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Open stress test this weekend!! https://www.ageofempires.com/news/ageiv-tech-stress-test/ quote:Technical Stress Test from Friday, September 17th, at 10 a.m. PT through Monday, September 20th, at 10 a.m. PT!
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Keegers posted:Open stress test this weekend!! I'm definitely doing this tonight. Also some AoE2 games if anyone is interested.
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Sep 17, 2021 18:15
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Just played some games including an hour and half slugfest with a fellow goon and games pretty fun!!! Landmarks are quite something
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Sep 18, 2021 00:14
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I played the stress test for a while today. The game seems very good but also I learned that I am too old and deliberate to play APM and micro heavy RTS games anymore and will not be buying it  There's just way too much going on at once for me to keep up with
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Sep 18, 2021 00:46
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Are you able to set hotkeys to the mouse's side buttons in AoE4? I couldn't figure it out and am really used to it on AoE2.
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Sep 18, 2021 02:13
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How's everyone liking it that has had a chance to get some games in? I got some UI nitpicks and annoyed at a lack of a more detailed tech tree and unit stats but seems nice so far.
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Sep 18, 2021 03:48
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It certainly does feel like modernized AoE2 with stronger differences between civs. Pretty solid, if not particularly innovative, and it's not like there's a glut of good RTSes nowadays...
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Sep 18, 2021 04:20
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Main complaints so far are that the camera is too zoomed in and the after the game is over it should reveal the map so you can see what everyone built. It's also criminal how little info the ingame tech tree actually tells you after what age of empires 2's tech tree was like, no unit stats, no building costs, no unique building info for china. Also the stress test text could be a bit smaller or more opaque, almost as annoying as the chinese dynasty text being in the middle of the screen for no good reason. Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Sep 18, 2021 |
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Sep 18, 2021 08:31
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Oh so the company of heroes ppl made a game with bad FOV?? Waow I definitely didn't see that being a main reason I would dislike this game lol
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Sep 18, 2021 12:51
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The bell banging every time you click on the town center is awful, but i'm ok with the game. Maybe it's just not me, though. I think AoE2.5 is ehhhh.
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Sep 18, 2021 15:30
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Panzeh posted:The bell banging every time you click on the town center is awful 2
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Sep 18, 2021 16:16
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Panzeh posted:The bell banging every time you click on the town center is awful, but i'm ok with the game. Maybe it's just not me, though. I think AoE2.5 is ehhhh. Putting a house in a control group with town center keeps the buttons the same but silences the bell.
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Sep 18, 2021 16:17
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Just won an hour long 2v2. It was a very tense game where we were on the back foot until trade kicked in. Definitely a very fun game. It looks great, and the music is fantastic. I was on the fence, but this made me buy it.
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Sep 18, 2021 17:11
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Why the gently caress am I locked on low graphics settings and can't change them? Game looks like dog poo poo this way. Is there a way to change outside the game, maybe a ini file?
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Sep 18, 2021 18:39
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Why does Red Bull fund a tournament with enough budget to rent an actual castle and a bunch of props and sets?
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Sep 18, 2021 21:09
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Smiling Knight posted:Why does Red Bull fund a tournament with enough budget to rent an actual castle and a bunch of props and sets? The gameplay is just a side show: the filler is what really matters to the decision makers behind the camera. Think it's been like 30 minutes since the last match.
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Sep 18, 2021 21:21
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Love Stole the Day posted:The gameplay is just a side show: the filler is what really matters to the decision makers behind the camera. Think it's been like 30 minutes since the last match. Jokes on them! I minimize the stream when there’s no game going on. (That explanation makes more sense than my guess, which was some marketing guy was a fan who duped his bosses into backing a decades-old game).
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Sep 18, 2021 21:30
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Sep 18, 2021 23:26
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I'm not sure it'll have the depth of the AoE2 competitive scene but as a fun, approachable gently caress around rts I'm having a good time building castles and blowing up dudes with siege engines.
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Sep 19, 2021 04:55
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The strong distinctions betweem civs and the age bonus system based on what landmark you pick (from Age of Mythology and AoE3) is real good for mixing up the game; keeps people guessing and makes scouting very important. I think it'll be a deeper game than AoE2 and I dig that, but of course who knows if the competitive scene will bite. That said I'm pretty stoked about it already from the games I've played, just minor UI issues, could be resolvable through experience and time.
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Sep 19, 2021 05:36
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What exactly is the counter to mass longbows if you aren't a early man at arms civ? they can get the deathball rolling really fast with that 7 second creation time, you could spend your wood making outposts on every resource but that does nothing to fight the growing deathball and then they make rams and end the game. I can only see fast castle to knights or lancers behind defensive buildings and hope they don't mass spearmen too, really feeling the lack of a skirmisher.
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Sep 19, 2021 06:33
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https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe4/comments/pr4fsa/gather_rates_and_eco_changes_in_aoe_iv_compared/ Here is a good post breaking down resource gathering differences between AoE4/AoE2 if that interests anyone.
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Sep 19, 2021 10:45
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:What exactly is the counter to mass longbows if you aren't a early man at arms civ? they can get the deathball rolling really fast with that 7 second creation time, you could spend your wood making outposts on every resource but that does nothing to fight the growing deathball and then they make rams and end the game. Yeah - walls and outposts into fast castle I guess. It seems very strong.
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Sep 19, 2021 12:05
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drat, HRE keeps with relics don't gently caress around.
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Sep 19, 2021 12:21
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 Red Bull Wololo LAN finals are starting right now.Youtube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDrgmy9JdM Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/redbull
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Sep 19, 2021 19:01
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Sep 19, 2021 22:19
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Those were some really good games.
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Sep 19, 2021 22:56
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:What exactly is the counter to mass longbows if you aren't a early man at arms civ? they can get the deathball rolling really fast with that 7 second creation time, you could spend your wood making outposts on every resource but that does nothing to fight the growing deathball and then they make rams and end the game. I think walls/outpost early can negate them well, just gotta be conscious that thats what theyre gonna do. That being said 2 goons and i did 3v3s and deathball victory every map lol. Building rams right near their base is crazy, theyre so strong too
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Sep 19, 2021 23:09
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Here is a good summary of the issues in AOE4 as they stand and I agree with most of this guys points regarding the UI and unit responsiveness https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srqst4 quote:AOE 4 UI feels like an attempt to reinvent the wheel but comes up with a square To add on to balance concerns of my own which could be simple number tweaks from being fixed:
TLDR: me and my friends are still probably buying this when it comes out and everything aside from possibly the bad unit responsiveness can be changed if they want to change it.
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Sep 20, 2021 03:26
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I've never really gotten into Age of Empires before but I had fun playing AOE 4 this weekend. Might get it when it comes out.
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Sep 20, 2021 03:43
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Been enjoying AoE4 more than I expected, there's a lot of familiarity in it but still a lot that's fresh. What with how directly it's modeled off AoE2 though it kind of starkly showcases both the good and bad of how video games have changed in the past 20 years; everything is a hundred times busier, which is dope for the sound design but makes me miss the clarity of the older games a bit (although I could always just play them again). Also yeah that tweet mentioned it, but I don't know what it is with modern UI designers that want to make all tech icons monocolor; this has happened in like half a dozen strategy games over the past 5 years or something and it always sucks and a lot of the time I feel like the devs even end up changing it. I bring it up since AoE tech icons are weirdly iconic for me; still bummed they switched out the AoE1 ones in the rerelease.
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Sep 20, 2021 04:17
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Archers and longbowmen are the skirmishers this time around.
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Sep 20, 2021 06:01
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Honestly if you’re on the fence about buying it, just get the one month trial of GamePass for PC since it’s a day-1 release there
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Sep 20, 2021 06:52
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Yeah, I switched from infantry + knight push to infantry + crossbow push using HRE and if anything it worked better. I'm really liking this game even with my issues about farm building (would like a way to easily see if I'm building enough farms for the bunch of villagers I have selected) and selecting idle villagers (would like to be able to hold shift/ctrl when clicking the idle villager button in order to mass select them), so I think I'll be getting it on release, even if I only intend to play compstomps.
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Sep 20, 2021 07:57
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toasterwarrior posted:and selecting idle villagers (would like to be able to hold shift/ctrl when clicking the idle villager button in order to mass select them),. You can assign this to any key btw dont need to click. I had idle villager as space and all idles as ctrl+space Im really stoked for this game, excited to try out all the civs and do more multiplayer matches. I think for all its obvious flaws (looking at you unit pathing) i think the game is pretty great
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Sep 20, 2021 12:56
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cheeseboy58 posted:You can assign this to any key btw dont need to click. I had idle villager as space and all idles as ctrl+space Oh dope, that'll be good to remember when the game comes out for realsies. Thanks.
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Sep 20, 2021 13:38
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Ra Ra Rasputin posted:Here is a good summary of the issues in AOE4 as they stand and I agree with most of this guys points regarding the UI and unit responsiveness Agreed with your points and the ones in the link. The fact that this is coming out in a month is a bit worrying considering how "obvious" some of these issues are. Even if they weren't obvious to the devs, they should have been flagged and observed during the closed beta. The guys final comment about it being "a pass if it didn't have Age of Empires as part of the name" is perhaps a bit harsh, but its not entirely off the mark either. I'm honestly shocked by the lack of polish and confused by who they're trying to appeal to. They don't seem to be appealing to the competitive scene, but they also don't seem to be appealing to the chill/casual fanbase sim-city/comp stomp either. The game is much faster than AoE2 and quickly becomes, in my option, quite hectic. Doubly so because at this zoom level everything engages basically as soon as they are within one "screen" of each other.
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Sep 20, 2021 14:02
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The UI really feels like there was a higher-up at Microsoft that told them they had to make it work with tablets because they wanted to promote it on the Surface. Why is each queued villager its own spaced out icon?
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Sep 20, 2021 21:46
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Inept posted:The UI really feels like there was a higher-up at Microsoft that told them they had to make it work with tablets because they wanted to promote it on the Surface. Why is each queued villager its own spaced out icon?
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The game feels extremely amenable to casual comp stomp base building style players to me? Less macro, very forgiving micro, lots of larping potential with walls and sieges, base-building civ bonuses etc
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