Migrating Treasure Guardians Bug

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

  • GAME BUILD #: 63727
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

When using the chaos ability, you can migrate treasure guardians away from the treasure such that the strong treasure guardians will attack and pursue your units well outside of the usual radius and will not return to the treasure to guard it. This happens only with groups of different types of treasure guardians, and only if the strong treasure guardians are attacking weak ones.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • Less than 25% of the time / matches I play (RARELY)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Play as an African Civ
  2. Find a treasure with 2 types of guardians. The bigger the difference in strength, the better
  3. Use the chaos ability on the guardians
  4. See if the high strength guardians attack the low strength guardians. If the high strength guardians attack each other, this bug cannot be replicated (restart at step 2)
  5. After the ability fires, immediately start attacking one of the high strength guardians
  6. Once the low strength guardians recover from chaos, move your Emir/Ras up to the border of the treasure radius, remaining inside. As expected, the low strength guardians will pursue the explorer to the radius while the high strength guardians pursue the low strength guardians
  7. Continue firing at high strength guardians so they agro on your explorer once they recover
  8. Once the high strength guardians recover from chaos, move your explorer well outside of the treasure radius
  9. Observe the low strength guardians return to the treasure as expected
  10. Observe the high strength treasure guardians pursue your explorer well outside of the expected treasure radius
  11. Continue moving your explorer away from the treasure until the treasure guardians hit their new radius
  12. Observe the high strength guardians will go to a spot approximately where they recovered from chaos
  13. Observe that the high strength guardians will slowly migrate back to the treasure when they move randomly.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

The guardians should not be able to go past the normal radius and should return to the treasure immediately upon resetting

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

Screenshot showing the guardians’ final position:

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Video showing the whole process:

:arrow_forward: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

treasure guardians reset.age3Ysav (3.1 MB)

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Hi @stephensundin, thanks for the report. We’re now tracking this internally. I appreciate the great effort and detail you provided for helping us reproduce the bug and find the source of the issue. :+1:

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