Boar-luring vil glitch

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 185872
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

Boar-luring villager issue. I only play against AI.
When a vil is luring a boar to my own TC, if another (AI) player is after the same boar (but has not landed an arrow yet), the vil often appears to go to the enemy direction when I right-click my place to navigate the vil. I usually panic when it happens and right-click my own TC multiple times, then the vil tries to go to different directions and basically stays there to be killed by the boar.
I believe this happens only when another (enemy or maybe ally) player is after the same boar because;

  1. I experience this only when I am stealing a boar from another player.
  2. The very boar is taken away by another player soon after I lost the boar-luring vil.

I am not sure if this happens against human players.

I am experienced enough not to lose a vil to a boar during a standard build. And it is extremely frustrating when my boar-stealing strat is seemingly working and get spoiled due to a glitch.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

Due to the nature of the bug, it is hard to estimate the frequency.
But I suppose it is reproducible since I experience this often when I steal a boar.

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

I never tried to intentionally reproduce the issue. But it won’t be too difficult.

Update: I was able to reproduce the issue. However, due to some another issue, I was not able to record the game. The key of reproduction is to hit a boar when the enemy vil is still far away from the target (but clearly walking towards it). Do not wait the enemy vil to get too close to it. Re-direction of my own boar-luring vil seems to happen in a click-independent manner.

  1. Steal a boar from an AI opponent around the time they take the same boar (when the pop is around 11 or 12 for the 1st boar). There are usually 2 boars for each player, so you may not reproduce this when you take the wrong boar.

  2. Try to navigate the boar-luring vil with right-clicking the place to go. Avoid clicking the right place only once after hitting a boar. You usually need to do this since when you steal a boar without loom, you need to pull a house-trick or something to take the vil home.

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

The boar-luring vil turns to different locations. I feel it happens per-right-click, but never confirmed it.

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Hi @MMT001

Thanks a lot for this information. I already let the team know about it, and we will investigate it further.

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It happens very often since the last update (Vikings Saga) and also if you’re the only one luring it, or perhaps the AI already sent the vil to lure but I reached it first and didn’t see the enemy coming but I can’t be sure of that.