Musketeers with Long Range Melee

[coyotekiller114]

GAME INFORMATION

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

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

Some musketeers have very long range melee attacks.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Play a game against an AI that primarily builds musketeers (for example the British)
2. Build cavalry
3. Ro raiding the opponent AI
4. Notice the AI sets the musketeers to melee and is able to hit the cav at a long distance

EXPECTED RESULT

The musketeers should only be able to attack in melee at melee distances

IMAGE

Capturing it was difficult. Visible with one musketeer attacking the cav at the 10 second mark in the video

Musketeers with Long Range Melee Bug: Age of Empires III Definitive Edition

GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

long range musketer melee.age3Ysav (2.8 MB)

[coffeeco01]

It is a known bug

AI seems to be able to engage in melee from range

GAME INFORMATION These details are CRITICAL; DO NOT skip them or your issue may not be reviewed. GAME BUILD #: ###### GAME PLATFORM: Steam OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10 So I have seen this behavior a few times, its very random so I never managed to capture or replicate it but somehow units controlled by the AI seems to switch to melee stance as a group of cav comes close but then begins swinging and snaring effectively from range. I cannot figure out how this w…

Are you seeing this in offline play?

I always thought it was something to do with lag in online play

[gmenyhart]

Hello @stephensundin, appreciate the report.
We are now tracking this issue.

[coyotekiller114]

Yup, I’m seeing this in single player offline play. It seems to be a new version of a melee attack bug.