Consolidated bug list

[Oaty]

I've made a complete list from bugs reported so far mainly compiled from this thread https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=113774 I plan on keeping this updated at least a couple of times weekly for a while so feel free to post a bug shine more light on a specific bug or debate whether it's a bug
BUGS


Reinforcements

Land

rivers/reinforcements apparently reinforcements can show up on the other side of a river and be
unreachable. more details here
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...7postcount=141

Both AI and and human reinforcements can spawn at the exact same entry point causing a forced
melee and a jumbled mess
Also if they spawn at the same point they possibly don't enter at all

1 man getting stuck off the battlemap making the rest of the unit unattackable and can last until
the timer runs out, you however can kill them by running me through the unit but that remaining
1 man will lose you the battle

Naval reinforcements

Can't withdraw trade(indiaman) ships that come on as reinforcements they sit at the redline and you cannot
cancel thier withdraw order making them stuck there the rest of the battle, other class of ships seem to have the
ability to withdraw when they are reinforcements

Can't properly group units when you come into the battle as reenforcements may happen with land battles to but
have yet to experience this

Reinforcements spawn randomly at an entry point rather than the true direction they should be
coming from

Attacking a fleet with reinforcements, all reinforcements that get sunk/captured in battle return
on the campaign map and retreat away

Forts

at least according to fort descriptions, the higher level fort wall defenses should be more dangerous (for
attackers). In the game, this is not the case, if the player gets to control the walls in star forts (and gun forts).
Wall cannons are fired only once the enemy is at very close range. However, if the AI controls the walls, cannons
are fired at the normal cannon range. This does not seem to work as intended. Also, player units placed on higher
end fort walls do not seem to be able to hit anything with musket fire.

Fort swap When the AI attacks out of a fort the defender gets to be in the fort
Happens the other way around too when a relief army shows up to attack the besiegers the AI
gets the fort

I find cavalry units regularly get stuck in fort doors when you order them out or in. This means the attacker has
an open door to walk through. In previous TW games you could usually workaround by reordering the unit and/or
making them run; in ETW they seem to get stuck for good.

Defending units on walls will abseil down ropes to pursue attackers. Worse, they will sometimes choose to use
ropes and move around the outside when ordered to another part of the fort.

Battles

When using minimal user interface the hotkeys to increase/decrease rank file/sail do not work even though they
work with the normal interface

River battle, units won't cross a bridge in a river battle but instead use the fjord even if the bridge is closer. You
have to order units on the bridge first then order them across

If the AI has stationary artillery as reinforcements you can't win the battle as they will never show up

Sandbags and puckle guns - the barrels of the guns detach from the their bases (still manned by the crew) and
are unelectable for the rest of the battle, the sandbags deploy with the remaining parts of the guns. Don't know
if the barrels would fire as the cursor target was showing as out of range for the duration of the battle.

Pike Units: insist on turning sideways if "pike wall" formation is ordered.

The 'fire & advance' drill (sorry if I've remembered the name wrongly) seems bugged. If a unit takes losses, they
will reform before firing again, slowing down their rate of fire to the extent that micromanagement is much
preferable

Long range canister shot. You can select roundshot, select a target then switch to canister, even
though the canister shot should be out of range it can hit troops more of a problem with
MP than SP

When a larger deck ship boards a small ship the ropes don't connect to the deck resulting in mass suicide
96 men vs 9 men and getting routed and being left with less than 30. Not to sure which are the offending ships
but believe it has to do with boarding galley/light galleys with larger ships

Light infantry face backwards

Ships kept far away from the conflict(trade ships esp) can mysteriously lose men and cannons

Just had a battle with 3 units of dragoons that were either invisible or under the map. was
ambushed by the Cherokee, and started the battle in column formation and sandwiched between
two lines of the enemy - my infantry were all present and correct, but my 3 units of dragoons were
nowhere to be seen - they could be selected and given move orders - I could see the target ark
and the green movement lines, but they never moved or attacked. The AI mobbed where they were
on the map, but couldn't attack them.
My infantry were wiped out, but I won the battle thanks to these invisible dragoons (by cheesily
running down the clock).

During an attack on me, France stuck a unit of line infantry behind a barricade. It stated that they
were firing(at a unit of flintlock armed citizens in a building), but they were not. Further, they
continued to tire out as they were not firing.

When you hit end battle (because the entire enemy army is routing) the game autoresolves with
whats left. I know this for a fact because my general gets kills and sometims losses even
though he stood idle the whole battle. Crediting kills sure but taking losses after the battle is over?
Also sometimes results in generals death

Light infantry in 'light infantry mode' will often face the wrong way refusing to shoot unless you use
the 'advance forward' button.

Light-Dragoons do not reload their rifles when they are idle. Which is a big disadvantage for their
tactical usage.

Canister shot fires at pointblank range but nothing happens

Limbering/unlimbering artillery once the battle starts seems buggy, appears you need to delay
giving them new orders(after limbering/unlimbering) for about 20 seconds otherwise they do stupid
things.

Limbering 1 artillery unit in battle causes all artillery to be limbered whether they are grouped or not

Unit stuck under hill on deployment on ambush and unable to move to target location.

Sometime the AI will garission/place a cavalries unit into a house.
-Sometime AI cavalries unit are unclickable (happened in the same battle i had with the cavalry
garrisoned into a building).

When defeating an army in a city if you hit continue battle instead of end battle, you have to
capture/kill every single man for victory otherwise the autospawn militia just respawn along with
the remnants of the defeated army that evaded capture, whereas if you hit end battle you get the
city

CTD

When artillery crew (puckle guns for sure maybe other artillery) is in melee and given a move order you get a CTD

CTD after a naval battle where your AI ally gets attacked and your reinforcements. May have to do with the fact
the AI fleet was sunk/surrendered, even though the human won the battle for their AI ally it shows the losing
attacker as capturing ships even though the player captured ships for their ally. Once you hit the checkmark to
close the battle statistics the game CTD

Stealing a tech that you were currently researching can cause a CTD when you select that tech

CTD occurs every time a grand campaign is started but resetting preferences .txt stops this

Clicking on a specific fleet causes a CTD even after a reload The fleet is permabugged until a ship is
added to it

One problem I've found in my current game is the game crashes after Spain is destroyed. The turn
after Spain dies and Colombia and Mexico arise as nations, at the end of the AI's turns the
game crashes (ETW.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close...). I stopped taking Spain's
last province (Lombardy) but even when an AI faction defeats Spain the game crashes at
the end of the AI's turn cycle.

Having a general recruit a unit and then destroying/damaging and building that produce the unit will
cause a CTD when you clink on that army on the next turn.

Winning a Revolution by Siege crashes the game.

campaigns becoming corrupt. When reloaded from a prior year the CTD occurs at the same year
(recommend emailing these saved games to CA so they can see why a CTD is occurring)

An army will duplicate itself causing a CTD if you move 1 of the armies if you saved after the
duplication they appear to work fine except you had to deal with a CTD and got a free army

The game may CTD when starting a revolution and will constantly CTD when trying to load from
that point

When exchanging ships with a blockading fleet a CTD can occur

Sometimes merging units together causes a CTD

Campaign

Intercepting the AI forces them to be the attacker and potentially can force them to attack a fort even with all
cavalry army. The game loads the battle and instantly loads the campaign map causing the player to wait out the
loading screens

AI can land ships on top of your fleets or other factions allowing the to be hiding and unattackable
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=116453

Land Bridges: this is a well known bug, but I did not see it in the list above. The AI frequently (not always) seems
unable to figure out how to use land-bridges. Sweden in particular is plagued by this problem. Their armies would
get stuck near Kopenhagen and unable to move in any direction from there. Once this happens, Sweden's AI turn
takes forever to complete...

Inter-AI diplomacy: the AI never seems to make peace with other AI factions. If I drag my allies into a war with
someone, they are still at war with that faction 30 years later. This must hurt AI economy tremendously and I do
not believe it is working as intended (in the previous TW titles, AI factions would make peace with each other).


Revolution, apparently when you pick a side it is possible for your faction to be defeated and the
game ends (disputed whether a bug or not) More emphasis your faction is defeated immediately when picking a
side not turns later

This happens to me whenever I resume a game from a save during an AI turn - that is, the AI
attacks my stack, I save the game and quit to Windows. When I load the save, the battle is played
out and when my turn starts, I have lost the ability to scroll the map with the mouse. (don't
quicksave on the AI's turn for now)

Prussia's trade later in the game shows up as zero in the trade summary but still get trade income

State gifts- small and large ones both give the same bonus(apparently this worked properly prepatch 25 bonus for
2500, 50 for 5000 and 100 for 10000)

Prussian army west of konigsburg causes delays when selecting them. disbanding the pikemen may
cause a CTD but after that unit is disbanded all works fine

Some AI's turns take more than 1 minute all the way up to 15 minutes

Defeating a nation that was raiding/blockading trade appears to permanently block/raid that trade
as the ships retire from the map but the blockade/raid doesn't go away

Fleet arrives at a teleport box but right on top of an enemy fleet and cannot move and no option of
retreat when attacked

Exchanges with the AI the AI gets their part of the deal but the player doesn't get his/her part

has anyone had this? i sold a region, set it for 5000 for the next 20 turns to be paid repeatedly,
made the sell lose the region and................no money comes in. is this a bug

Armies/navies don't always get the intercept option

War Script error -
I attacked Portugal in Europe and in the same turn, I attacked Portugal in India by trying to land
troops, and it's on an "Access Denied" screen saying to declare war/request access/cancel
move, but every time I click cancel move, it comes back up again.

Army stuck on the campaign map after defeating ambush

Scrambled text occuring in the game https://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?im...publicwhat.jpg

When changing government types it may fail to register
https://img8.imageshack.us/my.php?im...publicwhat.jpg

When blockading a port, some ports seem to have no problem but others you get up to 1 minute of
lag and after that 30 - 60 second your blockade order is cancelled and your fleet is still
where it was (annoying) The port of sarjevo is a good example to blockade it -- it will never be
blockaded if your fleet is coming from the south, you have to move your fleet north of the
ports zone of control raid the trade route for 1 turn then you can blockade it from the north. Wierd
and it seems the bug is caused possibly by shipless ports having a zone of control. Also ships have
trouble with orders to blockade a port that is under the FOW

If you capture a territory that had a port being blockaded by another faction (neutral/allied to you)
the fleet gets stuck outside of the port and is considered blockaded and you can't build ships

Sometimes a besieging army can't be attacked, possibly only occurs on the last turn

If the AI targets 1 unit with 3 units but that 1 unit merges with 19 other units the AI still targets it,
whats worse if the AI does catch up it shows odds in the AI's favour and if its autoresolved those
3 units massacre those 20 units Appears to happen to AI vs AI also Where I've seen small stacks
crush big armies

DIPLOMACY

AI never makes peace with other AI factions

Prussia will continuously trade East Prussia for Courland giving money and techs each turn

Your Allies can be enemies

Agents

If my rakes fail their infiltration attempt, but survive, right-clicking on the target again
automatically succeeds in infiltrating the city. Though, the successful infiltration message doesn't
show up until the start of the next turn.

They sometimes disapear when boarding a ship

Sometimes selecting new agents moves the army instead of him

If more than 1 agent targets the same thing there orders get canceled

Trade

Sometimes the trade screen shows nothing even when your trading with other nations but on your income tab it
shows your are getting trade income. Seems to be related to certain factions.

When breaking a fleet from a trade resource the fleet remaining gets stuck there breaking the
trade resource for the rest of the game

When adding a mechant ship to a resource it doesnt calculate until the next turn(possibly not a
bug)

Trade agreement seems buggy if your capital is landlocked and have or captured a seport with a
trading port (possibly not a bug, but needs more transparency) Another example is when Britain
takes French regions with ports they don't get extra trade routes because the ports cant be trace
to London by land

Minor bugs

Can't repair city defenses (feature or bug?)

When the adviser speaks on the campaign map and you scroll around the sound gets cutoff

setting flags to mouseover does not work properly and goes to default

Movies have sound stutter on some computers

Replays seem to go haywire and is not an actual replay of the battle

Advisers speech becomes stuttered on some machines

Graphical

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showp...3&postcount=81

Cannons ramrod animation is off sometimes not even touching the barrel in the animation

Iroquois units don't have sprites so when you zoom out they are invisible

Gameplay

other income not broken down such as tribute protectorate income and what not

Sound gets muted/unmuted after changing speeds

AI never retreats even when heavily outnumbered

Units not reloading when idle

Sometimes ordering troops behind the wall is the wrong side and the other side cant be selected

Defeated duelist can take a long hike if a land bridge is blocked IE. morrocco to gibralter the long
way

AI will not leave a building getting pounded by artillery

Units on swampy ground move way too slow

Cavalry charges directly into stakes

AI won't move away from fortifications(trenches/walls) when you outrange them

Can't merge a dead generals bodyguards into a living general

Naval Chokepoints especially the strait of gibralter being blocked by neutral/allied navies

Not bugs

Trade port not opening up. A trade port needs a land route to your capital if it cannot be linked to your capital it
won't trade. So Iceland and Malta will never trade even with a port

Can't make an enemy become a protectorate
Yes you can. First check the peace treaty option, then the option to demand protectorate
becomes available

Own ships showing a pirate flag
When your own ships or another nations ships flash a pirate flag it means they are looting an
enemy trade route

Plug bayonettes: The game description only mentions that plug bayonettes have trouble being
removed from guns, on the battlefield if you use plug bayonets they are a permanent melee unit
until they are back on the campaign map.

Generals appearing as a blank card, need more insight on this and I believe it has to do with when
the general dies

Moving gentleman to captured university gives the same alternatives as for hostile universities.
Poster wasn't clear on this but I believe the real function that is happening is you took over the
university with enemy gentlemen inside so it gives you the option to visit(help research) or duel
enemy gentlemen

Cannons moving through walls/fences I think gameplay won here as it'd be annoying to manever
cannons around the small obstacles

Workarounds

Stuck trade fleet you can scupper the ships to reopen the trade spot

Specific fleet causing a CTD everytime you click on it add one ship to the troublesome fleet and the
problem goes away

constant CTD from starting a new campaing reset your preferences.txt