Skrimish vs AI Broken since latest update

Age of Mythology: Retold Report a Bug
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  • Game Version: v.100.17.30764.0

  • Build Number: 489516R

  • Platform: Steam

  • Operating System: Windows 10

Issue:

Since the latest update I am unable to adjust the AI when im trying to play 1v1 in offline Skirmish;
Its just missing from the lobby; As well as missing when in use any other number of AI in the lobby setting in the top right corner.
If I try to then start a game this “ghost” AI just copys my color and God I’ve selected.

Trigger Event:

Started after the latest update this afternoon

Repro Steps:

  1. Open Skirmish in the Main Menu
  2. Look at the Lobby screen, issue explained up top
    Pictures attached cut into one since new user
    In Order:
    Lobby screen
    Loading Screen
    In-Game score card
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Edit:
After some fiddling around it seems like I managed to fix it
Seems it was a problem with the UserProfile.xml; altough I’m not sure what caused it
%USERPROFILE%\Games\Age of Mythology Retold\16 digit number\users\UserProfile.xml
is the file in question
All I did was replace the RandomMapGameSettings Block in my UserProfile with the one from the DefaultProfile
in the Installation Folder
I tested with Steam Offline to stop Cloud sync from potentially overwriting it
Tested after with Online and it seems to work normally again now
I kept the “broken” user profile if someone wants to figure out the exact cause
hope this helps

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Try this ?!

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I am also having this issue. Verify integrity of game files does not solve the problem. It persists through restarts as well. Wonder where the change is getting written to disk. :thinking: Here’s some more images.

Fiddling with the number of players and then returning to two I could get a lobby that looks like this.

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But despite those settings, I was only changing what the AIs would play.

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(Sorry for the multiple posts, forum won’t let me do multiple images in one message)

And here you can see I am kronos. I also can’t age up.

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Workaround is to ‘host a multiplayer game’ where its just you and an AI. That still works. Good luck devs! This one is weird.

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Same issue here for skirmish games. It creates one more AI than set in the player count of the lobby. This AI then copies my name in the loading screne, this name then changes ingame to a valid ai name. Hope this gets fixed soon.

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Same issue for me on xbox series x. started 9/24/2024 after update.

Im linking a discussion i found on the steam forum that shows this problem existed before this patch however.

The current workaround of editing the userprofile.xml file is not possible on xbox so hopefully an actual fix can be found.

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It’s the same with me