Campaign "Vinlandsaga": AI is bugged & No longer show player the Sea of Worms after defeating Greenland

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

  • GAME BUILD #: 101.102.17051.0
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

  • Campaign “Vinlandsaga” no longer shows player the Sea of Worm after defeating Greenland (Check my screenshot below)

  • AI player “Greenland” seems to refuse scouting and map-exploring: Greenland’s scout in player’s starting island stays idle unless the player get in its sight. Greenland’s Longboats didn’t sail to the player’s starting island as often as before the bug.

  • The bug makes the campaign significantly easier - if you ignore/ take down Greenland’s scout before it gets any information about your base, seems like Greenland didn’t even know where player is. In my experience, Greenland always sends units and ships to the English island for some reason (Note that English is their ally), and my island never get attacked.

  • Before this bug, Greenland’s Scout was active and aggressive, will scouting and attack any player’s unit on sight, I guess the purpose is to let Greenland know where the player is so it can attack later. And in fact, before this bug, they do attack player’s island frequently.

  • Before this bug, AI player “Greenland” was supposed to be very active in map exploring, both land and sea. so when the player defeat it, it will ally the player before resigning, and share its view with the player, including most parts of the sea and the full-explored Sea of Worm.

It would be really shame if we can’t see the Sea of Worms without cheating anymore, it’s a piece of art, a masterpiece the map designer leaves to us, and should not be buried by a bug.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

I only defeat Greenland once and see no Sea of Worms, so I can’t say it’s 100%
But Greenland’s scout on starting island is always idle.

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

  1. Play the campaign “Vinlandsaga”
  2. Go to the North West of start island to see if Greenland’s Scout is idle or not.
  3. Play the game and Defeat Greenland.
  4. See if you can see the Sea of Worms.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

  • Greenland should explore most of the sea, including the Sea of Worms.
  • When player defeat Greenland, it should ally the player before resigning, sharing the full-explored Sea of Worms with player.

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

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P.S. I found this bug because I watched Vinland Saga (anime), it is very good and made me want to play Viking, so I replay this campaign.

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Thank you for this report @Polo88kai We are tracking this issue :slight_smile:

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Just a little advice: instead of letting unreliable AI explore the Sea of Worms itself, just place a lot of Map Revealers on the Sea of Worms, to make sure Greenland explored it.

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