Forgive me, as I'm new to both Apocalypse and OpenApoc at the same time, so I've no idea if its normal behaviour in the base game, a button I've pressed by mistake, or a possible OpenApoc bug.

I'm on a new install of the current build, and my APC has stopped automatically returning after a mission. I've only been playing around casually on OpenApoc and Apoc itself for the last few months, and very casually at that, but this is the first time this has come up - the APC has always auto returned before. In fact, it even says it is returning in the ticker box, but it doesn't ever depart the building, even on fast forward.

First example is (where one save starts) in a mission I took via the 'alert' screen and sent my APC via the button to ;check for aliens;. If I re-run the mission, the car still doesn't depart by itself, once completed. This is now a repeatable result.

As the game still lets me press 'return to base' manually, at first I did just that and carried on. But the very next mission it failed again, and in a more spectacular way, so it makes me wonder if its a bug or just weird, old game mechanics.

So, the second example is after leaving the previous mission, I had my first notification of a Corporation being compromised by the Aliens, and I made the choice to 'raid' the building (same APC, same team). First actual raid ever, for me, so I'm lacking any real perspective.

I send the car in manually, as it's not an alert this time, and when the mission completes and I reappear on the Geoscape, it does briefly say the car will return... but it doesn't appear... and as the building collapses instantly, it dies while inside. This is also a repeatable result.

Could anyone tell me what is intended behaviour here or what if anything, isn't? Cars have always auto returned before, now they don't and simply stay put after missions end, but now it's costing me my group.

...might not mind so much if I was blowing everything up, but I'm currently avoiding all explosive weaponry.

Thank you.