Pathfinding Issues Collective Thread

UnfamousScout · June 3, 2022, 11:51am

This thread is to report pathfinding issues only.

Please don’t comment, only report.

Pathfinding is appearently beeing worked on, but may have worsened on some builds.
If you have findings of units behaving unexpected or bugged (e.g. taking a suboptimal path, units passing through each other, units not doing their order) you can post it here.

For every report, fill out all the mandatory forms.
So at least a picture/clip/replay is needed.
Replays from other players (e.g. streamers) can be found on aoe2insights.com

Forms:

GAME INFORMATION (mandatory)

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Less than 25% of the time / matches I play (RARELY/VOLATILE)
25% of the time / matches I play (SOMETIMES)
50% of the time / matches I play (FREQUENTLY)
100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

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UnfamousScout · June 3, 2022, 11:51am

Reserved for listings existing bug reports on pathfinding.

Cavalry units don’t fight:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/battle-attack-mode-units-have-stopped-and-stay-all-the-battle
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/units-in-spread-formation-dont-properly-engage/
Scouts don’t path as expected:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/units-path-backwards-when-tasked-to-attack
Villagers don’t start building a foundation:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/villager-gets-stuck-trying-to-build
Pathfinding broken due to invisible walls:
https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/pathfinding-broken-due-to-invisible-walls

UnfamousScout · June 3, 2022, 12:06pm

I give a reproducable example, which occurs quite often:
Villagers don’t all move to the building waypoint, after beeing ungarrisoned out of a building, which is partially walled in.

GAME INFORMATION (mandatory)

GAME BUILD #: 101.101.62085.0 8752729
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

ISSUE EXPERIENCED (mandatory)

Villagers don’t all move to the target waypoint, after beeing ungarrisoned out of a building, which is partically walled in.
Happens most often with palisaded watch towers.
Some villagers may be stuck at the watch tower foundation, but even villagers which are not stuck, may not move the the waypoint.