Pure kino

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git gud

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buh duh duh duh DUN

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one thing that always bugged me about these games was the inability to select specific groups of units quickly. it is so fiddly unless you keep everything separated because if you spread over some combat units you inevitably include some workers busy farming nearby or something, and then have to meticulously deselect them, by which time your walls are being pummelled.

Could be the shadows? Aoe2 shadows are baked in textures, while these seem more like resulting from actual lighting.

god dammit i have such a hankering to play these games again. or this.

just looking at it makes me addicted to it instantly.

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ctrl groups nigga

>Ctrl + 1, 2, 3...

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oh yeah

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Honestly all i miss in AoE games is active pause in single player. Its a crutch for casuals who strugfle to keep up with better AI and it doesnt break anything. You simply hit space bar, issue orders across whole map and then hit spacebar again to continue the game.

They should add it.

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AAAHHH SMITE ME

I wonder what dumb meme word will replace kino when this shithole gets tired of it

It's the coloured filter that's supposed to make the areas feel warmer (or colder in the case of that icy area image that hasn't been posted yet)
it makes the image look blurry
I honestly think they did a good job at improving the building textures while retaining their original looks, but the filter can fuck right off.

Teutonchads WW@?

When your tired of the Kino
Switch to the Beano

imagine getting furious about the use of a word

What's the easiest civ to start with if learning the game?

>actual lighting
Not him, but I feel that's a big part of the problem. The shadows are awful. It looks like there's only two colors "shadowed" and "not shadowed" no matter what's covering it, how close it is to the ground, etc. Everything around the watch tower here is just monotonous, resulting in those big leaves that look like they were shopped in because they have no presence on the ground, since the watch tower is already shadowing it in a wider area.

Shadows overlap in real life when covering from different angles, and this just isn't. It's the forest, lowest form of "actual lighting" you could implement.

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Probably byzantines
>strong buildings
>large tech tree
>cheap counter units

worst*, not forest

Pic related captures what I mean. When the woman on the left leans close to the already-shadowed wall, she casts a darker shadow on it. The open shelf unit on the right casts a darker shadow near the arms, instead of just uniform "shadowed wall" all the way across. That's how shadows work, not how the remade remake does it in their lighting system.

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Byzantines, Japanese, Persians, Magyars, Berbers
All have good bonuses without teaching you bad habits
Don't use any of the Raja civs or the Huns until you're competent at the game because they're either hard to use (Raja) or teach absolutely detrimental habits (Huns)

Will /ourciv/ the teutons actually be viable this time?

>this time
What do you mean? Teutons are already viable.

wizzle wozzle

I doubt there's going to be a balance patch and if there is it's going to be minor shit that doesn't change anything

Maybe something else than Trush.
I want to lead those sweet Teutonic knights into battle.

Imagine dolphins watching ancient sea battles.

Why do people worship AoEII compared to III? Honest question

you know where they used to take the wounded..

>Maybe something else than Trush.
They can go infantry, knights, monks and have a great imperial age
Unlike other late game civs like saracens, Teutons have a fucking great eco bonus too so you can go for anything that isn't scout transition but even then their feudal age scouts are still bonzo

AoE III sucks

>be dolphin
>see gigantic muscled rower
>get boner
>rape.gif

Do all generic units still look the same?

>desaturate it a bit
>bloom it a bit
>slap on fxaa

no

Why?

Wait, when are they going to reveal AoE4?

I don't think it sucks, but the way cities worked and you had to get a lot of things supply dropped really ruined the clean and simple formula of AoE for me. Sad because the units and physics were great.

I think it looks bad, particularly when you see it in motion. It looks blurry and uncanny.

It looks pretty for screenshots, but in motion things look really weird. I found it most noticeable with the cav units.

just play black forest/ oasis noob lobbies, that's where you belong you casual fuck

We growed up playing AoE2 (or aoe1 if you are boomer). AoE3 is that game nobody ever played.

>Another AoE2 release
Just give me AoE4

BUUUUUUUUUUUUURP

Poopy bum bum farts morty!!!

literally soulless

What are the chances AoE4 gets made in this style instead of 3's more 3D style? I fucking love the look of the Definitive Edition

meaningless buzzword

Holy fucking shit this looks beautiful. Can't motherfucking wait.
Best thing out of this E3, hands down.

It looks good when you're looking at something but it seems so blurry when yoy try to focus on the whole screeen

I think there's nothing wrong with that, why make it harder to identify the same kind of units?
Monks are the only unit that has some model variation, but it would be a mess if there was model variations for every unit and it wouldn't add anything to the gameplay

>no AoE1 HD
The first game was always better than 2.

not sure how I feel about this, I love the look of original AoE2 so much I dont know if I can get on bord with this change

BUUUUUUUUUUUUURP

Poopy bum bum farts morty!!!

galactic battlegrounds was better than both.

Absolute retard. This is the most soulful graphics of 2019 hands fucking down.
>Kept all units looking distinct from each other
>No useless effects to clutter the screen
>Actual beneficial improvements like pathfinding, upgrade queues and timers, giving the correct architecture to nations that didn't have them before
>No downgrades in any aspect

AoE1 Definitive is coming on Steam as well.

But that's a children's comic book. Does it still exist, by the way?

The new architecture looks fucking amazing.

A dev commented that all shaders can be turned off if you want a clearer image.

You literally can already do that with the pause button (at least in HD). In MP everyone's screen locks and you can't do anything, but in SP you can pan around, give orders and queue stuff in buildings while paused.

Didnt know that. Last time i played aoe it had only age of kings subtitle. Thanks

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>released over a year ago on MS store
I didn't even know this existed.

If heaven exists it's literally just a bunch of lanned PCs with AoE2 installed.

>"""Lithuanian"""
Lmao, all the shit wasn't even built by them

Do all the civs get their own architecture? shit looks great.

>a remake of a remake that's only a few years old
you're all (((shills)))

What worries me more is that AoEDE, is stuttery and laggy... some times, and dont know If I shoudl blame my computer, or the optimisation of the game.

So the same may happen to AoE2DE, and that will ruin the entire thing

Where di you get the screenshots from?

>a remake of one of the greatest games of all time
>"why are people hyped for this? shills!"

Go home zoomer

>watch gameplay video
>buildings suddenly stop being on fire and reverse to the undamaged model before crumbling when they reach 0HP

>the game was already remade a few years ago
>"let's buy it again!"

the last "remaster" was barely that. it was a lazy port with widescreen support.

this looks more promising.

I would only get it if I either get a free copy or a discount for owning AoE2:HD
I approve of some of the new civs, like Cumans and Bulgarians, though. I really wish they added the Mississippians, however.

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Ok poolack

Hnng
Why cant we get more games like this with sprite work
I would love to this detail in a Stronghold remake, I always loved watching the sprite animations in those games

>or a discount for owning AoE2:HD
There is a 5 euro/dollar discount
Based on the description on the store page it sounds like it includes the HD expansions in which case it's probably worth it, especially if you don't already own them

Man that looks good, seriously fuck SOULfags. There's no reason to blindly hate this game anymore since it isn't W10 exclusive.

It looks great.
I'm only concerned if all the important niche mechanics are untouched.

>search for AoE games to wishlist this
>I have AoE3 complete edition in my library
What? Was it in a humble bundle at some point? Should I play it?

How about they MAKE A NEW FUCKING GAME

One question remains.

How do you turn this on

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Reminds me a bit of Cossacks

>be highschool senior
>in summer school
>some absolute madlad installed AoE2 on the school network
>IT guy was on summer vacation too, so it never got "fixxed"
>summer school teachers didn't give a fuck
>have LAN party every day, and get school credit for it
Teachers eventually got pissy about people slacking off, but we just had to be sneaky about it

BWWWEP

these look awful frankly. nice ideas, fine for still screenshots, but focusing on those blurry objects while the game is in motion would give you a headache instantly

If this is done on a different engine then this could fix all the multiplayer issues

>it isn't W10 exclusive
The Steam page still says you need Windows 10 as operating system to run it. It's just not sold on the Windows store only.

This actually looks pretty damn good. I'm impressed.

Oh fuck you're right, i meant Windows Store exclusive.

>>some absolute madlad installed AoE2 on the school network
I remember doing that, along with Halo CE, and a ton of emulators. Last year of highschool was mostly spent doing lan matches.

Good news then, the DE version has smarter selection and will ignore villagers and livestock if they make up only a small percentage of the units you are selection.

I expected the new factions to look like shit but this is honestly pretty good

As neat as I think Mississipians and Iroquois would be, you have to acknowledge that they barely reached the bronze age and there would be major difficulty balancing them.

AoE3 is fun. I don't care for the expansions though because those civs are very gimmicky and the campaigns are boring.

The vanilla campaign, while not historically accurate, has nice varied mission objectives.

zoomer

lots of people played it, if you weren't underage when it came out you would have too

I can't believe this is real. I remember seeing some fan art about AoE2 a few years ago which made me think how great AoE2 would be with graphical improvements, and now it's actually happening.

pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-4-is-making-good-progress-and-microsoft-will-talk-about-it-later-this-year/
Later this year

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Do we at least know the time period for AoE4?

AoE3 was way too overscaled.
Artillery was everything, Metropolis were busted, and many other things

No

i noticed that happening twice and i think it's a bug

There are 2 things I hate about AOE2 that trigger my 'tism.
1) weapons and shields swap hands when a unit turns around
2) it doesn't tell you how many units are in a group; you have to count
Is this fixed now?

Well after AOE3 everyone assumed it was going to be WW1-WW2 or even modern. Those would be fucking awful though. I'd rather they went back and did ancient empires again.

No, going back into old territory is what's godawful. Let it be in a new era and leave the medieval age to AoE2, its already a perfect game.

>*loses*

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> ancient empires
> "leave the medieval age"
Brainlet.

>ancient empires again
eat shit

>RTS
>New games
AHAHAHAHA NEVEREVER

I mean, they did it for the Aztecs and Mayans

You're booming and this guy slaps your tradeline - what do?

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Gotta agree with him, what other option is there? WWII? That's already been done fine by other games.

Those 2 actually had major empires and cities though.

NOOOOOOO HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO MEEEEEEEE

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>booming
>enemy is in late imp
fucking quit

>losetugal

Then go play AoE1. Again, we already saw official pictures about the chronology of AoE. Let the series run its original course.

>Gotta agree with him, what other option is there? WWII? That's already been done fine by other games.
There's a tiny amount of game that features Victorian age, WW1, Interwar period, WW2, Cold War and Modern all at once.

Remember, Relic. We want AoE4 to be a traditional RTS. Not DoW or CoH medieval edition.

meant to quote

Mississippian culture was very extensive.
Also Cahokia was the largest city in the Americas north of Mexico

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Now that's how you make a remake, SE.

Isn't the AoE1 remake supposed to get on steam, now that microsoft announced epic was bad and they were planning to give the world the games held hostage on their store?

It'll probably be CoH: Age of Empire Edition

fuck byzantines
I always play Germans to wreck these greek freeloaders

youtube.com/watch?v=rtpN-Af9xvo

Ambient occlusion, my friend.

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do you make resources from farming and stuff like that

Yeah they already confirmed the DE for AoE 1, 2 and 3 are coming to Steam, just don't ask me for a release date.

Day one flop

subscribed ;)

Is it also coming to Xbone too?

how are slavchads doing?

Why are people buying the same fucking game with updated graphics nowadays? Can you really find nothing else interesting that you have to do that?

thanks man it means a lot :)

Nope, fucking bullshit if you ask me, especially now that it officially supports KB+M.

sexy af

Will Yea Forums be playing this? Or do I have to go to /vg/ or some discord shithole?

why is Microsoft so retarded?
just port windows version w/o any controller bullshit

One of the best civs in the game, after their farm bonus was massively buffed. There's a long ass analysis of how that works on spirit of the law's channel.

All smiles

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It's pretty funny how the Franks went from being a dead meme into the top civ, because of a fucking foraging bonus? Also why are Slavs so good? I thought their farming bonus would make them better as the game progresses into later stages, but apparently their winrate drops of after 30 minutes.

Im in the middle ground between this guys

I would like AoE4 to go forward, so it feels different and keep tradition, instead of just having AoE2DEDEHD edition.

But Find really hard to think how you keep the close combat elements and tactics when going so forward in time.

You would need alot of testing and AoE experts to try to get close to a middle ground if they went for military.

Maybe is possible, but it wouldnt be easy.

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>i maek horse is the ultimate civ
what went right?

Apparently it's because of the buffs to the throwing axemen and the addition of the foraging bonus
No idea why Slavs are so good, I'm just a retard googling for explanations :^)

Microsoft dont want to sell games on the Xbone that require only Mouse and Keyboard.
dont know if thats good or bad...
also who knows if this thing consume so much power.

gucci

Too much 3D

>But Find really hard to think how you keep the close combat elements and tactics when going so forward in time.

The creator of AoE games jumped ship from AoE after the first and the first game he made, Empire Earth, has no problem with AoE gameplay even in the modern eras.

man i watch AoE2 online all the time, and this DE looks fucking amazing
i really really hope it doesnt fuck with the mechanics of the game and the pro's stick with it

Double click then assign those fucker to a control group

What would the ages on this hypothetical 20th century focused AoE game be called? How about

>Industrial age
>Trench age
>Nuclear age
>Digital age
>Space age

Yes, I'm assuming that they would go for a 5 age system like on AoE3. Even more speculation, what would the ages on a future focused AoE5 would be? Assuming that they would go for a space colonization theme

>Exploration age
>Colonial age
>Terraforming age
>Galactic age
>Imperial age

no it's a game

fuuuuck love that version

How many times is this game going to get re-released exactly?

Too hi-res

They're learning from the master

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>the most popular top-down RTS game literally just now manages to compete with american conquest games by introducing proper high fidelity 3d models and maps in its top-down setting
>and despite of this, still does not look as good as american conquest divided nations did

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If he has paladins out then I should have halberdiers out

The definitive edition will be the definitive edition

It's the new minecraft and that's a good thing

man Im shit at AoE but even I know what control groups are

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>ancient empires again
What new ground could they possibly go with? Every C-list civilization's been mined already with the previous games.

Would you say "Empire earth" feels like a "perfect" AoE game?
Also in EE you go from caveman and all the other ages, which have tons of mellee units, and then becomes a range, game.
In a AoE4 that start on Imperial or Industral age.
the closes i can imagine is having units running to close combat to each other, firying at a relative short range to justify "they are using guns" but they end up on close combat.
Except for high cost late game units or special "archer" units.

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>Kyoto and Noryang Point before going on to Forgotten campaigns
I heard the Forgotten campaigns were shit, I wish I had more AoC campaigns to complete

>changed the spanish and the byzantine architecture set

FUCK OOOOOOFF

fuck you m8 I already have 20 farms up and 3 castles

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I guarantee there's gonna be a mod that changes them back within a week from launch.

It’s a super easy to use civ, both for noobs and pros.

Rajas and African kangdoms are great. Just ignore The Forgotten.

They could add more units and buildings, maybe some new mechanics. That way it wouldnt be stepping on 2's very established territory as the macro RTS of choice, while fleshing out what 2 could have been without fucking up its balance. And if 4 just turns out to be better, then 2 had an amazing run of 20 years and can pass the torch. And if it sucks we play 2 for another 20 years

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>tfw getting tower rushed

I will forever be mad

The Alaric, Dracula, Bari and Sforza campaigns are pretty bad, overdone at best, amateurish at worst. But things improve on the last three campaigns, El Dorado is decent, the Indian guy with can't pronounce name is classic tier, and the Battles of the Forgotten are a delight for experienced players. The other expansions have classic style campaigns, complete with voiced narration (something that the Forgotten lacks), and should be fun for any fans of the original game.

AoE II is just AoE I but more fleshed out and in a new setting. AoE IV should just be AoE II but even more fleshed out and in the setting of I. One didn't even have unique units.

>One didn't even have unique units.
But the civilizations bonuses were much more pronounced than on 2. AoE1 is a very rough, unpolished game, many things that players take for granted on AoE2 simply don't exist.

oh shit they made a non-garbage hd edition? only thing that could ruin it is windows 10 exclusive
please tell me it's not please don't ruin it

I have some bad news for you. AoE1 DE is already win10 exclusive, so this is going to be too.

yeah no galactic battlegrounds is only good because its using the same engine. it doesnt get to be better

store.steampowered.com/app/813780/Age_of_Empires_II_Definitive_Edition/
If talking about the store, you get steam
If you talk about OS, it require 64bit Win10.
sorry

>tfw Cossacks and AC never got the community of AoE 2

It hurts... These games are so much better than shit of shittieres

NOOOOOOO

maybe I'll just get a new hard drive and dual boot purely dedicated to playing this and other win10 exclusives if there even are any but I can't describe how fucking stupid that is, especially when you understand how that shit works, fuck microsoft, I'm going to shoot up their hq

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Yeah, so the time period is ripe for a revisitation.

IMO in terms of unique features, each civ should be like 50% common tech tree, 30% regional tech tree and 20% unique tech tree. For example, common tech tree includes things like metalworking and the wheel, regional tech tree includes things like christendom and islam or eagle warriors, and unique tech tree are things like longbowmen.

The game cost 20 bucks, but if you have hd it cost 15.
He better thing is hat is available in steam. The bad thing is that it requires windows 10

seething rushfags

I don't give a shit about the gameplay or multiplayer, I just want to build maps.

>all these nicely built spread out maps

yeah right, no aoe map ever looks like this. its always a clusterfuck of things placed randomly in a hurry

What content does this have over the HD edition?

huh never thought about that but age of empires 2 does have some potential for building beautiful cities
>not building aesthetically pleasing towns to flex on your enemies as you crush them

all the expansions and hopefully working multiplayer

I guess I won't bother buying the DLC now.

3 campaigns
Cumans
Lithuanians
Bulgarians
Tatars
Also various ui inprovements

Still no Walachians to remove kebab and slap those dirty magyars traitors

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>w10 exlusive
Dead on Arrival II: Definitive Edition

Dracula had a campaign in HD edition
I think he alternated between Turkish, Magyar, and Slavic data sets IIRC.
Sort of like how El Cid alternated between Spanish and Saracen data sets to represent different stages in his career; same for The De Orellana featuring the Inca data set to reflect the Conquistadors living off the land

windows 7 becomes unsupported this year
have sex

I was really terrible at this game and could barely beat medium AI if I remembered to collect the relics or whatever that dumb shit was
Will this bring enough newfags in for me to have fun and fuck around with in online?

Have Friends

A few more factions, but it's mainly the Age of Mythology, AoE3 and AoE:O UI improvements which are going to be worth it.

Stuff like intelligent selection, visible building queues, research hotkeys, queuing buildings and resource gathering. Shit like that.

and its still superior to w7
oof

but that guy isnt a good trade raider, better send them to fuck

Play Wars of Liberty mod for AoE3.

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villagers

>support
what support user?
god you fucks know so little about technology, windows updates have been unnecessary bloat and telemetry bullshit for years, and anyone who is smart has had them disabled already, if you use windows 7, you should have ran the ancile script by now

the sea walls and sea gate look amazing.
I played this game all the time as a kid and never thought something like this would happen. :)

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looks like a mobile game

my fuckin nigger

literally no one else I know has played this game, so under rated, even if it is an AoE star wars clone

party van in 3, 2 , 1

>No info since 2017

Was it cancelled?

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pcgamer.com/age-of-empires-4-is-making-good-progress-and-microsoft-will-talk-about-it-later-this-year/

fetch

No thats why we are getting the Definitive Editions of AOE 1&2. I hope AOE 4 is WW1 - Modern Day, AOE 5 will be in sifi space.

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Fuck You!

Windows 7 support ends come 2020. It's a lost battle, it's time to just give in.

Turns out giving a civ no useful bonuses and specialising in the fucking SCORPION of all units makes them a terrible civ
>No champion
>No thumb ring
>No paladin
>Didn't even have arbalest until the last patch
>No atonement or block printing
>No siege onager
>No bombard towers
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

they're really strong if your 7 year old cousin doesn't to micro

see you're either a retard or a microsoft shill but either way you don't understand shit
kill yourself

Aren't no-rush lobbies still a thing for noob players like you? I haven't played in like 15 years though.

>playing mp
lmao loser

I don't understand the difference between this and HD. Is this an actual remake? The HD is the same shit as the original except it works on Windows 10 and has 1080p. Includes the same shit engine that lags out hard and can't into AI if there's enough units on the board. Is this an actual rewrite?

Have fun not playing every new PC game after 2020 then.

>E3 2043
>"oh it's just aoe2 and skyrim again"

Pure antikino.

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>>changed the spanish and the byzantine architecture set
That stuff really annoys me.

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>its always a clusterfuck of things placed randomly in a hurry
Even that can look pretty nice desu

>rts in 2019
Is this a joke?

soul soulless

I hope we get to build the Space Shuttle as the USA wounder. And the Palace of The Soviets when Playing as the USSR. What else guys? Will we get to play as the Nazis?

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most of them are garbage anyways faggot
I hate the way faggots like you talk, you know nothing about this shit, there's zero reason for it to be exclusive other than to get faggot gaymers like you to switch to the botnet

just play the campaigns

Any suggestions for a strategy shitter?
Only really played red alert 3 and xcom eu, endless space was autism but fun, civ really boring.

Age of wonders look neat people say it's a mix of civ and heroes?

It coming

Maybe it will be like AOE3 where you could have a Revoltion in the last Age. But this time your nation goes down a poltical idea, Communism, Capitalism or Fascism.
So could have a game where there is Fascist Russia, Communist America, and Capitalist Germany.

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>not putting your teuts in rams
>not using them solely as castle/city wreckers
I shig

t. retard that gets dabbed by refusing to download basic security updates

i manually did that shit when they tried to force me to upgrade to w10

nigger you're using windows, switch to linux or shut the fuck up about botnets and bloat

Why is this?
Is there some great feature exclusive to Win10 it uses, or do they just do it to fuck with people?

It really seems like alternate age could be a thing.

>play against vietnamese on black forest
>it ain't me starts playing

Maybe try stellaris, Warlords Battlecry 3, Age of Empires 2, Broodwar, Warcraft 3.

>Age of wonders look neat people say it's a mix of civ and heroes?
Age of wonders 2 & 3 are 4x TBS games with a tactical combat screen.
Age of wonders 1 is the same without the 4x.

Civilization games are known as 4x games and they focus a lot on settling cities and building up infrastucture, and combat tends to be as involved as chess, move unit into square and combat resolves, or fire into square.

The 4x elements are subdued or non existent in the age of wonders games, less about building up infrastucture and settling cities, but there tends to be some of it there.
You focus more on casting spell and moving armies & heroes around and fighting.

They're not as hero-centric as Heroes, and the tactical combat screen is quite different. You don't need heroes to ferry troops around, and you don't have hundreds of dragons represented by 1 figure in age of wonders, instead maybe you have 6 dragons in this army and they're all their seperate units on the screen.

If you liked Xcom I think you might enjoy the combat of age of wonders.

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I played this game once, spent 10 minutes building a huge wall only to have a bunch of assholes fly over it.

>Surrender monkey civ is the best at winning
kek

>they will stop making updates for w7 this year
anyone who has w7 and a brain has had windows updates disabled for a LONG time now.
game devs will still recognise windows 7 as the main OS for many years from now
aoe2 is going to be DoA and it better be because the MP community is already split between hd and voobly

Rise of Nations for RTS
Civ sucks after 4

Cossacks 3

Didn't they destroy the previous attempt to remake an AoE in HD?

WHY IS IT SO BLURRY

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Absolutely disgusting.

The Original is perfect. Don't fuck with it.

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Isn't it obvious? Microjews is always shilling their garbage OS that no one wants.

At least something good came out of this E3...

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kek. yeah a sizeable air force can really break the game.

Since it's on steam now, I wonder how well it will run with Proton on Linux

if you're disabling updates for privacy concerns instead of switching to linux, you're retarded

this is fanart and not official Ensemble shit.

Well first they tried keeping their new AoE shit on the Windows store so you had to have W10 no matter what if you wanted to play it. Once they realized literally nobody wants to use their shit store they're putting the DE editions on Steam, but still forcing compatibility only with W10. If that doesn't work, maybe they'll patch in other OS support, or maybe if it becomes popular enough some nerd will patch it himself and release the fix to the public.

Don't play it then :)

lol you pleb, that pic is literally from AoE3 collectors edition booklet.

most likely they'd just quietly transition between late german empire and early bundesrepublik. They'd get so much shit if all the buildings suddenly rolled out nazi banners upon reaching the WW2 era or anything like that.

and it is fanart that Ensemble liked, retard.
Try watching any interview with Ensemble staff, they never planned anything for AoE4 or 5.

>This retard again

you're a retard if you think those updates do anything and if you get a virus or hacked it's always your fault and something you did that those updates wouldn't have done shit about. don't be a tech illiterate retard, don't get a virus. it's literally that simple
a fair point but consider this
I use debloated windows 7 and ran the ancile script. I used DAZ loader for activation and Simplix for updates, so I don't have any of that shit to begin with. even after all this I used it purely for games and dual-boot it along with linux, treating windows like a gaming console. it's great
there is literally no reason for it to be exclusive other than to force people who want it to use Win10, the worst part is it takes more effort to make it exclusive than it does to just release it, which is why it's offensive that they're doing this shit. it always runs worse than it would if it were on Win7, because of how much shit is running on win10 and in the background, it's a massive resource hog

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The game is going to have a million "fix" mods anyway like the first remaster did (for fire effects, etc.).

>"not official ensemble shit"
>included in the official booklet of their game with their logo slapped on the bottom
>not official

whether they actually planned it is besides the point

fun fact
a "security" update by windows caused my machine to bluescreen every once in a while, was a pain in the ass to find which specific update caused it
fuck microsoft

>Win10 exclusive
When are they gonna learn?

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you know everyone is saying this is retarded but I wouldn't mind it on the condition that each game has a unique thing about it when it comes to gameplay, maybe modern's take on villagers/civilians would be different and syfy would have harvesters but also other mechanics and systems that make each game different not just in setting and look
I hate when games become inferior version of their own sequels, this would help each one have their own reason for existing
of course, rts is dead and none of this will happen, AoE2 will forever remain the only game in the series worth it's existence

nice
the slavs and hungarians finally don't look like absolute shit

not perfect, but MUCH better than the travesty that is Warcraft3 Reforge

aoe3 was good fuck off

Age of Empires should stick to history, sci-fi space stuff isn't history, go play Starcraft

I agree, beside, AoE4 may be probably the last AoE game ever.
From there they may try an AoM sequel or something.

man it looks fucking based

CAN I BUILD ROADS THIS TIME

I JUST WANT TO BUILD AESTHETIC ROADS

>reskinned aoe game
yeah no, derivative fan crap

looks like complete shit. Kill yourself shill

The bloom and higher resolution textures make everything look like a blurry mess from a distance. They went too far, I prefer the HD graphics.

Oh shit, I'm actually gonna yield.

yeah but it was star wars. so it was good.

Forgotten empires dev team is actually behind the project, so all accumulative expansions of tilesets, civs, and campaings are included.

this could not ne any better

As much as I dislike the autistic minmaxers that rek me within 5 mins of playing, the 'no rush until after 30 mins' faggot lobbies are incredibly fucking un fun and I'd rather get my casual shit pushed in in a normal game

Are they behind the netcode too? That's a yikes for me

they wont, it's literally made to funnel tards into windows 10, much like froza and other shit like that

so tell me does this game render actual 3D models? or those are sprites?
or a combination of both?

I didn't play it enough but I assume there's a reason everyone sticks to AoE2
I'm curious how it's balanced though. for example, making guns hitscan make them undodgable, therefore there is less point in manually controlling your units movement to evade attacks etc.
I really need to get back into the rts because until then I'm just talking about shit I know nothing about
but I just mean different systems and mechanics that are a different flavor of rts that emphasize some different skill or strategy

What is the best RTS game called Age Of Mythology

>history
Ever played AoE3? Remember that time a giant Russian army teleported into the middle of America to attack El Dorado and the american colonists had to help defend it from the russkie commies? That isn't even the only time a giant Russian army teleports into America out of nowhere to attack the colonies in that game lmao.
AoE is based on history, but it's not a historical game.

>sea wall with a gate

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>using AoE3

AoE3's campaign was a load of stupid shit, it's like they forgot they weren't making AoM anymore. AoE1 and AoE2 though had historical campaigns based off real events.

I hope relic doesn't pull a fucking DOW 3 again, I don't have much faith in them tbqh

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why, my peenus weanus of course :)

hahaha! :D

it's my weeeeeenus peanus! :) hahah

I wonder what dumb meme word will replace kino when this shithole gets tired of it

hahaha!

desu all the units added with FE and the subsequent expansions have always looked off in some inexplainable way
s-surely this will bring them in line

>"Why don't they bring their exclusive to PC? Fuck Microsoft"
>The gamers are right. From now on ALL of our games will come to Windows!
>Ok, but why don't they bring their exclusive to Linux? Fuck Microsoft"
The entitlement of PC gamers is astounding

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It is a spinoff