Huge War Bug ruining experience

[WSD_GB]

So recently I’ve been excited for this huge new update (March 25th) thinking as well as all the new content, it’d fix one of the biggest annoyances bug wise in the game. When you go to declare war, “you do not have any allies” is shown when you hover over invite attackers, you cannot currently invite anyone to help you in wars unless they are in a federation with you and are forced to help if the vote passes. It’s been this way since august 2020 and it annoys the hell out of me. AI can invite you whenever they want to regardless of their opinions of you, but even if you have a defensive pact with them and they have +300< opinion with a mutual casus beli , you still cannot even see them as an “ally” and cannot ask them to join you in a war?

 

[Bl4ckSh33p]

Hi. Just started with diplomacy and found you can trade "favors". Can you use these to invite them?

 

[WSD_GB]

Hi. Just started with diplomacy and found you can trade "favors". Can you use these to invite them?

Unfortunately not, they’re used exclusively to gain diplomatic weight in the galactic community as far as I’m aware. There is currently no way on console to initiate war and invite other empires, what should happen is when you press invite attackers a screen would pop up saying who you can invite and wether they would or not with a tick or cross, this UI does not exist on console or is bugged to not come up

 

[Bl4ckSh33p]

And pc could do this on 2.2 or 2.6? I hope it can be fixed.

 

[WSD_GB]

And pc could do this on 2.2 or 2.6? I hope it can be fixed.

Yes. If they couldn’t it was patched very soon after. I’m just very upset as we’ve had this issue on console now for like I said almost a year. Pc would’ve had it for maybe a month at most.

 

[unbeatable101]

Cannot invite attackers to war

Im on ps4. This happens across all saves and i have all dlc. This started happening with 2.2. I have a neighbor (we have a defensive pact) and we have a mutual rival and im trying to invite them to a war but it says "we do not have any allies"...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

Here is an older report on it too

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

Does this still exist for 2.8?

 

[WSD_GB]

Does this still exist for 2.8?

I am very happy to say with AI it does not seem to be, I cannot confirm with players as i am yet to try multiplayer since the patch

 

[Bl4ckSh33p]

Hm I could not invite anyone to war on 2.8 yet. Even rivals of the target. Need to try a bit more. Would be great if this finally works.

 

[Bl4ckSh33p]

It's working now! Don't know if you need ancient relics but I can invite AI empires to wars now.

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

I believe this was fixed in the hotfix to 2.8