>Even the ai follows strict built order autism nowMetafags have completely ruined this game.
Still playing OG from my 25 year old disc, I don't care about your bitchmade problems.
I can't believe this game is still getting additional content
The way the American civs look in this game seriously triggers my autism, they all look like bland colourless crumbling Maya ruins instead of the unique colorful architectural styles they really had.
>>727642881You're hispanic, aren't you?
>>727637727I fully maintain that DE was a mistake and that HD is the actual definitive version of the game. Updootniggers ruin everything; see OSRS.
>>727643008No I'm white as snow. Every time I mention I'm interested in ancient american history on here people just refuse to believe I could possibly be white, its bizarre.
>>727642881they look good
Your ears just turned into two dude's heads and one of them is a nigger. How do you feel?
I thought this was interesting until they literally added 100 civilizations to it. But it's hard to go back to the original now that I'm used to the silky smooth animations and QoL changes.
>>727637727Didnt it always? I am more annoyed that the ai just sends an endless stream of units instead of building up then attacking.
>>727643182Maybe but the irl architecture looked much nicer
>>727643151Its just a stereotype
>>727637727AI on hard and above is easy to beat just by rushing it early since it can't build walls. Once you reach feudal send a few villagers and 2-3 men at arms to their TC, have the villagers built a tower right next to it out of range and have the men at arms stand ground at its base. The AI will send every fucking villager to take the tower and their AI is completely broken.To beat extreme AI pick north sea and play Portuguese against humans. Xuman navy is dog shit and you can build 3 feitoras to gather resources. Just build castles and towers with heated shot and the AI will keep sending ships at them until it is broke. Easy win.
>>727645070>humanscumans
>>727637727>AI has 1000000 resources and cheats in superhuman waysor>AI imitates good human strategies to winI think the second one sounds better if I'm honest, you might learn something from it at least and its going to do some serious bullshit either way
>>727645231Extreme AI in AoE 2 DE is literally impossible to beat unless you rush it down early. It multitasks at an inhuman rate and micros every unit like a Korean on cocaine.
>NOOO I NEED TO PLAY STATEGY GAME AGAINST AI NOWJust play 4xWhy the fuck RTS genre is filled with people proud of being bad at video game and who doesn't even want to learn how to play it? Even gacha players are not like that. Even 4x and Total War enjoyers want hard AI
>>727645373Honestly? That's a really good thing, if you set the AI to the hardest setting it should remind you that you're just a fleshbag.
>>727645460It also fun in coop for casual players. Like a raid boss.
>>727643221>More civs to play is le bad!!!And AOE2 is not like Starcraft or Dawn of War, where every faction has their own unique playstyle.
>>727643062thisthisthisthisthisjmods tongue my anus
>>727642881They're that way to make sure the player color stands out above all else.
>>727645373I play a lot with friends against extreme AI and it's totally beatable. Its micro gets worse when there's a ton of units on the field, and it will commit to bad attacks. It'll keep throwing gold units against your castles until you take down its rams and trebs, then it'll back away but it will take so many losses you can go wipe it out with your own army if your macro has been anywhere near reasonable.Taking down a team of extreme AIs is very satisfying and fun - it often turns into a long grind, but inevitably the AI runs out of gold to produce the units it wants to build, and you start seeing their cities producing only singular skirmishers as it desperately tries to spend every scrap it has.But it's true that it's easier to just rush it with man-at-arms, you can cripple it so hard it never gets past feudal age.
>>727637727Before the build orders the AI had to cheat to be even remotely competitive.
>>727637727The gap between moderate and hard is silly. You can fuck around like a retard against moderate the whole fucking match, but hard will kill you the second it enters feudal age if you aren't following ranked build orders.
>>727637727>Having AI that actually tries to emulate humans instead of cheating resources from thin air is ackshually bad
>>727646940>if you aren't following ranked build orders.The "build orders" is natural progression for player who is engaged in RTS gameplay and not just mindlessly spamming random shit.
