Hello, I have collected several bugs and issues with the game. Not all of them are bugs, but they need dev attention since were already in the game in the stress test and are still not fixed.
List of bugs:
- Smart selection does not work
- Unit healthbars do not show when resolution scale is less than 100%
- Its impossible to queue select relic → deposit inside monastery for monks. Its only possible to select relic → walk monk next to monastery
- Its impossible to queue gather deer carcass → drop it next to a mill, because the “drop carcass” action only becomes available once a scout has picked up deer. However this makes it too complicated and requires too many clicks.
- Several tooltip errors, for example: Chinese Granary displays a 10% gather rate buff on one tooltip. On another tooltip it displays a 15% gather rate buff.
- Chinese Spirit Way Landmark does not display its influence zone when in build selection
- Siege units will create dirty ground underneath them when set up to fire
List of issues:
- Map is not revealed after game ends
- No global production queue like Aoe3 DE
- No control Group stealing like in Starcraft 2
- No full hotkey customization (yes also mouse buttons)
- No “select all of the same type” hotkey like in Aoe3 DE
- No hotkey to select all barracks/stable etc like Aoe3 DE
- No further zoom and multiple different zoom options like Aoe3 DE far and very far
- Not making players select the civ BEFORE the map gets shown to prevent people from picking civ depending on map and skewing balance and fairness (this is how it works in all the RTS I know: WC3, COH2,Stacraft 1 and Starcraft 2, Aoe3 DE)
- Not moving the Chinese Dynasty button away from the middle of the screen. This was reported months ago.
- The cursor shows a blue or red circle whenever you click on the ground or use attack move. This was obnoxiously big, the circle should have been reduced in size because it blocks view of enemy units.
- Gunpowder smoke from bombards is too much. It makes units and battles impossible to see and obscures vision.
- Mangonel, Trebuchet and other siege unit projectiles are almost impossible to see.
Chinese specific issues/Feedback:
Dynasty units and buildings must stay unlocked once unlocked by dynasties. It doesn’t make sense to loose access to them. It also devalues the investment into additional Landmarks.
- Granaries are too big. They require 4 farms of space, making it too difficult to place it inside your base. Especially placing 3 of them next to each other for stacked effect. Please make Granaries smaller. They should take up 1 farm of space, same as a mill. Or they should be a direct upgrade from a mill, to make it easier to plan and build a base correctly. Other users have reported issues that the villager does not drop ressources at the edge of a granary, but rather in the middle. This additional walking time means the gather rate bonus is less effective.
- The 2nd Landmark for Age 3 and Age 4 need to be reduced in cost. They are too expensive and not worth building for Dynasty bonuses. Its better to just build units instead.
- Stone Walls in general feel very weak, its better to just build Castles. As such, the Great Wall of China Landmark is too weak and should provide buffs to castles and towers aswell.
The Chinese Spirit Way Landmark influence zone needs to be increased. Or it should be a permanent buff for all production buildings.
Compare this to the influence bonus of the French and their castles, the french castle influence bonus is much larger and it can apply to many production buildings. This is not the case for the Chinese. Of course, the French can build infinite number of castles which can improve all production buildings, but the Chinese cannot extend their influence zone of the Spirit Landmark to all production buildings.
Here is a quick sketch of the issue with the Spirit Way Landmark:
Picture 1. Sketch of an optimal Chinese base layout with Imperial Academy, Spirit way and production buildings.
As you can see here, its impossible to get your production buildings into the influence are of both the Imperial Academy (Tax bonus Landmark) and the influence area of the Spirit way Landmark (30% price reduction for Dynasty units).
Picture 2. Sketch of an optimal Chinese base layout with Imperial Academy, Spirit way and production buildings. In this image, the Spirit Way influence was increased and changed from a circle to a square to make building placement easier.
As you can see in picture 2, changing the influence radius from a circle to a square makes it much easier to plan and place your production buildings properly.
However, as we can seee its still impossible to fit all buildings into the Influence Zone of both Landmarks. Therefore, I suggest to make the Spirit Way 30% cost reduction for Dynasty units apply to all production buildings regardless of placement.
The Chinese base building is already the most difficult in the entire game, especially once Granaries come into play. At this point, its simply too difficult. Because of this, the Chinese are unable to take advantage of their Landmark and civ bonuses.