Bizarre Behavior

Age of Empires IV IV - Discussion
1

Can anyone who practices this behavior explain the reasoning behind it? Ive noticed a number of patterns in 4v4 ranked.

  1. Team is winning. An ally struggling or even doing well just randomly quits. Or the opponents are winning and they all randomly quit.
  2. All the players start quitting right at start. The remaining team that clearly has a numbers advantage suddenly loses a player. Why lose all those ranked points for no reason?
  3. Players, even seemingly good players, often refuse to garrison villagers or flee from enemy raids. Its like they randomly go afk and let their villagers die. Even pinging them doesnt help. One person guilty of that called me a noob as I was being attacked and actually retreating/garrisoning my villagers.
  4. Why quit immediately at start anyway?
  5. Other things might just be skill issues like refusal to build walls/towers against mongols. Ignoring trade or refusing to build a market or relocate a market.
2

Game crashes have become more common since DLC launched. It’s happened to me a few times right as my team starts to make a comeback. It’s quite frustrating!

3

I rarely ever crash or quit, though it has happened. If all these other people are from game crashes, it is at an extremely higher rate than me.

4

I’ve never had a disconnection problem, but this season it’s happened 3 times in team games, and all 3 times we were winning when the game froze and disconnected.

5

I installed wireshark to evaluate the next time it happens, as I sincerely suspect a DDoS attack.