A Bug Report

[seal cub clubbing club]

If you buy a boarding crew of hassan ben sahid (the pirates) and use it on a landing ship (an army moving over seas) it will; spawn an infinate rope that slowly drags your ship along with it while the landing ship continues on his marry way leashing you untill it sets foot on land, the capture action is infinite aswell. im pretty sure it was possible to capture enemy armies this way in previous versions, and since its so hard to get weapons as orient, i would love to see it fixed. thanks :)

[Helgart]

Very likely the bug is when it allows to start boarding action against a land unit embarked on a ship. Boarding action itself usually means you have to kill all men aboard to capture the vessel and quests sometimes require exactly this.

[seal cub clubbing club]

yea but this wasnt on a quest, i was at war with an AI player (the ships that spawn from boarding quests are never land units embarked on ships) and since the boarding fight is calculated depending on your ships attack, and since embarked land units lose their `attack points?` on sea, its rather easy to board a land unit traveling by sea in order to capture it, however i couldnt, not becouse i lost the boarding or was unable to use the item in an army/land unit traveling by sea, its becouse as i used it, the enemy just kept on sailing while my ship got stuck in its boarding animation. the rope that spawned kept stretching across the horizon untill the land unit actualy landed on my shores. my warship being slowly dragged along with it. the boarding didnt end no matter how far the enemy ship sailed, nor if i as winning for its entire time. just for referance, whats supposed to happen is: you use the boarding crew on an enemy ship, the two are dragged to eachother with a small rope, and both cant move untill eather ship comes out victorius after a small time of fighting aboard. after which both ships are under the winners flag. this didnt happen. also i know this is a massive wall of text but im trying to give as mutch info about this bug as possible becouse it has a huge impact on land combat.

[Helgart]

I mean many basic concepts present in the game are also included in quests and present among achievements, but if you mean capturing land units by Orients to be enslaved and turned to bedouins or something else, it isn't present, nor described anywhere. Every Anno was exclusive Occident and now has Orients as an auxiliary faction. The capture item is used for capturing ships which are considered to be sea vessels. Transport boats are completely different, used only for land units and have limited options, may be you can start capturing it only due to a bug. History Edition has same mechanic as the original Anno with same bugs. If you have enough military ships, AI makes a big mistake by sending land units by sea, making them easy targets for your naval cannons.

[seal cub clubbing club]

yea they can be easily destroyed by auxiliry fleets, but i dont want to, the reason being that im doing a oriental only playthrough. ive made my metropolis but i still wanted to make an oriental fortress, for that i needed weapons, since the AI that im playing with doesnt sell weapons anymore now that it passed the partisan stage, my idea was to use a boarding crew that i got from sinking one of the pirate ships (hassans ships drop items sold that i havent unlocked yet becouse of attainments) and using it to capture one of the large military camps traveling by sea, ive done this before in older versions. anyway the reason why is to bring this camp to my main island and demolish it as i have building refund on i was thinking i could get the weapons out of it that the AI used to build it. also when you do capture an enemy army this way it doesnt transform into its oriental counter parts. also the history edition doesnt just have the same bugs of older versions, it has more :( in any case, if your intrested i would advice you to load up a game with corsairs and an AI, rush to partisans and declare war, try using a boarding crew on the history edition and an older version of anno, i think it explains my conondrum better then i could :)

[seal cub clubbing club]

update! i just reloaded a save from an old anno 1404 version, the same bug is here! its rather weird. ill post it on the community for you to see if you dont wanna go through the hassle of starting a new game.

[seal cub clubbing club]

note that the screenshot automaticly goes to the old anno 1404 venice community hub, not the history edition one

[seal cub clubbing club]

ok, finaly i tested the vanilla game without the venice addon, this the same bug. im able to board them but as soon as i do the game goes to clown town. i dont use any mods or other 3th party stuff.

[Helgart]

I guess you can get any goods using autotrade on your own warehouse and some military support from Al Rashid if he is present on the map.

[seal cub clubbing club]

its very much possible :P but man it sure is hard! ill try just sinking all the AI trade ships and hope they where moving weapons on one of them. anyway thanks that your trying to help though, im not the best explainer but i do appreciate a listening ear :)

[seal cub clubbing club]

good news! appearently rare treasure maps from hassan can give you any item regardless of inhabitand level aswell! i was able to get 65 weapons with a peasant tier treasure map. ive already contructed 6 fortresses to guard all my shores so even though the bug remains, i was able to get what i needed :D

[Ubi-Thrupney]

Thanks very much for posting about this unusual issue, Tactical Clapping (and thanks Helgart too for your insights) - we really appreciate this!

So, when trying to capture a landing ship, you get stuck in that capture state indefinitely? We'd certainly want to investigate this further. First, can you take a look at our troubleshooting guide[www.ubisoft.com]? In particular from that guide, please make sure you've updated your graphics drivers and operating system, you've verified the game files, and you don't have any unnecessary background programs interfering with the game.

If it still happens, please let me know. If possible, we'd love a short video showing the issue

- Ubisoft Support

[seal cub clubbing club]

Ok, so i lookt at my drivers and operating system and their all up to date, the game files have been validated and theres no other programs running in the back ground (aside from recording software in this instance). im not using any mods and i have made a video on youtube ready for examination. i hope this all helps in solving this. also i wonder if the version you guys have has this same bug? heres the link and goodluck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUiuV_eHrhs

[Ubi-WheelyDuck]

Origineel geplaatst door tactical clapping:

Ok, so i lookt at my drivers and operating system and their all up to date, the game files have been validated and theres no other programs running in the back ground (aside from recording software in this instance). im not using any mods and i have made a video on youtube ready for examination. i hope this all helps in solving this. also i wonder if the version you guys have has this same bug? heres the link and goodluck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUiuV_eHrhs

Hey there,

Thank you for your video showing the issue you are having.

Can I check, is this video with or without the Venice addon?

Many thanks,

- Ubisoft Support

[seal cub clubbing club]

Its with the add-on, but the bug appears without the addon aswell as i have tested in another map.

[Ubi Milky]

Brilliant, thanks for the follow up tactical clapping and for testing this out with both the DLC expansion installed and uninstalled.

We will add this information to our investigation we have now opened. When we have more information to share we will get back to you in this thread.

I believe the Anno team may ask to look your system files due to the nature of this bug.

Are you able to send us your dxdiag and msinfo files to us via this link - https://www.ubisoft.com/help

You can find instructions on how to create the system files we need, below -
DXDIAG - https://ubi.li/msrxL
MSINFO - https://ubi.li/lmiCE

Please let us know your case number when you have performed this step, and we will happily pass these files onto the Anno team as well.

-Ubisoft Support