Expand Section 3 - Custom Scenarios
- I do too secretly 11 when CS lobbies do not fill, up but then I am struck with a moment of sorrow - what if that was me? But then I usually just shrug it off and close the game altogether.
- I definitely do not enjoy CBA, it saddens me to see that this is all the wide world of AoE2 seems to know. One day, I swear, one day it will be cast down into the abyss!
- Even if a lot know what is CBA and know how to play it, not that many would choose it over Empire Wars. I am not convinced either that CBA deserves a spot aside Ranked MM like RM or the upcoming EW, but I do not really consider EW any better than CBA either. Feels like deadcontent, to be honest. At least you have a dedicated playerbase who have stayed true to CBA for years on end and casuals can join the chill and relaxed lobby for quick fun. You cannot say the same for Empire Wars. Thus, I feel like from two evils Empire Wars is being pampered, but in reality should be thrown into mud. Just my unfair and judgemental opinion on the matter.
- Now, believe me, I had no special insider information that Rated Custom Lobbies are going to be a thing, so this question was just provided as a follow-up for the above to see how much the choices are going to shift.
- But I do believe that once Death Match gets its Ladder that can be chosen in the Lobby Browser, Custom Scenario (as a whole) should get one as well, so that communities that want can track their Win/Loss and rating. Since there are established communities that play fixed rotation of scenarios competitively. Or just CBA players that play CBA exclusively and want to have a more competitive game than normal. They should be given the opportunity with rated Custom Scenario Custom Lobbies.
- Well, this went as expected, many loathe Custom Scenarios and do not see any charm in them. Naturally it is not the game mode of AoE II and fitting for people to rather choose Random Map or nothing.
- Else it was interesting to see Bloods not get picked, perhaps Castle Bloods have fully surpassed Bloods in glory now finally?
- Reasonable again to see Tower Defence, MOBA and Fixed Force Battles with low picks as you could rather play a different game, that are arguably better than these scenarios in AoE II. As these genres are not exclusive to AoE II and are widely available.
- Acknowledge the bias of multiple options being allowed.
- Custom Scenarios offer quick fun and interesting gameplay for a change. Something that should be sought for every now and then. But a lot of them can be also practiced to perfection and used competitively - in the olden days even supplied with tournaments that give bragging rights to warring clans.
The next question was the following:
What kind of Custom Scenario you think should exist in AoE II DE?
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"(Something I’m working on) every player can pick a civ that has not been picked. Then you gain control of an associated city on a real world map. From a city you can make the associated civ’s unique unit and a couple units they specialise in. As well as being able to research their unique techs. Their civ bonuses would apply to their city and team bonuses to all city that players controls. You can capture cities by destroying their wonder. Once you’ve lost all your cities and units you lose the game. Each city also gives pop space and a passive resource generation based on that’s civ’s
Eco techs."
1v1 standard RM Arabia (oh wait it does)
6/7-player Coop survival vs AI (real AI and not just some trigger "attack move" on spawned units)
a custom scenario that adds 10 more ages and new units from prehistoric clubmen to robots and â– â– â– â– , and do NOT forget dragoons
a diplomacy cs with indivitual task so on2 might win or people in a team win together
A good one that doesn't bring hate from other people
a more easily accessible and advanced Hunter vs Prey mode
A pilgrims-like map with random generation already occupied by AI forces that the players must deal with in addition to each other.
A super fun CS that's just relaxing and has great map design and such.
Aaaah, now I get what you are asking for :D Not custom campaigns, but custom scenarios. Damn, you can prolly disregard my previous answers.
abuki's vs vikings
all
All
Ananas
any and all
Apart from the Deathmatch tutorial I'm working on, I can't think of any I'd like to see added to the game. However, I know that someone somewhere is working on their own custom scenario gamemode that may make waves someday.
Art of Defence/Tower Defence
beautiful diplo maps built with systems to prevent egregious booming (food system for vils, gold system for troops?)
Boom Challenges
BRING BACK STARSHIP TROOPERS AND HEROFEST YOU COWARDS
Build Order Race (Wonderrace with Cicero-like BOs)
Building the best army with a set amount of resources
Calabozos y Mazmorras con la posibilidad de tener inventario y subir de nivel
Campaigns
Campaigns
Can't think of anything
CBA
CBA
CBA
CBA
Cba cba cba
Chaos blood
Co-Op
Competitive or Fun ones
Competitively viable ones, CBA is good but too reliant on random civs
Coop, diplomacy
Current stuff are fine
Custom co-op campaigns
Diplo maps
Don't know
Don't know
Don't know
Don't know
don't know any except cba but this survey is great I have a lot more to investigate now !
Dont know
Dont know
Dunno there already are lots
Enough with the custom scenarios i'm not even suro of what they are 11
Fight against the evil tyrant.
Footman frienzy
fun scenarios, whacky game modes
Game of Thones and LOTR citadel are both amazing I would love to see a Skyrim diplo
game of thrones related, i dont know, not an expert in these scenarios
Gwarz
Hellfire
hunter vs prey
I do not play CS, so I have no opinions on this.
I don't know.
I don’t know
I dunno
I have no idea 11
I just want Zoo Blood for DE
I like build and conquer plus surprise moment (invasion, change of alliance etc, buying loyalty etc)
I think most topics have been done, can't think of anything new right now.
I'd love to see the Team TD series ported to DE
Id just like players to actually play existing CS maps in AOE2 DE so i can participate(Time zone problems - if there are any)
Idk
idk
idk
IDK
Idk
idk
Idk
idk
idk honestly, maybe some territory defense vs 6 players?
idk what custom scenarios are like, having never played one, but I'd like one with a lot of triggers.
Large multiplayer campaigns
Large scale battles(more than 200 units a side) that requires more strategic and tactical choices.
Line Tower Wars (lilke in War Craft 3)
Lord of the Rings
Lost kingdoms ( wc3 scenario)
LoTR
lotr mod a lot more lotr scenarios would cime
Manu types
Maps that enable units that aren't archers and knights.
Maybe some kind of They Are Billions mode (building a base against hordes of enemies). Maybe even in Coop.
Maze Tower Defence
Micro battle arena
Mini game like tower defense when u have specific goal
Mini games (max10 mins)
Modern Warfare (working on it)
More accurate world/part of the world maps for people who like them.
More chill RPGs and historical single player maps, Microsoft needs to update their mod section to include and sort by reviews (5* system like aokh)
More co-op RPG style ones
More diplo options
More from the original MSN Zone days
More historically based ones.
More History base Build and Destroy
More micro scenarios with bigger army
More mistery/suspense scenarios, as everything seems to already exist
More ones about medieval Europe rather than Roman Europe
more prebuilt traditional diplomacies cus reading is hard
More RPgs ones
More scenario Diplo
More tower defense types, etc
More, more, more cannibal escape
Multiplayer for most of the camapigns, there great
N/A
Na
No eco just army control
No idea
no idea
No idea
No idea, I don't really play them
No idea, I'm not a creative person
none
None
None
None, CS place is on the bad platforms such as HD and Voobly
Not really sure
Not really sure yet
Not sure
Not sure
Nothing
official diplo/ffa scenarios ranked lobbies
Perhaps a diplo scenario with AI involved in it. For example, normal diplo but with 1-2 AI that constantly harass all players.
Please
probably the clasic CBA and such, mostly fast paced scenarios with not much complexity, i don't know, i don't play MP scenarios.
pudge wars
PvE raiding style
Ranked classic eu diplo
roll the dice
RPG's, MOBA games like RTD, fun scenario's
RTD
Russian history, or Shroud of Turin, or Holy Cross Relic, or Holy Grail
Scenario which are like coop Campaign but you compete with each other who does complete more quest in a sertain time
Scenarios that go deeper into traing people for ranked games (like the interaktiv buildorder mod, but multiplayer and for water maps as well)
Semi-Fixed Force (i.e. limited resources to train an army, perhaps with unconventional ways to earn more resources)
Short, fun 10-minute games.
Single Player
Single player scenarios
Skip
Skirmish
Some more better custom campains and less and i mean LESS BUGGY RPGS
some that people enjoy
Something like uther party, polar scape, run kitty and element td from WC3.
Something where you have the option to conquer bases without destroying them
The best ones are the build order scenarios. Again more links with improving multiplayer skills (some others may exist but I am either not aware of or I simply favour practice in game)
The big thing I have wanted for a while is more coop campaigns (which is now coming)
The Colosseum type scenario like in AOE 3
The ones that already exist are good enough for me
There are already, but few people plays it. Pre-built HISTORIC diplomacy scenarios (not about lotr or those bullshits) with presetted objectives to win, like The Fall of Khwarazm, 100 Years War, Italian Wars, Struggle at the Balkans, etc.
Those that are needed already exist
Tower defence against Extreme AI
Trigger Heavy
TTF Racing is definitely missing.
TTF Racing. Blood maps.
Unfortunately we don't have unit abilities, otherwise something similar to Warcraft's/Starcraft's Hero Line Wars could be fun.
Warhammer Fantasy, Warhammer 40k, something something, or a scenario with Total War mechanics.
Whatever I gave my answer already
WW2 Map, WW1 Map idk
zombie defense, very limiting resource one, need to loot / move base every round
- Was an obligatory question, therefore beware of chaff.
- Very interesting ideas, though some of which already exist, but currently only in the old games and noone has taken up arms to port them over properly. A lot of work that is. Though, I spy a lot of potential for future scenarios here. Perhaps I will steal this Modern Warfare idea, which ever scenario designer submitted this, YOINKS.
The next question was the following:
If you could change something in any Custom Scenario, what update would it receive? (skippable)
ban icey domedome and randus forever, bring back andi, make yigit own citadel and bomber own AoD
Battle Royale should have military buildings on every base.
Better balance for CBA
CBA --> balancing
CBA would get GENERIC, without 24501 different types of games and relics and click here and click there omg
different difficulty selection
Editting unit stats so they can exceed 1100
elo
Elo system to be able to play at high level.
faster download :) lobby bug fix
Fix CBA balance
For it to not crash when you load into the game
Get rid of king cba
Graphics
I would delete CBA for EVERYONE!
i would finish randus western monument diplo
I would like to see added new trigger that removes glowing effect from heroes. Therefore I could use them as standard units in my scenarios.
I, as a scenario developer myself, know that sometimes a scenario reaches a peak on its development and should be left as it is. This could be either because people lost interest on it or the scenario editor/genie engine limits the creative capability of scenario developers.
idk
Insta fill up lobby and NO IDIOTS
LAG
less reading in hints
Make it so techs actually affect heroes and â– â– â– â– and this gives away who i am
make them more reliable so they don't crash 20 times before getting into the game
micro mania: more stages, or more players
Microsoft needs to update their mod section to include and sort by reviews (5* system like aokh)
No new DE civs
Put CBA in recycle bin and put Archer Blood in its place
Spawn killing
Stay in the list of Custom Scenario after leaving another custom scenario
To be honest, as a player who rarely plays Custom scenarios, I'm never aware of the rules and in general good strategies. A way to implement that would be nice.
TTF racing would have a pac man gamemode
turks vs abuki's
Unit statistics
You mean MP or SP ones? I love myself some good Ulio and such scenarios (single player scnearios / campaigns )
- I would delete CBA too for everyone, just so that other scenarios would have a chance. Be the change you want to see - DELETE CBA today!
- These were included to see how many people know anything about the scenario editor and of course to spot out how many professional scenario designers decided to take this survey. By the looks of it up to 40. Thus, if you read before my initial estimate of 15 to 25% who probably deem this survey relevant is based on this. Just something for my information. You would not understand, nor need to know. Now get back to scrolling you peon!
The next question was the following:
What is your most favourite Custom Scenario? (skippable)
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Jurassic Park, Monuments diplo, eu diplo, icey & fire Got"
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25 Micro Battles - Early Castle Age
abuki's vs citadel
Alpha Grom HD
any Il Covenanti map
Archer Blood
Battle Royale
Black Death Lake RPG
Build orders
Cannbal Escape Lite (Freak's Version, version 8+)
Cannibal escape
Cannibal Escape
Cannibal Escape
Cannibal escape
Cannibal Escape, Horde survival, CBA
Cannibal Escape!
Cba
CBA
CBA
CBA
CBA
CBA
Cba
CBA
CBA for chilling, historical content for spending a good time
CBA Hero variant, Overlord
CBA or those Diplomacy Pre-Built Maps within an historic context.
Chaos blood
Diabo rpg
Diplomacy
Dodgeball
Dodgeball, Dota, TTF, TTD v4 - Teams(Old map)
Dodgeball, ttf racing
Dodgeball!
Dome blood - Cba hero
Drusus and Tiberius (AOE1)
dunno
Exploding Birds Nothing
Game of Thrones/SongofIceyandFire
Grave Blood team 4v4
I dont know
I usually enjoy playing RPG, CBA or RTD types of custom scenarios.
If you include campaigns, the second scenario of kotyan khan! Otherwise diplomacy games.
Invictus's warhammer map I played one time, it was fun and cool.
Komenos by (phillydelphia?)
Lord Basse's Gwindlegard series
Lord of the Rings
Maps like Western Monument diplomacy
Mare Nostrum
Maybe some RPG I played during the zone days
Medieval RPG
Mini cats & mice
monooments
My own version of Barbarossa
On DE, currently KingTe (YuanShao)
Philthydelphia
Roll The Dice
Roll The Dice
Silmarillion
Single player custom campaigns
Skip
So far anicent tower defence
Song of Icey and Fire v73
Td sounds cool. Will try
The Latean Project
TTF racing
TTF racing and Roll the Dice
UDP (U Da Prey)
Vlad Dracula (2004) on heavengames
Western Europe Diplomacy
When the Wheel Breaks - Chapter 1 - The Prophecy
You already asked, or?
Zombies Awakening
- Looks like Cannibal Escape is making waves side by side CBA. People also have not forgotten TTF and Dodgeball. Though, I admit it is interesting to see variety on the list. Perhaps you are a CS player and looking for something new to play? Well look no more, here is a community made list for you. Use it wisely.
The next question was the following:
What do you like the most about Custom Scenarios? (skippable)
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Ability to be used for training
Amazing micro
As a single player custom scenario player, I'd say for me most of them are a relaxed aoe2 game for when you don't want the MP tension of the game, while getting to experience something cool / good loking
Assymetry
Chill
Complexity and attention to detail
Cool gimmicks and not afraid to experiment
Creativity
Creativity
Creativity
custom contents, assets, creative maps, interactive storytelling
Different gameplay
Every custom scenario is a new game.
fun alternative
Fun and relaxing compared to RM
Fun game play
Fun, variable, chaotic
Gameplay/creativity
I like that you can pretty much make any game mode that could fit into the Age of Empires 2 formula. There's all sorts of things like custom diplo maps to CBA to RPGs that are a nice break from playing DM all day.
I played them when I just wanted to chill
Icey
Innovation and humour
It can be anything
It's fun, cool strats
less stressful than ranked; nice opportunity to play with less experienced players on an even ground
New ways to play AoE2
no pressure since i can play non fixed team diplo/ffa
Play with all units
Players ideas
Side objectives
Simple Map
Single focused, unlike managing eco, keeping tabs on production buildings, microing on RM/DM - Best for chill games
skip
that i actually understand the gmae because i create them as well as play them
That it takes new strategy to master it
the convivial play
The different change of gameplay
The fact that you can do most anything with them. You can make them historical or completely unrealistic.
The innovation, complexity, and sheer effort put into some of the maps
The map
The possibility to get away from random maps and their build orders, early agression, competitivity, etc.
the randomness and roleplay
The sheer amount of variety
The stories
The stories and replayability, the customisation and uniqueness.
the stories people come up with and the creative ways they convey these stories (mechanics, map design etc.)
The tactical aspect is very similar to RM, but it's much easier to fight with big armies (for example CBA, where you don't need to spend time on economy but just instantly fight with armies of 60-80 units).
The variety and randomness of what takes place within the diplo and almost constant fighting between some players
They aren't serious and the quests are interesting and most of the time they require little skill land you can just â– â– â– â– around
They feel way more casual and social than standard ranked games.
They're challenging but rewarding
They're fun
theyre fun
toxicity
Unique games
Unit creation triggers
Watching others' playing them
when abuki's are better than everything
Writing triggers is fun, its a challenge to think how to do certain tasks using the limited functionality
You can create your own minigame and have a platform ready to support it
- I think StarCraft 2 nailed their name of Arcade. Fun, unique and creative gameplay that is out of the box and different from basic RM, people look for change when they have played too much of the same old same old. If you played a different Custom Scenario or Campaign every day, you would probably start running out in like 20 years. That is how much of them exist, and potentially all of them could be different, though that is not really that true. But Custom Scenarios do offer very unique ways to play and some of them do not exist outside this game at all.
The next question was the following:
I would play Custom Scenarios more, if they had this in them (skippable)
A bigger community
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Better AI & custom graphics
Better map sharing and downloading.
bruh
Cash
CBA and Rambit CB not being the only Bloods still being played
Chaos blood
Christianity
Custom OST
Easy to play from the get go. Easy transfer, easy hosting etc.
Explanation by cinematic intro
Faster download speed for heavy data mods (its extremely slow atm, pls fix)
fill faster lobbies
fill up lobby and STEAM WORKSHOP FFS
I only play custom scenario's
idk
IDK i only play CS
If i had time for it, I still have a big list of campaigns and scenarios to play.
If my friends played them more often
Less buggy
Maybe
more people hosted better ones
More players, please! I beggeth!
more yigits
Multiplayer training elements
No new DE civs
Players! even better ranked(useless if theres no players to play it)(kinda complex what map gets ranked on DE)
Quality people playing them
Ranked elo so noobs don't ruin lobbies
Ranking system / Elo
Relaxing gameplay and good map design.
replayvalue: some scenarios tend to get dull once you played them a couple times
RPGS AND GOOD STUFFS
Skip
The ability to conquer bases without destroying them
Touched upon historical events (most are fantasy based). more akin to the normal gameplay usually found in Ranked/Diplomacy.
Tutorials.
- Yes, more people, that would help. Anyway, I am getting tired and there is not much to say. So, LOL, ggnoreIgoeat, I guess?
The next question was the following:
Free form entry about Custom Scenarios (skippable)
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BRING BACK PAINTBALL, STARSHIP TROOPERS, OTHER BLOODS, AND OTHER RPGS YOU COWARDS
CBA is best game mode (I'm a CBA pro hahah)
Custom Scenarios suck almost all of the known AoEZone people who predomidently play them range from annoying to straight bad people
custom scnearios fill too slow, i gave up hosting
FIRST
â– â– â– â– rm
HDs lobby system made it much much easier to host custom scenarios
Honestly Icey exists so I'm sorry, no. If Icey were to suddenly cease to have all power or internet service I might play more :)
I knnow nothing about custom scenarios, i didn't understand a single question 11
i often pick up new aoe players and teach them the game, cs has some good resources to teach them with, as well as some fun games to wind down and have fun with them on somewhat equal footing, i hope the community with expand on these features
I spend a lot of time on creating my historical scenarios, but I don't know how to programm AI, so I had to left them.
I've never played one created by anyone other than myself (being prohibited to do anything multiplayer), but I have made a couple and just might get back into making them after being reminded of it by this survey :)
"Icey did nothing wrong!
jk, he can be very challenging to deal with"
idk
Just for context when I have ticked yes to knowing triggers I only mean very basic ones such as having villagers collecting resources.
Made them in 2000s to play with friends
Mods are what keep games (especially old ones) and the AOE community alive.
MY JAPAN MAP IS COMING BE READY!!!! gonna be almost 2k triggers
Overall they are fun
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The main idea I have about Custom Scenarios not being so popular is because the game doesn't help much when it comes to advertising them. To find scenarios you need to go to the mods tab and browse with the "scenario" filter, which is a lot. Even then, only the most downloaded and liked scenarios are highlighted since they are at the top of the list, causing many interesting custom scenarios to receive almost no attention. HD edition had its mod workshop on Steam, and this helped new content to be discovered since the Steam Workshop showcases the trending mods of the week. Actually, my only scenario for HD edition made it top of the list back then and got hundreds of downloads the first week thanks to this. We could really use something similar.
The scenario editor is a powerful tool, and I love how people have been using it over the years to introduce new game modes.
Tower Defence and micromania are cool as well
Wololo
Yes
yo mama
*Yes, I am going to WOLOLO yo mama into idk. Bye!
This concludes the Custom Scenario section.
Brave of you to read it all, if you did or you are going to. I had to, might suffer some form of mental illness soon.
Either way, stay tuned. The scenario designers are hoping to reach out to wider crowds and engage with the community. See you in the battlefield!
