Spies do not give vision to the whole team

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

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  • GAME BUILD #: Hotfix 82587
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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In eam game, when I research Spies, I find that my teammate do not have the vision. Given the fact that this game have share vision, I think they should share my vision after I research Spies

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. go team game
  2. research spies
  3. you teammate cannot share you vision

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

:point_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
teammate should share the spies vision

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Yes. This is a team rank game and the share vision is enabled

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@Felizon89 I play team rank today and research this tech. I find that this behaviour is still exist. I would like to ask is it a bug or not? Thank you in advanced

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Hello @HeBroGaming
This is not a bug, is intended to work this way.

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it is very likely to prevent people pooling gold and only need to research once for all players, which gives massive advantage if everyone were to have it.

imagine back in the days where Huns researching UT would grant 50% discount on spies so it only cost 15k instead of 30k? easy pool gold together and especially shared, it becomes extremely unfair.

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Thank you for your clarification. It is exactly what I want.

Yes it is what I am currently doing. I always play as a premade team with 4 and we always pool 30k gold to research spy in map like amazon tunnel or michi. Since we are using discord to communicate, after one of us research spy, we can share all the information orally. And for solo queueing player, this is very hard for them to execute this strategy that they need to

  1. pool the gold to one player
  2. that player give information via pinging or chat using AOE2 chat function which is very ineffective compared to orally

I am very happy to know that they still give this kind of massive advantage to our premade team. Previously I also find the similar advantage of premade team and open a topic which dev acknowledge it and make change on the game. I hope dev will not change the spy tech this time so that our team can enjoy the advantage