>has been slowly turning into MOBAshit>noone cares
>>746053432How exactly?The game is still 100% RTSMOBA garbage is just dumbed down RTS where you control just 1 unit instead of an army and many buildings
>>746053549They keep adding gimmicky MOBA mechanics and units, and more and more frequently each time like a MOBA. Once the vikings DLC releases thats like what? 10 new civs in the span of one and a half years?
>NOOOOO I CAN'T MICRO AAAAHHHHthat's nice OPget filtered
>>746054183who said anything about micro
>>746053549Guess he refers to the various gimmicky passive and active abilities of many UU's like Urumi's and Coustilier's charge attack, Obuch's armor chipping, Rath's missile-melee-switch etc.Don't forget the Chinkcel-DLC released last year with those hero unit's as well. It does get bothersome, but - thank the Lord - at least it won't be something, we see in Hack'n'Slays like:>1% chance to do additional 15% damage for 27 seconds, if you manage to shove your hand into your arse, while standing on one leg and shouting "Allahu Epstein"!>>746053549Lol, beat me to it.
>>746053432>lying>on /v/What has the world come to?
>>746053432i care Ive been non communicado with the series since the fantasy chink dlc
>>746053432I told you this would happen, I told you to stay on HD, but nobody would listen.
i'd happily pay a $9.99 monthly subscription if it means going back on 5 years of updates (only keeping the infantry buffs of 2025) with the promise that they never update the game ever again
>>746054519>4 flavors of chinkwhat the fuck were they thinking?
>>746053432>>746053549>>746054569What are the differences between base AoE2, HD Edition, and Definitive Edition? Are they 1:1 with only graphical changes?
>>746054830>Are they 1:1 with only graphical changesthis was sort of the case in 2019 but DE has changed a lot throughout the years
>>746054830HD is just old AoE2 with modernized (for 2013) graphical assets and higher resolutions. DE has a bunch of pay to win civs and never-ending DLC, it's essentially a live-service game for boomers.
>>746054830>AoE2Original, got abandoned for its sequels. Fans then continued doing balance patches and quality of life upgrades. At some point, Microsoft hired the fans, who were making an expansion called "The Forgotten", with a mix of new ideas and some civ ideas the original devs had and never implemented. This led to...>HD EditionIt's basically the original, but patched to work on modern systems. Apparently Microsoft botched things and it's worse than just patching the original, but it kept receiving new content and patches which people liked. What the community eventually settled into for multiplayer was downloading the old pirated game, buying the HD version to show support to Microsoft, then using a tool to put the HD content into the old game, and playing on the Voobly platform.>DEThey redid all the art assets in higher resolution this time. They added a bunch of quality of live changes and most importantly, gave it a really good server based netcode this time. Lag was a huge issue for the other 2 versions, to the point certain micro and strategies weren't worth trying online. It's the one currently supported.
>>746054830>aoe2you have a disk from 1999 unpatched that came bundled with bonzibuddy. msn zone has been shut down for 20 years now let it go>vooblyyou and three eighty year old eastern europeans can play together>HD editionpatches to run on "modern" hardware from 2013, some content updates and balance patches probably still works but essentially abandoned since 2019. Not even sure if you can purchase it anymore>definitive editiongraphical changes, engine changes, content updates. grognards have strong opinions but this is the version everyone plays
>>746055454>grognards have strong opinionsI want a complete game, fuck live service bullshit. I want an end to updates and DLC.
>>746056770Too bad, faggot. I want more content for my favorite games. Sucks for you.
>>746056770>I want less content!why? just don't buy the dlc, at least you have the option
>>746056889>>746056926Wallet openers like these faggots are why we can't have nice things anymore.
>>746056946>Wallet openersI didn't buy a single expansion
>>746057035And yet you defend never-ending DLC live-service pay to win bullshit, curious!
>>746056946I'm drowning in nice things, actually. It's you who is starving.
>>746055171>DE has a bunch of pay to win civs and never-ending DLC, it's essentially a live-service game for boomers.What's wrong with the new civs?
>>746057061>live-service>pay to winYou shouldn't use words you don't know the meaning of.
>>746057073They're imbalanced as fuck until the inevitable patch where they aren't anymore. Then the next DLC comes out and the new civ is imbalanced as fuck until the inevitable patch where they aren't anymore. Repeat ad nauseum.
>>746056926>just don't buy the dlcim still forced to see those shit """civs""" with their shitty gimmicky units in ranked
>>746057073NTA but most of the new civs are okay and in line with the rest of the game (yes even the Romans), but the Chinkdoms really are absurd and should be relegated to Chronicles only (where they can get dunked on by the much better Chronicles civs like they deserve).
>>746057135You shouldn't continue breathing my air, nigger.
>>746057061>pay to winThe South American civs were pay to win for a very brief period, then they got nerfed so hard they became pay to lose. They're also slowly power creeping old civs like the Persians. So I don't think there's any goal here of making civs OP, just incompetence
>>746057201how the fuck are the south american """civs""" in line with the game?
>>746057410NTA but the original game and its expansion had Aztecs, Huns, Celts and other savages. The Tupi campaign does a good job of contextualizing them against the Europeans in the game's timeframe.
>>746057562>Aztecs, Huns, Celtsall 100x more civilized and advanced than mapuches, also im not even being wayciss, i hate that the shit chiefs DLC overhauled the Incas, they were one of my favourite civs
>>746057183>im still forced to see those shit """civs""" with their shitty gimmicky units in rankedCan't you play Classic Mode with only the original civs?
>>746057691>Classic Mode tf you talking about? that shit doesn't exist
>>746053432>tranny editionServes you right, faggot.
>>746058305there's probably 0 trannies playing this game
>>746057073Some of them are too Warcrafty.
>>746058305>>746058450In fact, I think this community is flying under the radar of the mainstream in terms of being very conservative. I mean, the best player in the world is Muslim. I've seen Jordan saying some slightly misogynistic things on stream. Most pros are white dudes. Etc. I feel like any day someone is gonna ask a pro about politics and it's gonna raise a shitstorm on reddit.
>>746058741just checked the top in the ladder, 2 white dudes, 2 hispanics and the muslim
>>746058889*top5
>>746058741Does TheViper still play? I haven't kept up with da community in over 6 years.
>>746058569The chink wuxia civs for sure but I thought all the others seemed fine but maybe I missed something
>>746058989There's a bunch of area buff bullshit here and there and units with multiple effects.
>>746056770I hate balance patches much
>>746058962Yes, but he's washed out since he got married, got a kid, and had a wrist tumor that limited his play time. He was also caught trying to promote shady things like gambling apps and crypto, so the community turned on him for short period. But I think it didn't stick.
>>746059071>got married, got a kidHe won at life, he should stop playing, unironically.
>>746059163He won harder than that. When facebook tried to have a streaming platform, they paid him for exclusivity. I think Microsoft's short lived streaming platform did the same before. Dude made bank, he could easily retire.
>>746053432this is cool but i want thathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i00s--GdIzE
>>746059071is the kid his?
>>746059278yes
>>746059268Imagine being so good at a game you actually win at life too. Damn. Kneeling out of respect right now.
>>746053432Fun game, but all you need to do is rush to pretty much beat anyone
>>746059163Wow, thanks for telling us your gay tradlarp opinion "unironically"
>>746059379Aren't drushes fairly easily foiled by simply proper build order and use of TC bell?
>>746059446>getting married and having kids offends kikes THIS muchSeethe, demon worshipping child molestor.
>>746059379>>746059460Feudal rushes are common of course but you can counter them and focus on FCing
>>746059541Are you being ironical or unironical here? I can't tell.
>>746059572>ironical or unironicalcurse vishnu right now ESL-kun
>>746059379Post elo and playtime.
>>746059617Silence, dalit. I have nothing against le children btw I just think it's faggy how you "unironically" project your little tradlarp onto viper, like he needs you to tell him whether or not to play a video game (unironically?)
>>746059694>won't curse vishnuDon't you have some cow piss to be slurping right now, Patel?
>>746059460If you halt your entire economy because of a couple militia then I'd say the drush was pretty successful
>>746059763"Ironical" is the older and more proper form, by the way. I assume you're an educationally challenged burger... Anyway have fun thinking about indians eating shit or whatever else you've got planned.
>>746059935Have fun seething about kids and marriage and "proper grammar" on a Malaysian river-rafting forum.
>>746056770the amount of soulless cocksuckers in this thread demanding more dlc disgusts meyou can have my (you) instead of those clowns>the mona lisa isn't good enough, what if we add more paintI hate this faggot generation of gaming
>>746060024I'm not seething about any of that. I'm just calling you out for projecting your gay little larp onto my GOD viper
>>746060170You sure made it clear the word "unironically" made you very very angry, and I am unironically laughing my ass off at your sad life.
>>746060260I don't mind the word, I just find it funny when zoomies insert it everywhere when it's unnecessary. Nobody thinks you were "ironically" traplarping lil bro LMAO, it makes you sound like a retard
>>746060331You sound like a weenie.
>>746055171most of the pro scene are post 9/11 zoomers
>>746060137>the mona lisa isn't good enoughso why even make an AoE2? AoE1 wasn't good enough? you needed more?
i just hope they buff handcannoneers
>>746060704false equivalence, AoE1 covered a different time period and that was the point of the different games until 4 said fuck it and threw the idea out the windowjust accept that you like bloat and games jumping the shark
>>746060704>want a sequel? Well alright, but you have to accept endless DLC I want disingenuous niggers to be killed.
>>746060773They don't really need it. They just counter infantry which is not very popular (outside shit like goths)
>>746061721i think they need it. i like using it as my main gold unit
I lost interest when they started flooding the game with DEI mudhut tribal "empires." Aztecs and Mayans at the start were somewhat tolerable because they at least managed to build step pyramids, even if a man in a leather chicken costume outrunning a horse and surviving a hundred arrows was silly. Now it's just "here's this loincloth jungle nigger that lived in mudhuts! we made him op as fuck so you're forced to play him!"
>>746059460Just vill fight off the militia if you have greater numbers or small wall your res
>>746062725Yeah I remember Malians too.
>>746063087I mean the gbeto is fucking fake and never existed dei shit, but at least malians built things and had a functional "empire" centered around slavery. Mapuche never had shit.
>>746063256>but at least malians built thingsThey built one (1) mud temple. This is the pinnacle of African engineering, btw.
I wish these threads had people posting in them that actually play ranked and are in a non-retarded elo (above 1200)
>>746063403so opulent
>>746062725>surviving a hundred arrows was sillythe idea was always that whoever has shields (except for MAA and LS, heh) can tank arrows. I at least appreciate that eagles get countered by archers in feudal and arent half as good as knights against them in castle. It basically isnt until they are FUd with the unique techs in imperial and everything that they hard counter archers
also, bring me back my inca eagles, i fucking hate these champi pieces of shit, I refuse to play them
>>746063453>I wish only people who truly throated microsoft dong and bought all the DLCs would be allowed to post in my wallet-opening thread
>>746063453I'm 1172I've had like 5 chances to break 1200 but I always choke and go back to 1000.
>>746062107Well it's nobody's fault that you conveniently main the one gold unit that requires 0 upgrades. They are already half as good as arbs without requiring any of the research arbs require.
>>746064389i think they need a buff still. quicker reload, slightly cheaper, or maybe a quicker production time.
>>746062725t. Alberto Barbossa
>>746063453I'm finally able to beat extreme AI 1v1 but I'm too scared to go into rankedMaybe one day
>>746057562I'm happy that they added them because it opens to the doors to Aboriginals, and we can finally get some Australian representation.
>>746064919extreme AI is roughly the same as a 950-1000 elo player
>>746053432im back to HD, anyone else playing?
>>746054183I mean it IS AoE2
>>746065881in HD? rofl
>>746062725Age of Empires is about real historical societies, with their own campaigns for their specific periods of time. If you're a multiplayer nigger it's not our problem. You complain about "loincloth" Tupi fighting against technologically advanced civilizations in multiplayer but not fucking Huns or Romans against Turks or Portuguese with fucking gunpowder. You must have autism if this is really a problem for you.
>>746071590>but not fucking Huns or Romans against Turks or Portuguese with fucking gunpowderPeople are complaining about those too, where have you been?
>>746063453I wish compfags stopped pretending they mattered.
>>746053802While Lords of the West technically started the gimmicks, I think that Three Kingdoms has been an absolute disaster for later civ design.
