I was going through Mission 20, all went smoothly until there was a plot crash which... (major spoils ahoy)
... I call the "Curse of Sergei." The instant he shows up, the game crashes, but everything was cool for me up until that point. I cored the MacDuff and made the transport land.
I tried to reproduce the crash via debug, but I get...
Radius <0.1f warnings for turrets and centrifuges upon loadup for the Morana MacDuff during mission loadup.
The closest I could get to trying was just after making the initial jump, then I had a warning box that had two options (not three): break into debug or quit.
The last warning I got and the fs2_open.log are attached.
A character (or major ship's) appearance causes a crash for me... again. It's like the plot is deliberately trying to stop me or something.
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