-There is no A.I. to take over for players that drop in multi player. This ruins the game. Company of heroes 2 has this at least to try and help players on a team rather than 4 vers 3 etc…
-The game is still horribly unbalanced. Greek still is too powerful, building get destroyed by armies rendering siege impractical.
When they tried to make Company of Heroes 3, they ruined the game as they tried to rework something that was already proven successful. The AOM Retold is seriously going down the same road. Designers and support need to go back and apply what made AOM so fun and fix retold… Otherwise this game will just fade over time. Taking away the defence tower free upgrade for egypt is taking away from the origional game… STOP THINKING YOU ARE BETTER THAN THE PIONEERS THAT MADE THE FIRST HIT AND HONOUR THEM FOR THE RECIPE THEY HAD THAT MADE THE FIRST GAME SUCH A SUCCESS.. I’m pretty pissed you guys are blowing it!
The game was completely ruined when patch 18.33318 (Troll patch) was released—a patch nobody asked for. After its implementation, the entire game became utterly unbalanced and unpleasant. If you check the game’s statistics on Steam after the 18.33318 patch, you’ll see a significant drop in players. The developers had the terrible idea of trying to turn AOMR into AOE4, which is absurd because players had already grown accustomed to the existing gameplay and build orders. Modifying the game so drastically rendered all tutorials and build orders completely obsolete.
You never cease to amaze me with the skewed graphics, why hide the dates of the patch? Its almost as if the very big playerbase was long long ago and after that its been a steady loss of players with a peak after China DLC dropped.
You championg how norse needs archers and other changes to make it more similar to AOE, at least you now disagree with that i guess.
Its 1 villager less for every 5 villagers its not a new game.
Theres youtube videos for each and every single god there is in the game for build orders. And besides, if you dont care to even learn to adjust 1-2 things you can still play the previous build orders for most civs and they work fine for the level you are arguing for. No new player game is lost because you advanced 10-30 seconds before or after, thats far from where that optimization even matters.
To be honest , making AI take over the player who left does minimum. I think giving his resources and control to other players is better than giving AI. But people who leave are a massive problem in team games, There needs to be a deterrent for people to stop leaving early.
and about the previous game, I wasn’t able to play it online. The game either crashed, Desynced or was horribly laggy. All I can remember is that I always struggled with Norse against Atlanteans who had flying myth units age III. I think people who say that the OG game was a gem balance and design wise are correct but to say that Retold is worse is just absurd to me. Retold made the game a lot more friendlier towards casuals and it is a massive step in the right direction I hate having my villagers shifting sands’d under enemy TC. By the way I’m so glad this isn’t a thing anymore:
Since we my country is at war at the moment and I might be around any more I just want to take this off my chest:
The main reason RTS games are failing is that they are priotrizing 1v1 instead of team games. Although I don’t think AoM failed, I think AoM even over performed slightly than their expectations especially in PS5.
Some people have mental conditions that makes it hard or even impossible to relate to other people.
They can’t understand that other people can have different conclusions from the same conditions. They think that they can convince someone of something that is practically just a taste.
You can argue as much as you want to about how much you like bananas and how healthy they are, I won’t eat them because I don’t like how they taste. Simply as that.
Fortresses having high HP changes the game but there is no objective way of saying that this is a good or bad thing.
Some people want the game to be slower and some want it to be faster. You can’t convince people that their opinion is “wrong” because neither opinion is right or wrong.
But some people are very convinced that the only reason why most people disagree with them is because there has to be a silent majority that agrees with them. They can’t accept that they might just be a loud minority.
Oh for sure taste is subjective. Not here to convince people X is better and they should like it. I mostly just reply on around 3 things
Support things i like in terms of taste
Give my 2 cents regarding balancing ideas
Reply to people who show skewed or poorly made data to try to show something for it, hiding details in hopes people who dont know better believe it.
Yea, and i have no issue with that unless (keeping the example) you start going on about how bananas cause X or Y disease and thus no one should eat them (spreading fake information).
Oh for sure, i myself dont like so much this patch, but to show the start of retold, then the steady decrease in players (with a peak on the chna releaase) and then claim its all because of 1 patch is wild, plus cutting the image to hide the dates of the patches to group them up together.
100% with you, we saw it in another post about speaking for majorities then finding out said majority doesnt exist.
I was replying to you but not talking about you btw.
To many people have the “you are not living your life correctly” mindset towards other people. Thinking that they need to tell others how they are supposed to enjoy a game.
It was referring to people in this forum or other places in general, not just one person.
Like for example the Ottoman/Turk posters that want a game that is entirely build around their favourite civilisation, every post they make goes back to making their favourite civilisation stronger.
Or the whole constant Singleplayer vs. Multiplayer argument. People somehow always think they have to be in the bigger more important group.
And when they get criticised they thing they are part of the silent majority.
Many such cases. We have two with opposite opinions in this thread.
