This is absolutely crazy broken. YEESH!
Yup. It is indeed. Strange that it took so long to discover though
French civ can access the exploit from Age 3 with the university if iām not wrong
How is that? University is Age IV building for every civ. If you are talking about Age 2->3 Landmark Royal Institute, it only has unique to French technologies. āCourt Architectsā is obviously not unique to them.
Wow, QA really dropped the ball. They cannot wait two weeks to fix this.
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I just need to take a moment and have a big laugh to enjoy life and not get tilted out of this bug. Just wow
Sadly they probably will. Iām a software developer and I canāt find a proper excuse for why Rus relic bug is taking so long to fix. Iāve tried to watch at the problem from every angle and I doubt, that the fix requires more, than 30 min of actual coding and a couple of hours of getting a cup of coffee, speaking with colleagues, testing and merging into release branch.
This bug imo has about the same difficulty, maybe slightly harder to detect, since tech affects only cancelation payback, not everything including the build price. But it will probably have the same faith of waiting weeks for its fix.
Some people claim, that it takes so long due to Microsoftās way of checking patches for every product their studios maintain. Maybe, but that just shifts the blame. I will not stop bringing up as an example Cyberpunk 2077. I absolutely hate it as a product and hate CDPR as a company responsible for it. Everything was wrong about its development and release, but what was good about it is that first hotfix rolled out about an hour after the release. And there were a couple more in the next 24 hours. And then a little bit more.
What we got after 3 weeks? A joke of a patch. From my experience of following many many games on their path through closed testing, early accesses and releases, this is at least 1/10 of what we should get after 3 weeks. I donāt know who is responsible, but someone is definitely guilty. And if this is Microsoft, I doubt it will change soon. I like Microsoft, but they are a big company and such changes, like reimagination of QA usually done with caution and take a lot of time.
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Good luck with that 
Going by the āintelā I get from other players in official Discord, this exploit spreads like wildfire. Every 10 minutes a new guy comes in and says ājust got destroyed by a new bugā or stuff like that
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I donāt think Mongols can use this because they donāt have the techā¦
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Yikes. Might have to hold off on Multiplayer for a bit.
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damn thats a very nasty, nobody tested it? 1. refund is based on % of hp building is build and that buff adds hp, lmao this is hilarious bruh.
same sentiments mate, keep reporting
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You are right, itās a good thing.
In addition, i will test if the workerās increased life pool technology trigger the exploit.
If it does, it means that only the refund on cancelling calculation is problematic.
On a brighter note, devs answered my bug report, they confirmed they are aware of the exploit and are investigating in hope to resolve it soon. Hotfix incoming ?
Tested this a couple of times before posting, just to be sure. Couldnāt believe that it was found only now
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idk man. Them not hotfixing Mongols and Rus relic bug (acknowledged by devs almost two weeks before the patch), even though those bugs are kinda less severe, makes me hard to believe, that they will hotfix this one.
Somebody deserves to take a long and not-so-merry Christmas holiday over these simple errors - fixes which are apparently now not so simple because they have to check all the instances and calls across the whole product. What an utter waste of the studioās time and money. Too many well paid employees there, clearly.
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Just revealed another twist to the story. Found a post here, which reported about this bug 15 days ago.
And I thought I was the first 
World wonders can be used to generate unlimited resources - Age of Empires IV / IV - Report a Bug - Age of Empires Forum
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Wellā¦ two or three weeks without online matches from nowā¦ the developers probably wonāt release a hotfix for these issues (like Rus relic problem)ā¦ and to be clearā¦ Iām ok with waiting for a patch to fix, BUT, they need to act fast like COD Warzoneā¦ if a helicopter has a glitch that completely destroys the game, they just cut the helicopter out of the game!!! Sometimes they cut it in 24 hours and we go two weeks without it until we get a patch to solve the problem.
In these case (24/48hours its a reasonable time to do this):
- IF we have a Rus player in the match, do not generate relics;
- Cut āCourt Architectsā tech from the game.
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@rodakosta This is a reasonable solution until they manage to get the real fix in.
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Thanks all - we are tracking this.
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