Hey guys, I wanted to point you all toward a big reveal that I’ve spent years working towards: the Better Descriptions Mod. This tool is a perfect way to enhance everyone’s AoE3 experience, whether you’re a newcomer wanting to learn the game or a veteran wanting more details out of your tool tips. This mod overhauls the information that units, cards, techs, treasures, and more gives you. I would love for you guys to give it a spin and see what you think!
Check out the video reveal here: https://youtu.be/na8NkMZ6Hg4
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This mod is a mainstay in my load order, and I say this as someone who has been playing this game since 2005.
These Better mods should have been officially incorporated into the game before WE killed it.
Thanks Kaiser!
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They want us to use mods, and then dont bother to f**** promote a few from time to time.
Like once a month a mod promotion post…
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They didn’t promote anything, and I don’t expect that to change now.
With respect to the devs, 3DE is in better hands now.
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They are to busy proting aoe2 content 
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Essential mod. Everyone should install.
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However, this MOD seems to only support Western languages? It doesn’t seem to work in the Chinese environment.
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This mod only exists in languages where volunteers helped translate. I would love to have the mod available in Chinese, but that would require a Chinese player to be willing to do the translation work.
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Please Change the Food Wood Coin… to icons! And Unit Types to Icons for the better description! Thanks for understand!
Please no. Mods are great as they are. Icons aren’t great on aoe3.
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I think some games do both. Icons go after the word.
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You don’t understand what we’re talking about? The unit type icons need to be moved to the foreground for better readability about “damage bonus against unit”
I’m saying I’ve seen games say things like “gain +1 food (shows food symbol) from X.” One can use both the symbol and the word.
I’m guessing the idea some people prefer it in word form while others want quick readability (so do both).
Yeah makes sense to display redundant information.
Personnellement j’ai l’habitude des icônes pour les ressources.
The treasure descriptions that have been reworked with color coding are a great idea. That should be added to the official version of AoE3DE.
It’s nice to know that someone is creating mods dedicated to improving AoE3’s gameplay. Because modders are constantly creating mods with new civs that simply copy existing ones without adding anything new that significantly improves the game. With this mod, we’re taking a step forward.
Thanks for the new content and I hope you make more.
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Par contre je ne dis pas non plus pour la description des unités, leur points fort/faible et c’est pas mal je trouve
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Thank you! I am delighted (and a little envious) at what the good AoE3 modders can do, but you’re right that there’s a whole world of opportunity for improving the user experience. I can only hope that a bunch of people are able to try out the mod and enjoy AoE3 in a whole new way.
Unfortunately, the mod isn’t available in French. I don’t have anyone able to translate it. But if someone volunteered, I would be very happy to add a French translation!
Ne t’inquiète pas, généralement dans le milieu du modding, je fais partie des utilisateurs qui mettent souvent leur jeux en anglais parce que sinon c’est bien la galère, même si c’est de l’anglais le souci est que souvent ce sera soit du langage en codage informatique, soit des textes qui brillent par leur absence, d’ailleurs ça me force aussi à travailler un peu ma compréhension de l’anglais
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