We recently announced that Age of Empires IV will have a Technical Stress Test from September 17th-20th PT. Read more about it on our Announcement Blog.
UPDATE: MS Store version is available for download now. Steam pre-registrations have fully rolled out; please check the Age of Empires IV Technical Stress Test Product in your Steam library. Thank you!
“The Technical Stress Test will contain only a portion of what Age of Empires IV will have to offer at release and more opportunities to showcase Age of Empires IV will be in the near future.”
Changes to the camera distance. Based on closed beta feedback, we have tweaked the maximum distance that the camera can zoom out. This allows for more visibility on-screen while you play.
Question - can we expect any thread with Dev response to closed beta/ forum feedback/ received surveys?
Not even in the context of the game in its v1.0 state, just in general going forward.
Can we at least appreciate that they did in fact listen to the feedback around the zoom out issue? Yes you are right we will see once we try it this weekend, but I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in this case.
I for one thought they would never address this issue but they did so that’s a good thing and if it isn’t what people want it, I’m sure they will continue to polish it until it is good.
Due the nature of this version “stress test”, i Hope developers improved the textures and not only the zoom. Many feedbacks in the closed beta were related to textures.
We’ll see.
I would not have interest to play with those textures.
That would indeed be a nice addition to the game but I highly doubt that this will be the case unless they have done that behind the scenes without telling us about it.
If they ever do this then it will most likely come post-launch with a DLC patch update or something like that. They listened regarding the zoom-out concerns, who knows they might do the same here but this requires probably more work than just changing the zoom-out capacity.