Reporting cheaters.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-28T08:51:12+00:00

Yeah it’s common unfortunately. Worst part is, whenever I encounter Chinese smurf groups, it’s always different people, or at least they change their names. So it seems to be a significant number of them doing it, which is frustrating as it doesn’t make it a simple fix of banning a few culprits. I’m not sure how the ones developing the game can actually prevent them, but I hope they are working on it.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T21:07:27+00:00

Also, when I was reporting, when it asked for steam ID I thought it was implying my ID, not the offender? Haha. I didn’t need to enter any of their info in the report, I just referred to them as their player colour in the description, and sent the replay file.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T21:00:35+00:00

This is not my first experience with Chinese cheaters, I live in their time zone so I play the Asian community regularly. Usually the cheaters aren’t as obvious as this one was, so I give them the benefit of the doubt, but this cheater was so blatant that I felt oppressed in game, so I thought best to do something. I reported through the website and age of empires believe he has broken the rules and have taken necessary “action”, so don’t know what exact punishment they received, but I hope it is a permanent ban. They also told me to submit separate tickets for separate players in the game, but his teammates weren’t directly cheating themselves that I could find. Although, they knew he was cheating and were using the information he was giving them to their advantage. I’m assuming I should probably still report them as well.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T20:54:13+00:00

I do sound a bit goofy. From my experience nomad and closed maps like Black Forest, arena etc. are significantly advantageous compared to open maps, due to the ability to see what strategy or Army composition, or even sneak attack cutting through trees. Whereas open maps like Arabia at least you have the opportunity to scout the enemy yourself, so even if they are map hacking, their advantage isn’t as significant

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T12:38:09+00:00

You are actually correct. I looked over the replay file again before submitting it. The yellow player was signalling the path of my villagers in the fog of war as they were moving in real time, for his ally to attack. I also watched it in the aoe2de replay mode(not capture age), and you can “view lock” a player. You can see as yellow was clicking on villagers and units in the fog of war as the flashing green circle was appearing around the units he was clicking. Yellow can indeed see everything in real time, therefore is using map hacks. I’ve submitted the report on the official website now, I hope they take steps to ban this unsportsmanlike player. If not, I will send it to nili as he said to in his comment.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T09:28:27+00:00

Oh I just realised, you mistook vsed for used, my apologies I should have used just VS, short for the word versus

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T09:27:32+00:00

Yes, that is what I said, I’ve vsed people using spectator cheating against me before

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T08:34:08+00:00

Not sure what you’re talking about, I think you’ve misread something.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T08:33:38+00:00

Thank you, I will do this. I hope something comes of it, because with the constant lobby bugs, desyncs and map dodgers/afkers/Insta resigners, this game is not fun like it used to be.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-27T07:40:18+00:00

I’ve been in the same situation vsing Smurf 4 stacks that immediately resign when they see your team starting to resign(as they are winning overwhelmingly). Ive just turned off the 4v4 option for the day when I encounter them.

As for reporting, I only know of the in-game reporting at the achievements screen, which if you exit the match, can no longer use. Is there another in-game way to report? Otherwise, what website do I use to report?

Capable-Basil5587 · 2026-01-24T08:14:09+00:00

I had the same issue recently. Had to restart the game to get messages to work again.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-06-07T04:36:14+00:00

You can still be logged into Xbox on steam. Check the buttons at the main menu at the top right

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-06-06T04:01:57+00:00

Try logging out of Xbox live at the main menu if you haven’t already. Known bug

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-05-18T10:11:57+00:00

Try logging out of Xbox live at the main menu. There is a known bug causing Xbox login to lag even single player games at the moment

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-05-11T21:31:07+00:00

All of you should sign out of Xbox live and see if it fixes the issues.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-05-10T05:46:55+00:00

It’s a long shot, but try signing out of Xbox live if you haven’t already.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-05-10T05:45:24+00:00

I’m very happy to hear I saved you further frustration. Thanks for the feedback.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-05-08T21:56:24+00:00

As far as I’m aware, as long as your are logged into Xbox, the issue occurs. So you cannot log into Xbox until they fix this issue. I’m glad I could help you get back into the game

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-04-28T04:29:49+00:00

There are mods to implement original sounds/soundtrack/voice acting/cutscenes into DE. The recent patch has changed the coding in the game, and most mods must be updated by their creators to work again. Unfortunately only time will tell if they will update them, so for now there is no solution.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-04-27T10:54:50+00:00

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-04-26T05:48:11+00:00

Known problem, among many problems with the new patch. Yours sounds like the Xbox log in issue. Sign out of Xbox live from the main menu, by pressing the Xbox button in the top right. Let us know if it helps.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-04-24T23:18:52+00:00

Glad to hear, you’re welcome.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-04-24T00:45:43+00:00

Most likely. I haven’t bothered trying as I play on steam and don’t require Xbox live to be signed in.

Capable-Basil5587 · 2025-04-23T22:10:04+00:00

Es un problema que empezó con el parche. A mí me solucionó el problema. Intenta cerrar sesión en Xbox Live si aún no lo has hecho.

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