Apologies if someone has already done this but it occurred to me that it would be useful to produce and maintain a list of the main bugs and issues which the community think are serious.
My criteria for this list is that they should be sufficiently noticeable or gameplay affecting that they could negatively affect review scores when FE is released. The list shouldn't include anything that could reasonably be a design choice by Stardock. Note that there are also a large number of minor and medium sized bugs which I think could also in combination affect review scores but they have been listed elsewhere and it is more the number of small bugs than the specific details of each one which matters.
So here is what I currently have as serious issues:
- Lack of information about bonuses/traits of factions and races when creating custom sovereign's and factions.
- Auto-resolve of combat ignores magical abilities making it easy for the AI (or a knowledgeable player) to defeat any and all magic heavy challenges. Fixed in 0.983 according to Mmrnmhrm but apparently fairly weak melee units can still beat Dark Sorcerers in auto-resolve so sounds like still broken?
- Auto placement of units in combat is poor, often meaning fragile units in the front line and strong units behind and leading to fragile units dying immediately
- When making a new game using Ctrl-N crashes the game after it has been done a few times in a row. Improved in 0.983 but still there according to jonmdewey, may be acceptable now?
- Save and load is dodgy, after re-loading units can be in slightly different places or movement points than they were before loading. This includes the players units as well as AI/monsters. Furthermore autosave seems to be saving at a slightly random point between turns (in fact this might be the main problem here).
- Popup windows appear in random order and at inappropriate times. This affects quests, level-ups and other popup windows
- When a popup window appears map often scrolls to a different location from where the event that triggered the popup happened. Still happening in 0.983 according to Trojasmic.
- AI is getting better but is still not very good at managing heroes, building killer stacks or casting magic.
- AI should stop being able to stack buff spells on its heroes (eg multiple tireless marches or burning blades on the same hero).
What's missing from this list? Please also let me know if you think any of these have been fixed since 0.981 as I haven't played the latest release.
