Mountain dunes TC arrows bug

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

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  • GAME BUILD #: 16271343
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

:point_down: DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL (below). LIMIT TO ONE BUG PER THREAD.
On 3-4 separate games on the Mountain Dunes map, the TC behaves weirdly when tasked to shoot an elephant. The arrows are visible 5 tiles away and the boar often takes 0 damage.

I just tested on single player and was able to reproduce the bug on the first try. Tried to see if this is related to the TC being on elevation - this bug did not occur on Acropolis. However, on acropolis, the starting elevation of the boars is similar to the TC, while on mountain dunes, the boar is initially at a much lower elevation on the TC - was unable to test further as i don’t know how to use the map editor well enough to move boars around.

This isn’t the most urgent issue, but it has cost me a villager or the whole boar on more than one occasion.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

  • 50% of the time / matches I play (FREQUENTLY)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

:point_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. Load a game on mountain dunes
  2. Lure an elephant
  3. Garrison vils in the TC and right click the elephant when it is under your TC.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

:point_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
Arrows should target the elephant, and the elephant should take a consistent, expected amount of damage

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:arrow_forward: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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Watch from my POV (Dobby)

TC bug game 2.aoe2record (2.2 MB)
TC bug Game 1.aoe2record (2.3 MB)
TC bug single player.aoe2record (666.6 KB)

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Hi devs, this issue occurred in a major warlords qualifier yesterday (Situax vs Daut, decider game). Here is a 22 second clip from Memb’s broadcast:

As a result of this bug, Sitaux lost his boar and the admins had to intervene and call a restart of the game.

Again, the issue occurs when:

  • TC is on high ground
  • Boar starting position is at lower elevation than the TC
  • Shooting the boar with TC results in really strange arrow behavior that can significantly impact the game result as a vil and a boar may be lost.

Starting position of boar is at lower elevation. TC is on high ground.
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As this occurs only on some niche maps, it probably isnt the highest priority. However, since it is so easily 100% reproducible, it might be quite easy to diagnose and maybe even fix. On the maps where it occurs, it occurs every single time and usually has game ending consequences. Request a dev to please add this somewhere in the backlog.