RTW Bugs

Was playing RTW last night when there was a power cut. When I rebooted the game failed to launch - just an error box saying "Unspecified exception". Gotta love those error messages :)

Thought maybe some game files had been corrupted during autosave, so uninstalled, scrubbed the install dir and registry entries and reinstalled - same error.

Eventually tracked it down to a corrupted audio driver. Reinstalled driver and game: everybody happy. Save game intact (120+ turns, phew!).

Not a bug per se - but beware that error messages during early game boot probably due to system/device initialisation. I guess it's too much to ask for informative error messages, but a .log file would have helped.

Ok, I unplugged my joystick and pedals to see if the camera stuck scrolling bug would be fixed. I didn't get the bug for a few days and was starting to assume it was fixed. When... you guessed it, during a battle the camera got stuck scrolling upwards.

I can tell this bug will forever haunt me and wont be fixed :embarassed:

I encountered a new bug last night. Well, new to me anyway.

The senate election came round again, as it tends to. One of my Julii generals had already been elected to the senate a few times, and had reached Pontifex Maximus. His stats were 4/0/10, following the +5 influence from being Pontifex Maximus. In the election, he was re-elected to the same position. The problem was that while he was shown correctly in the list of senate officers, he had returned to 5 influence because the re-election had removed "Pontifex Maximus" from his V&Vs list. It didn't say "ex-Pontifex Maximus" either.

Lots of my navy's ships are screwed up. The masts are sitting slightly off to one side from the hulls.

(this is on the campaign map of course)

Was Playing Carthaginians and attacked Egypt. Posted my army on one of their bridges. They attacked me and sent a few units across the bridge. I managed to rout those units thanks to archery fire and instead of turning around and retreating they just dropped dead ?!?!?!
Is this a bug or is because there is no space to turn on a bridge that small???

The senate, who I eliminated 50 years ago, popped up and locked-down my (now) plague-ridden Roman (Italien) cities.

Its not really a bug but it is a mistake.

NEW DIPLOMATIC BUG :(!!!!

You can attack a weak faction with navy and after it with diplomat ask for lots of money to cease fire. They will pay it for many consecutive turns!!

I have a fleet permanently stuck (as in can't move it) in the Black Sea in that rivermouth near Campus Scythii.

I have a fleet permanently stuck (as in can't move it) in the Black Sea in that rivermouth near Campus Scythii.

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I have a fleet permanently stuck (as in can't move it) in the Black Sea in that rivermouth near Campus Scythii

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It must be a landtile disguised as a piece of sea.

I have a fleet of 5 ships stuck in the mouth of a river in hispania

Some Egyptian city building blocks have "leaks", in which the AI can accidently run their chariots. The entire unit stuck in the building's garden (and probably in the rooms, too. As I can't see so many chariots patroling the garden.

Last night one entire enemy general (80-men chariots) got stuck in a building of Alexandria, and they couldn't find any way out throughout the siege. My wardog also couldn't find a way in to attack them, they tried to squeeze through a narrow (like 1-foot) opening but can't get through.

I occupied the town center for a good 3 minutes to declare their loss. ~;)

Hi there. To me the biggest bugs that to my mind need serious attention is the battle speed, stupid troop behaviour in groups and so on (many forms of that), campaign map AI stupidity for not consolidating its forces and not attacking forts (the game would be much harder, if it can be solved). The AI is real pain and I don't want to play the game anymore because of that. CA, please fix AI, I beg you :bow:

Damn it the game is too fast, I hate pausing my game all the time, otherwise I get crushed. In MTW there was no such problem. What a perfect game this would be if CA really corrected all the bugs in this thread! I'm optimistic. Can't wait for the patch. Meanwhile back to MTW, cause I can't stand this AI stupidity. The game is a masterpiece, a king of strategy, combining elements of MTW, Civilization 3 but those bugs are so painful. Please CA, fix those bugs! Oh how I'm eagerly looking for the patch! ROMA VICTA!

I think I found a bug with the phalanx formation within the seleucid empire when you're defending your town ( but I dont know if it is just with this faction)
I found that if you arrange your men to go into phalanx formation before beginning battle, put them behind the gate, and then open the gate for whatever reason, they cant move or their formation becomes messed up. They basically freeze in their spot, telling them to move just creates the moving icon which quickly disappears. They wont move unless you put them into normal formation, send them a few feet away, and then from there you can put them back in phalanx formation. At that point your men can be placed at a minimum of say 10 feet behind the gate which leaves alot of space for the enemy to move in around you and eventually surround you.

Is this a bug or just someone's attempt to create confusion in the ranks

I think the length of this thread is a testament to the shoddiness of Activision's production quality. These clowns really need to get their act together before releasing another TW product.

Anyway, I found a bug at the very beginning of the game when playing Scipii. The Senate hands down a mission to take Syracuse... But the second I lay siege to Syracuse they cancel the mission on me.

EDIT: That should be 'Creative Assembly', not 'Activision'.

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Originally Posted by Kyoujin

I think the length of this thread is a testament to the shoddiness of Activision's production quality. These clowns really need to get their act together before releasing another TW product.

Anyway, I found a bug at the very beginning of the game when playing Scipii. The Senate hands down a mission to take Syracuse... But the second I lay siege to Syracuse they cancel the mission on me.

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Being pissed at Creative Assembly for a canceled mission is a bit rediculous. Heres what most likely triggered that an alliance or an alliance the Romans had with someone that had an alliance to the Greeks causing the mission to be canceled and since the senate was not at war with them yet they canceled your mission. Or the easy explanation did you take more that 10 turns to take Syracuse. If so that is why it was cancelled

:help: i cant get first legions with the romans does somebody else had them
personnely cause the computer had them but i dont :help:

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Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1

:help: i cant get first legions with the romans does somebody else had them
personnely cause the computer had them but i dont :help:

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That's not a bug. First Legions are currently only given out by the senate as rewards for completing missions, and that only happens very rarely.

I have a problem/bug. Playing on my greek campaign just now, i had almost completed my conquest of italy, by taking the last brutii settlement, croton, and what happens? It CTD's!!!!!!!! Thank god for the auto-save feature. Hopefully it will have saved the game just before/after i attacked croton.

this has happened to me 3 times now, whenever you bribe a nations town and its the last town that nation owns, I believe, the game freezes after you bribe.

I.e. I was the brutii against the macedonians and after taking all their towns throughout Greece, and thus wiping out all family members that I knew of, I proceeded to bribe their last town in turkey... Halicarnusis (sp?). After bribing the screen froze. it has done so each time I tried it and I had to restart the computer

"I think the length of this thread is a testament to the shoddiness..."

Nowhere did I say that this particular bug was the one and only reason I am upset with CA. I'm mostly upset with the pathetic quality of the AI actually. There are many threads on this subject so I'll leave it at that. And to answer your question; the mission is assigned on turn one; I laid siege on turn one; the mission gets cancelled the same turn it was assigned.

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Originally Posted by Zorn

The game crashes back to desktop during the rebels turn.
Reloading doesn`t help.
Restarting doesn`t help.
Rebooting doesn?t help.

If anybody has any idea what to do, that would be appreciated.

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YES... exactly the problem I have... though i'm guessin this is kinda rare since no one else is mentioning it...

the moment it reaches rebels, the game just crashes to desktop without any explanation...

This happened in two separate campaigns when I was playing Julii on veryhard/veryhard... The first time it happened in 235 bc--I couldn't do anything about it so I just created a new campaign, and then it happened again in 249 bc!! I'm hesitant to start another campaign b/c it seems like a fatal bug...

and upgrading to v1.1 and installing the latest drivers hasn't helped at all

So has anyone heard of this problem or better yet, know how to fix it??

If a fleet with a full stack of ships moves to harbor for retraining, nothing happens. Remove a ship from the stack(one ship short of full stack), retraining happens as normal.

Not a bug(but annoying nonetheless):
At the strategic map the cityflags(the thing with the city's name on it) will often hide units. Particulary this happens with harbors. New ships in them will be difficult to find. Sometimes spies who are evicted from cities will be hidden. Whenever your mouse moves across one of these things, all that happens is that it's color turns solid. What is the point of that? I know you can zoom, but it shouldn't be needed.

I was bored so I tried to have my faction destroyed the game just crash and go back to desktop... I tried again and the same thing happen...well I don't like the idea of buying an original software that behaves like a pirated product. I hope someone could take note of these and do something about, hehe yeah I do silly things when I am bored. ~:)

The length of this topic is an ugly statue, erected to show the greed of CA. They rushed the game out to shops, without fully testing it, just to make money. I wouldn't mind this, but they don't even bother acknowledging these bugs. And info on a patch would be nice.

P.S If i have been mis-informed, and there is a patch (which i doubt) please re-inform me.

I have played for a week now (1.1 patched) and here's what I have found (in order):

1) Bottom-left map scrabbled in tutorial campaign

2) When adopting a family member I got "defeat" -page and the game ended during tutorial

3) Army dissapeared while moving from ship to land (I could find it though scrolling family members, but as the fleet they were supposedly on had no army in it and when i tryed to select units from that army, it dissapeared again) - luckily it reappear in the next turn.

4) CTD when clicking "new miracle conqured" -notice

5) CTD when clicking "statue of Zeus"

6) Now the game CTDs every time I load this save game. *sigh* Should have left Corinth alone - this is the wrath of Gods.

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Originally Posted by oaty

Being pissed at Creative Assembly for a canceled mission is a bit rediculous. Heres what most likely triggered that an alliance or an alliance the Romans had with someone that had an alliance to the Greeks causing the mission to be canceled and since the senate was not at war with them yet they canceled your mission. Or the easy explanation did you take more that 10 turns to take Syracuse. If so that is why it was cancelled

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I've noticed the problem myself, as soon as you declare war on the Greeks the mission is cancelled, I think that if one waits one or more turns before declaring war on the Greek Cities that the problem no longer applies. ~:)

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2) When adopting a family member I got "defeat" -page and the game ended during tutorial

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That's a new one. Never heard of it happening.....by any chance are you stuck playing the tutorial?