Age of Mythology/Game Mechanics and Glitches - Revision history

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‎Fog Glitches

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‎Fog Glitches

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‎Fog Glitches

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‎Glitches

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‎OMG I just found an epic new glitch

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‎Glitches

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‎OMG I just found an epic new glitch

Zergreenone at 02:07, 8 July 2016

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Zergreenone: /* Fog Glitches */

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‎Fog Glitches

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	There are three states to fog in age of mythology - black mask, fogged, and visible. There are two interesting things about the farm's building placement: it has tile based placement, and the area it un-black-masks is larger than the area the farm takes up. Specifically in the directions to the north-east and north-west. You can use this to un-black-masks areas without making them visible at any point. When you unfog unallied buildings in this manner, they do not appear, and you can place foundations on top of them. Unfortunately, when the area preventing placement of the building is, unfogged, the foundations disapear. If we could teleport a peasant or something, or if we could somehow decrease it's line of sight, we could possibly build on top of enemy buildings. I am reminded of a Starcraft glitch, which allows you to build command centers and such close to mineral lines, or on top of enemy buildings, using the flying scv glitch, because the areas are not visible. This could potentially allow you to build over enemy buildings. Unfortunately, the line of sight of the villager seems to be too large to easily do anything. Also, might potentially be able to build walls close to gold mines or settlements.		There are three states to fog in age of mythology - black mask, fogged, and visible. There are two interesting things about the farm's building placement: it has tile based placement, and the area it un-black-masks is larger than the area the farm takes up. Specifically in the directions to the north-east and north-west. You can use this to un-black-masks areas without making them visible at any point. When you unfog unallied buildings in this manner, they do not appear, and you can place foundations on top of them. Unfortunately, when the area preventing placement of the building is, unfogged, the foundations disapear. If we could teleport a peasant or something, or if we could somehow decrease it's line of sight, we could possibly build on top of enemy buildings. I am reminded of a Starcraft glitch, which allows you to build command centers and such close to mineral lines, or on top of enemy buildings, using the flying scv glitch, because the areas are not visible. This could potentially allow you to build over enemy buildings. Unfortunately, the line of sight of the villager seems to be too large to easily do anything. Also, might potentially be able to build walls close to gold mines or settlements.
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		+	Testing with a wonder (big enough that LOS does not prevent building over something), it seems that the building just dies if construction begins while overlapping another building, without even revealing the problematic building.

	If you get rid of fog and black mask using the quicksave glitch, you can build god power buildings (such as plenty vaults and healing springs) on top of enemy buildings and stuff. This works in a similar way to the above, because the fog and black mask isn't really being removed properly.		If you get rid of fog and black mask using the quicksave glitch, you can build god power buildings (such as plenty vaults and healing springs) on top of enemy buildings and stuff. This works in a similar way to the above, because the fog and black mask isn't really being removed properly.

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	If you get rid of fog and black mask using the quicksave glitch, you can build god power buildings (such as plenty vaults and healing springs) on top of enemy buildings and stuff. This works in a similar way to the above, because the fog and black mask isn't really being removed properly.		If you get rid of fog and black mask using the quicksave glitch, you can build god power buildings (such as plenty vaults and healing springs) on top of enemy buildings and stuff. This works in a similar way to the above, because the fog and black mask isn't really being removed properly.
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−	~~Note: if you hack un-mask and un-fog, you can place plenty vaults and other god powers on top of buildings. This is, however, impossible to do normally, as you need line of sight.~~

	== Pathing glitches ==		== Pathing glitches ==

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 There are three states to fog in age of mythology - black mask, fogged, and visible. There are two interesting things about the farm's building placement: it has tile based placement, and the area it un-black-masks is larger than the area the farm takes up. Specifically in the directions to the north-east and north-west. You can use this to un-black-masks areas without making them visible at any point. When you unfog unallied buildings in this manner, they do not appear, and you can place foundations on top of them. Unfortunately, when the area preventing placement of the building is, unfogged, the foundations disapear. If we could teleport a peasant or something, or if we could somehow decrease it's line of sight, we could possibly build on top of enemy buildings. I am reminded of a Starcraft glitch, which allows you to build command centers and such close to mineral lines, or on top of enemy buildings, using the flying scv glitch, because the areas are not visible. This could potentially allow you to build over enemy buildings. Unfortunately, the line of sight of the villager seems to be too large to easily do anything. Also, might potentially be able to build walls close to gold mines or settlements.
-Testing with a wonder (big enough that LOS does not prevent building over something), it seems that the building just dies if construction begins while overlapping another building, without even revealing the problematic building.
+If you get rid of fog and black mask using the quicksave glitch, you can build god power buildings (such as plenty vaults and healing springs) on top of enemy buildings and stuff. This works in a similar way to the above, because the fog and black mask isn't really being removed properly.
 Note: if you hack un-mask and un-fog, you can place plenty vaults and other god powers on top of buildings. This is, however, impossible to do normally, as you need line of sight.

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	This screws up IGT, because IGT starts after the cinematic (even if the cinematic is skipped, IGT is changed to be consistent). So that is a concern.		This screws up IGT, because IGT starts after the cinematic (even if the cinematic is skipped, IGT is changed to be consistent). So that is a concern.
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−	~~This only seems to be useful on mission 1, ... I may be wrong about that however.~~

	== Shades Glitch ==		== Shades Glitch ==

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 =Glitches=
-==OMG I just found an epic new glitch ==
+== Quicksave Glitch ==
-Use F8 to quicksave and F9 to quickload. If you save just before a cinematic, twice or something like that, you can skip like some trigger or something and start the actual game with the cinematic units and unfogged and unblackmasked and stuff.
+Use F8 to quicksave and F9 to quickload. If you save just before a cinematic, load, save, load, you can skip some trigger or something and have control during the cinematic, with the map unfogged and unblackmasked and often extra units. If you save and load one more time you will be able to completely skip the cinematic, but this probably breaks just about everything in the map in most cases. It is very easy to break stuff while using the quicksave glitch.
 This screws up IGT, because IGT starts after the cinematic (even if the cinematic is skipped, IGT is changed to be consistent). So that is a concern.

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 This screws up IGT, because IGT starts after the cinematic (even if the cinematic is skipped, IGT is changed to be consistent). So that is a concern.
-This only seems to be useful on mission 1, ...
+This only seems to be useful on mission 1, ... I may be wrong about that however.
 == Shades Glitch ==

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 Testing with a wonder (big enough that LOS does not prevent building over something), it seems that the building just dies if construction begins while overlapping another building, without even revealing the problematic building.
-Note: if you hack un-mask and un-fog, you can place plenty vaults and god powers on top of buildings. This is, however, impossible to do normally, as you need line of sight.
+Note: if you hack un-mask and un-fog, you can place plenty vaults and other god powers on top of buildings. This is, however, impossible to do normally, as you need line of sight.
 == Pathing glitches ==