Players can start an unranked multiplayer game and the game will assign you both Blue. You’ll both still be enemies, and you both haven’t selected to be blue, but you’ll both visually look like the same player. (Friend/Foe colors are disabled as well, so that has nothing to do with this).
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Here’s how to reproduce the issue, it’s a little specific:
Make an unranked lobby and have a friend join. Just need 2 players (I haven’t tested with more).
Player 1 (lobby creator) does NOT select a team color. Leave the color on the (?) question mark.
Player 2 (joined the lobby second) selects to be blue (1).
Start the game. If you watch closely, you’ll see that once the countdown is finished the game automatically assigns the lobby creator the red color because blue is already taken – as expected. However, once you actually get into the game both players will be blue despite being enemies. Both players visually see this bug on their computers. It’s not local to one machine.
Note: Both players are NOT selecting to be Blue. If you do that then you get the expected results of being on the same team.
I have tried to play 2 players vs 2 AI unranked private game - one AI from other team was still getting color of one of the players, we finally managed to have different colours in fourth try, when our players had no color chosen, and AI had 5 and 6. In all other configurations (everyone chooses color, only first team, whatever) there was still this bug occuring.
Game then is really hard to play, no idea if some units are friends or allies, same on minimap. Bug was on both computers.
Very fascinating. Thank you @WiwiClementine for the very clear reproduction steps. If anyone else is able to determine a potential cause of the problem, please discuss it here. I’ve already escalated this issue to the team and will continue to pass along information that might be helpful in their investigation.
In the case of team games, I have seen this happening if some players pick a color and others go random, especially if someone picks blue (other than player 1). I think player 2 picked blue in this case, same as in the example of @WiwiClementine. I was player 8 in the lobby and picked cyan, some others went random.
Until now, I have only seen the duplication happening with blue or green (or both, as in the example above). Sometimes only green gets duplicated.
@GMEvangelos it looks like there passed few more months, and this issue is still not fixed. It is super easy to make in in unranked game, and it’s really really hard to play like this - you never know which unit is yours.
I have really not sophisticated repro for this:
Make private game
Invite a friend of yours
Add two AIs
Choose teams (1, 1, 2, 2)
None is choosing colour
Result:
Good colors on loading screen, wrong colors everywhere else (in game and so on). I’m playing vs AI with my son and it’s happening all the time. So players should be RED, BLUE, GREEN, YELLOW, and instead are GREEN, RED, BLUE, GREEN
Another thing - saving and reloading game doesn’t help, however while restoring the game in the lobby second player (human) has wrong civilization and team (colors are theoretically good). Not sure if this is connected.
Please, could you fix it? It seems like something easy, but it really prevents playing.
I too would like to report this bug occurring. For myself it has been occurring for months, perhaps as long as 6 months. The situation is described perfectly by Kreys89. For me the frequency of this issue is 100% of the time. It’s annoying because I’m currently teaching a friend in 2v2 matches against 2 ai players. Without fail, every single time we play I end up green and so does one of my opponents. Here is an example. Below is a screenshot of a match I created in the lobby, none of my friends were online so for example I just have an ai for my teammate.
And then this is what happens to our colors once we are in the game:
I have done another test where I changed the third players color to something not green. As I always seem to end up green. Here’s what the lobby looked like:
And here’s what the player colors ended up as:
As you can see the issue seems to be that the 1st player ends up colored green no matter what, it seems to be independent of the other players colors.
What a pity that no one from devs team is fixing that super annoying issue. Especially, that probably it’s something easy to fix, and it’s fully reproducable.
I, too, bumped this ticket internally to make sure it’s still getting some visibility. Unfortunately it is NOT as reproducible as noted here, which means any additional details that could help explain why it is happening to all of you will help the team figure out how to fix it. This could include:
A copy of your dxdiag
A verification of the build number where it’s happening
A recording of a (any) games where it happened
A match ID of the (any) games where it happened
Whether other players in the match also see matching colors
Any details you can provide will help, and will be most appreciated as I keep the team appraised of what’s going on!
My friend and I have been experiencing this issue for quite awhile now. We try playing against AI, often 4 vs. 4 and find the AI have two magenta players and two orange players. We have tried choosing colors for every player (human and AI), keeping it random, picking certain colors…nothing seems to fix it. Very frustrating to play. Would love to hear some update on how this is being addressed/fixed.
Okay so I just set up another test match, game id is: aoe2de://0/69288174
I have attached a game recording, it was created in a lobby with three other AI.
I am playing the game from steam. MP Replay v101.101.44834.0 @2021.02.09 151349 (1).aoe2record (1.1 MB)
Here’s my build details:
GAME INFORMATION
