I’m worriend about Auto scout on all scout units

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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I’m worried about the auto scouting option on all the scout units, a feature that came with the last aprils patch.

It seems to me that this is a bonus for those players who open scouts in many ways, and in the meanwhile, it keep pushing an Scout opening meta.

For example, players that go for a scout rush/opening and manage to keep 2 or more scouts alive after an early feudal fight, they can send them to auto scout the whole map (way more easily and efficiently that shift clicking), while players who go for an archers opening won’t be able to do it with their units (should all units have an auto scout option? I hope not).

On the other hand, on late castle or imperial age, a couple of scouts on auto scout could constantly found villager that were sneaked out for getting resources out of the base, find sneaking military buildings or anything that may be goin on in another place that where the fight is being held.

Maybe there is something that I don’t know or I’m not taking into consideration. If this is the case I apologize and I would like to know other people’s opinions. But it seems to me that is a feature that was ok the way it was and it comes to solve a problem we didn’t have and now it in-balances the game.

Sorry if not proper redaction, I’m not a English native speaker.

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As I recall, auto-scout is limited in that it only scouts unexplored areas of the map (it may move through already-explored areas, but it’s designed to search unexplored areas). So once the map is fully explored, it’s unusable. It might find sneak bases, but it wouldn’t be reliable for that (or even all that smart in how it scouts - manual scouting is more effective at finding previously unknown bases)

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Each time I used autoscoot, my scoot finish dead under a TC. So I don’t use it.

But autoscoot exists for years… Or there is something new about autoscooting ?

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Since April 30 the auto scout option is available for every scout unit and not only the starting one.

Meaning you can select a group of scout, activate the auto scout option and they will all go to different locations.

Of course a few may die to the TC but you’ll also get a huge part of the map explored for free with everything that comes with it.

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I haven’t check what happens when you have the whole map scouted, I thought that the scouts kept running around.

In any case, I still think it’s a big buff for everything that’s comes before getting to the complete map explored and how that won’t happen for players that go full archers, at least not at the same timing of the match.

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