List of Game Breaking Errors, General Issues & Campaign Mistakes/Bug not fixed yet in the Story Mode [event update]

[Photon Trooper]

Game Breaking Problems:

- Worth mentioning this issue as the first one due to the temporal nature of the event: The "US Civ" event is RESETTING for many people and nobody knows why. It is a shame that the game is not working properly and also sounds like a HUGE FLAW if an event is advertised as a way to get a "bonus content" but it is not working properly or even rewarding people. Some profile pictures obtained by me as a prize during this event there were LOST as well. What a shameful event. If things went that way, why you don't simply sell us the DLC instead of creating another horrible mess? My recommendation: Playing this event can be a potential waste of time.

- There is a very concerning bug reported SEVERAL times from many players where your progress might be deleted completely along with personal settings (hotkeys and graphics settings) being deleted as well. This should be a number one priority because after the last USA Civ update, my game is resetting as if it was never played. Please, find a way to solve this problem.

- The deck DOES NOT SAVE your picks EVEN after the last update which was supposed to solve the issue. One person reported here the issue.

- Memory Loss crashes are another problem being reported from @TheDon in this topic. It might have some relation with NVIDIA hardware. People cannot find a way to play the game properly due to this. I had more than one crash while playing this game as well but I could not determine if it was the same case mentioned by him.

- There is another problem reported by @Gorehound which seems to be related to a bug with the AI:
"So, I've been encountering a new major bug, which is fairly game breaking in the sense that it turns the skirmish AI completely brain dead. When ever I attempt to start up a match vs the AI, I'll get a error that says "XS: Error 0003: Could not compile file 'aiLoaderStandard.xs' ", and the AI flat out doesn't function at all. I've even tried running the game as an administrator, and still it continues happening. Everything was completely fine on the 14th, and there was no hotfix that I was aware of between then and now, so I'm not sure what could have changed over the course of the last 48 hours."

General Problems:

- First off, the deck selection for Story Mode is DISGUSTING. Why can't we have a real High City with the old layout from AoE 3, or maybe anything close to regular High Cities in AoE 3 DE? This tech tree visual seems a very beta thing and certainly makes it worse compared to the the original game.

- I played the first level of the Fire Act (War Ceremony) and even on hard I saw that as a walk in the park. Check this, please. The A.I. seems to be very weak and poorly done. Observe on how absurd this gameplay was even on HARD...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm2XcjeVrWg

- @Aghabozorg realted a issue where the villager would not move even when tasked to build a TP. I had a similar problem when an animal was on top of the TP placement location. I believe that there is some sort of issue with the construction of this particular building.

Historical Problems and Campaign Incongruousness:

Originally posted by portuguese_playa:

Dont know if iam right here with this, but Portugal has some errors in age of empires 3.

Prince henry the navigator looks like an Viking Jarl lol.

So he looks in old paints :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Henry_the_Navigator#/media/File:Henry_the_Navigator1.jpg

or maybe so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Henry_the_Navigator#/media/File:Alternative_Henry_the_Navigator_(St._Vincent_Panels).jpg

Jinete is spanish not portuguese.
The church technology "Encomienda Manor" was Spanish even Age of empires Wiki says it is wrong.
https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Encomienda_Manor

Dont know why the Portuguese had the Organ Gun in this game found nothing in my Research.

Besteiro for Crossbowman is right but Ordenanza is again wrong.

PS: sorry for my english and maybe iam wrong on one or other thing, but it makes me sad how bad the devs researched.

- Talking now about things about the campaign story itself, I noticed that the Flag of Malta is GONE from the Blood Act High City Icon and was replaced for the Union Jack (United Kingdom Flag). I couldn't find any data supporting that Malta was somewhat related to the British Empire at that time... I don't know why the former flag is gone. Maybe the British Flag isn't supposed to be there?

- Now a thing that happened even back in the Vanilla edition in 2005: Why on earth the Ottomans are represented by the British, with a Galley with the British flag? It seems to be a bizarre thing to happen and very weird for players, since again, Ottomans were the sole responsible for the Siege on Malta back in the century where the campaign takes place...

- Another relevant element of the Story Mode in particular: I am not the only one that noticed on how the AI seemed so weak and fragile when battling. @MrSnoopEastwood reported the issue with the last level of Morgan's campaign, which I also remember as a hardcore level where you will have a hard time facing the enemy. It is unacceptable for me a A.I. which got deteriorated in an (expensive) Definitive Edition...

[TaxOwlbear]

The AoE3 campaigns have always been easy with the exception of a select few scenarios. That's nothing new.

[wind howling]

I have a problem. when I want to play skirmishes the game glitches everytime. You guys have any suggestions?

[Eaglemut]

Originally posted by TheDon:

I have a problem. when I want to play skirmishes the game glitches everytime. You guys have any suggestions?

What do you mean "glitches"? Have to be more specific.

[Photon Trooper]

Originally posted by TheDon:

I have a problem. when I want to play skirmishes the game glitches everytime. You guys have any suggestions?

What kind of glitch? This kind of glitch happens as well during the Campaign?

[wind howling]

Originally posted by Eaglemut:

Originally posted by TheDon:

I have a problem. when I want to play skirmishes the game glitches everytime. You guys have any suggestions?

What do you mean "glitches"? Have to be more specific.

Originally posted by FPoPP Twitch & Youtube:

Originally posted by TheDon:

I have a problem. when I want to play skirmishes the game glitches everytime. You guys have any suggestions?

What kind of glitch? This kind of glitch happens as well during the Campaign?

When i play multiplayer or skirmish the game crashes (not responding error) and i have to close it. Sometimes, right after the game starts or sometimes i play for a couple of minutes building the base and it suddenly crashes. Do you think uninstalling and reinstalling it would help? btw, I have verified the game files in steam and they are fine.

[Photon Trooper]

Originally posted by TheDon:

Originally posted by Eaglemut:

What do you mean "glitches"? Have to be more specific.

Originally posted by FPoPP Twitch & Youtube:

What kind of glitch? This kind of glitch happens as well during the Campaign?

When i play multiplayer or skirmish the game crashes (not responding error) and i have to close it. Sometimes, right after the game starts or sometimes i play for a couple of minutes building the base and it suddenly crashes. Do you think uninstalling and reinstalling it would help? btw, I have verified the game files in steam and they are fine.

Hm, weird. Is your hardware good for the game? Did you try lowering the settings?

Sadly, I myself had a game breaking flaw that made me unable to enjoy the game until some days ago when a OS reinstall made my game finally work properly (which is weird because I had a "clean reinstall" some time ago and nothing changed). The support couldn't help me with this issue and now I consider that it was fixed by "magic", lol.

I had an absurd problem that I couldn't fix no matter what I tried, which was a bug where the game stops saving any kind of change made (as an example, I was unable to save hotkeys, change graphics or sound or even my campaign progress). I had this problem for several months. I ended up by accidentally breaking my OS and had to reinstall my OS after uninstalling my Windows 10 and installing it from zero. Somehow, the game now works perfectly fine, but I have no clue on what was wrong. I saw that there is more people with this similar issue around.

[wind howling]

Originally posted by FPoPP Twitch & Youtube:

Originally posted by TheDon:

When i play multiplayer or skirmish the game crashes (not responding error) and i have to close it. Sometimes, right after the game starts or sometimes i play for a couple of minutes building the base and it suddenly crashes. Do you think uninstalling and reinstalling it would help? btw, I have verified the game files in steam and they are fine.

Hm, weird. Is your hardware good for the game? Did you try lowering the settings?

Sadly, I myself had a game breaking flaw that made me unable to enjoy the game until some days ago when a OS reinstall made my game finally work properly (which is weird because I had a "clean reinstall" some time ago and nothing changed). The support couldn't help me with this issue and now I consider that it was fixed by "magic", lol.

I had an absurd problem that I couldn't fix no matter what I tried, which was a bug where the game stops saving any kind of change made (as an example, I was unable to save hotkeys, change graphics or sound or even my campaign progress). I had this problem for several months. I ended up by accidentally breaking my OS and had to reinstall my OS after uninstalling my Windows 10 and installing it from zero. Somehow, the game now works perfectly fine, but I have no clue on what was wrong. I saw that there is more people with this similar issue around.

yea the problem is sometimes no errors just freezes not responding and have to close the game but sometimes when the game crashes it says "unable to allocate memory" which is weird cause i have 16 mb ram, gtx 1650 and corei7. I dont get it.

[MrSnoopEastwood]

one of my very favourite childhood game and I don't understand this remake really.. I didn't feel like installing all over again with the 5 DVDs but hell.. this definitive edition.. I went through the entire story mode on hard difficulty, I found some bugs that were still here like 15 years ago more or less ? tried twice to play online game just wouldn't work.. in the mission where you need to build 6 homes for the winter and then gather 3000 food I managed to first encounter the main objective which was destroying a fort, and in the end I skipped some scripts and destroyed the fort with the trading posts natives. makes me think that when you create a group of 2 trading posts the actions available are quite random KEKW

[MrSnoopEastwood]

there was a 1.4 GB update just today and as I played instantly after the update I found the same bugs I found 15 years ago

I also managed to crash the game several times but can't remember exactly what I was doing specifically..

[nerialqui3]

Hello, i have a problem with story mode: As I progress and unlock cards, I can't use them because they disappear from the game. What I can do?

[Photon Trooper]

Originally posted by nerialqui3:

Hello, i have a problem with story mode: As I progress and unlock cards, I can't use them because they disappear from the game. What I can do?

After the last update, you still are facing this issue? I had the same problem but I couldn't test yesterday the story mode :/

[Dante]

Originally posted by FPoPP Twitch & Youtube:

Originally posted by nerialqui3:

Hello, i have a problem with story mode: As I progress and unlock cards, I can't use them because they disappear from the game. What I can do?

After the last update, you still are facing this issue? I had the same problem but I couldn't test yesterday the story mode :/

Yup the problem is still here for me...

[wind howling]

Hey guys, I finally managed to fix the crashing problem. With disabling steam overlay and gefore experience overlay and locking my fps at the monitor's refresh rate, the problem is finally gone :)

[Photon Trooper]

Originally posted by TheDon:

Hey guys, I finally managed to fix the crashing problem. With disabling steam overlay and gefore experience overlay and locking my fps at the monitor's refresh rate, the problem is finally gone :)

Where can I disable it as well? I got GeForce on my Alienware so I want to check your solution

[wind howling]

Originally posted by FPoPP Twitch & Youtube:

Originally posted by TheDon:

Hey guys, I finally managed to fix the crashing problem. With disabling steam overlay and gefore experience overlay and locking my fps at the monitor's refresh rate, the problem is finally gone :)

Where can I disable it as well? I got GeForce on my Alienware so I want to check your solution

ok so what is your problem exactly? does the game crash occasionally or is it just some casual bugs?