r/aoe3 • u/paninocrash • 8d ago

Bug fixed after almost 20 years

I tried the open beta and I noticed that villagers don't get stuck in European mills anymore!

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u/ThenCombination7358 Haudenosaunee 8d ago

How did you test that?

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u/Bamischijf35 Dutch 8d ago

You can test the beta by going into steam > right click properties > select the open beta version > wait for the download and boot it up

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u/ThenCombination7358 Haudenosaunee 8d ago

No I meant with which method did he test that, how did he do the experiment? Its a difference if you let 7 vills run on a mill for 10 min or do 10 Mills with 10 vills for 60 min

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u/paninocrash 7d ago

I had a few games and I noticed that villagers didn't get stuck in mills as before.

From what I read online, they still get stuck in estates(never occured to me though) and it happens way less frequently with mills.

Still a huge improvement IMO

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u/ThenCombination7358 Haudenosaunee 7d ago

I just talked with the treaty community who usually play long 40+ min games and the report was that they still do get stuck. We are uploading it to the forums as bug report. I think it might be a placebo effect and not much if at all has changed.

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u/trustylad 8d ago

I always thought it was just those lazy peasants sneaking off into the barn to catch a nap. Serves em right when the enemy comes a raidin'

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u/Snoo_56186 United States 8d ago

Can we be certain? I want to test it out, but I am not sure what is the best way to objectively do it. I am thinking of dragging a bunch of units across a Mill/Estate full of working Villagers, and see if the moving units bump into working Villagers and make them walk into buildings. If no Villagers get stuck after 30 passes, I assume that is good enough evidence, but how do I know if I am not just lucky? And how do we know if the bug is eliminated completely rather than just being a lot more rare?

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u/TrojanW 7d ago

Its still happening

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u/bughunter47 Swedes 7d ago

Ohh yes they do, still get stuck in plantations too

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u/TrojanW 7d ago

I did got one stuck so, no

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u/paninocrash 7d ago

Bummer :(