Chat in-game gets disabled

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

  • GAME BUILD #: 180059
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

Sometimes the chat in-game gets disabled. If you check the chat settings dialog, it’s normal and the players are selected. Any chat you type doesn’t appear and you also don’t receive chats from any other player. Flares still work normally.

This may last for the entire match, or only for a part. It’s not a new bug, but seems to be happening more since the last patches.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 25% of the time / matches I play (SOMETIMES)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Type chat message and it doesn’t show up

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

Chat should work

:play_button: IMAGE

:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

chatbug-MP Replay v101.103.48987.0 @2026.08.21 131214 (8).aoe2record (3.6 MB)