Mechanics and characteristics of Age of Empires 3, which should not be missing in Age of Empires 4

[KG19991380]

for better or worse, those of us that don’t want payed cosmetics are in minority, i’m expecting something similar to what starcraft II used (although its important to mention it only started selling cosmetics after going free to play)

[MatM1996]

@GoldenArmorX

MECHANICS THAT I WOULD MISS, AT LEAST FOR A MOD, OR SOME MAPS

1.- VARIED FAUNA.- Change the species of deer depending on the biome. Seriously, there are many species of deer, they are not the same. Also add wild creatures in levels and vary them depending on the biome:
Biome: European (E) African (Af) Asian (As), MesoAmerica(MA) Amazonas (Am), Andes (An)

• Tier livestock.- Goat, Turkey, Llamas, etc
• Tier Meat.- Deers (Everywhere), Zebra(Af), Giraffe(Af), Ñu(As), Ostrich (Af), Capibara (Lat)
• Tier 1 - wolves (E,As), baboons (Af), snakes (Lat, An)
• Tier 2 - Bears (E,As), tigers (As), jaguars (Lat), lions (Af), cougars (An)
• Tier 3 - Boar (E,As), Elephant (As,Af), they leave a lot of meat but are dangerous.

Forbidden animals to Find with the Explorer for balances: Consider that because some livestock is “halal” or not eated by some civs (Boar, pigs, cows) , probably is better that those animals would not be added to the ruminants that one finds on the map. But you could build them in the mill or stable if the civ has no problem with eating it (Mali with the cows).

I feel that at some point, they are going to have to include various types of animals, especially if they want to create a variety of biomes to make scenarios of Africa or South America. And they can, they have the mold designs from the AoE3.

2.- BANDITS.- Annoying in some areas of the map, it would be good if they guard sheep, relics or even sources of gold or stone, or even on the routes to the markets. It would be fun to kill them, and it is known that they were frequent in the middle ages.

3.- MERCENARIES.- Either as a camp on some maps or as a mercenary camp building of your own, to be able to choose extra units that help your civ in the part that pales, or to give more surprises to your rival. Historically, in the middle ages most armies always had mercenary companies, like the French Reutiers, or Swiss Guard for the HRE. Obviously the most used mercenaries will continue to be unique units, that’s obvious, for example, the HRE Lanquesnete (which costs 100 gold for that), or the Genoese Crossbowman if they use Italians.

I have a suspicion that at some point, when they decide to release expansion, to balance the European civs with the new civs, they will release more common units, like reviving the Petards (but with the model of Aoe3) , and the harasser/guerrilla.

Of course, this I consider very very important to give more life to the game…About the bandits the French and Rus campaigns showed a bit of that and it was fun and they gave you objetives to pay 1400 of gold to the bandits to stop their raids or raze the camps that had chests with resources in them…This can be traslated to mp too…

@TwinsenOdyssey

That my friend is a great post, sadly this needs work. Bandits as you said can guard artifacts, same as relics just with more interesting benefits. The devs work really slow and they stick to aoe 2 gameplay.

Of course, I think the same…

@FiveWind6951746

It kind of annoys me when people request AoE3 features in AoEIV. Why not just play AoE3DE?

It will be because AoE 4 is a 2021 game and loses in almost everything against its 2005 prequel…luckily little by little AoE 4 is rebounding, I played the map of Sahara in AoE 4 and it was nice and finally they deigned to put herds more than just 3 measly deer here and there…

[Jonossar]

No, the fact that they’re spending working hours on skins while the game is still lacking content and features is disgusting.

[DrMaxy4142]

?? What features is it missing ?
What content is it missing?

[TheConqueror753]

I’m sitting here scratching my head. Wouldn’t the original post answer this question, at least in the view of the original poster?

[KG19991380]

Spoilers, i’m in agreement here, i don’t like this anymore than you do, but there are too many braindead morons out there that just keep buying unfinished broken games and all their monetization for this crap to stop happening

[CagierNebula24]

What features from AOE3 s/b in AOE4?

All of them, starting with graphics.

[KG19991380]

dare i say #1 graphics and flora & fauna, the rest sort of depends of if a new approach would be better or not

[CagierNebula24]

The trees and plants in 4 look so fake.

[Jonossar]

AoE4 QOL Suggestions

Add resources per min next to the total number of villagers on each resource or let us toggle between either of them, the building menu could be reduced slightly to make up for some space for the additional information on the resources Don’t show just the total population. Show directly clearly visible total army, total economic and idle units The mouseover could then show Total villagers, fishing boats and trading units If you select more villagers than military units, it should show…

These are compilation of feature requests from replies on that thread and from various threads on the forum. Not all of them might be “missing” features but decide for yourself.

2. Mod support

Existing mods are too shallow and I suppose reason for that is technical unviability of modding the game aka. mod support.

3. Single player content

We finally got 2 new art of war missions and I think expecting more to come isn’t an ungrateful thing. Same goes for campaigns…

[Jonossar]

@KG19991380

there are too many braindead morons out there that just keep buying unfinished broken games and all their monetization for this crap to stop happening

I don’t think buying skins is a brainded move, nor the brainded customers of gaming industry is interested in AOE. I don’t think the target customers for skins are any spesific kind of players of the game like casual or competitive.

Personally as a competitive player myself I would like to see a landsknecht skin with the German noble dresses that they’re historically mostly depicted in, or Arabian man-at-arms skin(infantry and cavalry alike) with scale armor in which they’re mostly historically depicted… Anyway, you know where this is going…

What bugs me is them attemtping to this cash grab while there are tens if not hundreds of requests from both type of players.

Most requested features/fixes/whatever from casual players I’ve seen on forums;

1. AI fix
2. new missions and campaigns.
3. new game modes

Skins aren’t requested, or at least prioritizingly requested by any type of player from the playerbase.

[KG19991380]

my point is, they’re trying to save costs on development with the cosmetics, as they’re cheaper to produce than civ dlc, or campaign, i agree with your on point list of things that they should be doing, but we both know its money first, it technically always was, but now they can get away with way more than back in the day