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So I've started playing the new XCOM. Thus far I've collected a great long list of bugs and dubious design decisions, but overall I'm having good fun with it. I'd told myself I wasn't going to post about it or read what anyone else had to say about it until I'd finished a playthrough. However, this particular recurring bug is frustrating me no end (it just hit me when I was staring at an alien who was 1) probably the last enemy on the map 2) never encountered before and 3) about to be captured on my next turn), and if there's any possibility of a workaround, I want to know about it. The problem is this: Every now and then, usually when trying to put a unit into overwatch/hunker down mode, I'll click the ok button and nothing'll happen except for a "negative"-type noise playing. After that, I can usually right click to dismiss the confirmation panel, but then, that's about all I can do... The game keeps running, animations and music keep playing, I can rotate the battlefield all I like and view tooltips, but the ONLY other button that works is the "unit info" button (which shows me an entirely blank panel with a red alien head symbol up the top if I try to open it). In rare situations I can mash hotkeys to break out of this (for example, switch unit/overwatch/fire/end turn/whatever). Best I can make out it's most likely to trigger when I'm trying to perform an action that would've ended my turn (hence there's no one to switch to). I can't even bring up the game menu in order to quit - I have to end task. I've dug around a bit but haven't found many other reports of the same behaviour (most people are complaining about outright crashes, of which I've only had one, maybe two). But this hits me every few missions, and as I typically only ever save at mission start, it readily wastes great chunks of playtime on every instance it occurs. I suspect it might have something to do with the latest patch, on the basis that if it'd existed beforehand there probably would've been more reports. So! Anyone know anything about it? Any info on how to avoid it, or - dare I hope - break out of it, would be appreciated.