[6.0 Beta 5] Chasing Leads mission awkward cutscene

[Moray]

In Hatikva Free League mission Chasing Leads, between part 1: Follow Scale Plate ship and 2: Undock there's a cutscene with Reen and Dal Busta in Reen's office. During Dal Busta's speech his character didn't appear; the camera focused awkwardly on empty parts of the room. Is he supposed to be there? Also his dialog is somewhat awkward: at one point he says something like "I can only advise" and the next sentence he says "you must do exactly as I say" – kind of contradictory.

My machine specs are:
Dell G5 5090
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-9400 CPU @ 2.90GHz 2.90 GHz
8.00 GB (7.86 GB usable)
Windows 11 Home
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
Dedicated video memory: 4096 MB
Total available graphics memory: 8119 MB

I think one of Dell's infamous high disk usage processes started up while I was playing; perhaps that was enough of a performance hit on the system to disrupt things?

[Dj_FRedy]

Reading up on this problem I remember doing this mission and coming across something similar for a few lines of action with 'Reen & Dal'. A closer look revealed that a 'placeholder' in the 'npc_usecase_definitions.xml' file was causing the problem in my case. Could this be the same problem? Either way this is the placeholder: (if true then 30202008 else 30202007) the action is not triggered.

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Line 2767:               table[ $actor = '$Reen', $speak = if true then 30202008 else 30202007, $recipient = 'player', $comment = 'We have prepared a freighter for you' ],
Line 2769:               table[ $actor = '$Reen', $speak = if true then 30202010 else 30202009, $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2770:               table[ $actor = '$Reen', $speak = if true then 30202012 else 30202011, $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2772:               table[ $actor = '$Reen', $speak = if true then 30202014 else 30202013, $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2774:               table[ $actor = '$Reen', $speak = if true then 30202017 else 30202016, $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2835:               table[ $actor = '$Reen',  $speak = if true then 30202088 else 30202087,  $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2848:               table[ $actor = '$Reen',  $speak = if true then 30202025 else 30202024,  $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2880:               table[ $actor = '$Reen',  $speak = if true then 30202033 else 30202032,  $recipient = 'player' ],
Line 2884:               table[ $actor = '$Dal',   $speak = if true then 30202013 else 30202012,  $recipient = 'player' ],

Something like this, as explained in the header of this file, would be more valid.

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$speak_to_male = 30202007, $speak_to_female = 30202008,

[dtpsprt]

It's not only on this mission that this can happen. It has happened to me many times in different situations and it's not repeatable in a save.

I believe it's because of the new engine that uses a lot of CPU, even for graphics. At many points there are delays and become omissions because the "story" moves on...

[Moray]

Reading up on this problem I remember doing this mission and coming across something similar for a few lines of action with 'Reen & Dal'. A closer look revealed that a 'placeholder' in the 'npc_usecase_definitions.xml' file was causing the problem in my case.

Interesting – I haven't looked into those files.