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ThatBasqueGuy posted:I just like saying Jor-Dan with the big emphasis on the D Do you day Bact or Bac-T? First time I managed to watch the Hidden Cup live on twitch, in the past I just watched the matches on YouTube while doing the dishes or other stuff. It's a lot more thrilling live.
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Angry Lobster posted:The Vipah does it agai... oh wait. Friendship ended with snek. Now Hera is my best friend
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Milo and POTUS posted:Friendship ended with snek. Now \/e: That game was nuts. It's not often you see all the wood get chopped on Arabia. Harveygod fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Mar 22, 2021 |
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I was shocked how fast mayan skirmishers were able to take down rams.
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Are the players themselves really that negative about Hidden Cup? From a viewers perspective I really enjoyed it but I agree that the event needs to be split up more, the streams just were too long and it was impossible to watch everything every day.
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FrickenMoron posted:Are the players themselves really that negative about Hidden Cup? From a viewers perspective I really enjoyed it but I agree that the event needs to be split up more, the streams just were too long and it was impossible to watch everything every day. Only the finals were played live, so the players probably wouldn't have that same exhaustion since they played during the week. The biggest complaint I've hear from the players is that during the best-of-7 sets there was some weirdness over who picked some of the next map. Viper thought one of the games was his choice but it was Hera's, which confused both of them. I was fine with the schedule but I could understand why viewers would find it grinding. I actually had that same complaint about the "Queens Clash" a few weeks ago. It was a neat idea but they crammed waaaaaaaay too many games into one weekend. They had a silver league and a gold league but the silver league went long and none of the gold league games were broadcast except for the final set.
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I spent the first two days of HC4 watching the games but by the time the final day came I was way too burned out and only tuned back in for the final, in which I only really watched a couple of games. They really need to split things up into multiple weekends but I don't know if viewer burnout is even on their radar given how successful the whole thing was and how hyped some people were to binge the entire thing over 4 days.
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At least we were graced with Celt Paladins, genuinely one of the funniest AOE2 matches I have ever seen.
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Lawman 0 posted:At least we were graced with Celt Paladins, genuinely one of the funniest AOE2 matches I have ever seen. Who would do such a thing. Also, I finished the event and my Kings-> queens doesn't work
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Beat my first hard AI today  Picked the game up the other day after not having played it for like 20 years.  I was Franks vs AI Brits and jfc it was a slog. Took almost two hours and I was sitting on a shitton of unused resources for like the last hour or so (except gold, being bad at knight micro runs you out of that poo poo fast). I got up to a decent economy pretty early but then just completely failed to do anything useful with it for ages and ages. In the end I had to basically club it to death in endless streams of pikemen, light cav and elite skirmishers.
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Anybody having issues with MP in this game on steam today? Can't get multiplayer to even show up as an option
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Statutory Ape posted:Anybody having issues with MP in this game on steam today? Can't get multiplayer to even show up as an option Same here. I saw something about scheduled downtime but that was on Tuesday, so long past now.
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I just checked and it's working for me.
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Yep, back up here as well thanks yal
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Lots of news! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTaCrP_U4ao https://www.ageofempires.com/games/age-of-empires-iv/ Spirit of the Law breakdown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR0LDwpTVVU&t=15s Chinese and Dehli Sultanate for Age 4. Seems to be a much higher focus on bonuses/abilities, especially for the civs, like the Sultanate scholars or the Chinese dynasty mechanics. Age 2 and 3 getting expacs as well- Age 2's is called Dawn of the Dukes, with a focus on Eastern Europe. Also co-op campaigns/battles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1pyLnr16mY
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I'm not liking AoE's IV aesthethic and to be honest, I'm not confident that Relic can pull off a good game like this.
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Apparently AoE3 is getting an African-themed expansion in the future, which is great. I imagine the next AoE2 DLC will include Poles and/or Georgians considering they're very highly requested wherever you check.Angry Lobster posted:I'm not liking AoE's IV aesthethic and to be honest, I'm not confident that Relic can pull off a good game like this. Yeah I hadn't realized it was Relic developing it lol
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Klaus88 posted:Huh, seems like the longbowmen might be getting some kind of stakes ability. It's not fair that one unit can counter the transylvanians
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Azran posted:Apparently AoE3 is getting an African-themed expansion in the future, which is great. I imagine the next AoE2 DLC will include Poles and/or Georgians considering they're very highly requested wherever you check. It would be funny if there's gonna be more Slavic civs considering there's already Slavs (and Bulgarians). They could rename Slavs to Russians while adding Poles, I guess. Georgians would also be interesting. Would love to see Avars and the OG Prussians as well.
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Haha, the weird archer/arrows that everyone is freaking out about were a change "demanded" by the pro-player council. Originally they shot and reloaded more realistically but the players said they felt slow and you couldn't micro with them.
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Gonna be honest, that did not look good at all. At least AoE 2 getting more support is cool!
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Haha, the weird archer/arrows that everyone is freaking out about were a change "demanded" by the pro-player council. Originally they shot and reloaded more realistically but the players said they felt slow and you couldn't micro with them. I'm not sure what you're talking about? Who's complaining about arrows?
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Klaus88 posted:Huh, seems like the longbowmen might be getting some kind of stakes ability. If typical to previous Relic releases, it will be pleasant to look at and be fun, but will have jank, balance, and mechanics problems that are never solved and prevent it from being taken seriously as a competitive game, even if it is marketed as such. E: and if it's at Dawn of War III tier of quality it will be DOA Name Change fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Also easy to abuse gameplay mechanics that are infuriating in multiplayer.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'm not sure what you're talking about? Who's complaining about arrows? Not necessarily in here but it's been a common reaction to the reveal on the normie sites. The only Relic game I'm familiar with is CoH1 which is a masterpiece, I can only assume their other games are excellent also. 
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Ratios and Tendency posted:Not necessarily in here but it's been a common reaction to the reveal on the normie sites. CoH1 was amazing, even if it had its rough edges. CoH2 eventually blossomed into a good successor to 1 but the early days were very rough, and it didn't help that its singleplayer campaign was very sympathetic towards the nazis while playing as the Soviets in MP meant having to deal with all the lovely Soviet stereotypes taken straight out of a nazi memoir. Like a game taking place in 1944 shouldn't have raw recruits be the mainstay of the Soviet Army wtf On the 40k side of things, Dawn of War 1 was good, Dawn of War 2 is either bad or good depending on how much you like base building, while Dawn of War 3 killed the franchise.
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I don't really get the complaint about archers- they're RTS units, you kinda need to be able to see where they're shooting and what they are- comically big weapons are a good way of making a unit identifiable.
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Angry Lobster posted:I'm not liking AoE's IV aesthethic and to be honest, I'm not confident that Relic can pull off a good game like this. Is there any overlap at all between the IV teamand the AoK DE team? KOGAHAZAN!! fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Angry Lobster posted:I'm not liking AoE's IV aesthethic and to be honest, I'm not confident that Relic can pull off a good game like this. Me neither really, sadly. Hopefully it evolves into a good game, but, if not, what they've done with AOE2 is absolutely enough to qualify as a sequel in my books tbh! Now, if only somebody would give HOMM3 that treatment... I'm also glad i'm not the only one that liked COH more than COH2, even if COH2 is a fun game to play casually in a LAN or whatever. E: tho realistically I don't do much 'competitive' gaming, outside of obviously trying to win when i play a team game with/against my friends or pugs
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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Is there any overlap at all between the IV teamand the AoK DE team? There's some, AoE2: DE has been co-developed by Forgotten Studios, Tantalus and Wicked Witch, the former made the expansion packs for HD and has close ties with Microsoft, and the later are independent studios. AoE4 is aparently developed by Relic and World's Edge. World's Edge belongs to Microsoft and acts as the overseer for all AoE related content, including the first three remasters, also it seems that AoE4 has been developed alongside the DE edition. Check this interview: https://www.windowscentral.com/age-of-empires-iv Statutory Ape posted:Me neither really, sadly. I too hope for AoE 4 to become a great game, however my hot take is that Relic has a tendency to make solid games with rough edges and without good multiplayer support. For example, DoW1 was good but needing some polish and the multiplayer went from decent to abysmal over the course of its life (also, gently caress GameSpy, forever).
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I'm still sad Age of Mythology has been quietly forgotten and it only received a half-assed expansion that probably killed that offshoot.
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