Salutations, Age of Empires: DE community!
I’m creating this list to be the ultimate reference guide of all bugs and issues, present and future, that afflict Age of Empires: Definitive Edition. It is meant to help the developers and the community to more easily track the status with every one of the game’s issues, if it had been corrected already or if still there are work to be done on it.
The list is organized according to which aspect of the game is been affected by a bug, in thirteen distinct categories: Mechanical Issues , Graphical Issues , Sound Issues , AI Issues , Data Issues , Info and Statistics Issues , Interface Issues , Multiplayer and Connectivity Issues , Performance Issues , Launch Issues , Crash Issues , Achievement Issues and Localization Issues .
If you are reporting a bug on the “Report a Bug” forum category, please consider to add a link to your post on the comments section of this thread, right below the category, from the thirteen listed above, you believe the bug can be classified in.
In the case you have tested any of the bugs on this list and concluded that it had been fixed, please wright a warning comment, quoting the link of the respective bug.
Thanks for your collaboration!
Mechanical Issues
Game Version:
Build: 36211
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: auderson
Issue:
When set in-game resolution 1/2 less than desktop resolution, the drag speed get extremely fast, and mouse is easily to get way out of screen.
See the video.
https://youtu.be/q0B5D4TAfM4
This bug make it unable to drag and build the walls.
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
choose a resolution half less than your desktop resolution. e.g. 540p for 1080p
try to drag a…
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
OS: Windows 10
Issue: Hand-to-hand units are able to attack and damage enemies completely surrounded by walls.
Attachments:
[ChariotAttackingThroughWallSE]
[ChariotAttackingThroughWall]
[bugbugbug]
Game Version:
Build: 36211
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: 1v4n94
Issue:
When using the Reveal Map cheat code, instead of just the terrain being revealed, units and buildings can also be seen. Moreover, buildings and units are somehow highlighted, instead of being hidden as they should due to the Fog of War. It is possible to see military units and villagers working on structures and gathering resources.
Reproduction Steps:
Open any game or play a match from scrat…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Microsoft Store
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: pate623
Issue:
Priests can’t heal any unit that is moving.
Animation and sound plays but the target unit wont gain HP.
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
Get elephant (or any of you units) damaged.
Heal the elephant with a priest.
Keep the elephant constantly moving.
Watch as the priest does the healing animation but the elephant wont be healed.
At this point, the only thing I expect from the devs is the correction of every single bug in this game on the next patch. Nothing else. The addition of new content is on the realm of dreams for now.
Game Version:
Build: 36211
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: auderson
Issue:
it looks like units which have no collision size can go out of wall:
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Chariots, elephants, catapults can go through the wall, while cavalries, swordsmen, priests can’t.
It seems this is related to collision size. And I hope you can unify this behavior: all units can go through walls or all can’t.
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Sometimes, units try to (endlessly) go out of the world, like they’re looking for something.
Notes:
Apparently, only land units are affected by this bug.
ATTACHMENTS:
Footage from build 38862:
[1594358954_trying-to-go-offworld-online-video-cutter.com]
Footage from an older build:
[DASH_240]
Game Version:
Build 38862, Steam, Windows 10
Issue:
Villagers are able to create walls even when their construction path is obstructed by other villagers, “trapping” them inside.
ATTACHMENT:
[2021-01-04 00-17-29-006]
One of my villagers got stuck inside a wall created by my other villagers. I could not move it from there, so I started attacking the enemy town center.
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Villagers do not reseed dead farms automatically, even when they have plenty of wood and the automatic reseeding of farms option enabled. It is very likely for this bug to happen; the two screenshots below are from the same game, and the issue happened 2 times in under 5 minutes.
Notes:
Issue does not seem to be happening in the Scenario Editor when setting farms trough the editor. In order for the bug to be spo…
Game Version: Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Build ((28529))
Issue:
Sometimes units can get stuck in the terrain seemingly at random in a way that they’ll no longer react to commands. Here it is on video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiNXsA0v7aQ
While the video only shows them not reacting to the right click move command it’s the same with any other command the player would issue. The only “solution” is to just press Del and make new units instead.
Reproduction Steps:
Not really sure…
The waypoint system in AoE: DE is really difficult with villagers. Scenario 1: I was trying hunt deer and I wanted my villagers to follow a certain path in order to avoid spooking them and so I laid down the path and right-clicked the deer, this made them immediately target the deer and it just ran off. Scenario 2: When laying down buildings, units immediately go to the newest building, which is really annoying.
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
It is possible to board units onto allied transport ships (both light and heavy transport), even when cooperative games are not taking place. Once units have boarded the ships, they can no longer be retrieved. Ships will also try to get as close as possible to the units that were sent to board them.
Reproduction Steps:
Send any land unit towards an allied transport ship, pointing at it and using secondary click. …
Please, make it so heroes are immune to conversion! Losing a hero to a priest can mean defeat in certain scenarios. The “science” behind this is that they would have a much stronger will and ideology than any other regular unit, hence making them immune.
As idinow once said:
The gaia unit Ruins can be moved when captured through shift+delete
Build 38862
Reproduction steps:
Capture a ruin
Select ruin and press shift+delete
[Age of Empires Definitive Edition]
Hello, yesterday I played age of empires 1 DE and like the original, the AI does not know how to board the ship to go from little islands in the east to the big island to the west, so i had to destroy them in my fourth age, while they were still on the beginning islands with just a few villagers and a transport ship.
Please fix this, it’s boring to play that way!!!
Have a nice summer
Game Version:
Build: Latest, 38862 But some of them have been there for a while
Platform: Microsoft Store (Everyone)
Operating System: Windows 10 (Local), Windows 10 (Cloud-PC). Total tested with 6 PC’s
Gamertag: Subraz0r
Issue:
AI stops completely; after 10-15 minutes the ai will stop completely. it wont renew farms, it wont build units or buildings. it wont even move.
it happens quitte often and doesnt matter if you have allied AI or enemy AI
Example: when playing with 1 friend and 6…
Game Version:
New patch
Microsoft Store
Win 10
JoonasTop
Issue:
Cancelling an unbuilt building does not return resources
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
Place foundation
Delete foundation with the DELETE ALL UNITS-hotkey
Lose resources you spent
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
So, this is kinda hard to explain, but I remember that, several times when playing against the AI, enemy towers wouldn’t attack my units, unless they were inside my units’ line of sight. I know the AI does not always automatically attack enemy players, but this in particular is something else, since previously attacked towers are hostile, and will take a shot at anything that gets close (aka, within their Line of…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Hunters still go after new elephants after finishing gathering food from former ones, even after update 38862 stating the opposite.
Notes:
Seems to be more likely when there’s little space for hunters to work.
It may be related with the Steroids cheat, since this behavior happened when I was using it.
It happened in Single Player (offline custom match game)
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: 1v4n94
Issue (first seen in Ave Caesar 4: The Battle of Pharsalus)
Hero Caesar and a Scout started attackign for no apparent reason, when having the Stand Ground stance selected. No enemies were around them.
It is possible that terrain elevation is somehow related to this bug, though I can’t confirm.
Reproduction Steps:
I’m not exactly sure if this is going to help you guys replicate it.
1. Use either Her…
Game Version:
Build: 36211
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
To help allied units repair or construct friendly structures does not work. The repairmen/builders just stand in their place, doing nothing at all.
Reproduction Steps:
Play a game with allies, and try sending a Villager to construct or repair a friendly player’s building or structure.
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Microsoft Store
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: pate623
Issue:
After researching Bronze Age technology Nothing happens. I’m stuck in Tool Age and there is no Bronze Age technology available anymore.
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
Go to a 4v4 game with a random civ selected
Get Hittite as your civilization
Research Bronze Age technology
Watch how it doesn’t do anything
ATTACHMENTS:
[bug bronze Age reserch]
Game version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating system: Windows 10
Issue:
Villagers prefer closer and enclosed buildings to deposit their gathered resources instead of buildings that are free, but further away.
Applies to Granaries, Storage Pits and Town Centres.
A similar behavior happens with Fishing Boats/Ships and Docks .
Reproduction steps (“steroids” cheat recommended):
Find any resource to be gathered, such as trees, gold mines, stone mines or huntable animals.
Construct a b…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam or Microsoft Store
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
It looks like military units get attached to the last position they were when the player ordered them to stay in Defensive stance, and, under certain circumstances, they try to come back to this same position after finishing an assignment, like destroying an enemy building, for example.
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
Move one or more units anywhere.
Set them all to “…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: auderson
Issue:
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If we have spec players (green and blue in the pic), then there is a great chance players are misplaced. In this game, yellow is placed in the right corner, with enemy red and brown on both his sides.
I heard if spec player is in the 8th slot, this won’t happen. However I was right in the 8th slot in this game.
Another strange thing is that, in a 1v1 game,…
Hello, everyone. First post here so bear with me if the formatting is not optimal
Include the game version number: 23987
Explain the problem: In mission ‘Claiming Territory’ of the ‘Glory of Greece’ campaign, I built a dock on one side of the small river and some fishing ships there. After a while, I built another dock in the closest river to the right. These rivers are separated by a small piece of land between them. Once the second dock was built, the fishing ships started idling trying t…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
When playing with allies, if there are Farms owned by them near to where Granaries are created, Villagers automatically go to them, to no avail, since it isn’t possible to work on allied Farms.
Game version
Build: 38862
Operation System: Windows 10
Platform: Steam
Issue
I don’t know if this is just missing content, or there is indeed an issue with all these ships not having their respective animations, but those regarding to their movement and idle state are not visible on most ships, except for the Trireme ones.
Attachments
[Most ships with NO animations (2)][Most ships with NO animations (1)]
Game Version:
Build 35199
Steam version
Issue:
Frequently, when having a group of units selected, they don’t move altogether to the spot pointed by the player. Besides trying to move as close to the indicated spot as possible, the units seek to maintain their general arrangement on the map, sometimes moving farther from the pointed place.
This behavior often turns it difficult to move units to the precise place the player wants them to stand, especially when attempting to reunite units distan…
Game Version:
Build 35199
Steam version
Issue:
The units keep taking longer, illogical routes to a spot, as if they were blocked by other units, buildings or terrain elements, when it is clear that they have enough space to move through a short route.
Reproduction Steps:
Pay attention to units when they move from point A to point B with other units or elements between them.
Occasionally, a unit moves through a even tighter path between others than the one on the image. This makes their pathf…
Game Version:
Build 35199
Steam version
Issue:
It is frequent for units to have pathfinding problems to load into Transport ships, even when there is a clear path ahead them and no obstruction of any kind.
Reproduction Steps:
Order one or more units to load into a Transport ship and observe their behavior.
The villagers on the shot that follows where stumbling on each other when commanded to enter the Transport ship, preventing one other to embark.
[Transport ship loading bug]
Even being …
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/struggle-while-trying-to-repair-ships-or-load-a-transport/85183
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/building-and-resources-hitboxes-makes-difficult-to-move-units-around/77278
Game Version:
Build 35199
Steam version
Issue:
Villagers frequently stand next to a resource, as if there wasn’t any space for them to collect it, even when it is clear that they have access to it.
It is common for a hunter to stand idly behind another hunter extracting food from a gazelle, don’t moving around to collect the food from the other side. As with the first example, there is plenty space for him to do so.
This is also a problem with fisherman. The player need to conduct the villag…
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/ship-collision-overlapping/65589
Current build AoE:DE
Steps to reproduce:
1.Make a farm
2.Delete a farm
3.Order a line of wall(NOT DIAGONAL) on top of exhausted farm
4.Try to manually order villager to build the wall segments on said farm.
5.Villager will not do anything as the order is to rebuild a farm, that is not possible due to foundation on top.
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Microsoft Store
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: ???
Issue:
For some reason, AOE decided to un-install and re-install (not my choice). I assume I have a newer version now and the ‘Stand Ground’ function for military units no longer works. Neither using the hot key or clicking on the command has any effect. How can I get this to work again?
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
Create a military unit
Start the unit moving
Clic…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: 1v4n94
Issue:
“No Attack” stance does not cancel a previously assigned attack order. In other words, “No Attack” stance doesn’t deny previously assigned (and ongoing) attacks, unlike Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition .
Reproduction Steps:
Order any unit to attack a target.
Switch to “No Attack” stance.
Game Version:
Build: 36211
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: auderson
Issue:
Please watch the video record: https://youtu.be/gDZsoXsgFFU
It is bizzard that my villager is killed by gazelle. Does gazelle have attack point?
Why I’m saying this is bug:
one vil clearly can beat one lion!
Graphical Issues
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Smooth shadows don’t work with these units:
Axeman, Broad Swordsman, Centurion, Chieftain, Clubman, Hero Achilles, Hero Jason, Hero Mark Antony, Hero Pericles, Hero Xanthippus, Hero Xerxes, Legion, Lion - Tame, Long Swordsman, Lord Martek, Phalanx and Short Swordsman.
ATTACHMENTS:
[SMOOTH SHADOWS MISSING]
Notes:
Happens at all times, regardless of graphical settings.
It is one of the issues mentioned in @xWH…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
When selecting units (Villagers, for example) and ordering them to go to a place, the repair icon is wrongly displayed.
ATTACHMENTS: [38862_repair-icon_A-Wonder-of-the-World_ascent-of-egypt]
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Hovering granaries with fishermen and hunters that carry food makes the food icon appear when it shouldn’t. Since food coming from hunting and fishing cannot be deposited in granaries, the food icon should not appear when hovering such building type.
Reproduction Steps:
Send a villager to gather some food from fishing/hunting.
With the villager selected, hover the mouse over a granary.
Expected result:
That wh…
How difficult would it be to make the shoreline in Classic Mode as smooth as the original? I know this is an aesthetic thing and the release is the Definitive Edition but the Classic Mode shoreline graphics are actually worse than the original CD release.
Classic Mode shoreline:
[image]
Original Release shoreline:
[image]
Game Version:
Build (35199)
Platform (Steam)
Issue:
Most units have soft shadows, some units don’t.
[hard]
[soft]
The crocodile’s death/decay SLPs have only one direction.
[croc]
The horse archer’s decay SLP only has 30 frames which makes the dead unit invisible in some directions.
[ha]
The cheat units are still using the original SLPs from 1997. Since we are currently celebrating the Age of Empires Definitive Edition Anniversary it would be nice if you could remake those chea…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: 1v4n94
Issue:
Visually damaged walls (Small, Medium, Fortified) that get eventually destroyed, show their full building sprite instead of the last one used when damaged.
Reproduction Steps:
Start attacking walls of any type, with a powerful unit.
See how the damage dealt to walls makes them have their structure slowly damaged.
Notice how at the last frame(s), walls show their full form before getting destr…
Game Version: 1.3.22960.2
Build 22960
Issue:
When armored elephant units attack their animation in definitive edition mode is glitchy and not smooth as it is in classic mode.
Reproduction Steps:
Produce armored elephant units in definitive edition mode
Task the armored elephant units to attack other units or a building and observe the glitchy animation.
Armored Elephant Animation - Classic Mode
Armored Elephant Animation - Definitive Edition Mode
This issue was ori…
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Wonders (Babylonian, East Asian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman) disappear when edges of the screen are near them.
Easily spotted at the bottom, and right side of the screen.
Texture resolution (1x, 2x, 4x) and zoom scale (all ranges) also seem to have an impact on how this bug shows itself.
There’s no “safe” resolution multiplier or zoom scale. The bug will still happen, regardless.
This bug can also be seen using …
Hello Everyone!
Not sure for some, but to me the definitive edition has been mind blowing as I love it a lot. I of course was expecting to see it all so I would normally go to the scenario editor to have a look at all the new looks.
I was a bit disappointed from it since its beta because I noticed that the cheat units were left behind with old models/graphics for some of them (see pictures)
Would it not be nice to have these units also remodeled?! I would love that [cheat%20units]
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Gamertag: 1v4n94
Issue:
Terrain detail graphics flickering.
Frequency:
Rare.
ATTACHMENTS:
[flickering-details-eye-candy-online-video-cutter.com]
Game Version:
Build: 38862
Platform: Steam
Operating System: Windows 10
Issue:
Buildings under construction show their true form when destroyed/deleted.
Happens to ALL structures, from buildings, to walls, to towers… Even wonders.
Reproduction Steps:
Set a Villager to construct any building.
Stop the Villager before it reaches the building.
Select and delete the building.
ATTACHMENTS:
Note that although not all buildings show their full appearance when deleted in these GIFs, that’s only…
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/boat-animation/60335
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/dead-farms-not-getting-removed-when-building-upon-them/89497
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/villager-construct-animation-glitch/81158/
Sound Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/background-music-stops-looping/79505
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/music-stuttering-in-main-menu/107354
AI Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/ai-builds-more-houses-than-it-needs-beyond-pop-limit/115451
Game Version:
Build: Latest, 38862 But some of them have been there for a while
Platform: Microsoft Store (Everyone)
Operating System: Windows 10 (Local), Windows 10 (Cloud-PC). Total tested with 6 PC’s
Gamertag: Subraz0r
Issue:
AI stops completely; after 10-15 minutes the ai will stop completely. it wont renew farms, it wont build units or buildings. it wont even move.
it happens quitte often and doesnt matter if you have allied AI or enemy AI
Example: when playing with 1 friend and 6…
Data Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/deleted-custom-scenarios-re-appearing/96711
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/custom-campaigns-not-being-removed-from-game-cache-memory/114249
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/hit-restart-game-but-it-loads-game-instead/86100
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cant-delete-savegame-because-steam-cloud-restore-it/67648
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/deleted-custom-scenarios-re-appearing/96711
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/custom-campaigns-can-be-played-but-cannot-be-extracted-via-campaign-editor/117231
Info and Statistics Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/request-fix-the-tech-tree/113178
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/stats-buggy/89848
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/timeline-broken/86577
Interface Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/huge-ui-size-menus-overlapping/115984
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cant-skip-intro-video-menu-button-noises-triggered/100574
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/ui-does-not-auto-update-to-reflect-its-current-state/97392
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/to-click-menu-buttons-while-moving-the-cursor-at-the-same-time-isnt-possible/96818
Multiplayer and Connectivity Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/you-were-dropped-from-the-game-because-of-a-sync-error/89936/
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/random-game-server-crashes/73585
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe-de-lan-issue/65136
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/synchronization-errors-often-occur-in-a-lan-match-with-my-friends/89773
Game Version:
Build: Latest, 38862 But some of them have been there for a while
Platform: Microsoft Store (Everyone)
Operating System: Windows 10 (Local), Windows 10 (Cloud-PC). Total tested with 6 PC’s
Gamertag: Subraz0r
Issue:
AI stops completely; after 10-15 minutes the ai will stop completely. it wont renew farms, it wont build units or buildings. it wont even move.
it happens quitte often and doesnt matter if you have allied AI or enemy AI
Example: when playing with 1 friend and 6…
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/aoe-i-multiplayer-game-kick-player-out/89383
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/all-available-game-lobbies-not-shown-in-lobby-browser/89307
Performance Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/fps-loss-at-scenario-start-then-performance-stabilizes-over-time/101374
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/still-no-fps-stability/86713
Launch Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cannot-start-the-game/96618
Crash Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/game-crashes-when-unlocking-achievements/112879
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/got-a-crash-in-singleplayer-game-after-30-minutes/99359
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/age-of-empires-definitive-ed-keeps-crashing/63600
Achievement Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/hun-is-that-you-achievement-not-unlocking/116179
Localization Issues https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/two-italian-translation-issues-for-babylonians/110516
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