u/LiathanoHC

I killed all the aliens, planted the X4, was told to go to the Evac point, but there is no Evac point.

When I used the white Skyranger Evac (and waited 7 turns for it to come, despite 151% infiltration) it failed my mission.

(Hilarious score card: Mission Failed, 27/27 enemies killed, Soldiers Wounded 1, Soldiers Dead 0, Rating: Poor, sad crew on the way back to Avenger, snarky Advent news, crowing about their great victory, etc.)

From Vanilla, I vaguely remember there being some missions where the Skyranger icon becomes green (maybe even animated?) and you have to plant it (as you would with the white icon, as on Supply missions). I don't have that green icon.

I reopened my save from the X4-planting turn and tried running all over the (empty!) map - nada. Just periodic urging to get to the Evac point lol.

Finally, I caved and tried the following console command interventions (recommended by Gemini): Yes, I reopened the save each time before trying something new.

EndBattle 1It worked to end the mission, but it ended as a failure.
EndBattle XcomWins true Same result - mission failure.
ToggleFOW It worked, I could see the whole map, no Evac point.
ResetLevelWorked to repopulate the map with aliens and reset the soldiers to the drop point. Then I tried ToggleFOW and TTC to take one soldier to the X4 spot, this worked. I got the X4 animation and instructions to go to the Evac point again - but no evac point, and no green Skyranger icon.

I also tried this using KillAllAIs but that command did not work. No error, just the enemies were still alive. (Since this mission doesn't have an objective to kill all enemies, it shouldn't have mattered.)

I played around with the ForceCompleteObjective command (as instructed by Gemini, possibly for its own amusement) - I got no command errors, but each time I did EndBattle 1 at the end I got Failure.

I also tried using EnableGlobalAbility PlaceEvacZone and LWForceEvac - no error on the commands but nothing happened.

I then tried going back to the Geoscape save before the mission, restarting the mission from the beginning (Interestingly, same map I think? But different spawn point and different enemies?), and then ToggleFOW, TTC to drop the X4, and still no Evac point or green Skyranger icon.

I'm using all the required mods, subscribed through Steam. I verified my game files too, everything checks out.

It's impossible for this to be normal - LWOTC is so fantastic and well done in every other way. Is it a particular borked map? Is it a particular borked game-instance/save?

Any ideas? TIA.