log for this game as well? The recurring IllegalStateException in the megamek.log file refers to entity 57, which appears to have been a pilot named "Ruhiye Zand"; it would be helpful to see what happened with that pilot during this game.

It may be that this pilot ejected in an indeterminate state, but it looks like the Ballista was the last unit to load correctly, not the unit that caused the exception you saw.

[BLR-IIC]

Here's the HTML log:

gamelog.zip

[SJuliez]

I'd say this is caused by the unit shadows. Will deal with it.