xsCreateUnit parses bool arguments incorrectly [Mac only]

ductape1957 · July 11, 2026, 11:27pm

Note: I’m not sure if Feral monitors this forum, do they? I can report elsewhere too, but here it seems more helpful if other modders or mod players run into it.

GAME INFORMATION

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GAME BUILD #: 101.103.48987.0 (#180059)(1.1.2RC1) 24094652
GAME PLATFORM: Steam
OPERATING SYSTEM: Mac

ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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When playing on Mac,xsCreateUnit does not use its bool arguments as given in code, leading to units being created wrong (e.g. playing a sound instead of being placed as a foundation). Specifically:

The value for foundation is instead used for playCreatedSound .
The value for playCreatedSound is instead used for checkCollision.
The value for checkCollision does not seem to be used, and making a foundation seems impossible.

Note: xsCreateUnit also has a Mac bug with parsing the position vector argument, which I’ll report separately.

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:

Download the scenario attached below.
- It has xs code inside of a trigger, which calls xsCreateUnit to spawn palisades with all 8 combinations of those 3 arguments, on two different terrains (to testcheckCollision).
Test it using the Mac version of the game.

EXPECTED RESULT

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Units should be created based on arguments passed to xsCreateUnit, as they do on Windows (cf. pics)

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GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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bugCreateUnit.aoe2scenario (1.7 KB)