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Orv posted:The civilizations, at least last I played it maybe it's been rectified, were both hideously unbalanced, and just hideous. The Italian buildings are particular eyesores. There are also a few unnecessary changes they made for the sake of "professional balance". I can't speak for the balance but I think the building sets look great, well as good as a 13 year old game could look, certainly better than most of the other Custom buildings I've seen around for other mods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hynt0D5UUeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCn1yfQJF8w
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Most of Forgotten Empires' graphics are taken from said other mods.
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Electric Sheep posted:This is a genius idea, it brings me back to my days of spamming spirit-towers in Warcraft 3. It definitely never would've worked if the guy castle rushed or something like that, but this game went on just long enough for me to go hog wild building a giant rear end bunker.
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John Charity Spring posted:Most of Forgotten Empires' graphics are taken from said other mods. I know that it shares most of the Italian stuff with that Age of Chivalry mod, what else is there? The Taj Mahal is from somewhere else too right?
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I'm not sure why those buildings... gleam so much. Compare the Eastern European tileset in the default AoK.
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khwarezm posted:I know that it shares most of the Italian stuff with that Age of Chivalry mod, what else is there? The Taj Mahal is from somewhere else too right? It's a complete hodge-podge of things, and they got quite desperate when searching for suitable graphics for units - they use a Rohirrim cavalryman unit for the Hungarian Huszar, I believe, and it sticks out quite a bit. One unit that I originally made myself made it into the mod - the Genoese Crossbowman. The Italian buildings are a mix of Age of Chivalry and Rome At War. I think they do have some original artwork - notably the Incan unique unit - but most of the rest is taken from all over. Which is fine, and this isn't a complaint about theft or whatever; a lot of AOE2 mods share art assets and the community isn't as anal about trying to 'protect' their creations as some others are. Forgotten Empires is pretty inconsistent with it, though, and doesn't really maintain a coherent style as a result.
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Jesto posted:So I decided to look up information the game and... I'm pretty sure they just worded it poorly and mean you can invite Steam friends directly into games. I have no idea why they wouldn't allow public custom games, with or without a filter.
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Orv posted:I'm pretty sure they just worded it poorly and mean you can invite Steam friends directly into games. I have no idea why they wouldn't allow public custom games, with or without a filter. It's mostly that line combined with the fact that I looked all through that video and didn't see one 'Custom Map' option that concerns me.  I hope you're right.
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Sneaky terrorist cell bullshit tactics. This guy is a good sport for commentating the game he lost so soundly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U1n6mcyo7Y
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I'm really enjoying these game videos. Even though they cause the craving to set in.
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I just found out yesterday that ESO for Age of Mythology has finally gone down for good.  Might do an LP of it to send it out, since it has probably the best campaign of any RTS I've played.
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Question about playing the original on Win7: has anyone (a) had waypoints be totally ignored by all units when playing and (b) know how to fix this issue? If I have to wait a whole week for the new version it's not the end of the world but man I really wanted to go through some campaigns and it's drat near unplayable without building/movement queues.
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To get units to follow waypoints, the last waypoint has to be set without holding Shift.
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Anyone wanna get in on a 4 pack? [edit] All full! Fangs404 fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Mar 28, 2013 |
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ronya posted:To get units to follow waypoints, the last waypoint has to be set without holding Shift. Yes.
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It's massively counter-intuitive and I hope they fix it to the way it works pretty much all right-click RTSes, including AoM and AoE3 (where units leave immediately when a waypoint is set, instead of waiting for a final non-shifted right click).
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Great game, anyone here from Europe planning to play?
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Does anyone want to join in for a 4-pack? I need two more people.
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Klint posted:Does anyone want to join in for a 4-pack? I need two more people. *edit: sorted. 
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Apr 4, 2013 08:46
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If I buy this tomorrow when I get paid will it still early unlock for me?
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:If I buy this tomorrow when I get paid will it still early unlock for me? Probably, as long as it's before 6pm GMT.
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devs posted:10AM Pacific time (GMT -7) is the release time of a game on Steam. So the game is unlocked for preorders at 1800 BST/1900 CEST. If you buy it before then I suppose it would still be a preorder? E: Yeah what he said. However, I can't see them shutting out all the other people before the 9th... Infact, the store page says SPECIAL PROMOTION! Offer ends 9 April so it should be fine. Otherwise you could always trade for a preorder copy with someone on Steam. Trading TF2/Dota 2 items or keys for AoE2HD will cost you something like ~£6-7. marcadia fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 4, 2013 |
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I'm lining up for a 4-pack with some friends but one of them is very cautious about pre-ordering incase it turns out to be crap/broken for ages, he seems to think we can wait until everyone unlocks it having pre-ordered, see what people think and then pre-order on steam as the "pre-order" runs up until the release date. Any solid info on whether this will work or will it be a case of if we don't pre-order before unlock tomorrow we don't get it until release day?
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Probably, as long as it's before 6pm GMT. Sweet. I've never bought anything before release on steam before so I wasn't sure.
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You can now pre-load it.
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Orv posted:You can now pre-load it.  Of everything I have at my current job, I think I'm going to miss the download speeds the most  I've not pre-loaded a game on Steam before, once pre-loaded I can play it as soon as it officially releases, right?
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C-Euro posted:
Typically there is a small chunk left out and when released they enable that chunk to download which then gives you the ability to play the game. It isn't just "At X time, you can start playing".
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To be fair mine say "You can play instantly when the game is released" or something like that once it preloaded.
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That was the fastest any game has ever preloaded. I forgot how small games used to be.
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10AM PST apparently is the launch window. Also apparently the show match they did on March 28th was a complete buggy shitshow, so maybe this game is bumjumped. Guess we'll see.
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Just got this now, so when do we get our hands on it today?
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simosimo posted:Just got this now, so when do we get our hands on it today? I will loving hurt you. Look up.
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I played this a tonne back in the day but Rise of Nations was an improvement in pretty much every way.
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simosimo posted:Just got this now, so when do we get our hands on it today? in about 4 hours, countdown here : http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/to?iso=20130405T10&p0=234&msg=Age+of+Empires+II+HD+Release
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Oh hell yes, I forgot that people who pre-ordered get to play this before release. I was looking for an excuse to not go out tonight 
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I just restarted Steam, and it looks like it's unlocking now.
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Fangs404 posted:That was the fastest any game has ever preloaded. I forgot how small games used to be. This is 1.2 GB on my harddrive, the original gold edition is 550 MB.
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Its out. There are a shitton of achievements with 1 only gotten by preordering it. Great way to drive nerds insane!
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