Units not following commands - AI Breaking in Skirmishes?

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  • Game Version: 100.18.181178.0

  • Build Number: 542466R (Hoping this is right…)

  • Platform: Steam

  • Operating System: Windows 11

Issue:

Played 3 skirmishes vs AI in a row and around the fifteen minute mark my units stopped following my commands. For example - villagers would not go to another gold mine to mine, units wouldn’t attack the building/enemy units I selected, all units wouldn’t move where I wanted them to go unless it was right next to where they were standing. It looked like the enemy AI was also not working - none of their units were doing anything unless they were already tasked to do it, including my ally AI. There were 5 total AI in my game.

Trigger Event:

Occurred around the fifteen minute mark of my games but unknown what the inciting incident was. It was not limited to my units, basically every unit on the map became idle and stopped attacking/gathering and my units were unable to follow my commands.

Repro Steps:

  1. Play a Skirmish with 5 AI, 4 enemies and 1 ally (Not sure if this is what caused the issue?) play normally, wait for around the fifteen minute mark and see if units stop following commands.
  2. Reproduced three skirmishes in a row. Not sure what’s going on here but had the same issue around the same time three games in a row.
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Hi!

Can you share with us a savegame that reproes this issue?

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I have a screen recording of this happening to me that I can share once my account is allowed to share attachments. I have no save game as it was “arena of the gods”.

It seems that the units were only able to follow commands if the command was within a short distance of the unit, using shift click was the only way I could get them to cover any meaningful distance. It also seemed to be in a certain area of the map though I did not realize this until later after the game, as I remember sending an army toward the enemy and them not having any issues.

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Here is the recording of my encounter with the bug.

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I’m having trouble linking the save - the filetype doesn’t seem to want to attach. The video ModernGiraffe shared is exactly what happened to me.

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I got the exact same bug too


Record Game0.mythrec (6.7 MB)

But mine was in a ranked match

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it seems to be something with shennong, maybe his god power farms. I was playing shennong, and you are having trouble against a shennong. Also on discord someone said they saw similar and they were also playing shennong.

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I did play a game in which there were no Chinese gods and everything was alright.

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I tested two skirmish games with shenong … nothing happened. Although I didn’t actually play just sat AFK for 20 mins.

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I just played another full ranked game against shenong and nothing happened

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Thanks @Ashinferno , I can see the issue clearly in your replay

I was not able to repro it myself. I keep an eye on this and I send a ticket with the replay

Thanks everyone, we are now tracking this issue

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May the blessing of Zeus be upon you. Rid us of this bug!

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I had the same bug while playing arena of the gods.
After like 6 minutes, all my villagers, soldiers and enemy units just stopped working.
Restarted the mission, the exact same thing happened at the exact same time.
I thought it was a problem with aphrodite’s twist, but is seems this happens in skirmish matches too.

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I haven’t gotten a complete stop yet, but I did notice sometimes units completely ignore my orders and do whatever they feel like.