Bari 5 bug?

[EVIL_SWORD_USER]

I am playing on hard difficulty and have completed all the objectives and the timer has run out, but nothing happens, the game keeps going on. I've heard this campaign can be bugged if you save but I never used save. Happened 3 times. I've looked at vids of people playing this and when the timer runs out they just win. What are the exact win conditions?

[Thor II]

Same problem here, when the count of "Bari Defense" ends, there should be some kind of event and we would gain control of the Bari Navy to escape, the count ends but nothing happens, I do not gain control of the navy, the Norman army does not stop attacking, until there comes a time when Bari gives up and I lose.

I had not destroyed any smithy, had not destroyed the monastery and used many, many saves. Considering that you do not use saves, I suppose you started all over again 3 times and none of these 3 times the navy trigger worked. Although if you press "Play Again" on the defeat screen instead of starting all over again on the Campaign Map the game considers it as if you had played the same match as before, i.e. the same bug.

The desire to start a new match and see if it works this time is great, but the anger will also be great if after all this work does not work a second time.

[Thor II]

Well, I went back to the oldest save I had, I'd already done the missions of three mills, the logging, and the siege weapons.

With more patience and attention, now that I knew the Norman attack was weaker over time, I destroyed all the buildings around the logging and siege weapons, including the two smithys, destroyed the Church, destroyed the tower and all the buildings around, including the smithy, healed them all, spent all the resources and went to the last mill.

Now with a larger army, with more improvements, completely healed and having defended more of the initial attacks of the Normans, I resisted the twenty minutes with a city a little more complete (not so much) and with the castle with more HP, about 30 seconds to 1 minute after the end of the count happened the event, I took control of the Navy of Bari and there was only destroy the Norman Navy , which was easy.

That is, theoretically it's the same match I had trying a dozen times to make the event work from a different save and it didn't work at all.

I think the problem should be that what trigger AI and the Normans understand as having Defended Bari enough for the trigger to work and what Bari's AI understands as having been damaged enough to give up and clearly show the player that he didn't get are at odds. PS: Hard Difficulty.

[Sandman]

Bari Campaign Mission 5 Onrushing Tide Bug

I'm not able to finish the 5th mission in the Bari campaign on moderate. When I destroy the siege engines to trigger the "defend Bari" objective, I then get a 20 minute countdown. The problem is that after the 20 minutes are up, nothing happens and the Normans just keep coming. I feel like there's a broken trigger here? Or do I have to go kill every enemy unit on the map?

[Sir Phantom]

You have to destroy the enemy docks to win.

[Evangelos]

Thank you all for the information on this issue! To ensure our Test team is equipped with everything they need, can anyone provide a replay file where the issue when takes place? If so, please upload it to a One Drive or Google Drive folder so I can share the information with the team.

Thanks again!

[Sandman]

So I loaded a recent save and played from there, this time the trigger worked, a brief dialog happened, and I was able to take control of the navy. No changes in game play, if anything the city was more destroyed but the castle was kept at full health.

[Sandman]

@Evangelos

Link to a replay where it didn't work: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1g-V2l7AUDUa-zt14uZ0B7FLN0wsVgdJc

Link to a replay where it DID work after I loaded from a save: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15ja-laUzhJKQ4RzK3K7L7WDT_3Td1Lsb

FYI both of these games are identical up to the save point.

[Evangelos]

Originally posted by Sandman:

FYI both of these games are identical up to the save point.

Many thanks for both of these files! I've passed them along to our Test team so they can take a look and determine what might be causing the inconsistent (and unintended) behavior.

Thanks again!

[Cengu]

For anyone whos still has problems with this mission I think I figured out what the main problem is:

Basically the timer doesn't really do anything. After it runs out the mission does not fail or "bug" out. The main "hidden" goal is to defeat as many soldiers rams and trebuchets from the Norman Army ("yellow") as possible.

After the timer ran out I let my pikemen destroy trebs and let my castle kill the rest. And 10 ("!") min after the timer ran out I gained control over the navy and I was able to destroy the two harbors of the Normans.

I hope this helps!

[seb.comeron]

This mission is still bugged. I managed to survive for roughly 15 minutes after the timer runs out and yet the trigger does not work :(

[JoshSA]

Hi all,

I had the same problem today while playing BARI 5. On my second play through I destroyed the mills, 2 blacksmiths, and monastery. Once that was done I ran back to the castle and camped underneath it. I knew this time around that the enemy get infinite resources and troops so there's no use fighting them.

Every now and then I would take a few knights and kill there trebuckets to slow down the push. Finally the 20 minute timer ran out and I thought I would be victorious.

However that was not the case. This is where the bug comes in. There is a second hidden trigger that gets activated once the timer runs out. This trigger secretly expects you to destroy X amount of the yellow players army / siege.

After killing some more of the enemy, a message pops up saying they are going to retreat. After this the navy unlocks.

I managed to win the game without loading a save. You just need to fight a little longer after the timer runs out and/or destroy enough units.

The city of Bari was almost completely destroyed by this time so I don't think that's the issue.

This level has some very bad game design and possibly they should look at reworking the triggers and/or informing the player better. Maybe a new objective when the timer runs out that we need to "push the enemy back"!

I'll try upload my replay and post it later on today.