Anyone else having the problem that once the enhanced graphic pack is downloaded, it just downloads again from the beginning?
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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition |OT| Castle Doctrine
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The work and care that went into this game makes Blizzard's StarCraft 1 effort look so lazy and incomplete. It looks like their WarCraft 3 update will also pale in comparison.
I'm loving the RTS mini revival though. Too bad it basically consists of remasters of 20yr old games, lol.
Where the hell are my Command & Conquer definitive editions? Let's complete the circle!
I'm loving the RTS mini revival though. Too bad it basically consists of remasters of 20yr old games, lol.
Where the hell are my Command & Conquer definitive editions? Let's complete the circle!
I hate to be the person coming in and just blindly asking stuff, but if I already have the older AoEII HD, is this worth getting?
It has 4 new Civs and 3 new campaign. So it's also another expansion on top of being a complete overhaul. It's $15 on steam if you have all the HD expansions. It's a really great deal.
At least 5 new campaigns. The Forgotten Alaric + Inca campaigns appear to be redone from scratch (the 1st 2 scenarios in Alaric were brand new, at least). I suspect other Forgotten scenarios got an overhaul, too (I heard Sforza had some big changes).
Umm, you don't.
Stone walls become available in the Castle Age. But any palisades you've already built won't get converted to stone.
I'm wondering, if I do this thing of linking the game to my Xbox account, is the game permanently linked to that account or can I unlink/switch Xbox account? Or does it get linked to the Steam account? Asking before I link it because I happen to have 2 accounts, one is my main but not from my country, the other is from my country but not used much.
I didn't buy all the HD expansions, but I'm pretty sure DE has absolutely everything that was ever released for HD, but completely remastered too, new Civs and campaigns, there's also something I liked that's new that teaches players how to do quick age advancements and rush attacks.
Any word on whether unit pathfinding or AI (eg when following a patrol route) has been improved?
The new voice acting in the campaigns is really nice. AoK was always full of super hammy fake accents; they've redone all of it with (I think?) native speakers.
I'd say hit and miss. Patrolling a group of units into an advancing enemy column produced...mixed results, to say the least.
Uhm.. okay so.. I just got my first wonder victory and im kinda puzzled. So when I started building the building, I created a shit ton of units, towers and walls. I was readying for an epic battle... only to realize that from the two remaining enemies only one sent like.. two horses to die at my walls.. After the game when the map was revealed, neither of the enemies had more than like 3-5 units? And whats more puzzling is that according tp the stats, my army was the largest with 154 units followed by 19, 17 and 12. Im playing on standard difficulty so this seems a bit weird.
So to build stone walls you have the wooden wall? You cant just build "on top of" the older wall?
No, you cant build them on top, but you have access to both in feudal age so you can build stone walls and skip the wood ones, or just build an inner layer of stone walls
I left the enhanced graphics pack to download over night and something went wrong and it was wasted, annoying.
Aoe2HD as 10k players right now. The game is NOT doing well (less than 1k on steam). Honestly, it's quite broken right now. Performance shouldn't be as bad as it is. Kind of disappointed because this should be the thing that brings all players together.
I'll always love AOE and i'll be here 3 months after they fix this mess but I don't think the community will...
I think aggression starts picking up when you put it on moderate. I tried hard the other day and I can't keep up haha
Gonna try that now! It seemed pretty weird.
Ok thanks!
I read that yes, technically, but the game pass version is behind steam currently, and they aren't right now because of that. Anyone else know if that's true?
So far so good performance wise. I did have a weird crash were it just disappeared when it was minimized. But its campaign autosave is really good cause it was saved right where I had left off.
Nah that sounds about right for standard, it's way too easy. Moderate is a big jump in comparison.
I don't know if they tweaked it but they should have made a difficulty between standard and moderate to be the normal difficulty.
Try out moderate next time.
Nah that sounds about right for standard, it's way too easy. Moderate is a big jump in comparison.
I don't know if they tweaked it but they should have made a difficulty between standard and moderate to be the normal difficulty.
Try out moderate next time.
In addition to turning up the difficulty (at least in the original game, the easiest basically lets you win and standard is only one step up), if you want a challenging wonder defense, play the last mission of the Saladin campaign! Skip to it with cheats if you want, it's a fun one.
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That's AoE DE. AoE2 DE currently has roughly twice the players as AoE2 HD (~16.5k versus ~8.3k).
It is:
Bizarre that a patch for an XGS-published game has to go through certification.
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Yeah I'm happy the game is doing very well on Steam, IIRC current peak/concurrent numbers are higher than what HD managed around release and is staying higher on top sellers and for longer, EVEN when you consider the new Star Wars game and the freaking MCC being up there too. The HD we know today achieved high numbers after whole months of very slowly gaining players after the unfortunate technical issues it was released with. I was always afraid both games would break each others' numbers but they seem to be getting along, we'll have to see long term what happens, but DE truly feels like the definitive way to go now with the QoL changes and the renewed and more unified graphics.
Hope any remaining issues in the game can be fixed promptly.
Lastly, if anyone could try and give me an answer on this I'd greatly appreciate it :P
Hope any remaining issues in the game can be fixed promptly.
Lastly, if anyone could try and give me an answer on this I'd greatly appreciate it :P
I'm going back and forth on which account to link.
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You can sign in to different accounts.
Edit: You may have to unlink the game first, though. There's a "Manage your apps" button in the notification e-mail you'll get from Microsoft.
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The Genghis Khan campaign has some pretty enthused VAs in it lol. Chronicler guy is just so thrilled about the piles of human skulls.
While I somewhat miss the old voices, I think these are great, and I'm loving the new production values.
The intros are still simple, but the voice acting, coupled with the sound design and artwork work together perfectly. Joan of Arc's last mission gets you hyped to avenge her.
The intros are still simple, but the voice acting, coupled with the sound design and artwork work together perfectly. Joan of Arc's last mission gets you hyped to avenge her.
What. The game has been the whole day second after Jedi Fallen Order for new games Even now has 15k players and peak concurrent was 26k yesterday
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition · AppID: 813780
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content, “The Last Khans” with 3 new campaigns and 4 new civilizations. Age of Empires II...
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What. The game has been the whole day second after Jedi Fallen Order for new games Even now has 15k players and peak concurrent was 26k yesterday
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition · AppID: 813780
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content, “The Last Khans” with 3 new campaigns and 4 new civilizations. Age of Empires II...
Checked the wrong game, my bad. I totally believed those numbers because the server lobby is so broken. Glad it is doing well!
Also, have you guys seen this? Really think they should implement this.
The new Alaric campaign tones down the RPG elements, but is far more coherent as a result.
The only map that's there from the HD version is the siege of Rome itself, but even that one's been totally retooled.
That last mission is proper hard. Had to turn down the game speed and rush one of the enemies, otherwise I kept getting curb-stomped once they all got up and running.
Moving on to Attila. Not expecting too many changes here.
The only map that's there from the HD version is the siege of Rome itself, but even that one's been totally retooled.
That last mission is proper hard. Had to turn down the game speed and rush one of the enemies, otherwise I kept getting curb-stomped once they all got up and running.
Moving on to Attila. Not expecting too many changes here.
You guys werent kidding about the difficulty jump. On moderate I got absolutely rekt 3 times in a row. xDD
generally, Moderate punishes you for mistakes. Hard makes you work for your win. At least that's how it was in HD.
I was getting overwhelmed by Moderate in Alaric 5, but that's cuz I was facing 4 post-imp enemies with established cities as Goths and I was starting from scratch... once I sniped the Goth opponent to make sure I wouldn't get flooded with heavy infantry, I could handle the other 3 with relative ease.
Just two missions into the campaign but this is beautiful. Almost feels like a faithful remake instead of a remaster. Just beautiful. It's finally time to tackle the campaigns. Back then I only played multiplayer and AI games.
the versions are out of sync right now, steam version is ahead 1 patch, so you just need to wait
Yeah it sure is pretty punishing. Also im having a bit of trouble balancing my economy.
One more question, do siege weaoons etc cause friendly fire?
Yeah same for me, not using cheats either so I don't think that was the issue.
Thankfully not a problem for the campaigns after the tutorial since they start at 1, but guess I'll have to keep track of the historical battles.
I have a question about the performance of this game. I don't have the highest end set up but i feel like my FPS is strangely low for this type of game. i5-4460, gtx 1660 ti, 8GB ram. Hovering in the 30's and 40's. Is this just normal for my specs or am I missing something in the settings?