Game information
(It would be nice if I could just copy all this info from the main menu)
- Build: 101.101.63581.0 9025584
- Platform: Steam
- Operating System: Windows 10
Issue
The dropdown box that lets you select a player’s point of view when watching a replay or spectating often has incorrect colors because it is confused about whether “Unique Player Colors” (the opposite of Friend or Foe colors) is enabled. This makes the interface very confusing and hard to use.
Frequency of issue
100% of time the time if you follow the reproduction steps or something similar
Reproduction steps
- In the Interface tab of the Options screen, uncheck “Unique Player Colors” and click “Confirm”.
- Save the following replay file or something similar to your savegame folder, find it in the replay tab, and start replaying it: red_vs_teal.aoe2record
- Toggle Friend or Foe colors twice using your hotkey (mine is Alt+G, look in Hotkeys → Game Commands if you are not sure about yours).
- Look at the dropdown box for selecting players in the lower left, and observe that it does not match any of the other places on the screen where player colors are shown. If you use the replay linked above, Elavid is shown as blue in the dropdown box but red everywhere else.
- The dropdown box is now in a bad state and will have incorrect colors no matter how many times you toggle the friend-or-foe colors. However, going to the Options screen and coming back is a workaround to make the colors correct because it seems to (slowly) rebuild the entire HUD when you do that.
If you have trouble reproducing this, just make sure you select a player that is not blue and try toggling Friend or Foe colors a few more times. Step 1 is probably not too important.
Expected
Player colors should be consistent in all the places they are displayed.