Issue:
When using the editor and editing Water and/or Terrain Types, the game will no longer allow you to find multiplayer games. You are given a “No Games Found” message after maybe 20 seconds.
Repro Steps:
- Open Editor
- Select “Paint Water” > Any water type > “Water Type Editor” > change seemingly any values. This is also achievable under “Paint Terrain” > Any terrain type > “Terrain Texture Editor”
- Paint your canvas with water or cliffs or whatever else is affected by these settings’
- No longer enjoy multiplayer
(Temporary) Solutions:
For those who come across the same issue before it gets fixed:
The file path under Users<name>\Games\AoMR<steamID>\Game\Data\map_definitions\ has one or more xml file types saved. Deleting these should allow you to play multiplayer again. You may want to set the file to read-only permissions for the time being, but I am not sure what effect it will have on the scenarios that make use of this feature
Loggy from the official discord notes that the CRC is changed once you do this (whatever that is, haha). This territory is beyond my understanding but I thought I would include it just in case
Thanks to Velken, Loggy, and Dr. Maxy from the official discord, and special thanks to the devs for an amazing re-imagining of Age of Mythology!