Absolutely no resources except those around each starting town.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
100% of the time
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Start a Black Forest map (I used Empire Wars and standard)
EXPECTED RESULT
More resources spread throughout map, depending on the resource amount you set in game config. Other maps I loaded had no problems in this regard. This was Michi:
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This makes me wonder exactly how much testing they actually do. This happens on every single BF map I’ve tried. They should have caught this if they tested the changes.
@ChristheCo Yes - I just tested this morning. It appears related to the size of the map - although on the normal sized map, you can see there are no resources in the center paths, and there absolutely used to be pre-update. It seems to just not look as bad on smaller maps because there is less empty space, but the resources still mostly just cluster around the players and nowhere else.
@Felizon89@ChristheCo are you guys just not going to fix this? I’m not the only one having the problem and at least on my end, it’s happening 100% of the time and the severity of the problem scales by map size. This map is completely ruined for anything but small maps without a fix.
When player count == recommended (e.g. 2 players on a 2-player map), resources spawn (more or less) normally.
As soon as you increase the map’s size beyond what’s recommended for the number of players, no extra resources appear, so the “large” version ends up feeling oddly empty.
So, this bug probably showed up when they apparently completely rewrote the Black Forest script to make it more competitive, testing only the standard/recommended settings. Larger maps are fun, but they’re not the most commonly played.
Workaround Tip: If you’re missing the old BF experience, with plenty of resources even on larger maps, you might want to try the original Black Forest script. It’s available as a mod/custom map script here: [Age of Empires II: DE Mods] Black Forest pre-update 141935
Hopefully, this can help keep your games enjoyable until they sort out the current map!
Thank you so much for the mod link. I’ll give it a try.
I don’t have time to play much anymore (started playing AoE in the late 1990s but life has gotten in the way since then), and when I do, it’s usually just an AI Boom/Imp game I play over multiple days here and there, which is why I like the large map sizes, and BF was my favorite map. You might have just salvaged the game for me
This is unfortunate, as that’s my favorite skirmish map.
Top is from a game save from 2021 on a ludicrous size BF map and what I think a proper distribution of resources and forest should look like.
Bottom is a ludicrouse size BF map in the currently state. More savanna’y with an excessive distribution of crocodiles(predators).
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