Post Your ETW Bugs Here!

[Gorm]

I am getting scrambled text in the menus:

https://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5126...8000529636.jpg

Note that the word "Objectives" in the top banner is scrambled, along with a couple of other lines.

This happened well into the game. Before that, all was fine.

[Dead Guy]

Two East India men have gotten stuck in a trade slot. THey're not generating income, can't leave and I can't merge other ships with them, but I can move other ships there, which makes them occupy the same space but not merge. They react as if moved onto land.

You can't split and merge armies if the unit doesn't travel a hex. Moving a unit directly from a city to an army is sometimes impossible.

Pathing on the campaign map is really bad in some cases. If an army is on a boat on the coast of Sweden for example, you can click the coast of finland, within move range and everything, and the army disembarks in Sweden and tries to walk around the baltic.

[IRONxMortlock]

No, I click him, click somewhere else then click him, shift-click him, ctrl-click him, right-click him, quadruple click him, dolphin-click him, server-klick him, and social-click him and it still happens. His portrait is lit up.

More of an annoyance after you learn about it.

Yep, I can confirm this one. Only solution I've found is to move any military units out and then select the agent. Then i move army back in.

[Phog_of_War]

I just drag and drop the agents unit card outside the city. No problems at all.

[Pantsalot]

Me & my brothers have had a game each:
My Swedish campaign has an error when I came into turn 96, now even when I load the auto-save a
turn back it still has the error when it finished loading.
My Oldest brothers' British campaign got an error after finishing a turn at 27, then when u load up &
end turn then when it passes through every other factions turn it gets the error.
My youngest brothers' French campaign get's an error when he clicks on any of his armies in the
Americas.

Plus on my Swedish campaign then when I made peace with the Dutch then I tried offering them a
gift of jewellery (10000 coins worth) to improve relations, but it remained at hostile, is it supposed
to be?

[Chimpyang]

CTD when I select Automatic graphics options, not a problem if I go for a custom one or use Low Medium High etc..

[Mister V]

Random CTD sometimes. I think the engine was struggling with the 40-ship battle this time.

[johnross2007]

When loading into campaign map from battle map, one time I had a CTD where it said I had run out of video memory. I am running an 8800GTS 320MB.

Also, when trying to post troops to a wall, they often do a weird line on both sides of the wall, and they won't fix themselves until I repeat the order.

[Sir Beane]

Replays don't neccesarily show what actually happaned.

I was fighting against Mysore as the British. I eventually won after a long and extremely bloody battle. Decided to show my brother the replay. Everything was foing as it did in the fight.

Then the remnants of my army break and I lose the battle.

What actually happaned was the opposite. When I was fighting the enemy broke and I won. Odd.

[Barkhorn1x]

- New Prussian campaign
- Click on pikemen unit then click to disband
- Long pause
- White screen
- Error message
- CTD

Happened twice.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

When I get in to the middle of the campaign, clicking on my capital or a port with a fleet in it will cause the game to freeze some 10 seconds.

Probably not a bug but a very stupid feature. I attacked an army just outside a city. The garrison came to help their friends. I defeated both armies and the garrison retreated away from the city leaving it undefended (except some citizens). Easy way to get someone's army out of town. This happened twice. One time the city had defenses like a wall and the second time the city was without a wall.

[Relic]

Is anyone other than me amazed by how many bugs, glitches and exploits have appeared? o_o

[A Very Super Market]

Not at all.

RTW was buggy

M2TW was buggy

All games have some bugs when they come out, especially when they as complex as TW games.

[Sir Beane]

Is anyone other than me amazed by how many bugs, glitches and exploits have appeared? o_o

Nope. RTW amd M2TW had many more bugs than we have found so far, and many of them were game breaking.

Most of the bugs in Empire are annoying or minor so far. We are actually doing quite well .

[Eusebius86]

I'm having A LOT of problem with the sound in the campaign map. Cuts in and out. Tried turning "hardware acceleration" off in the control panel (XP), but that made it 4x worse.

Also, the shadows in battles flicker a lot. I have a evga 9800gt. It's really strange as the shadows were fine my first 6 hours of play, and then they just started flickering all the time.

[foop]

Incredibly trivial bug: the ramrod animation for the 12lb howitzer is incorrect. My guess is that it's the same animation as for the 24lber. The gunner stands there, poking his ramrod backwards and forwards about a foot in front of the muzzle.

[A Very Super Market]

May have to do with unit detail, since my troops don't even seem to hold guns on low

[pevergreen]

Gunner animations are always off, shoving ramrods through the metal of the gun etc.

[Megas Methuselah]

I noticed the Iroquois Bowmen and Musketmen are missing sprites when they are hiding in ambush. I can see them when I zoom in, but when I zoom out, they dissapear. I've yet to find if this affects the entire Iroqouis roster.

[Barkhorn1x]

Important bug:
- CTD when consolidating units - this one happens often.

Trivial bug:
- The turn end sequence always shows ships flags that morph into pirate flags and back again.

Is anyone other than me amazed by how many bugs, glitches and exploits have appeared?

I'm of two minds here. A bit forgiving seeing how complex this game is. But...I just cannot believe that bugs like the one above were not discovered during beta testing.

Oh well, patch is coming.

[NimitsTexan]

I have had three different campaigns get stuck on a End of turn CTD (CTDs while the comptuer is resolving the AI's turns). The only thing in common between the three instances was that I was playing as British. It is making it impossible for me to play through a campaign.

[Murmandamus]

@pevergreen
The agent select thing is a bug. It doesn't happen always but sometimes when I select the agent tab and move him my garrisons leaves town.

I found a work around for this problem, and for the problem where agents get stuck in towns etc (which is probably the same bug, but when no garrison is present, nothing happens).

Instead of selecting the agent and right clicking on the map to move it, click and drag the agent icon from the unit panel onto the map.

Just noticed Phog_of_War already posted this. Oops :)

[peacemaker]

-In the campaign map, when I click on gentlemen, there's a pause that lasts for a few seconds. Not a giant problem but annoying nonetheless
-Many battles have enemy units just standing around getting shot to pieces by artillery while there is a large broken building 2 feet away to go behind
-Is this a bug? Pirates and the like still move in perfect, orderly fashions even better than my line infantry....
-All the videos in the campaign such as dueling have horrible framerate, and the sound is kinda choppy.

[crpcarrot]

ok i havent read the whole thread but this is my bug

Playing as Great britain

was taking one of those tradeing ships to east africa with aan escort of 2 sloops. got toeast africa and places a fleet on the avaliable port then decided i didnt want to leave my 2 sloops behind so slected the two sloops and moved them out of east africa. then a little later when checking my trade income realised i didnt have any new goods so checked back on my trade ship. it didnt have the flashing sing saying it was trading and when i selct it i cannot move it anywhere. all the seax land just show me an "X" icon and give me messages when i click indicating that i am clicking on land.

ending turns didnt change anything. will see if starting the game has an effect when i get home tonight. glad to answer any further questions

[USMCNJ]

CTD after finishing a battle.

After playing a battle the load (unload) screen gets to about 15% and stays there with music playing in the background, after about 5-7 minutes of this i get a CTD.

This has about 50% chance of happening after a custom battle. 100% after phase I of RTI. (i've played that battle 6 times already !!!), also this happened for every time i played the demo.

My Specs:
2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo (T7200)
2.0 GB Ram
256 MB X1600
Vista Home Premium

My laptop is about 2.5 years old (Built it for MTW2) but i can play well on medium settings. Normal load of battles or campaign takes about 0.5 - 1.5 minutes.
I've ordered 4 GB or RAM so maybe that will help.

Has anyone seen this? Any guess on how to fix this? Any info would be great , I really want to play the RTI (i would hate to read the manual)

[Lord of the Isles]

Trivial bug:
- The turn end sequence always shows ships flags that morph into pirate flags and back again.

You mean the AI moves sequence between turns? The morphing pirate flags are the game's way of showing fleets that are pirating trade routes belonging to countries with which they are at war. It isn't a bug; it is meant to happen. Mind you, the AI in the Med in particular seems to spam fleets to do this and the place looks really choked up with them, but that is a game balance issue and different from it happening in the first place.

[Dradem]

I had two problems that I didn't see listed when I glanced over it, some other to but there where already on it.

1 the screen (in the campaign map didn't scroll anymore when I moved the mouse to the edge of the screen (didn't try the arrow keys It was late and was a good excuse to stop for the night)

2 I tagged the show in window option which worked, but when trying to go back couldn't deselect it,
rebooted Empire and was normal again

[Lord of the Isles]

Artillery in battles seem bugged. Getting them to respond properly to orders is a micromanaging nightmare. This is for 12 pounder foot artillery at least, haven't tried other types yet.

I can live with them being on fire-at-will by default after they unlimber, though I think it would be better if they weren't. I can also just about ... no, I can't ... live with stupid friendly fire incidents like sending cannister fire into a friendly unit next door because they were tracking some enemy unit that ran behind the friendly one.

But limbering up is awful - they regularly carry out that command and then immediately unlimber again. If you haven't noticed, they will of course be back on fire-at-will and before you know it they are decimating your own troops with friendly fire. I have a feeling that when you have more than one artillery unit, the first usually limbers up ok but the second and subsequent ones are almost sure to have this problem, but that's just a feeling, haven't tested it in trials.

At other times I have had the fire-at-will button off for all batteries, manually directing fire. I hit the stop button for all batteries, then go away and do something else, only to find all the batteries are still firing (not sure which targets, whether they are new or old ones).

Also, so far only noticed when changing from roundshot to cannister, they will sometimes change target from the closest unit and instead fire at a target far too far away to hit with cannister.

Lastly (well, the last I can remember for now), the white firing arc that shows the area the artillery can shoot into. If you select cannister and then select a target a little outside the artillery's range, it won't fire, which is sensible. But change to roundshot, select the same target and wait (not sure how long). Now, change the shot selector button to cannister and this time they will fire cannister at the target, sometimes falling short but sometimes hitting and doing damage.

[SwordsMaster]

Another bug here, I can't watch any in game videos, the frames go back and forward (as in, literally, 10 frames forward, 2 frames back), sound is choppy and crap, and while the background seems to be showing fine, the figures are almost always having issues. I haven't been able to watch the RTI videos or the dueling videos in the GC...

[Barkhorn1x]

You mean the AI moves sequence between turns? The morphing pirate flags are the game's way of showing fleets that are pirating trade routes belonging to countries with which they are at war. It isn't a bug; it is meant to happen. Mind you, the AI in the Med in particular seems to spam fleets to do this and the place looks really choked up with them, but that is a game balance issue and different from it happening in the first place.

OK - now I understand that one. No big deal in any case. And, yea the Med is spammed with ships.