Cursor Forced Drag to the top

Age of Mythology: Retold Report a Bug
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  • Game Version: Newest Update (as of March 17, 2025)

  • Build Number: Not sure.

  • Platform: Steam

  • Operating System: Windows 11

Issue:

When chaining commands to any unit or pressing the Shift key, the cursor unexpectedly jumps to the top of the screen, making the game unplayable. The only workaround is to avoid pressing Shift again. This issue severely impacts gameplay and unit control.

Trigger Event:

The issue occurs apparently randomly when attempting to chain commands to units or when pressing the Shift key during gameplay.

Repro Steps:

This happens only randomly. When it does I need to resign from the game and restart AOM completely.

  1. Launch the game and start a new match or load a saved game.
  2. Select any unit on the battlefield.
  3. Attempt to chain commands by holding Shift and clicking multiple locations on the map.
  4. Observe that the cursor jumps to the top of the screen, making it impossible to issue commands accurately.
  5. Alternatively, simply press the Shift key during normal gameplay and observe the cursor jumping to the top.
  6. The issue persists until Shift is no longer used.
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This used to happen to me when the game was first released. left click anywhere and it stops it. (or was it right click) Anyway hope that helps unless this is a new issue.

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Hi @ChaosBringer, thank you for the report. This issue is now being tracked :slight_smile:

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I have noticed other users fixing this similar bug by clicking anywhere. Unfortunately, it’s not the case for me… the only way to stop the behaviour is to pause the game by hitting “Esc”. On resume, if you ever happen to hit SHIFT or ALT again it shows the same behaviour. Forcing me to lose the game and restart from steam… veeeeery annoying. Imagine that this happened to me already quite some times during ranked after 30 minutes of just preparing for an attack ! :frowning:

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Its been happening to me a lot, you know it will happen as the mouse pointer changes to a solid big pointer when I use the mini map to scout . I click left right and both mouse buttons and it stops. Its a pain.