After many years I was excited to finally jump into AoE III properly, something I never did despite preordering DE and owning previous edition for some reason. Enjoy some skirmish and get a free DLC, I was motivated.
But oh boy did this thing turned out to be a frustrating mess. Here’s some of the issues I’ve encountered:
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Progress is saved maybe 10% of the time. It’s a total lottery. I’ve managed to save progress on Delaware after 3 attempts, but after trying the next challenge for 3 times it never saved. I was plugged into Xbox account all the time, so it’s not the reason for this behavior.
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There’s no way to tell if a challenge is complete or if you even playing a game eligible to completion of it. It says you can play tchallenges in multiplayer too, but I don’t think anyone managed to figure out how. The best way is to start with skirmish settings the game offers and don’t change anything.
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Challenges rules aren’t explained properly. “Build 50 native warriors” it said. And that’s it. But did you know that only Trade Post native warriors count? There are only 15 that can be built so you are forced to genocide them (ironic). You can’t start game as Lacota and build 50 units in the barracks. Why isn’t it explained? I’ve managed to complete this challenge after several attempts but the progress didn’t save and that was the final straw to me.
The way I see it this event has to be completely reworked and relaunched. It’s completely broken.