|
Will this game have the original medieval-inspired soundtracks? I'm one of those troglodytes that still wants his RTS games to have music. Hell, even an entirely new score would be welcome.
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 21:42
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 04:04 |
|
|
So, I was always terrible at this. Each time I would come back to play I would lose even harder. It seems like the same core group of players kept playing and getting better and better. Does anyone have any sites that go indepth into AoE II strategy?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 21:57
|
|
|
Heran Bago posted:Gonna buy this game and then play it. Anyone want to go in on a 4 pack? (i do) Bathysphere posted:I'm keen for a 4-pack! Let's rock. http://steamcommunity.com/id/ronya/
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 22:21
|
|
|
Eonwe posted:So, I was always terrible at this. Each time I would come back to play I would lose even harder. It seems like the same core group of players kept playing and getting better and better. Does anyone have any sites that go indepth into AoE II strategy? Well if its anything like I remember the best strat is to pick Briton, build longbowmen, then kite everything until you win.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 22:27
|
|
|
voltron lion force posted:Well if its anything like I remember the best strat is to pick Briton, build longbowmen, then kite everything until you win. And then your longbows get run over by a hundred Cataphracts. Or Huskarls, if you're playing them for some ungodly reason.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 22:33
|
|
|
Longbows get annoying when massed that much - pretty much the only answer is meatshield plus onagers. I suspect they would beat cataphracts and huskarls. Then again, a lot of stuff get annoying when massed to a hundred strong.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 22:37
|
|
|
Boo, beat to the four-pack. I'm still up for it. Anybody?
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 22:38
|
|
|
Well hot drat 
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 22:39
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/xOmicron/status/310421954719002624 Great! Omicron writes the UserPatch mod (that also forms the basis of the Forgotten Empires mod) - it has some interface/bugfixes over the (non-HD) Age of Empires II. a 60fps tweak was apparently just released, trying it makes the animations run almost uncanny-valley (the original is 20fps).
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 23:06
|
|
|
I can't wait to relive sending a priest to go pick up a relic only to completely forget about him and then panic as my opponent kills him ten minutes later. This game also had a fantastic soundtrack.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 23:18
|
|
|
AoM fixed that by making unit order queues rather more flexible.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 23:30
|
|
|
Next they should do a Rise of Nations remake.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 23:33
|
|
|
I'm only interested if the matchmaking is some sort of retro redux of the Internet Gaming Zone. No Teutons Experts only 1700+.
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 23:35
|
|
|
Don't worry, unless they alter the balance, you can always look forward to experts only 1v1 Arabia
|
|
#
?
Mar 12, 2013 23:39
|
|
|
Hopefully there will be a sizeable influx of terrible players like me and we can all terribly play against each other and it'll be an awesome fun 2 hour long ordeal on a giant map until only one team is left standing.
|
|
#
?
Mar 15, 2013 00:13
|
|
|
The Dark Wind posted:Hopefully there will be a sizeable influx of terrible players like me and we can all terribly play against each other and it'll be an awesome fun 2 hour long ordeal on a giant map until only one team is left standing. I spent so many hours of LAN doing this with my friends, the biggest map , wait til everyone was in the castle era and with a huge army and just fight a huge war in the center What i also loved about AoE2 was that you could change allies on the fly, so if you were playing LAN with friends in the same room allies and enemies were constantly being made as people traded and backstabbed. Though nothing beat playing any of the civs whose priests could convert buildings and sending them in on covert ops (or should i say...convert ops???)
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 15:06
|
|
|
Eonwe posted:So, I was always terrible at this. Each time I would come back to play I would lose even harder. It seems like the same core group of players kept playing and getting better and better. Does anyone have any sites that go indepth into AoE II strategy? What I remember from my friend who used to be a total AOE2 nut so many years ago was that you need to be pushing out Villagers 24/7/365. If your Town Center ain't buildin', you be losin'. He also mentioned something about how the metagame revolved around getting to the 2nd Age as fast as possible, spamming Skirmishers and sieging other players by building towers into their territory.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 15:31
|
|
|
ronya posted:Boo, beat to the four-pack. I would! Never split a product before, how does it work? One person pays for all, then the others reimburse using Paypal? http://steamcommunity.com/id/smilingknight Smiling Knight fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Mar 16, 2013 |
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 15:39
|
|
|
Smiling Knight posted:I would! Never split a product before, how does it work? One person pays for all, then the others reimburse using Paypal? Right. Coordination through Steam Chat. The key is to make sure that the right amount of money gets to the gracious American buyer even after all the fees and tariffs. Coming up like 3 bucks short is just the rudest.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 15:42
|
|
|
TerryLennox posted:Have they mentioned if they'll update the gameplay for the automation of some tasks which were annoying like farming? I am lazy and this is actually make-or-break for me.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 15:45
|
|
|
I thought you could queue farms to automatically replenish? And I think that if people make a supply hub they'll automatically start collecting whatever resource that hub holds.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 18:18
|
|
|
C-Euro posted:I thought you could queue farms to automatically replenish? And I think that if people make a supply hub they'll automatically start collecting whatever resource that hub holds. Correct, auto-farms and villager automation were both introduced in TC. 8 Goon huge map FFAs are gonna be sweeeet.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 18:25
|
|
|
Cicero posted:Next they should do a Rise of Nations remake. WELL GUESS WHAT quote:Steam Database @SteamDB OH SWEET JESUS THERE IS A GOD
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 19:53
|
|
|
AFAIK it's just the gold masters of the game, patched. No HD remake. Still, good news.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 20:23
|
|
|
Orv posted:AFAIK it's just the gold masters of the game, patched. No HD remake. Still, good news. Good, that means the credits song will remain untouched.
|
|
#
?
Mar 16, 2013 20:29
|
|
|
http://www.ageofempires.com/age2.html#newsquote:Hey, I'm Mark Terrano - Chief Creative Officer at Hidden Path Entertainment, and this is the first in a series of Developer Diaries for Age of Empires II: HD Edition. Which feels a little weird for me because the last time I wrote one of these for Age of Kings it was 1999 (as Lead Designer at Ensemble Studios in Dallas). Rebuild the engine up?! Whoo Lost the 3D sprites? booo  e: I do greedily wonder about whether they can get the UserPatch changes in. ronya fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Mar 19, 2013 |
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 01:19
|
|
|
Preordered, I remember playing the original countless hours with fiends. Used to play with Persians civilization and crush every thing with elephants. I think there will be a live show of it today at this link : http://www.twitch.tv/ageofempires at noon pacific time.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 14:33
|
|
|
I hope they improved some of the inner mechanics of the AoE2 engine. The original AoE2 engine had this big problem where triggers could only activate at the beginning of each game second (instead of every tick like StarCraft). It hindered scenario development and I think that's why AoE2 was never super-popular with scenario-developing communities.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 18:12
|
|
|
Orv posted:AFAIK it's just the gold masters of the game, patched. No HD remake. Still, good news. Having lost my disc for RoN a while back, and missing that game terribly, it's still enough to have me ready to scratch that "RTS I Played In High School" itch. AoEII and RoN back from the dead is like a nostalgia dream come true. Can't wait to get my hands of the AoE scenario editor again. I had so much fun with that back in the day.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 18:17
|
|
|
I'm going to go rooting around my home swag box to see if I have any AOE2 swag to give away here, it will at most be a t-shirt or baseball cap.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 18:34
|
|
|
JosephStalinVEVO posted:I'm going to go rooting around my home swag box to see if I have any AOE2 swag to give away here, it will at most be a t-shirt or baseball cap. An AOE2 hat would be so loving rad.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 18:47
|
|
|
ronya posted:http://www.ageofempires.com/age2.html#news Those sprites were 3D? I never noticed. Any idea on whether or not we'll got a new version of the Forgotten Empires fan-expansion for this? If they had to rebuild the engine I'm worried.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 19:23
|
|
|
C-Euro posted:Those sprites were 3D? I never noticed. They weren't. They used images of 3D models to make 2D sprites, much like what Rare did for Donkey Kong Country.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 19:43
|
|
|
quote:Preordered, I remember playing the original countless hours with fiends. Used to play with Persians civilization and crush every thing with elephants. I think there will be a live show of it today at this link : http://www.twitch.tv/ageofempires at noon pacific time. Stream is up now, in fact.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 20:04
|
|
|
mcvey posted:Correct, auto-farms and villager automation were both introduced in TC. I have the feeling games are going to take a long rear end time, because any of the FFAs I had when I was younger were ridiculously long with people swapping allies and enemies a lot as the game shifted. So much fun.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 20:29
|
|
|
New pop cap of 500 in multiplayer.  E: Devs just blatantly cheating with robin hood to get 500 pop of scorpions. 
Orv fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Mar 19, 2013 |
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 20:35
|
|
|
And now they showcased that old scenarios work seamlessly in the HD version!
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 20:55
|
|
|
I'm so loving EXCITED YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 20:57
|
|
|
Dave Mustard posted:I'm so loving EXCITED YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. And I just can't WOLOLOLO. So Steam matchmaking allows you to set: - Team size - Game type (Random Map, Deathmatch, etc) - Civ Pretty much every texture in the game is modifiable, and it's hooked seamlessly into Steam workshop. I can't wait for the Alpha Centauri TC. Palm trees still too small.  Multiplayer max pop cap of 500, with settings all the way from 75 to 500. Probably 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, etc etc etc. Multimonitor support. UI stretches across all monitors to balance larger view distance. Daut vs Viper show matches starting/on March 28th. They're two big names in AoE2 competitive, if you give a poo poo. And now Kingdom of Heaven is on so someone else is going to have to tell you the rest.
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 21:09
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 24, 2024 04:04 |
|
|
The rate of mouse-clicking that I hear in this stream is big-time turning me off towards buying this, or at least even playing mutliplayer
|
|
#
?
Mar 19, 2013 21:10
|
|