Wasn’t too thrilled with the patch when I read the release notes. Not a fan of infantry, so the balance changes didn’t really appel to me. Also, I like luring deer, so that chicken thing… not a fan either. Had 0 expectations for the pathing; been here sooooooo many times, and it never improves (usually the opposite, actually).
So I started AOE2DE today, saw it was updating and thought “well… time to see if I’m going to be surprised and it turns out to be an improvement”. Gave it 2 games. Can’t handle it any more.
Pathing is waaaay worse than it’s ever been. The new animations make the game feel brand new, as in “it’s 1999 and the game just launched”; slow and unresponsive feeling. Getting huge lag spikes every couple of minutes.
Turns out, I didn’t even notice the balance changes, they are completely obscured by everything else feeling so horrible. I could be playing against an army of cobra cars desguised as archers, and still wouldn’t notice because of the pathing and the animations.
I’m heartbroken. I’ve played over 2000h. This is it for me. See you guys. Let me know when pathing is (maybe not fixed, or reasonable even, just…) acceptable again.
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