Force desync just using task manager and forcing stop AOE2DE

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

  • GAME BUILD #: latest
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

I had experienced some desyncs over the last time (not a lot but most than a fair player expects).

Particularly, it took relevance for me because most cases were in positions when I felt winning and suddenly the game was desync. At first time, i thought it was a coincidence but in the next ones… I began to suspect any kind of cheating, so I did research to try to reproduce.

I found this other desync bug: New desync exploit - #2 by thieftdp8498 , my opponents may force desync in the way post describe or even may I do without notice.

The case is without the knowledge of that bug previously reported, I were trying weird things to reproduce desync (supposing my opponents were forcing that in some way) and I found a easy way to desync and I think needs to be solved.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

  1. just open windows tasks administrator and just force stop of AOE2 during a game immediately (of course) the game ends but statistics show anyone wins. So, no winner.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

I suppose that the result of that match must be resignation by the player who left the game no matter the reason. Give the points consequently with the fair result.

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I remember a lot of times when someone dropped and the game desynced at the same time, so maybe this bug is arround for a long time.

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In fact, yesterday I was playing 4 vs. 4, I lost connection (because my ISP), my friends saw I retired anyway… around five minutes after our opponents resigned and they won.
But statistics doesn’t show the winner. I don’t know why… is f weird.

I am occasional player but anyway I care about fair play and fair points distribution.

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Hi @ManFromAnotherPlace

Thanks for reporting this issue with the desync games. I´ve been trying to reproduce the issue, but whenever I close the game with the task manager, my opponent wins. Even the statistics show them as winners. Could you tell me what you mean by “But statistics doesn’t show the winner”? Are you talking about the statistics post-match? or in your profile statistics?

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Hi! @IvanHCastro

Sorry I wasn’t clear; I meant profile statistics. After reporting here, I didn’t try again. I will try again between today and tomorrow, also I will try to make a capture; in case I can’t reproduce anymore I will tell you.

To be clearer, depending on the site after the game I saw diverse ways to represent the result.

Ex.

  • https://www.ageofempires.com/stats/match-details/ using the match id the site kept looking

  • aoe2insights mach is never listed.

  • aoe2companion shows like match never ends…

  • There’s another site that I checked I don’t remember which site, but I do remember that shows the match with both players death.

Thanks.

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Hi @IvanHCastro, my mistake.

I made a video, and I notice just is a visualization issue, but points were given fairly a minutes later.

So, thanks for your attention and sorry for make you waste your time.