I didn’t say anything about a franchise. I quoted you calling people “outsiders” 
At this moment I don’t even care about graphics.
Even if the game is in pixels I would enjoy it if they release something interesting.
The game is too slugish.
Tons of people give feedback and for some reason seems like no one notice it.
No interaction with the community, not listen the community, nothing.
3 months waiting to see if they add something new to the game that will put it in some right directions and you see some tree that boost villagers and some whale that boost boat…
Now everyone expect the next big patch and we will see something like this.
Hey AOE fans, we have something interesting to showing you.
Next big patch will have tons of content
- find the bigger boar on the map and gather 5 times more than an usual boar
- find the big oak tree so you can have 5 times more wood gathering
- we want to make early game more addicting so we put EXTRA sheep
- horseman does 0.001 bonus dmg to villagers and walls receive 10hp nerf.
Each faction will receive unique stuff which will make their gameplay more unique
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HRE - priest buff duration + 3 extra second
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Delhi - Elephant + 1 armor
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French - Buff resource landmark so you can have various strategies to use . Now you can choose open knight or ram rush all in.
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English - we listen to the community, so we decide to make some changes. Longbow will receive -1 range nerf. Because of that their wood walls will be even tougher giving them strong fortification. That way turtle style wouldnt be possible to break !
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Rus - we want to make versatility of each civilization more and more distinct with each patch. Rus looks the APM civilization which fit to the faster players/ We want to push their multitasking even further adding +0.5 speed for knights !!!
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Mongols - the mongols are nomadic civilization, raiding and pillagin was their main goal. For this reason we give 10% tower attack speed. Now you can feel the nomadic culture.
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Abassyd - from the desert, the ancient abbasyd empire who live in the most harsh enviorment and are teached from kids how to survive in that kind of circumstances. Struggle for food and water is at his extreme.
The weather can kill you any time. But the food is food and has to be provided. For that reason we buff gathering berries for villagers +5%.
We hope this patch make every civ totally distinct from each other.
We listen your feedback and will push civilizations even further in the next big patch after 6 months.
Until then, have fun finding boar and the unique oak tree !
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Well, the council doesn’t balance test. That’s still done by Relic with additional help from Forgotten as Cysion said during this interview:
And tbh FE’s involvement could be seen in various aspects in the past as rams e.g. kinda evolved into the AoE 2 way with less armor on them.
Does the AoE franchise have to be doomed to what its fans who have been in the game for many years say or will it finally want to find a young audience?
Yes, or directly the chosen historical period does not suit the gameplay of Relic…
Yes, the idea is that they find a young audience, as it always was for the saga; the adults who played the saga were once also young; some started with AoE 1, others with AoE 2 at its climax, others a little later , with AoM and many like me, due to age issues, we started late in AoE 3…
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The video does not really improve the graphics of the game.
1st he did not change the in-game video settings.
In there, he needs to turn off the anti-aliasing. That way, the game is less blurry (for me and plus you get a lot of FPS for better image)
Then, in the Nvidia control panel, he needs to put the anti-aliasing settings to quality, 16x and saturation etc.
That way, you get the best possible graphics of the game.
The reshader he using is making the game graphic edges too thick and I don’t like it.
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all these suggestions are just boring and we get this kind of thing in all recent updates…
Towers are nomadic? wtf…
Learn history then suggest pls
Brother, whole thing that I wrote was sarcastic .
I was making a joke on how they work to make the civs feel more “ünique”
I guess some people like you don’t understand what sarcasm means.
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I qouted you ““they can’t make it look better”” on a game that needs to be done but cant because it wasnt well planified which the outsider which is ms and other ones tried to make it work but there a rerason why inhome dev are needed in this franchise and a nobody can do it. Thewy just needed to train more fe team to make an engine if needed
council organization is the current relic format to have the balance and brain storm. So there 2 scenario council is directly conected to relic whihc this is why they nerfed horsmen in that case and the other one is the lack of awareness of that a unique scenari doesnt mean is the real meta and the fixes to be done which was the case for the mine mentioned. you just made worse for relic
You’re making a lot of assumptions about in-house devs. You’re making a lot of assumptions about what it takes to “make an engine”.
Like I said, you can dislike what you want. But you seem to be going on about technical things you seem to have no idea about. I can’t have a discussion with that. Nobody can. It’s just your feelings about something. Vibes.
If you don’t want to play AoE IV, don’t. If you want V to be different, you can want that. But if you’re going to spout nonsense about how this game is made, sometimes I decide I’m going to call that out. For all the good it does 
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no engine to be done. if there a truth is that usinge bang engine still reliable for new aoes. no need to spend on fancy engine that may or not work.
number and bugs and limititation that you mentioned because is almost imposible to do replies ago says optherwise.
i want to make aoe 4 better but there ppl who cant realise and its number drop its increase only by an high price drop which is not organic say everything about this game current state. And ironically you start to gatekeep.
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Mate, can you tell me the name of the old age of empires games without looking it in google? BANG engine lmao? (pd : its not)
i dont understand you tbh, try using comas im serious now huh
Ironically as well, aoe4 is now again at 9k , same as the last year so really, is it a number drop when the number is still the same tho? Actually last year we were on 7k so it did increased.
still, it has not dropped since last YEAR LMAO
remenebr that the only thing that makes the number goes up is just a price drop because 20 bucks is the real price of this game
It has nothing to do with the point tho, the number hasnt dropped from the number of the last summer has it?
If Bang was workable, they’d have used Bang. I know it has a lot of love, for good reason. But there will be reasons they didn’t use it.
“just train people up” demonstrates exactly what you don’t understand. Engine development is a hugely specialised discipline. Engine-level programmers are (generally) the rarest and highest-paid devs in the industry.
And new civs, and additional polish. Population hasn’t gone down since late 2022 (numbers are surprisingly stable, month on month).
So, no, it’s not “inorganic”. Very funny to see a poster that says the game isn’t worth the money try and paint a price reduction as a negative. But you want to make the game better. Sure you do.
How did I lol? Please explain how. I didn’t say “don’t post”. I didn’t say “you can’t have an opinion”. You’re just on autopilot trying to throw words I used back at me. That’s not my problem, that’s on you.
a game cannot die when , no matter the stadistics you show me if the numbers from last year were the numbers of this year.
its the definition of “STABLE”
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