AoE Survey conducted by Microsoft

Age of Empires III: DE III - Discussion
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Hello there,

On Steam under AOE3 DE there is a following info about AoE games survey:

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There are a lot of questions about AoE games there. I think it is a great oportunity to say a few words and express our opinion. Request for more communication, official tournaments, praise our devs or whatever we feel appropriate. I think we all should fill it and hope Microsoft will consider our opinion.

Edit: For whatever stupid reason I can’t paste a screenshot of Steam page nor link to the survey. You need to enter it yourself.

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I got banned from answering just because I work in the games industry :,(

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You’ve lost a little. Half of the questions there were about campaigns that I played in 2012 and I don’t remember a damn thing…

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Apparently the Survey is for all the games in the franchise in general.

In one part they ask about the cinematics of AoE2, and if we like realism or stylized surreal art for the units design (For a historical game of this franchise, OBVIOUSLY REALISM IS THE ONLY CHOICE).

The most useful part has to be the final one where they ask what is the only thing they would change about the franchise and what are their ideas that could help improve the games as they are now,

Here I give some ideas to improve the weight of our desires in the last question. You can apport more ideas:

Age of Empires 2 DE:

  • 1.- Improve the direction of the units when walking/patting: Seriously, it’s become annoying that was great a few patches ago, and now units get lost when going straight to a point, they can’t even move in a straight line.

  • 2.- Siege Tower with a attack aggainst walls: You could make the AoE-II and AoE-IV Siege Towers acquire a “Minimum” siege attack against walls, it would increase their use and have a historical function that the towers always had: Break down walls. They would then be the cheap option for the battering ram but to knock down walls and cause panic on top of them at the same time. When Age of Mythology: Retold comes out and lots of Siege towers subtypes with siege attacks appear, people who play AoE2 and Aoe4 will wonder why theirs don’t do the same.

Age of Empires 3 DE:

  • 1.- More events apart of the Monthly Hero.- We were waiting many months since the last year without more events that the monthly hero. Please, another temathic event would be appreciated, at least for a change.

Age of Empires 4:
Many suggestions for AoE IV:

  • 1.- More fauna, more types of animals per biome (Bears, lions, tigers, elephants, etc.).

  • 2.- For Japanese: Change the Ashigaru Handcannoner for Ashigaru Gunner / Ashigaru Arquebusier or whatever you want to call it, but have the blessed Japanese Tanegashima harquebus. If they do Japanese campaigning, it will be pretty obvious when they get to the Nobunaga or Hideyoshi part and have to do visuals, that the Japanese had harquebusiers, not handcannons.

  • 3.- Tercio Pikeman, Tercio Arquebusier for a Spanish Civ: If Spain become a civilization for AoE IV, please make them to have Tercio Pikemen in the IV age (as an improvement to the Spearman or as an extra unique unit), and Tercio Arquebusiers as a unique light infantry gunpowder range unit.

  • 4.- More unique units necessary for historic representation, specially with certains civs, as Ottomans that still didn’t have horse archers (at least AKINCI, please), but either would have Azap, Kapikulu and Deli.

  • 5.- Maybe a Militia unit or a light swordman for every civ, which would be a cheap melee dark age option aggainst spearmans, weak aggainst archers or even horseman.

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