ISSUE EXPERIENCED
Many of the maps displayed when loading into a match are inconsistent and have conflicting details, with many missing neighboring maps
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
- 25% of the time / matches I play (SOMETIMES)
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:
- Launch a game with any of the maps listed
- Look at the loading screen
- Alternatively, look at the game files stored in \common\AoE3DE\Game\UI\UIResources3.bar
A non-exhaustive list of Affected Maps:
- Yucatan: looks like a TWC version. Missing Panama.
- Muscovy: Missing Labels to the East and South
- Pyrenees: Missing Labels to the North (France) and South (Spain)
- Hudson Bay: Not centered on the Bay, cuts off parts of the region
- Atlas: Artwork and labels for Europe completely missing
- Siwa Oasis: Artwork and labels for Europe completely missing
- Tripolitania: Artwork and labels for Europe completely missing
- Andes Upper: looks like a TWC version. Missing Panama and Amazon area maps.
- Andes: looks like a TWC version. Missing Panama and Amazon area maps.
- Arctic Island: Not centered on the Arctic, cuts off parts of the region
- Yucatan: Missing Panama.
- Gotland: Too zoomed in, can’t see labels for any neighboring map aside from a cut-off Danish Straits
- Heligoland: Too zoomed in, can’t see labels for any neighboring map
- Iceland: Too zoomed in, can’t see any neighboring map
- Northwest Passage: Not centered on the Arctic, cuts off parts of the region
- Nunavut: Not centered on the Arctic, cuts off parts of the region
- South Norway: Shows Shetland but doesn’t have a label
- Svalbard: Too zoomed in, can’t see any neighboring map
- Swedish Lakes: Shows Shetland but doesn’t have a label
- California: Hudson Bay region shown but no new maps from TBP shown
- Carolina: Doesn’t show Plymouth or the new maps in TBP
- Cascade Range: Hudson Bay region shown but no new maps from TBP shown
- Dakota: Hudson Bay region shown but no new maps from TBP shown
- Acropolis: Too zoomed in, can’t see labels for any neighboring map
- Eurasian Steppe: Too zoomed in, can’t see neighboring maps to the East
- Malta: Too zoomed in, can’t see any neighboring map
- Bayou: looks like an early version. Missing Panama.
- Fertile Crescent: Artwork and labels for Europe completely missing
- Florida: looks like an early version. Missing Panama.
- Great Lakes: Hudson Bay region shown but no new maps from TBP shown
- Great Plains: Hudson Bay region shown but no new maps from TBP shown
- Himalayas: Not centered, cuts off parts of the region
- Hispaniola: looks like an early version. Missing Panama.
- Mexico: looks like an early version. Missing Panama.
- Kamchatka: Cannot see label for Siberia
- Nova Scotia: Does not show Plymouth
- Rockies: Not centered, cuts off parts of the region
- Texas: looks like an early version. Missing Panama.
EXPECTED RESULT
The maps should be mutually consistent
IMAGE
I could upload all the affected images but that would require hundreds of MB
Hudson Bay cut off:
Muscovy with missing labels:
Himalayas cut off:
South Norway with unlabeled Shetland:
Yucatan missing Panama:
GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)
The image files above are directly extracted from the game files