Select all (building type) hotkeys not working

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 160062
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam / Microsoft Store / Xbox / PlayStation
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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“Select all” hotkeys do not work for buildings. In every game I play, I cannot use the select all hotkey for some or all building types. Often, I am able to use them for the blacksmith or other non-unit-producing buildings, but in many cases, I cannot even use it for those. I rarely am able to use it for military buildings (stable, castle, etc.), though in some matches I find that some of them do work for at least part of the match, but, in every single match I play, at least one of them does not work. It does not matter how many of the building I have, and I have not changed any of the hotkeys for it (e.g. stable is still shift+ctrl+L). This slows me down a great deal, and forces my attention away from the fighting often when I am trying to queue up more units to fight with.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Play any game (I mostly play offline against extreme AI)

  2. Attempt to select all of a building type, especially military, using standard hotkeys.

  3. Some or all of these hotkeys will fail.

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

Hotkeys would select all of the type of building commanded.

:play_button: IMAGE

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Hello @JuliusCaminus
Did you try with another keyboard? This might be caused by hardware.

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Hi, I’m not sure what platform this person plays on but I think it is an Xbox bug. Basically if you use a select all (building) hotkey while you have a foundation of the same type down it will only select the foundation, and not the built ones. Or it will select all but only have options from the foundation i.e. nothing. It affects me mostly when it comes to select all TC. Early castle age is a nightmare having to manually select TCs (double clicking has the same result if the foundation is within view).