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Ephera, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

So, a few years back, I checked out this game made by a community of AoE2 fans.
I figured, I’ve played RTSs before, normal difficulty for the AI should be fine.

Man, never have I gotten my ass handed to me so quickly. The AI rushed me before I even had the thought of building defenses. It just slaughtered my whole village.

Anyways, I did enjoy the game after setting the AI to very easy and giving myself an AI ally. 🫠


The game is free, no strings attached, so here is your legally required ad segment: play0ad.com

Suffa, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

I loved cheering in ApE, furious George and the sports car were great.

Lennny,

How do you turn this on intensifies

ImplyingImplications, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

The computer was probably cheating too. Creating AI that understands the strategy of resource management is hard so most devs just give the computer a steady stream of resources and faster build times. That way the computer doesn’t need to worry about planning, they can just spam build.

Batman,

It’s a lot less noticable these days I will say. And I even see my hard boys acting differently than my friends hard boys. Meaning they adapt somewhat to my testudo ways

Crackhappy,
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“my hard boys”

idunnololz,
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Apparently the AI in AoE2: DE does not cheat. They did in the original though.

42yeah, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

You can literally summon futuristic soldiers with laser guns in AoE4. One shots pretty much everything AND can take down a whole TC solo.

HuntressHimbo,
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You could actually get laser boys, nuke gunners, and machine gun cars in the first title too!

andrew_bidlaw,
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Wait, what? I’m a wololo guy who got set with the second game years ago so I didn’t know the first one has that.

lime,
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yeah, in aoe1 there’s a laser gun guy (“photon man”), a car that shoots rockets, archers that look like trees when standing still and can walk on water, and a catapult that fires cows

andrew_bidlaw,
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mind: blown

I need to look into that. Is that in original and how it translates to remasters?

lime,
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did they ever remaster the first game? don’t think it’s in the sequels anyway

andrew_bidlaw, (edited )
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DE did cover it too.

On August 19, 2019, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition re-released with a new client on both the Windows Store and Steam, with cross-play available between the two platforms. Existing Windows Store players need to manually download the new client in order to receive game updates and multiplayer compatibility. At the same time, Age of Empires: Definitive Edition has also become available through Xbox Game Pass for PC.

IIRC AoE2 had like three remasters: HD one, DE and something else. AoE had at least one of those.

samus12345, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age
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Kryptonidas, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

In Rise of Nations you can use weapons from future ages without cheating against your opponents 😊

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w Day 93 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots

Just cause 2 was such a banger of a game. Part 3 was such a letdown for me because half of the map was empty. Such a ashame because the gameplay additions were really cool. My dream sequel would have been the gameplay of 3 with the map of 4.

tobz619,

I think tying unlocks to sanitised challenges was what made 3 unenjoyable for me

In 2 I would just play the game and naturally unlock stuff, whereas in 3, the unlock to another rocket c4 was tied to destroying some random military base in a time limit that didn’t even shoot back.

MarcomachtKuchen,

Yeah the unlocks were not a great design choice

lime, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age
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photon man

DoucheBagMcSwag,

CONVERT THIS

aeronmelon, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

Hittites: “We have all but routed the Mongols.”

sports car engine turning over

Hittites: “What was that sound?”

Renacles, do games w Random Screenshots of my Games #26 - Pumpkin Jack

Don’t forget how awesome the soundtrack is

ininewcrow, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age
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“robin hood”
“lumberjack”
“cheese steak jimmy’s”
“rock on”

ininewcrow,
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… and the one I always forget … and only use when I get bored and run out of time …

“how do you turn this on”

Kolanaki, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age
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>TUK TUK TUK

Crush your enemies with The Undertaker this SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!

TheLowestStone, do games w My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels
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For the best experience, do you recommend playing the demo or waiting for full release?

Road_Warrior_10,

The demo is like a prologue level. Definitely play it. It will not spoil anything, it adds to the experience as you learn some stuff about The Dev (within the game world)

TheLowestStone,
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Ok. I’ll install it later.

Omgboom, do gaming w Welcome to the modern age

One of my favorite things to do in Crusader Kings II is to play as God. First select a character, use console commands to make them an immortal demi god. Step 2 type in observe into the console so you can just watch how it plays out. Then come back a few hours later to see what your champion has accomplished.

mrsgreenpotato, do games w My wacky indie game has reached 6000 wishlists, I made this meme to explain how it feels

How did you reach 6k? Do you think that something in particular helped you get there this time?

I’m also working on my first release - Bedroom Battlegrounds and I got just about 1k wishlists and I’m hard stuck 😅

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