Is anyone having the following "new" problems since installing the new patch; I am not always being notified when a quest is being offered by Lord Northburgh or Al Zahir. I only find out later when they notify me they are withdrawing the quest. When I complete a quest I am not always notified that the enemy ship had been destroyed or the island mapping was successful. Prior to the patch I always received notifications regarding the above situations.

I'm having that problem with ALL the quest givers on an intermittent basis. Sometimes it's Lord Northburgh and company, sometimes it's one of the NPC players, and sometimes it's one of the various neutral powers. One thing I have noticed is that this bug doesn't seem to pop up until you hit the patrician level.

Other issue's include no longer being able to center on a ship by double clicking it's hot key, ships displaying with the wrong colors on the mini map, and (this may just my perception-i could be wrong) it seem's like the cash gained from population has been adjusted downwards just a slight bit.

The bug that doesn't allow you to center on a ship easily is a pain, but the bugs with the quests is a real game killer for me. The mid-late patrician level is when cash is always hard to come by for me, and I rely on those quests to help me pay off the corsairs.

Btw, this is all on a standard medium game level large map with the corsairs set to hard.

How do I regress the patch?

I did not experience the problems the patch claimed to fix. I am, however, experiencing more problems.

1. Previously able to assign a hot key (CTRL-1 through 0) to a ship. Then by pressing the assigned key (#1, etc.), the ship is selected and I would gain focus. No more since the patch.

2. The game now randomly crashes. Never did before.

3. Same issues as other posts here...

I can't believe how much they screwed up with the patch. I feel sorry for you guys.

Reintalling the game is quick and easy. If you have an offline profile in vista it is located in: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Ubisoft\Anno1404\Profiles
and your savegames are located in ...\Documents\Anno 1404\Savegames. Back these files first to be sure.

When you uninstall the game it will ask you to do that. I have already did it once about a month ago. Plus AngEv1L it sounds like you didn't do the patch. Don't fix what's not broke. People will learn the hard way. I don't do updates unless I'm really having a real big problem. Most people do the update no matter if they are having a problem or not.

I agree with you dmdilks. The patch didn't do much, but what it offered it was better than nothing. I was ready to update, but I waited a bit to see if problems arise. I thought initially that it will be ok, that no issues would come up, since the patch changed minor things, but i was wrong. At this point i don't think we will see 1.2, so i will stick with the unpatched version.

I'm sorry that this game was abandoned after release both regarding patches and community support. They are shooting themselves in the foot for the next Anno game or expansion. I personally am fine to play with the unpatched version since it's an excellent game, and i'm ok with zero community support as well, but this affects the future of this game.

If the next Anno won't sell enough copies then the Anno series might be gone, or might be brought to console which would most likely dumb it down making it a deal breaker for me. Or maybe that's why they offer so little support. Maybe they decided to forget about the PC platform and move to the consoles now.

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I can live with the little problems other then not playing at all.

I've lost sound after steam updated my game.

After patching, now I can't load my saved game files. I've read of others having this problem pre-patch, and I always felt bad for them... thinking that must be awful. Now I am experiencing it firsthand, and it's much worse than awful. Makes the game unplayable. Load a saved game... play for a few seconds, crash to desktop... sweeeeeet. Well, it was fun while it lasted.
Off to find a game with official forums and technical support.

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Originally posted by tomthumb1980:
How do I regress the patch?

I did not experience the problems the patch claimed to fix. I am, however, experiencing more problems.

1. Previously able to assign a hot key (CTRL-1 through 0) to a ship. Then by pressing the assigned key (#1, etc.), the ship is selected and I would gain focus. No more since the patch

I really hate this new bug.

If you drag you ship to the tool bar, a single click selects the ship and a double click selects and centers the camera on the ship

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Originally posted by Varg007:

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Originally posted by tomthumb1980:
1. Previously able to assign a hot key (CTRL-1 through 0) to a ship. Then by pressing the assigned key (#1, etc.), the ship is selected and I would gain focus. No more since the patch

I really hate this new bug.

This mistake happened while fixing another problem. They noticed it too late to correct it for the current patch. But this is on top of the next to-do-list. There is no date for the next patch, we will have to be patient.

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Originally posted by Zomby_Woof65:

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Originally posted by Varg007:

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Originally posted by tomthumb1980:
1. Previously able to assign a hot key (CTRL-1 through 0) to a ship. Then by pressing the assigned key (#1, etc.), the ship is selected and I would gain focus. No more since the patch

I really hate this new bug.

This mistake happened while fixing another problem. They noticed it too late to correct it for the current patch. But this is on top of the next to-do-list. There is no date for the next patch, we will have to be patient.

Ah, good to know there working on it.

I'll still wait after that one comes out to see what problem they have before I install it. Yes we have problems but I can live with them for now.

suddenly a lot of the quests are bugged, some I can't deliver the goods(25 tons of glass), others the reward is not given, if I am supposed to find 3 knights in my city, I can find one but the others are hiding(I even went as far as saving the game when I was given a quest and then razed the area so there were no buildings, still could find only one)in my city in the occident(Roseyard), in the orient I had to find 2 people and both of them were there, although the second one was hiding under a palm tree

Now that everybody has all these new bugs and some of the people that didn't do the update. Still have the old bugs and can still run the game. But the people that install the patch and have new bugs. That are worse than the old ones. They have to reinstall the game and most of the time have to start with nothing. What is Ubisoft going to do about that? Say we're sorry and you to wait for the next patch and fix what they screwed up. You know people work hard at what they have done in they game. For a patch that screwed up they game.

There is no where to get to the support site for this game on this forum. And when you do put up a link to it. You would think that one of the Mods would make it a sticky. No they just let it go to never never land some where deep in this forum. But I'll be nice to put the link into a new thread so people can get to it.

Few more quest related bugs i've noticed this week. I've had a couple times i was told to go search an island, but when i got there the search wouldn't begin even though i had the necessary goods on board. I've also had a couple times that i was told to break blockades but no enemy fleet ever appeared to destroy. Finally, some quest lines seem to break in the middle- You'll be given a treasure or map as a reward, but the next part of the quest to have you deliver/use it doesn't trigger.

Side note- If you need to attack the corsairs for a quest but don't want to break your treaty, use letters of marque. It can take a while to build up a stock of them, but once you've got them you never have to worry about breaking a treaty again. You can buy them from the corsairs once you have a trade agreement, and the are a really useful tool for slowing down the NPC players economies as well as completing quests without messing up your diplomatic relations. Combined with a boarding party or two (using oriental warships for the second item slot) you can not only take out most of an npc's fleet in under 10 minutes without declaring war, but can also add a few choice ships to your own fleet.

The quests are working OK for me. I've noticed that I am having trouble building some of my nautical buildings in my initial warehouse area. I was able to place a shipyard next to the warehouse, but I was not able to add a harbor maaster's office in the area next to it or a ship repair crane. It told me the construction area was blocked no matter how I tried to place them. I had no trouble doing this prior to the patch. I also cannot build extra warehouses or quay walls.

I tried putting a pier the next cove over and again got the message that the construction area is blocked. I couldn't put a pier in any of the other coves on my island either. I am a bit stuck, since I will need to be able to build these buildings in order to advance,

I've also a Problem with quests.

To Mastada2006:

I also have this NEW save game issue. Saves load but the game CTD's a few seconds after loading.

There's a seperate (so far short) thread on this forum about it with more details of the issue from myself and another user. No resolution so far.

I've contacted Ubisoft support about it, so far my status is waiting.

The other post is here .

Ubisoft tech support is here (might be worth registering your issue to add weight to them potentially responding?)

Cheers, JB