Does /v/ still play this game? What's your favorite civilization?
The Malians get a crazy pierce armor boost for infantry in AoAK, it's nuts
>>318107586
Why are their workers white?
how's the most recent expansion? Are the new classes any good? I NEED TO KNOW
>>318107389
I'm playing it right now. My fav are mayans and goths right now
>tfw restore isn't working so I can't continue a crashed game with my brother
it hurts to live
>>318107936
cuz da crackas wuz slaves and shit
Britons are top tier
I really wish I played more, I'm shit at RTS
>>318108483
>goths
they were my first mains but now I can't bear to play a civ without the ability to build walls. I am become pussified
>>318107936
Please don't start
>>318108643
Walls are the best man, I play all RTSes with heavy walls and base defenses
>>318107936
They look middle-eastern
>>318108015
Off to a better start than the AoF civs, which got buffed on AoAK's release.
The Berbers offer cheap calvary and a solid navy
The Ethiopians are an archer civ with a fast high damage unique infantry unit with poor defenses, and have free Spearman upgrades
The Malians have cheaper wood buildings and their infantry are very resilient to arrows, almost near Huskarl-tier.
The Portuguese have a unique resource-generating building and expertise in Gunpowder and Naval units.
As long as you play with The Forgotten data set, every civ now has Siege Towers, The Feudal Age Fire Galleys (except Vikings) and Demolition Rafts, and several new techs like Arson (infantry bonus vs buildings) and Arrowslits (towers do additional damage)
>>318107389
I actually went back to it when the HD version came out. I've always been a noob so I'm still checking what each civ does.
>>318107936
The developers actually posted on the forums explaining that they actually tried to change the villager to blacks.
>>318108015
Ethiopian's can spam their unique unit at a rate that would make Goth's proud.
>>318107389
The Teutons were my fav back on the original AoE2
>>318108643
from my experience playing unranked with 1400-1600 people don't even bother with them at all, let alone AI but that's more because it harms them themselves.I prefer heavy defenses myself but recently I don't even bother because you're gonna get fucked anally if you can't push the attackers out anyway
>>318108819
One cool AoF change they did at least was make the Regicide kings look different for each building set, though West/East European civ still share the same AoK king.
>>318108772
which is why mobile bombard canons piss me the fuck off in AOE2
by the time you notice they're there they wreck the fuck outta whatever they're aiming at and when you send a battalion at them they turn tail and run like fucking pussies, usually flanked by cavalry archers who do their "shoot a few times and retreat 5 paces and repeat" bullshit.
I am so mad. At least trebuchets can't defend themselves or run very easily
>>318107389
Teutons back in Vanilla AoE. Don't know what changed from then
>>318108819
Why exactly can't they reprogram villagers to use different skins depending on civilization? Do they not have access to the main code or what?
>>318109040
>I am so mad. At least trebuchets can't defend themselves or run very easily
>players that drop down a castle and camp trebuchets near then outside your base
no tears only sadness
>>318109037
My hope is that they take it one step further and have different looking monks for each civ.
>>318109040
Try massed Elite Skirmishers or Genitour if you are Berbers or are allies with one. At worst they do 1 damage per javelin.
>>318108683
We were kings and such.
>>318109224
Aztec monks have their own special skin, which is good cause fuck those niggas, they gotta get called out
>>318109037
Don't play that mode, but that's cool.
I'm actually impressed with the amount of changes and fixes they managed to make to the original game, considering the development hell that is to grab old code you know nothing off made on very old legacy APIs like DirectX 7.
I think they even decoupled the network and graphics layer and completely unlocked the FPS. Fuckin butter-smooth on 120+ hz screens. It was a 20 fps stutter mess before.
>>318109149
One modder I think tried making unique faction-based appearances for each unit, as well as making each villager's role much more distinctive. Because of the files it edits you apparently can't play multi with the rest that don't have it or something.
Don't think it's updated for AoAK either.
Anyone feel like hosting a game?
The amount of love AOE2 is getting lately is really great.
>>318109149
You have no idea how hard it is to grab on old legacy code you never saw on old ass APIs and try to move it around and fix it. Whatever they tried was also fucking the other civilizations sprites so they concluded it was more work than it was worth and moved on to more grave bugs the game still had like online desyncing and stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suzm0kFgT70
Holy shit my sides
>>318109647
Even though it's mostlyWE WUZ KINGS?
>>318109810
shit man... that unused mangonel
>>318110287
ZeroEmpires did cast the same game he recorded that clip from, I think the mangonel was used elsewhere
>>318110473
oh I see. Too bad we can't see the minimap. Wait... why can't we see the minimap?
>>318109869
tangential /v/-/pol/ shitposting aside, yes
>>318110564
To focus on the clip, I guess. Here's the source game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-dcEflQzA4
>>318110787
Why are trees so small? A mod?
And how can I change the position of the hud elements, like the minimap? I'm at 1080p and the hud stuff is too far apart.
Do not play Snakepit with AI
Is it too late to git gud at AoE? It looks pretty good.
>>318110787
first competitive AoE2 i've ever seen.
fuck me, I would never be able to get into the meta game shitfest that is competitive vidya
>>318111314
That's with the original AoC + UserPatch, which gives you that option
>>318111410
>>318111546
It's not as hyper competitive as the likes of Starcraft. Plenty of casual players fucking love AoE so you may find somebody of your caliber; a friend of mine who played a lot of AoC online was surprised at how fast I could get into the Feudal Age after playing with him a few times.
You really just gotta nail down build orders and economy and stuff like Fast Castle, I'd put those in priority over tactics.
>>318111668
Oh and yeah the smaller trees would be from a mod called Pussywood. The HD version has some variants of it available on the Workshop. Popular so you can see shit through trees more easily.
>>318111410
it's a deadgame
We found out that the best way to play AoE2 is to grab a bunch of IRL friends, go to the very back pages of the workshop and download the shittiest and least descript maps you can find, then see what kind of fun you can have with those
>>318111861
The fuck is a dead game? How can a game die?
It's a 16 year old game with hundreds of people still playing online and being actively patched. It's certainly not dead.
>>318112256
>The fuck is a dead game?
any multiplayer game that isn't Hearthstone, LoL or Dota 2
t. /v/eddit
>>318112181
>shamefur dispray.jpg
>>318112256
>How can a game die?
I know all too well that it is possible for a game to die, anon.
>>318112181
Good grief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oTUvjgvVWE
reminder
>>318112256
By becoming entirely unplayable like with EA's F2P games such as Battlefield Heroes, Battleforge, and NFS World. There is no way to download and play these games ever again. You had to launch through now non-existent websites to even log into the game properly.
Nintendo WFC is dead as shit and makes a good share of content in games like Pokemon BW2 almost completely useless, all thanks to some shitty mobile games company buying out GameSpy and closing their servers, also affecting a ton of other games that relied on them.
Really, most games with online play risk having no playerbase or servers at all.
vikings
Anyone feel like playing a game?
>>318107389
>Wololo!
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>>318113298
>>dem teutons
>>dem byzantines
>>fucking saracens
>>delicious japanese
>>dem franks
>>based britons
>>dose turks
>>318107389
I just finished the forgotten campaigns. What a fucking disaster they were. It's like they took AoE 2 and tried to turn it into a mix of WoW and CoD, combat zones and everything.
Is the new expansion better?
>>318114481
yeah
>>318114481
>New Zealand
>Any military at all
>>318115104
Yes. They're also all voiced
>>318115286
Someone should host then
>got all my friends to buy AoE2 for 3 dollars while its on sale right now
>have them 1v5 me and I win
Has anyone ever gotten ludakris map size to run well in single player? I don't think any setup can do that shit
>>318115827
I have a shit computer and I played a Ludikris with 7 AI pretty well, it got pretty choppy in the imperial age though.
>>318115893
It runs well but I I can't stand when my units start moving even a little choppy
>>318115707
>Eight-way Regicide game with open diplomacy during free time at polytech
>People are duking it out and raiding each other and shit
>One southeast asian guy who hasn't played before just sits in a corner and builds stuff peacefully with palisade walls, hasn't even advanced to the Feudal Age
>Gets wiped out last as a result of everyone ignoring him
>>318116019
i swear 8-way matches are the funnest shit
>no one guns for me out of coincidence
>use the opportunity to buckle down and hit imperial fast
>send fucking 50 elephants into my neighbors, they were busy fighting others and just get steamrolled by me
>I just steamroll the next 5 civs clockwise across the map with the elephant squad
>build a wonder in the corner of the map behind dozens of walls/elephants
>>318115556
>tfw nobody ever hosts or waits long enough for players
why this
>>318107389
Celts, because wood.
>>318116503
I would host but I'm new and probably garbage.
>>318116586
thats why i dont play ranked but host one anyway
>>318116323
>Open diplomacy Nomad game
>Anybody could be building their TC not far from you at all
>If you make any alliances, betrayal is inevitable
>>318116503
I'd like to host a game but I'm in New Zealand, so it's better that I don't
>>318107389
Huns
No houses means I can just explode in population instantly and rape my neighbors before they even know whats happening
>>318116652
Well alright, lobby name is /v/ and we can decide on how things go in lobby.
>>318116721
Well it is ultimately getting rid of one less resource on your mind
>>318116653
>8-way nomad
>you spawn into a glitched zone and you're completely surrounded by forest
oh man this is going to be nice, its safe in here
>realize i got zero sheep, berries, or gold in there, only have a small patch of stone in my forest
Who /CBA/ here?
>AoE2 thread without WE WAZ KINGS spam
I didn't think I'd live to see the day
>>318116961
>farm hella wood
>makes farms
>sell excess food and wood
>buy stone as needed
>turtle back and let the rest kill themselves
get in here you raging spergs
>>318113298
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upy3WOgQVvE
>>318116904
We need more anons, so far we got four people
>>318117493
Trying to join, don't see the lobby anywhere.
>>318117406
>farm hella wood
But if i farm too much I free myself from my forest cage, thus negating my defenses.
The only way to benefit would be to not expand and just hide in my forest until someone gets pissed off and tries to find me
>>318109810
Holy shit what the fuck was that?
I'm not even mad, I'm just laughing as fuck!
were the byzantines op in real life because they get almost every tech
