"I'm ready button" does not work

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

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  • GAME BUILD #: 101.103.48987 180059 24094652
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

:backhand_index_pointing_down: DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). LIMIT TO ONE BUG PER THREAD.

Ranked queue. Match is found. Button “i’m ready” is unpressed, but game will start anyway.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

:backhand_index_pointing_down: How often does the issue occur? CHOSE ONE; DELETE THE REST!

  • 90% of the time / matches I play (FREQUENTLY)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

:backhand_index_pointing_down: List CLEAR and DETAILED STEPS we can take to reproduce the issue ourselves… Be descriptive!

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Ranked queue. 1v1. Match is found.

  2. Press “I’m ready”, unpress it quick.

  3. Maybe do alt+tab several times.

  4. U may repeat (2) (3) several times.

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to hCheckppen if the bug you encountered were not present?

Checkbox is off but game will start.

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:play_button: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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I’m not sure that’s really a bug. Unchecking the box can’t have an instant effect, because it takes a while to deliver that message to the server. In the meantime, the server might start the game if everyone else is ready.

Maybe the button could have a clearer “pending” appearance after being clicked, until the new state is confirmed by the server.

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Maybe the button could have a clearer “pending” appearance after being clicked

Yes, that’s one solution.

Other way to implement it – if match is being started, and there is a signal “the box was unchecked”, we can revert to the previous state “matchmaking” and cancel the match without any fees like “10-minutes matchmaking ban”.

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What a user sees/feels:

I pressed “I’m NOT ready”. I waited 1-2 seconds, to be sure “the game understands me”. I’m afk for a while. I return back and what I see? the match was found and the game already finished. Frustration.

The correct behavior obviously: If checkbox is set to “I’m NOT ready”, game can NOT be started.

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Hm if you see the ready checkbox then a match was already found and starts in 1 minute anyway, right? But yeah I can see how it’s frustrating.