Lobby game drops all players after launch just before loading screen

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

  • **GAME BUILD: 101.102.47822.0 (#:113358) 14355041
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

While hosting a lobby game with 8 players (not tested with less), game will often drop all players without the host doing anything other than launching the game, all players are returned to main menu, and the process of waiting to fill the lobby with players again is started again which is irritating. Players will receive a message with “You were dropped from the game”.
Reported for current version, but this bug is known to have persisted for about 1 year now.

There is also a case where individual players are dropped before the host even starts the game, might be related.

!!Suggestion, at least make it that everybody is returned to the lobby instead, so host can just relaunch the game for another try.!!

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 25% of the time / matches I play (SOMETIMES)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Host lobby game
  2. Have 8 players
  3. Launch game

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

about 25% of the time all players will be dropped back to the main menu.

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

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:arrow_forward: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

Not the case

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This is the message the host player receives. I think the other players get a different message, will try to capture it once I get it as non-host.

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Suggestion, at least make it so everybody is returned to the game lobby, so host can just launch again.

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they said that this issue is fixed but clearly still happening, very frequently lol

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This is what players who joined a lobby get (non-host players)

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This bug is so annoying, it’s hard to believe how bad the lobby browser is and no one fix it.

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Hopefully a developer is able to share some info whether this is known and worked on.

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just had 4 in a row dropping, all players restarted the game too

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I was told that it is color related e.g. if host picks any color other than blue, then this can happen.

Maybe you could look into that?

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im host 95% of the time and 99% time always blue so I am certain it isn’t that. 4 of the games dropped im host and all blue

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Any updates on a fix?

It keeps happening a lot.

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Happens almost every game now, we often waste 30+ minutes just to get a custom lobby filled. Our friends have families and very little time to play. Then the game drops at launch. The devs are not even looking at this, no updates either. Just promoting their Wololo events. This is getting ridiculous.

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Hello devs? Any work on this? It’s happening more than ever. Makes you just want to forget about this game. It should really be a top priority bug fix!

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