Constant glitchy unit animations since recent patch

[Rednote76]

GAME INFORMATION

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• **GAME BUILD #: v. 100.12.29715.0
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Unit animation is shaking constantly. All units are very glitchy and laggy due to the new patch, or possibly due to the new health bars. The issue has started immediately in the two multiplayer games I played though I did not notice it in skirmish mode (only tested for a minute in skirmish). The game is unplayable to me in this state, I can barely look at my units. Is it possible to revert to the old health bars if that is the issue? Other players have reported similar issues with unit animation. I am playing on a GTX 1660 graphics card and never had issues with poor performance until this patch.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Start multiplayer game.
2. Quit in first minute because of constant shaky animation.

EXPECTED RESULT

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We were supposed to have health bars that didn’t break the other animations in the game.

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[EasedCobra66732]

Same here man… The unit walking animation skips frames. This issue is more visible in multiplayer games than in Skirmish mode

[stepheneaux12]

Same! Intense lag coupled with not being able to click on things through other objects, like buildings or trees.

[DAC1789]

VERY VERY intense lag and glitch. I had several games and EVERYONE was complaining. In Discord server also complaining so it is a general bug from the patch.

PLEASE FIX this week

[mal7887]

It is painful to play this game now. The animations are absolute trash.

Please issue a rollback to previous patch.

[TaupeAphid6383]

yes, annoying laggy since last update, can‘t micro.

[squamiger8043]

agreed, also experiencing much more choppy unit animations than before.

[NobleCause]

same here and just since this latest patch

[Lytic]

Same here, hard to play like this. Hope they can patch it soon

[awoodenfork]

I’m also getting really bad lag and stutter despite constant 60 fps framerate. This is new since the update on the 8th. It only occurs in multiplayer for me, and it starts at the beginning of the game and continues throughout.

[FedSmoker5827]

Same here, its awful.

[Ahplaa]

you know what’s interesting is the immense noise that comes from the developers’ silence on this matter, no apologies, no explanations, and soon there’s a patch with notes blaming the players’ computer

[Rednote76]

Yay! The hotfix has fixed all and also fixed Siberia! Woohoo! Thank you devs.