Castle wont attack walls when prompted

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

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  • GAME BUILD #: ######
    Every game on xbox.
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam / Microsoft Store
    Xbox
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux
    Xbox Series X and S as well

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

:point_down: DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). LIMIT TO ONE BUG PER THREAD.
In multiplayer, a castle wont attack walls when you target them. Obviously not automatically either as they arent supposed to. This is with any civ. It happens in multiplayer, every map, every mode. I cant attack their walls and they cant attack mine. Everyone has this issue. It might occur in single player too but i dont play that mode.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

:point_down: How often does the issue occur? CHOSE ONE; DELETE THE REST!

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

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

:point_down: List CLEAR and DETAILED STEPS we can take to reproduce the issue ourselves… Be descriptive!

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Build a castle
  2. Select castle
  3. Sellect wall or gate segment. They can be either stone or wood walls.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

:point_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

The castle should attack the wall/gate segment until it is deatroyed.

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Im not including an image. Its pretty self explanatory.

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Again i dont feel this is required as it happens to everyone everytime and the issue is as straight forward as it gets.

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Hello @MrZammuto

This behaviour is intended by default :slight_smile:
Thanks for your report!

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That doesn’t seem intended to me. On PC you can attack a wall with a castle but on xbox it isn’t working.
You have to attack it by spam clicking the wall but that’s still unusual behavior.

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On the pc version castles can certainly attack walls. Can a pc player’s castles not attack walls when a playing an xbox player? This seems odd.

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I can attack walls with my castle with no problem. I have the PC version.

Glad you posted here. Now we are three people total confirming that castles can attack walls

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Peow, peow peow! My PC version castles also love to target the walls that I ask them to target and always have done. I’d be really annoyed if I couldn’t slowly remove wall HP if I had no nearby army. I presume that they mean that this is intended on X box versions of the game, Would be rubbish if PC players get handicapped by playing an X box player!

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Hey! Has anything been said about this? This happens since AoK 1.0 version.

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@Felizon89 does this mean castles’ ability to target walls is a legacy bug? Or was it a conscious decision to make it exclusive to PC players?

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You can shoot walls with castles since AoK 1.0 times

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how does this intended* make any sense to you? who the hell made this decision should be fired

changing core game play that worked for decades, just what the hell are they thinking?

imagine xbox player on arena build a castle on someone’s wall and they cant even manually attack wall, what the hell is wrong with you people

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Yes. But is it a legacy feature or a legacy bug? I thought it was intended that you could but that they intentionally removed it for console calls it into question

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If it was a bug, it’s a >20 years old bug and the meta has adapted to it. ‘Fixing’ it now would make the world implode.
Also, if the team started with the AoE2 DE PC code and then started building the Console version, they had to find the section where you can shoot to walls and then remove/comment it

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Ah I didn’t read the xbox, part, yeah, I guess there’s lots of bugs like these with rewritten code and all that.

But the part that made me say “no” was that you said “they can attack mine but I can’t attack theirs” which sounded silly to me.

There should be a separate forum for xbox bugs.

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naw it shouldnt count as a bug, regardless of their original intention.

if their intention was to never allow castle to manually target wall, then their intention is in the wrong here. If you can attack wall with ram/siege you can certainly do so with castle, maybe not auto attack but once manually controlled to attack it should always work.

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