Wu #2: The Conquest of Jiangdong: Archers vanish

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 101.103.39862.0
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam / Microsoft Store / Xbox / PlayStation
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:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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On Standard difficulty in Wu Campaign #2, The Conquest of Jiangdong: Shortly after start, I select Archer army. I select my army and them out of the city. As soon as I click somewhere else on the map, the archers in the army i selected disappear and are no longer available, leaving only my starting cavalry army (missing archer army).

UPDATE: This happens no matter which army I recruit - the recruited army vanishes as soon as the army is out of screen.

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Start Wu Campaign #2: The Conquest of Jiangdong on Standard difficulty

  2. Decision: recruit Archer army

  3. Move screen away so that recruited army is out of screen

  4. Move screen back to recruited army

  5. See that recruited army is no longer among selected units, and only starting cavalry units are available

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

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Archers would still be there!

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I also have this problem. I was most confused when as soon as i walked out of the starting walled area the archers were gone.

With multiple attempts to replay I have confirmed that this only happens if you pan your camera view away from the units. Keep them on screen at all times and they remain. If you pan away and they leave vision, they vanish, even if you still have them selected.

I managed to retain them until i had at least rescued all 3 villager patches by keeping them on the screen. I then tried putting the 4 remaining archer line units in the town center and left the 2 remaining cavalry archers out of it, and panned away. They remained for a bit. Not long after I noticed they were missing again but i had been attacked a couple times by then so they could of died or they could of gone poof.

So a possibly work around until the bug is fixed, is keep the units on screen at all times (dont try to pan to villagers or build a base) until all three sets of villagers are rescued. By that point you can replace them anyway fromt h archery range so its less of a hit. That seemed to work for me.

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This issue is tracked already, thanks for the report :slight_smile: