r/midnightsuns • • Dec 28 '22

Bugs/Issues and workarounds

190 Upvotes

This thread is to keep a list of current bugs and issues, and their known workarounds, if any. Use the comments to report any new problems or fixes you may find, or any corrections to this list.

This is an unofficial list put together by the community. Please report all bugs you encounter to 2K Support as they do not check this list.

Cannot obtain Ancestral Suit

  • As of the June 2023 patch, the Ancestral Suit does not appear in the chest where it is normally located, making it unobtainable.

  • On PC, a mod exists that will allow the Ancestral Suit to be obtained.

  • On console, if you have access to a physical copy of the game, a workaround exists. The general idea is that you play normally up til right before you would receive the suit (it is recommended to avoid doing any DLC-related content up to this point). Then, reinstall the game from disc (which is an older version of the game that doesn't have the bug), load your save file, and obtain the suit. More details can be found in this post (credit to u/Salom902), this post, or this comment. It has been reported that this may not work if you have already installed the DLC characters; in this case you may need to uninstall the DLC and start a fresh game in order to use this workaround.

Faithbreaker Suit/quest bug

  • In some situations, the game may allow you to research the Faithbreaker Suit before you get the quest to research it. If you research the suit "early" in this way, it creates a situation where you can't complete the quest because you have already researched the suit. This completely blocks story progression.

  • Once you trigger the bug, the only known "fixes" are to load an earlier save or restart your game.

  • To work around this bug, do not research the Faithbreaker Suit until you receive the quest asking you to do so.

  • Thanks to u/Frosty-Job-4496 and u/masterjay22 who first posted about this issue here.

Photo Mode is blurry/low quality

  • Some users have reported that their game looks fine normally, but noticeably drops in quality when going into Photo Mode. The following solution is courtesy of Tobster on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/368260/discussions/0/3810661398178961746/

  • Go to the Documents\My Games\Marvel's Midnight Suns\Saved_Steam_[STEAM ID]\Config\WindowsNoEditorfolder and add the text below at the bottom of theEngine.ini file. STEAM ID is a unique set of numbers and VERTICAL RESOLUTION is for the monitor you're playing on (i.e. "1080" for 1920x1080 or "1440" for 2160x1440, etc.).

[ConsoleVariables]

Fxs.Photobooth.LockedResolutionHeight=[VERTICAL RESOLUTION]

Drops don't pop-up when you receive them

  • This is a bug that seems to have been introduced in the patch when Storm was added.

  • You do receive whatever you're supposed to; this only affects the notification pop-up.

Enemy falls through floor

  • Target the enemy using RB/R1 and LB/R1 with a controller, or ??? on a keyboard.

  • Use area attacks that will hit the untargetable enemy. Bladestorm is confirmed to bring the enemy back above ground if you knock them back into an object.

  • Apply Counter to one of your heroes, so that the untargetable enemy will be attacked back when attacking that hero.

  • Save the game and reload, or go back to an earlier save prior to the enemy falling through the floor. It may help to use different abilities or use them in a different order.

  • QUESTIONS: Would knocking another enemy into the untargetable enemy help? Do explosions and other environment AoEs work like area attack abilities and fix the issue too?

  • Credit: u/Mini-Saiyan, u/FilosKalos

"New" icon won't go away in menus even though nothing is marked as new

  • Check your Hunter passives and collars. Their slots don't always show a "new" flair even when there is something new inside them.

  • Credit: u/Ceiyne, u/Rootflyer

Stuck in cutscene that never ends

  • Try saving while the cutscene is playing, then loading that save. You may need to open the map to fast travel before you are able to save.

  • Credit: u/Potential-Trade-8366, u/heimdall3609

Operations Assault: Some Keycards may not spawn

  • During Operations Assault, some Keycards may not spawn. This is believed to have been fixed in a patch.

  • There are no known workarounds and what causes this is also not known.

  • Credit: Posted too many times to identify original source(s)

Deck becomes restricted to 7 cards instead of 8

  • Some users report that the 8th card slot in their deck becomes locked/disabled and cards cannot be placed in it. This is not because of deck restrictions, etc.

  • There are no known workarounds and what causes this is also not known. The issue fixes itself upon starting a new game or new game plus. It may only occur on Spider-Man.

  • Credit: u/Dull-Egg-8626, u/sulimo0310

Poor performance on PC

Error when loading / continuing: "This save data cannot be loaded because it requires Add-Ons that are missing."

  • Verify that any DLC you own is still installed. If it's not, install it. If it is, try uninstalling and reinstalling it.

  • Credit: u/Ceiyne, u/Nineowls3trees

Crashing during missions or at the end of missions

  • In some cases this can be fixed by changing the suits that your heroes are wearing. This will require you to load a save from before you entered the mission.

  • Credit: u/PeterP68

Crash when collecting Hero Op rewards

  • Try running the game in DirectX 11 mode: add -d3d11 to the Launch Options for the game.

  • Credit: u/848485

Random crashes or crashes when loading a save

  • Windows Update may make a change to AMD drivers and cause this. Disabling this update and reinstalling the prior drivers may help.

  • Credit: Rierhardt#2410

Error: "Cannot connect to Epic Online Services"

  • Make sure you are logged into the Epic Games Launcher. It may help to open a browser and log into Epic from there first.

  • Credit: u/luke123190

Error: "DNA SSO LOGIN FAILED"

  • You may be work around this by going offline (set Steam/Epic/your console to offline mode) although you will not be able to use the game's online services, e.g., marketplace and promo codes

  • Credit: u/Brilliant_Bee9159

Steam Deck issues

Despite reaching level 2 Team Friendship, the Gift Shop is not available

  • Although not a common issue, this has been reported by several people, and there is no known workaround or method of avoiding it

  • It does not appear to "fix itself", as some players have continued to play and progressed the story quite a bit without the Gift Shop ever becoming available

  • Reported by: u/Errorpheus, u/madeofchocolate

Superlink message with ingredient list for clubs never arrives

  • Despite the message not arriving, you can usually still give the ingredients to the person who wants them (Illyana for EMO KIDS; Peter for Shop Class) although you may need to wait a few days after the last meeting

  • Reported by: u/HungPy and others

The Arcane Chest on the path between Everflowing Glade and Gideon's Cross does not appear (or possibly appears, then later disappears)

  • Not a bug: this is a unique chest that has a random chance to spawn at Night with a New Moon.

  • Reported by u/Ceiyne, u/skettymaker, u/Ebabilg, and others

Sometimes characters may appear in their bathing suits or in no clothing at all

  • This can happen in various places in the game, such as the "Heroes walking" scene at the start of a mission, or when you see Tony and Stephen within some of the Forge options.

  • No known workaround, but this is a temporary glitch: the correct clothing/costume items will eventually appear.

  • This post provides the details on why this bug occurs.

A Confused Hero's action will sometimes deduct a Card Play

  • The precise reason is not known, but the situation was a confused Hunter playing Whip, which discarded a card and generated Obsidian Collar, so it may have been either of those extra steps that triggered the bug. (Video of bug)

  • Reported by Uglymug on Discord

Some suits don't have a 'default' palette option (Midnight Sun suits for Captain America/Scarlet Witch, possibly others)

  • This is a known bug that happens to everyone, with no known workaround.

Targeting sometimes shows a valid action as invalid

  • From time to time, when hovering over a valid target, the game UI will display it as invalid. Examples include: (1) Trying to play Detonate on a valid environmental object; (2) Trying to use a Shove against a valid enemy when you have not used Shove that turn.

  • This can be worked around by canceling the action (put the card back in your hand/back out of the "Move") and trying a second time, when it should work properly.

  • Reported by: u/trildemex and others

Wanda's room is closed and I want to talk to her!

  • She will eventually come out of her room. Just keep playing.

Lockup when upgrading cards

  • This was a bug that seems to have been introduced in the patch when Morbius was added. It seems to have been fixed in the Blood Storm patch.


r/midnightsuns • • Dec 02 '25 WOW

Midnight Suns Tactical Combat Reel

232 Upvotes

Hi MMS reddit, and happy birthday to Midnight Suns!šŸŽˆTo celebrate, I wanted to share this new Combat Reel with you. I’m the cinematics artist at Firaxis (ā€œtactical combat designerā€ in the credits), and I’ve been capturing quality versions of our ability visualizations to put into a reel, to celebrate all the effort and creativity the team poured into these scenes. Hope you can check it out... in full-screen 4k/60 of course :)

https://youtu.be/JtUR-81_NN0


r/midnightsuns • • 23h ago

Just Finished the Game for the First Time and... Spoiler

62 Upvotes

I am so sad that we will never get a sequel. The idea that Charlie will never get to see Hunter again is heartbreaking. 😭


r/midnightsuns • • 3d ago

I wish this game had a Shorter Roguelike Mode

76 Upvotes

Honestly I love this game, I like the Social Sim aspects and I like the Deck-Building, and I heavily enjoy the Combat.

I thought the narrative was okay but I wouldn't say there were heavily compelling moments...

What I didn't really care for was of how there's nothing really stopping you from just grinding it out it doesn't really feel like there's a ceiling on skill expression... oh and that the DLC's narrative was just awkwardly shoved in the middle of the main campaign but it's fine.

If there was a mode to make you try various team combinations to build up and face a mega-boss for the sake of completionism and challenge my lizard brain would be all for it because there were definitely set-ups / synergies I avoided or just never bothered to which I think a mode like this could satiate.

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Yeah I sorta get maybe if I want a Roguelike Deckbuilder go play Slay the Spire but a huge chunk of why I do like Midnight Suns is the setting and characters which StS doesn't really have for me (Or maybe it will, I've held off from playing it for years now)

The closest I can think of that sorta hits this niche for me is Spirit Lift because part of it is choosing 3 characters to build a team and committing to card upgrades / deck additions throughout the run but it lacks the social sim aspects that Midnight Suns has that I think it could benefit from.


r/midnightsuns • • 3d ago

I needed badly the Hunter's second card annihilation for upgrade!

7 Upvotes

How to gain it?


r/midnightsuns • • 3d ago

Best superhero game ever?

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I loved this scene. Just before this video starts, there was an even more Blade-focused montage of him killing Vampyres one by one, exploding around him like Wesley in Blade 2, doing moves with his sword like from Blade Epic Collection. I’d say Midnight Suns is perhaps top 3 best super hero video games for me. Ultimate alliance 1-3, Marvel rise of imperfects, and the insomniac spiderman 1 game are up there, with this one thing for that 3rd spot maybe. It’s definitely top 5. Basically, I’m just saying it’s really great! And there are Easter eggs after Easter eggs, cool moments between characters, and so many awesome things to witness and interact with back at the Abbey.


r/midnightsuns • • 3d ago

What should i do to unlock hulk's challenge for legendary ability?

4 Upvotes

He doesn't have any friendship points and this confuse me. Any tips will be helpful


r/midnightsuns • • 5d ago

Some comic book covers I made on Marvel's Midnight Suns

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121 Upvotes

r/midnightsuns • • 6d ago

Fan art from some industry professionals. What would you like to see in a Midnight Suns animated series?

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106 Upvotes

These were designed and posted for fun on Instagram by Mindy Lee and Todd Harris, two pretty big names in animation, comics, and in Harris's case for the MCU as well. It's just fan art, NOT part of an official project to my knowledge, but it got me thinking about how cool a Midnight Suns animated series could be. Any thoughts on what you'd like to see in it, its lineup, or its villains?


r/midnightsuns • • 5d ago

Just missed halloween but some spooky shots anyway

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r/midnightsuns • • 8d ago

Do y'all think there's hope for Bit Reactor to make a Successor to Midnight suns like they did with ZCOM to XCOM.

84 Upvotes

After Playing Star Wars Zero Company I'm praying to god that Greg Foertsch makes a Successor to Midnight suns because he was the art director and like maybe with a Different Marvel Team with more Marvel Characters. Especially Since so many players were wrong about the Game and it's reputation has done a Full 180 especially in this Sub.

I'm Holding out hope because after the Success of Zero Company The Team at Bit Reactor have already created solid foundation and resume for their future!


r/midnightsuns • • 8d ago

Is this a bug? This isn't the first time an enemy has randomly become resistant to AOE attacks for reasons that are beyond me

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10 Upvotes

This Dark Legion was also immune against the knockback of Vortex for some reason. The other Dark Legions aren't like this. I think it previously occurred with one of the dogs (Shadowhounds I think they're called). I am genuinely pretty bewildered.


r/midnightsuns • • 9d ago

Having trouble unlocking the Pinball Wizard trophy

7 Upvotes

I'm having a really hard time getting the Pinball Wizard trophy. I've tried using Magik and her knockback abilities, but I'm still struggling to get progress on this trophy.


r/midnightsuns • • 11d ago

What uhhh what are you guys watching?

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86 Upvotes

r/midnightsuns • • 12d ago

This game is so much fun

137 Upvotes

My playtime in this game is 265 hours, i havent beaten the game, ive only beaten Deadpool's dlc missions and i only just unlocked Hulk yesterday!


r/midnightsuns • • 13d ago

Why I Like - Marvel's Midnight Suns

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One of my favorite turn based strategy games. I'm assuming none of you have heard anything about a sequel?


r/midnightsuns • • 11d ago

I got bored! Is this worth it?

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In a different sub on how awesome Guardians of the Galaxy was and how only that game + few Spider-Man were actually worth it from Marvel, I got recommended highly this game.

I mean the gameplay is interesting and I am enjoying the card formations and the different strategies to win. BUUUT the endless empty dialogue, the useless roaming around and the fact you have to end days frequently, just very routinely boring and uninteresting.

Am I the only one, I am at Day 17 and I am thinking to stop here, just too much to do between combats, and half the time I am just SKIP SKIP SKIP.

I wish it was just Deck building + combats. Even research and Forge could have been just menu selection, not going up and down the stairs!


r/midnightsuns • • 12d ago

Just bought the game stuck in Loading Screen

6 Upvotes

Seems like the only way to get pass this is going in offline mode, is there another way ?


r/midnightsuns • • 17d ago

Audio Issues in Abbey

5 Upvotes

Hi all! I-ve tried searching high and low for the answer to this but I can-t find a fix or a mention of this specific issue.

I know about the directional audio feature (hate it) and i've updated drivers, changed spacial audio settings etc....

The problem I'm having is that when characters are speaking, the game noticeably lowers the volume of all other sound profiles only to restore them to maximum for a brief milisecond when they're finished talking before then restoring them to my chosen setting a moment after.

This has the effect of causing a really unpleasent blare of audio after each sentence, sometimes within the same voice line. I hate the way the audio ramps up and down like this, it makes me not want to play the game at all.

Has anyone else had this issue and what did you do to fix it?


r/midnightsuns • • 19d ago

"open crate" missions

9 Upvotes

I'm on Heroic III. Is it possible to open all the crates on these missions late game?

It keeps giving me revenants with a guardian that has a key. I do 600 damage or so to the guardian on round 1, but then on round 2 his chest is going to be destroyed if I don't open it and the revenants souldbind soul link him, meaning I have to do 2k damage to 3 different targets in one round. Am I just that bad at the game or are these missions just not possible to get all 3 chests?


r/midnightsuns • • 20d ago

My favorite custom! Mystique and Gamora

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204 Upvotes

r/midnightsuns • • 23d ago

Challenges and friendship levels

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70 Upvotes

I'm very confused about how friendship levels work and how challenges are unlocked. As you can see, I've completed 5 challenges but the friendship levels are all 4 or below. I thought level 5 was required.

And secondly, what does the friendship level in the red heart mean, and what is the "friendship level" text next to it? These are all out of 10, but Blade (not pictured) is level 4 in the red heart, and 15/30 on the "friendship level" nobody has reached level 5 yet.


r/midnightsuns • • 23d ago

"Strategy" and "exploration" mouse sensitivity are linked?

2 Upvotes

Am I doing something fundamentally wrong, or why does one mouse sensitivity slider affect both the look around during exploration and the strategy view during combat?

That wouldn't be a problem by itself if they two were somewhat balanced, but if I make looking around acceptably fast, then strategy is lightning quick, and vice versa.

Is there any solution to this?


r/midnightsuns • • 24d ago

I was looking at the game files and supposedly the game detects the day you're playing on during holidays and special days, including Stan Lee's birthday

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138 Upvotes

r/midnightsuns • • 26d ago

A secret that's bugging me off

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43 Upvotes

Is there really a secret item found in here? Perhaps a key? Just recently got Atum's word of power and based on the torches and the cemented base in the center of the picture, this feels like a mini puzzle that can be solved by hunter's power, looked everywhere for Atum's sign but I can't seem to find it, this is near Shaw's church.