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GAME BUILD #: UPDATE 99311
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10
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Did a private game with 4 players all as Player 2 with 200% handicap on team 1. Then 5 AI players at 100% on a separate team.
What results is some assortment of AI players also end up with 200%. Tried a few combinations but couldn’t find a pattern of which AI players also incorrectly get 200% handicap.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
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100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)
REPRODUCTION STEPS
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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:
1.Start a private game
2. Assign 4 players all as Player 2 with 200% handicap on team 1.
3. Make 5 AI players at 100% on a separate team (each individual players).
EXPECTED RESULT
What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
Only Player 2 is supposed to have 200% handicap.
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Any idea if this is on the list of known bugs, somewhere? I haven’t found other instances, yet, but admittedly haven’t looked too closely.
But my friends and I just ran into it. First, two of us played as player 6, and tried to give a 135% bonus to player 3, on our team, but instead it went to player 8.
Then, two of us played as player 5, tried same bonus for player 3 which again went to player 8.
So then we tried a test game, where we swapped player 3 and player 8 (the humans playing those players), two of us as player 5 again, and gave 135% bonus to player 6. This time, the unintentional 135% bonus went to player 1, who was an AI.
All of these were 5 humans and 3 AIs, with four colors for humans, and 3 colors of AIs.
I was always the host, and always on the two-people-as-one-player color.
Thanks for reporting this issue! I am trying to reproduce it but I can´t totally understand your message when you say “4 players all as Player 2 with 200% handicap on team 1”. Each player has a number and a team, so what do you mean by “as player 2”, team 2?
If you could send us a video of the issue would help a lot! You can send those files via: gofile.io
I’m not 100 percent sure if it’s the same problem, but we ran into a similar issue with handicaps:
It should be reproducible as follows, but you need a second person (or game instance) to test this:
The host creates a handicap game and set himself to 110 percent handicap and the color blue.
A second player joins and toggles through the colors, including blue. The 110 percent handicap will “stick” to the second player as soon as they have the color blue for a moment. By “sticking,” I mean that when they choose a free color like red, they will still have that 110 percent handicap. Normally, only the host can set a player’s handicap, but with this trick, a non-host player can copy someone else’s handicap. We had some fun with this 11.
Edit: I believe “readying up” was part of the process. I’m quite sure you could only copy the handicap settings from a player not being ready, and maybe had to press your own ready up for a second.
Here is a short video demonstrating this behaviour: Gofile - Your all-in-one storage solution
Notice that when player “tinion” chose color yellow he got 110% handicap.
Hi, I’m replying here because I think the original post has been misunderstood, as I ran into the same issue as the op.
The issue is about AIs getting handicap in a coop skirmish game when the setup in the lobby clearly said it should have no bonus.
When you setup a game lobby with 2 human players as color 2 and setup handicap to 200% for only team blue (and add lets say 4 AIs with NO additional handicap) and then start the game, some AIs will instantly show a much higher score, similar to the blue human player because it is falsely affected by the 200% handicap too.
I know its a niche case, but setups like this make for fun games so it would be nice if the bug would be fixed =)
Apologies for any earlier confusion. I tested the scenario described by ExaByte and can confirm that there is an issue with the handicap system incorrectly affecting some players (in this case, AI) in a co-op setting. In the game I tested, only Blue (player 1) had a handicap set to 200%, everyone else 100%, yet Green (player 3) also effectively had a 200% handicap, as shown by the doubled hit points on the town center (and higher score) in the screenshot below:
Unfortunately, I forgot to capture a screenshot of the lobby settings. However, the lobby was similar to this one with a friendly player joined in the second slot who also chose color blue, so both slots displayed a 200% handicap and color blue:
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