Hey, a bunch of friends have decided to pick the game up again recently and i was thinking about getting it but its 40$ on steam and even though, by all accounts, the game is great i don't see a game from 2009 being worth that much. So, any info on the frequency of sales?

A few questions I'd like to ask.. 1. Why are there people betting on who's winning? Are they using real money? Or is it just for kicks?

1. What visual mod did MemB used? I love the unique architecture and the trees. Where to find them?

Yes I know, "Another 14xx HD nub posting balance changes," but I honestly believe that we need this.

For to long have mangonels and archers idled our Town Centers. For to long have our Villagers haplessly been picked off with only shelter, but no defense. For to long have we been unable to create nice/pretty/Mastapiece towns, always getting burned to the ground by our enemy. I say its time to change this. To give our Villagers a fighting chance.

So here is goes:

Make Range Upgrades increase Town Center range.

And also let all buildings have an attack and affected by Blacksmith Range Upgrades.

Thanks for reading.

I remember reading something about it, but i dont remember specificly if the AoEII AI cheats (like infinite resources) or not.

- unnecessery language files in several folders.

- avi files

- pdf files

- outdated protos and techtrees

- log files

and so on.

My AOM folder takes only 1,15 GB disk place now.

Hi everyone, Im trying to get into the game but having some difficulties. I installed eso patch since most ppl play this way but im not sure... So are most ppl playing on asian dynastie or wars of liberty is my main question. Also what is crc ? I just want to know what is the official version meaning where do most people play and in wich version tournament take place. Thank you

Time for another weekly round of questions.

Talk about everything from build orders to advanced strategies.

Whatever your questions, the community is here to answer them.

So ask away!

Hi, quick question, just to see if I did something wrong or just being confused or anything.

So I was playing the campaign and saved my game. Now when I try to load it its only letting me load replays? Is there anyway I can continue my game from where I left it, or did I save it in the wrong way or something?

This tournament was really fun, especially since we saw AM emerge as a dominant force versus the best team for a long time i.e. Tyrant. AM and Winland (Suomi) played really well and many neutrals were supporting them just to see something different.

But Tyrant showed their class. They're best for a reason.

Vivi and his towers were also really fun, especially with Dave's "I am a Draaaagon" chant

I would like to specially thank Memb for organising the tournament and keeping it open for other streamers, what a great gesture it was... shows how much he loves this game!

Thanks PGI for the funding after SY pulled out but more importantly, the loberboys who contributed even more than PGI as a community.

Rant part

Apologies in advance, but this needs to said.

Unfortunately, some streamers weren't giving credit to the loberboys who as a whole contributed more than PGI. Some were kinda dissing Memb while streaming the tournament he helped organise.

One (I will not name him) even said "memb behaves like he is the admin/organiser"

These kind of things are really sad, because (a) we are a very small community relative to other games, and we need good vibes, and (b) why not credit people who pitched in to fund a tournament you are streaming?

Memb was showing and reading the names of people who contributed for BOA many times during the tournament, he was praising Swissboy, the graphics designers, players, and PGI, which was really nice to see.

I wish other streamers would have also creditted the main organisers and their team or not stream the event because it is just poor ethics to do so This info was on aoczone already or they could ask Memb for this info.

Again, sorry, but I think this needs to be mentioned.

Memb has organised two big events. Whose turn is it now? I think Zero and Nilli will be next.

Ok so I love the game and started playing on voobly recently (2/3 weeks ago) I’m ultra noob and learning. But in this short time I have already been mocked and insulted 3 times for making mistakes or just for free. What the hell is going on? Is this regular ? Are there ways to report toxic players ? Thanks..

Just wondering which civilisation you guys think is the best for turtling, I usually use Chinese, as you can train banner armies (also flamethrowers can shoot through walls, which is great for defence)

I've searched on youtube, google and, reddit for anybody with an explanation of why this happens and got nothing. When I start walling, if my cursor goes to the edge of the screen and its like the scroll speed was amplified 10x times and my screen moves so sporadically its impossible to wall. Otherwise my scroll speed is normal (about half full on the options menu). Does anybody know why this is happening? I play on steam 1400 dpi no mouse acceleration.

Viper has mentioned on stream before that he likes to know who he's playing against because it allows him to predict what they're going to do better. Plus there seems to be a range of different playstyles in high level play at the moment

And if not... should there?

I wonder how a game with Lierey The Max and Yo vs Tyrant Daut, Viper and Tatoh would go

I'm trying to recreate my favorite multiplayer map from AOE1. It's the one where one player has a large fortress and the other has a few villagers scattered around and they both are pitted against one another. I was wondering if anyone had a layout of the map that I could use for reference. Thanks!

Chicos acabo de crear un discord para que encontremos gente para jugar y hasta para que armen sus propios teams, los espero asi lo armamos entre todos

https://discord.gg/wuW2P4V

Pretty much the title. I have played multiple matches versus the computer using original AI and AI. The main difference I noticed was original AI would attack in consistent waves of troops while AI just made a bunch of unique garbage units.

Does anyone have more insight into the difference?

Upstream

• NEW: Buildsystem: register generated files as byproducts (Link)
• NEW: Documentation about number of projectiles per garrisoned unit (Link)
• FIX: macOS fixes (Link)

Issues

Nothing new.

Too few bugs for your taste? Build the project yourself for Linux, OS X or Windows and report your own findings to us.

Open Discussions

• Conversion of DAT file (Link)

Roadmap

1. Rewrite of the coordinate system ✓
2. Merge eventsystem code
3. Define core gamestate
4. Establish modpack format
5. Create a simple demo for testing
6. Adapt the new renderer to the simulation model

I already modified the file myself to fix the problem but the normal game should be working for everyone now!

I'm playing against 7 hardest AIs, free for all, ludikris map size, 500 pop limit, black forest.

After a long struggle I already took out 2 AIs myself and I'm about to send this epic army to hopefully take out or at least cripple the strongest remaining AI.

This is the 500 strong army I composed: http://oi66.tinypic.com/168sd3b.jpg

I'm playing with Slavs but I converted a lot of marquee units from my enemies, that's why I have an entire detachment of cataphracts as well as some woad raiders and a few huskarls and Teutonic knights. They realized the error of their ways and joined the right side. :)

And this is the enemy (Teutons) we have to take out: http://oi63.tinypic.com/11rwrjt.jpg http://oi66.tinypic.com/2602vlh.jpg

Plus they have like 10 more castles and endless resources. Fortunately for me they're just attacking another AI right now so they are a bit distracted.

The plan is to march my massive army over the huge map and try to take out the castles quickly with trebs and then use the monks to convert as many of them as I can and then use their own troops against the rest of them. This plan worked with the Byzantine AI as you can see from the army of cataprachts I managed to convert. These tanky Slavic monks can take a lot of punishment and are a real game changer. When you have a group of 20 of them they're converting unit after unit really fast and in a 500 pop limit game it's easier to protect them. I don't know why the AIs haven't researched heresy but it's good for me.

The reason I don't have onagers, scorpions and rams is because they're too slow and awkward and hard to maneuver in these 500 vs 500 clashes where there is such a crowd. They either block your soldiers or end up way behind where they are of no use. Trebs are better because of range so I prefer them. Also, the AI doesn't have a lot of archers to worry about.

I recently got back into aoe2 and I have been having trouble figuring out how Voobly works. Does it use the original version or HD (I have both). I've been try to play on the Steam server but they lag so bad that it's basically unplayable half of the time.

I just downloaded Aoe3:Wars of Liberty. I opened the game and tried to play online but there was no Connection, so I decided to play on the normal asian dynasties, but as i tried to get online, there was just written:"failed Connection to the eso servers " Can anyone tell me pls how to fix it that i can play online again on asian dynasties

As the title says, I access AOE through the Wine workaround. How can I resolve the issue with servers being down? Would downloading the patch work for me?

Also, in your estimation, are servers going to go back or is the patch the future?

its strange but when I create a room 2-3 people can join easily but then next players cant..Their level doesnt show up and they stop trying. In somecases I can join spesific rooms but not every room.Some of the rooms keep giving me a connection error I have no antivirus no firewall and dmz ports are all open Why is this happening ?

Would you recommend towers? Walling? Counter units?

Everything you need to get it log into ESO is covered in this topic! Simple, easy & quick steps

http://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=14403

Do not Split the community even more

Hi,

Just switched back from Mac to windows and I really wanna get back into playing the old school games online. Would it be worth it to buy the steam version just to play online or is it riddled with deconnection issues?

I loved norse wars, trojan wall and the general pvp 1v1 :)

Does anyone know how to change the direction of the great flood god power? :)

I'd love to hear from you how you got it working.

Was just wondering if there was a way to increase the multiplayer population cap? If so, how can I do it?

These are 2 African civilizations in the game. Which one do you like more and why?

P.S. Berbers has been covered on Middle Eastern civilizations thread since they have Middle East(ern) architecture style.

I would like to start this question, I know in maps like oais 3v3 or 4v4 slings should never end. But when should stop for going to castle/imp. Also when is recommended the slinger start a more active rol, defensive or even offensive.

Hello! WilkyGTR IG here, new player to Aoe2 and I'd just like to say thanks for having such an awesome community. Coming from league of legends to this game makes me feel like I've been freed from hell. I've had more than one occasion where after the game my opponent/teammate and I would just sit a chat about strategy's and ways for me to improve. Last night I made a new friend while playing 2v2 Black Forest. A fellow Canadian, we got rushed really hard just as we got to IMP but we held off and managed to come back for the win! After the GG we talked for an hour in game just hanging out and discussing how I could have played better.

I can't stop playing! I've lost 6 in a row but it's still so much fun. People recommended I play 1vs1 Arabia so I did that today with utterly terrible results. HOW THE HELL DO YOU DEAL WITH A SCOUT RUSH DAMMIT? Lol, impossible to practice build orders with scouts or men at arms in my lumber!

Ranting now, to sum it up. Thank you! For making this game a pleasurable experience. I've only come across one toxic person, who was just a bit salty over a t rush but other than that it's been super positive and very welcoming.

What is the setting in the voobly game settings that allows the mouse to be shown on stream? I had it before, now it's off again after I had to mess with it due to some issues at some point

it's name is "FFA 4 KINGDOMS MAP" ty so much

Hi Guys I'm new here and semi-noob in aoe2 I'd like to ask a question is there any mood like "Spectator Dashboard" but for real time use. Of course I understand it won't show enemies or alies building and researching but my own Wil be nice. I'm specially interested in viewing TC activity and also idle villager as well. Thanks

If i can't get internet where I am, but still want to play aoe single player with voobly mods, is there a way to do this?

Need/want a mod that has a custom timer before you can attack so you can build. Stop the tank zerg.

I heard V-sync doesn't in online games. Here is another solution:

1. Download this program and install:

https://www.msi.com/page/afterburner

1. Settings - On-screen display - More - Framerate limit. I have chosen 60.

This program is also suitable for in-game screen or video capturing.

I am playing the campaign in order and on average I played about 2-3h per mission but the the Mongol mission number 3 (into the china) took me 5h!!! Of course I reloaded many times cause I lose the time race against the wonder built by enemy. What am I doing wrong? I play this game on standard difficulty and its a chore to play against AI. Hiw can human possibly control so many things at a time. Is there a lower difficulty mod? Cause I like the game concept and the graphics are nice but the gameplay makes me anxious. I just want to play thus on leasure speed similar to Anno or Civilization (although its turn based so its even easier). I am actually struggling on battles. The AI is crushing my army wso I have to rebuild it like 10 times a mission to complete it. Do you have some tips on combat to make it easier for me?

I have this scenario idea, where you have a player on each side of the map, and the only way into each players base, is up a long hill. With plenty of resources in each players area.

In each players base, they have a little tent, which spawns their king, and a little tent of the enemy team.

The aim of the game is to get your king, inside the tent of the enemy's base. Each time your king dies he reswpans back in your own base out of the little tent.

Thought it would be a fun little game, as it could be really difficult trying to fight uphill, clearing a path which is safe enough for your king to run through and win the game.

Are you able to find multiplayer games in the wars of liberty mod and the esoc community patch? how does it compare to vanilla population is it worth downloading?

If you haven't heard of eso community yet, you should check it.

They've released their own patch which fixes many issues in the game but their version also lets you CONNECT when the ESO servers are down.

Go to http://eso-community.net/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=13130

And download the patch. It will create a second icon on your desktop to use. Does not work for vanilla, only Asian Dynasties.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/diga03xf18t8nlw/AOE1.0a.rar

Hope to see you guys on there!

I lose my control over military when i start to have more then 50 units (like 100 sepoys) even i use control groups. Whats the best way to manage this?

If I have too many CA I feel targeting with right click can be very ineffective against pikemans, for example. In that case I am doing hit and run with stop button(F) but now I feel my units wait a little bit more if I use stop button instead of targeting with mouse right click. Am I doing wrong? Is there another way to do hit and run with targeting multiple enemy units?

Hi Guys.. Some noob questions for Scout rush 1. What is the ideal feudal time window for scout rush? as in I know the perfect feudal time is 10:15(22 pop with loom) so considering actual timings suppose I hit feudal at 10:55-11:10 can I still go with scouts or need to change into something else 2. Is it better to send 3 scouts earlier or wait till we get 4/5 scouts and send? 3.If opponent fights my scouts with vills, what is better trade off? losing 2-3 scouts for 2 vills/idle time or not to take the fight 4. Is it worth to go scouts for civs w/o bloodline?

Hey everyone so a little bit about this game I've just made. It's kind of a take-off of the Arkantos story line. It takes place in a world where Zeus was taken off the throne on Mount Olympus and Poseidon took over. It involves taking down the base of Poseidon or taking out the base of Zeus (if you're Poseidon). I know I don't make it seem very interesting but come test it out with me I'd love your guys opinions.

Trying to play lan with a roommate on Steam's AOM: EE. Only got one copy of the game so he logs on one account and goes offline. I go online with the same account. I host a LAN and when they try to join, they are never able to connect. I've tried various combinations. Both of us offline, one off one on. One person makes the room, the other joins. Vice-versa.

I've tried looking around (googling) for answers but there isn't much to go on anyways. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips? Outside of buying a second copy of the game (and who knows, maybe it still won't work). Thanks in advance!

I keep getting a failed to connect to server message on ESO. Anyone else?

Hey guys, I'm new here and needed some help. Despite playing AoE a lot as a kid, I remember very little about it apart from the very basics. Could you recommend any good guides, Youtubers, or Twitch streamers that can help me improve at the game? Thanks!

Played the Age series as a kid. Found SC2 in 2012. Never looked back. Now I'm considering getting into AoE2 HD.

There are a few things that the SC2 scene has that make it so enticing to play and I'm wondering if these things are available in AoE2 HD.

Is there a "competitive scene" with matches broadcast between high level players?

Are there recent / modern tutorials discussing mechanics / strategy / general game theory (think Day9 for sc2)?

Is there a ladder with MMR or how is match making done these days?

Anything else an former player returning from the SC2 scene should know about the game of their childhood?

I vote for Jiangshi.

Would a free upgrade of stone walls to fortified walls upon reaching the castle age be useful to any civ? I’ve noticed this has never been given out as a civ bonus, and I was wondering if that is because it wouldn’t be worth much, or if it could be OP in some circumstances? I never play Arena or maps like that, so there are probably circumstances that I’m not considering.

is there anything I could do besides setting up a Virtual Machine (which I don't know how to)

Hello, I bought this game since I saw it on discount at 3,99 and decided to get it alongside a friend. I also got the Forgotten DLC.

1. Is the community still active?

2. How is the community acting towards newbies?

3. Can the game provide more than 20 hour or so of fun?

4. Why can my friends only play ~7 DLC civs when I can play all of them?

5. Any general advice towards a new player? Looking to play MP as I get better.

Or how do i convert a scenario file into a map? For usage in ES online mode

if thats possible that is.

Bought the game this morning since it was on sale and haven’t played this game in ages God damn I am excited as fuck Is there anything different about the HD version compared to the original?

Quite a simple question: what's holding the players from voobly to migrate for the Steam HD version of the game? Besides buying it again, obviously.

But I really don't know what is holding, since afaik, Wololo Kingdoms and Rise of the Rajas are pretty much the same.

So my friends and I regularly play AOC on LAN as well as on Voobly, now we want to try out Voobly mods while playing on LAN. Is it possible to do this?

It's not impossible to beat, and i easily can, but when i selected the choice "easy" since i like playing strategy games easy, i didnt expect to get rushed by enemy horses before i even built my first worker in tutorial mission "discoveries"

Why is this so damn hard? Like i passed it now after a few attempts but i shouldn't have to stress about insta death in a tutorial mission lmao, and i played the originals and they were way easier than this.

Can anyone explain? Maybe theres a mod that fixes this?

Thanks for the help, would love to play a human lol

I don' t have the game in front of me atm, but if I recall correctly, it reduces training time as well for skirms (and maybe even strelets). Isn't that good ? Of course the card is straight up trash early in the game compared to 3 cdb or any age 2 shipment, especially when you can musk/huss or bow/pike in age 2, but I wonder if the training time could be good in long drawn out team games or treatty games. Kind of like the gendarme traintime.

• Attack, when we also consider accuracy: Toxotes - 6,5*0,8=5,2 Chu Ko Nu - 4*2*0,7=5,6 ---> Chu Ko Nu's attack is 7,5% higher.
• Cost: Toxotes - 55W+35G=90 Chu Ko Nu - 60W+40G=100 ---> Chu Ko Nu's cost is 11% higher.
• HP from Medium, Heavy and Champion upgrades: Toxotes +6+6+6=18 Chu Ko Nu +6+9+12=27 ---> Only fully upgraded Chu Ko Nu has 11,5% higher HP
• Minor god specific attack boost: Toxotes +0,65+0,65+0,975=2,275 Chu Ko Nu +0,8=0,8 ---> Greeks have much more tech to boost the attack of Toxotes.
• Chienese are lack of any anti archer units, their only chance in the early game to counter archers with archers. You can see here the suffering of rebalanced chienese: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/243238668

Conclusion: Cho Ko Nus aren't OP.

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the final AoE: DE campaign review - The First Punic War, which was first featured in the demo version of The Rise of Rome expansion and covered the exploits of the Carthaginians during the said war.

As always, the review focuses on the changes to the map, objectives and starting positions and historicity compared with the original campaign.

Some of the scenarios have been renamed so the original name has been added in brackets where applicable.

Spoilers ahead - you have been warned.

1. The Battle of Agrigentum (Struggle for Sicily) - The original scenario was effectively a tutorial and has been completely redone.

You now start in bronze age with a walled town in the eastern part of the map with most of your resources (albeit not very many) being located across a river that can only be accessed with transport ships but it keeps them safe from raids. You also start with a few hoplites and a war elephant - likely not coincidental as Carthaginians get bonus HP for both of these units types.

You will be facing two enemies, both called Romans, one to the west and one to the northwest of your base. They also start in the bronze age with walled towns and some military so early aggression is guaranteed. The objective is to destroy both enemies' government centres.

The map itself is fairly open and most of the resources are in no man's land so early expansion is quite crucial. You will also find some gaia cavalry in the west corner of the map described as your Numidian allies though they may not prove useful at all as they are stuck behind a forest and will have to wait for the enemy or yourself to cut through to let them loose.

In the original mission you started in stone age with a TC and 3 villagers while your enemy started in tool age with a small base and a few axemen and slingers. The objective was to kill all enemy military units. Very simple mission but it was the tutorial after all.

Overall a very positive change and a necessary one as there already is a whole tutorial campaign. As a sidenote, the Carthaginians have lost this battle historically speaking.

2. The Battle of Mylae - The map has been completely redone, but the objectives are still the same - to bring the two enemy artifacts back to your base.

The map now seems to resemble the Strait of Messina (between mainland Italy and Sicily). Your starting position seems to match the real life location of the town of Mylae, the Romans (red) are located across the strait in Italy and Syracusans (yellow) share the island with you but you are completely separated from them by cliffs and you can only access their side of the island by water. There are also a few small islands to the northwest controlled by the Romans.

You start in the tool age, just like in the original but with a somewhat larger base and fewer resources. Once again, the resources in vicinity of your base are quite scarce and you will need to secure the small islands for extra wood and gold. Romans start in bronze age with their main base concentrated on the southern tip of Italy and a huge resource deposits to the north of their base. Syracusans now also start in bronze age, as opposed to post-iron age but they are now a fully functioning opponent, so to speak, instead of having a just few units and towers and no production buildings guarding an island with extra resources and the artifact.

Overall, this is another positive change with a more detailed map that resembles the real life location which I think is always good to help with the immersion. The difficulty has been increased somewhat due to now facing two players and having immediate access to fewer resources, though the islands more than make up for that. In mid-late game as you explore more of the map you may be quite surprised that one of your enemies was right in your backyard the whole time and you may panic before you realise that they can't get to you. That is a nice touch, but things sure would be more interesting if those cliffs weren't there to protect you.

As a sidenote, the Carthaginians also lost this battle, but hey you are here to make Carthage great again... right?

3. The Battle of Tunis (Battle of Tunes) - Well this classic and many people's favourite may seem largely unchanged on the surface but there are a few quite notable tweaks:

At the start of the game your view is now centred on your navy rather than your base, which helps but interestingly enough the enemy navy does not engage you save for a couple of ships and returns totheir docks. This happens even on the hardest difficulty, so something must be wrong with the AI here (I restarted quite a few times to test this) unless they are trying to lure you within the range of their towers.

The layout of your base is virtually the same except some houses were relocated, the decorative trees around buildings were largely removed and you no longer have paved roads inside your city, in favour of what looks like dirt roads, which is a bit sad.

Regulus (red) now starts with almost no military save for a few broad swordsmen. Most notably there is now no cavalry on your side of the river which would usually attack you quite early on. Romans (yellow) have perhaps undergone the most changes - the walls that were protecting their base from the flanks have been removed, save for a part of the eastern wall that is placed inside a forest and does not block access to anything except... more trees. The forest to the north now has a few pathways which lead to extra resources. Lastly, the area to the east, up the cliffs with gold and stone deposits near the gaia army has now been claimed by the yellow player and contains a small base protected by towers.

Speaking of the gaia army (Xanthippus' mercenaries), the two catapults have been removed and the heavy cavarly unit was replaced with Hero Xanthippus (centurion hero unit) with a rather impressive 35 attack and 250 hp, but no upgrades as it is a gaia unit in this case. You still get 20 phalanx units as before. Consul's Guard (brown, formerly Colosseum Defenders) now have more units at their disposal - a few legions and centurions along with the siege and priests that they had in the original.

The map itself was also changed slightly - the southern landmass is now more arid and the northern island's coastline has been altered somewhat, but nothing major and likely to help solve some pathfinding issues. As already mentioned the map is now richer in resources, especially near your enemies' bases whereas your resource deposits seem to be about the same as before.

Overall, while the enemy now has access to more resources and the gaia army will have a harder time wiping out yellow's base I would say the mission has still been made easier as the threat of an early invasion on land has been removed completely and that's what made the original mission so exciting. Even later in the game the enemies were not particularly threatening, though I would put that down to the AI at that point.

Now to break the pattern here, Carthage did actually win this battle but they still lost the war of course. Feelsbadman. Nah, that's what these Punic dogs deserved. Roma invicta!

Conclusion

Quite a short campaign which mirrors Reign of the Hittites in a sense that two missions were redone completely and one was just tweaked somewhat, in both cases my personal favourites were the ones that only received tweaks so good call on Forgotten Empires' part. The first two missions were definitely a positive change on virtually all fronts whereas Battle of Tunis was made a bit too easy I feel but maybe once the AI becomes more competent it will be even more challenging than the original scenario... but in the meantime just give some units back to the red player.

SCORE: 8.5/10

Well I guess this is it, we now covered all campaigns except the tutorial where there isn't all that much to talk about. I hope you enjoyed reading my reviews as much as I did writing them. If this has encouraged you to play through the campaigns or learn a bit about the history then all the better.

Thanks!

Other reviews:

• Glory of Greece
• Voices of Babylon
• Yamato, Empire of the Rising Sun
• Reign of the Hittites
• The Rise of Rome
• Ave Caesar
• Imperium Romanum (Pax Romana)
• Enemies of Rome

Fuedal TC's would help a lot if you have a bad map, and it would make the game waste fewer minutes if everyone got to 100 workers quicker.

The only problem I see with this is Civ's with town center / worker bonuses have to be toned down.

I just don't like seeing players with "hard to wall" maps; lose lol

My cousin and I are trying to beat a hardest 3v5 game (one AI on our team), and so far we've been failing even a 3v4 lol. Our skill levels are about easily beating a 1v1 or 4v4. We've played the game when were very young, and we just recently came back. So, we're not really familiar with the shortcut keys, if you insist that is a huge disadvantage. If we rush one on one early, we get destroyed in the mid-late game due to retire of resource while the other left-alone AI had been booming. If we defend, we still lose due to the sheer difference of military unit numbers. We, also tried to do the fast castle age siege + wall defense, but the AIs rushed us before we could even make it. Any good strategies for this fellow AOE2 redditers?

Original AOC all day, every day!

specially for new players

So I just downloaded AoE2HD off of steam. When I go to play the game, everything is tiny due to my 4k display. Is there an option to change the resolution in game? When I change the resolution off my display and go back into the game it helps a little, but it still looks a bit messed up.

Hey guys!

I searched for a long time for a strategy game that would scratch the itch, and having played the game as a kid, I kinda knew what I was getting. After days of research on steam and countless discussions with friends, I decided to go for AoE2. Imagine my elation when I read the post about it being on sale today. I immediately put my pants on and rushed to the bank to get myself a steam gift card. I came home, bought the whole pack and installed it.

And then.. the realization that I have been wearing rose coloured glassed.

The first thing that greeted me was a completely useless launch menu with as much spam as you can fit in a medium sized window. I somehow managed to find the "play" button, but then I was greeted by some multiplayer online mumbo jumbo crap that downloaded stuff from steam and whatnot. I swiftly alt tabbed out of the game and closed it. I went to the advanced firewall settings and blocked both the launcher and the game exe files. Then, I restarted Steam in offline mode. The launcher menu suddenly appeared a lot nicer without the social media spam, and I managed to get to the main menu.

As with a lot of games, the first thing I do is go to the options to change the resolution. Only that you can't change the resolution. or anything of significance. I noticed some unwanted workshop icons and whatnot, but moved quickly past them to start a campaign. Boom the game opened. I could barely read the words written, let alone the icons on top and stuff like that. The people and the environment pierced my eyes with the force of a thousand pixels, and I thought to myself how I'd prefer it to be blurry. I played for a bit, but my eyes were hurting, and my enthusiasm plummeted into the depths of hades, so I deleted it and refunded the game.

I'm really dissappointed that it ended like this, and I'm not a pixel or fps nazi, but this is simply too much. I didn't think they would remake the game, but it appears like they just slapped the "HD" randomly onto the same old game (only that it was better when you could play it at 1024px ).

Ehh... no strategies for me I guess...

Age of mythology is probably the same as this...

My friends and I play a type of attack/defend scenario, similar to defend the wonder, in black forest. There is a strict no attack rule for the first hour. The 3 attacking players then have one hour to destroy a specific building (e.g. an outpost in the corner of the map - the location of which is specific and known by all) defended by 2 other players. There is also a no cut rule. As an attacking player, that hour is spent trying to force your way through choke points, hordes of trash and defensive buildings. Just looking for civ suggestions for an attacking player that doesn't have to worry about defence of the early ages? We usually have one Spanish (for trade gold) and one goth (for infantry spam) (original aoe2 hd, no expansions). Thanks!

I recently got caught up in T90 and TheViper YouTube videos and as such, have gotten interested in the game again after so many years. I downloaded Voobly but I don't actually know what I'm doing and I was wondering if anyone would like to play some games with me? Either vs AI or 2v2/3v3, etc etc.

Also unsure if I can post this here? New to the subreddit :/

Age of Empires 1 Definitive - October 26, 2017 (20th anniversary)

Age of Empires 2 Definitive - September 30, 2019 (20th anniversary)

Age of Empires 3 Definitive - October 18, 2020 (15th anniversary)

Age of Mythology Definitive - October 30, 2022 (20th anniversary)

All of them will be aviable only in Microsoft Store, because they don't want to divide the online playerbase. It seems that Age of Empires 2 HD won't get any new patch, they abandoned Steam and the last one will turn off the light. They are working on the new projects already.

So probably around 8-11 years ago I was playing an online game of Aoe3. But this was not any normal game. Buckle up folks, its a roller coaster of feels.

So I love the dutch, I roll in those sweet sweet insta horse train-ups on great plains, those banks, 50 villager pop cap... Anyway, I digress; We were playing on Saguenay, 4v4, 45min no attacking etc etc. A few minutes into the start of the game, someone on my team DC'd. One of my teammates told me he couldn't bear this disadvantage and then followed suit. The third guy just left. So it was just I vs 4, and I contemplated leaving, but thought fuck it, I'll try to win. So I moved my eco up into the top left of the map between the bay and the edge of the map, and prepared myself, knowing for sure I'd have to face a battle I may not win. That dreaded 45 min marker came round, and they attacked. Somehow, I survived. So after about 20 min of defending, devised a plan to attack. After an attack I slipped a few villagers past the enemy and set up some stables and barracks. After horse spam, it was 1v3, then 1v2, and then finally 1v1. I hit him from both fronts, and won. However this isn't why I'm writing this. At this point I had spies, I could see everything! But this guy. He was only going to let me win with a 100% pop kill. He had one, maybe more entities alive on the map, but he would not tell me where. He had hidden it. I spent half an hour destroying everything on the map to find it but I just couldn't. After a while longer I get the dreaded message flash across my screen "Victory is yours!" with a message "You will be kept up at night, wondering where I was" and then he DC'd.

So here I am, years later still wondering how he hid from me when I could see everything. When I do think about this it makes me wonder, and then like half an hour flies past while I should be writing my essay. If you're out there, I would like to sleep at night.