[RoR] Villagers unable to attack predators Rabid Wolf, Ornlu, and Furious

[Grandy02]

GAME INFORMATION

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• GAME BUILD #: 170934
• GAME PLATFORM: Steam
• OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Villagers are unable to attack the Gaia units Rabid Wolf, Ornlu the Wolf, and Furious the Monkey Boy, which are available in the Scenario Editor of Return of Rome. When attacked by those predators, the Villagers neither fight back nor flee.

Unlike other predators in RoR, the three mentioned ones do not hold food.

Ornlu and Furious can also be placed for Player 1-8, but as Gaia units, they can’t be attacked by Villagers.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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• 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Open the Scenario Editor, place some Villagers for Player 1. Then switch the player to Gaia and place a Rabid Wolf, Furious the Monkey Boy, and Ornlu the Wolf (under “Heroes”) near the Villagers.
2. Test the scenario. Select a Villager and try to attack one of the animals. Although the mouse pointer turns into a sword, the Villager will only walk to the animal and do nothing else.
3. The predators will eventually attack the Villagers, with the latter just standing there until they are dead.

EXPECTED RESULT

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Villagers being able to attack those animals instead of being helpless.

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Villagers vs. Gaia units Rabid Wolf, Ornlu the Wolf, and Furious the Monkey Boy.

Ordering a Villager to attack the Rabid Wolf, but the latter is not targeted, the Villager is only walking to it.

The predators killing all Villagers, who showed no reaction before their demise.

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[D_B_D]

pretty sure they have abandoned RoR. Too bad, I actually enjoyed playing the campaigns and was hoping for the rest to be added

[IiGIVertigo]

Yup. It’s so frustrating. First they stop supporting AoE1 DE so they can develop RoR, then they stop supporting that because surely Chronicles scratches the same itch, right? Well it doesn’t. AoE1’s always been my favourite of the series, and it’s so frustrating that it gets so little support. The three all-new campaigns in Return of Rome were fantastic, I was hoping for more of that.

[Grandy02]

They are still occasionally adding content from the base game (such as animals and eye candy) to the Scenario Editor, and features like new triggers are also available in RoR. And they fix bugs, including those I reported before (though the RoR fixes are not always mentioned in the patch notes).

But when it comes to content specifically for Return of Rome, there has been very little of it since 2024, indeed. While there are Scenario Editor additions, the new objects are absent from the official random maps and campaigns, so someone not playing custom content won’t even notice them. Except for the Chronicles King, since they added Regicide Mode to RoR.

Still hoping for official ports of the remaining campaigns, at least.

[D_B_D]

Funny enough they felt way more aoe2 than everything else they have published since then. I was hoping for more, too

[D_B_D]

I hope we’ll get more content in the (hopefully near) future.

[TheLiberator236]

Its a shame they abandoned this content. This plus Chronicles should have been developed for I DE. Now we have an All-Cluttered game client with 3 game variants, Antiquity Stuff and Heroes

A complete mess!

[ChristheCo]

Hey,

thanks for the report, we are now tracking the issue.

have a nice day