The AI player fails to communicate with allied human players

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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Game Version:

  • Build: 37650
  • Platform: Steam
  • Operating System: Windows 10

Issue:

When playing on the same team of an AI, the allied AI player fails to communicate several of its messages on the chat.

Messages like “I am going for a knight rush”; “I am advancing for Feudal Age”; “I am going for a fast Imperial Age” aren’t delivered for allied human players.

That’s all the chat log on a game with allied AIs at the 19 minute-mark:

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It’s just the global message of players aging up

Now compared to when the AI is playing alone and you spect them, with the following method,

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the AI sends all sorts of messages, but only to themself.

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I can only assume that this is a bug, because I don’t see a reason for the AI to not interact proactively like that. It would only add up to the experience of having a teammate, making games with allied AIs even more fun.

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It might be too much noise in the chat (especially if you have multiple AI allies). Perhaps this should be configurable in options and/or with a taunt.

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You think so? Well, I wouldn’t mind at all having a few messages from allied AIs occasionally poping up on the chat, I even welcome it :cowboy_hat_face:. I think that wouldn’t be hard to code the messages for them to be sent in a way that is not messy. And if a player happens to dislike it, solving it is simple as opening the chat tab and muting the AI players.

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It seems, that these messages are for helping AI developer debug it. Some might be interesting, but others too cryptic inside info.

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Yes, I think that only the meaningful should communicate. Those in the sense that I quoted on the original post.