Attacked by a treasure prisoner - The most improbable bug

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  • GAME BUILD #: V. 100.19.17293.0 P1
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam / Microsoft Store
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux

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First, you need to look at the screenshot. Then, try to figure it out. Even we struggled to understand what had happened while the game was going on…

This Mother Nature Eagle Warrior is attacking an Inca player’s stronghold. So far, so good—it looks like a treasure guardian attacking a building.

But… Players cannot attack it. The cursor indicates that this unit cannot be attacked. Furthermore, each player in the game sees this unit in their own color.

We finally understood why: this eagle warrior wasn’t a treasure guardian, but the prisoner!

It’s not entirely clear how the unit decided to break away on its own and attack the nearby stronghold.

One hypothesis is that the Inca player managed to place a building foundation on the treasure, forcing the Eagle Warrior to move and thus break away. As a “Mother Nature” unit—without being a guardian in itself,—he simply attacked the nearest player unit in sight.

What is quite surprising is that the Inca player managed to place a wall foundation on top of a treasure. Normally, there is an area around the treasure that prevents this, but strangely enough, the player succeeded anyway.

This bug is probably the strangest and most amusing one we’ve seen so far.

Developers, you don’t have to fix it. I just wanted to share this bug with you—it gave us a good laugh.

this bug is as old as the game, remember play on original AoE 3 and encontering this bug it usually happen when u block the treasure with wall in same way, they turn hostile and attack it or nearby building.