You can change the civ of other players by changing your color!

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

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  • GAME BUILD #: current
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

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I was in a lobby with two friends against the AI. When I changed my color the civ of my mates got changed. The issue was reproducible in a second lobby. But I havn’t investigated further.

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Can’t really tell but it happend in two lobbies.

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Open Lobby
  2. select AI?? not sure
  3. change color

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

:point_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

Not changing my mates` civs.

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Unfortunately I don’t have any.

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Anyone having the same issue?

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This has been a feature for years though. It’s due to the coop system where multiple people can share a civilization. I am not sure whether their civilization will go back to their original civilization if you change your color back after changing their civilization, try it and tell us what happens.

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Ahh that explains it partly. The strange thing was that it changed to a completely different civ. My mate picked Italians and it changed to byzantines for him while I picked dravidians. Is that supposed to happen?
We had team positions on. My mates picked even numbers and I picked an odd number. Maybe that has something to do with it.
I try again when my friends are on.

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Couldn’t reproduce the bug. But there definitly was something odd going on. My mate did not get my civ or i got his, he got a completely random one.