Since the Ottomans came out as a free dlc 1 year ago, I have been very critical of the developers about the landmark selections of the Ottomans and how the selected Sultanhanı Trade Network, Double Minaret Madrassa and Mehmed Armoury landmarks are irrelevant to the originals. The fact that the Ottomans are still forced to play these fabricated landmarks after 1 year and that the landmarks of the newly released Byzantines and Japanese, unlike the Ottomans, have been carefully selected and transferred to the game exactly in accordance with the originals, clearly shows that the developers do not care about the Ottomans because they came out as a free dlc. I really wonder how much time the developer who made the landmarks of the Ottomans spent while making them. Dear developers, I would like to say that you have lowered the quality of Age of 4 Empires by making these fabricated landmarks, because no other civilization in the game is so sloppy.
I think the devs did quite a good job here, vinifrss. I don’t see a difference in pattern from other landmarks designs as well. There are also more important things to adress, for example nerfing Ottomans in ranked matches or quality of life and UI fixes
I am not vinifrss. You are winifrss or whatever. If you dont see any difference, your art taste is bad.
They are not that strong 2 weeks ago no one used them i think some pro players found new strategy or something.I checked win rate at conqueror level players like %52.4 so its normal
Ottoman fast imperial is the new strategy…
The MIA needs a rework the other ones look okay in my opinion
If he rushes imperial then he has not have much standing army at feudal or castle right?You can gather some archers and rams and destroy him
They get free units from their military academies and then MIA. Once they get imperial units get trained really fast regardless of the state of their economy.
Now this is one thing I have to agree. These 3 landmarks at least, look extremely sloppy and poor, compared to the standards of the other civilizations and their real life architecture.
Especially the Twin Minaret Madrasa and the MIA should be improved urgent. It’s not too difficult to improve textures, size and basic design.
sure vinifrss. Ad hominem
they are among the strongest civs in ranked for months now and are overtuned in ranked matches, being now at the top
You are vinress. Just shut up.
What would you have them do exactly? All Landmarks occupy a roughly similar space so you cant make the footprint of the building bigger. They could add more domes to the Mehmed armoury but they would need to be shrunk to fit which might end of looking worse.
For perspective in this video they go through the HRE including all the landmarks (3.49 she starts talking about landmarks) and what they are based off and its obvious the buildings have been shrunk and simplified for the game. Ottomans are not being unfairly treated in this.
add the smoke stack domes give the domes and smokestacks blue tiling roofs add the arches on the top of the walls. the number of domes or size of the building is not the problem here.
Hre landmarks are better than Ottomans. Ottomans landmarks are the worst. Other civ land marks shine, they say that I am special building, Ottoman land marks are mere buildings. Mehmed İmperial Armoury is shi. Double Minaret Madrassa is bigger than game version. Devs make land marks simplier but Ottomans landmarks are beyond that they are mere shi buildings.
Neither of you are Vinifrss.
When I see Byzantines units, land marks and design, no one can say to me devs makes Ottoman landmarks and Ottoman Civ design good. I say again devs clearly makes Ottomans less efforts than ever. Devs becomes lazy making Ottoman civ.
sadly after i watch this drongos video i said to myself “wow I wish they had done the Ottomans like this”
it looks fun and various. as i understand we have a lot of possibilities not like ottoman landmarks.
Believe me man, I am not bias or fanatic, I show only what I see wrong about Ottomans. When players play the Byztantines and Japans, not bias players will understand me. Devs have given Byzantines so much units but dont give Ottomans even horse archers. This is beyond even absurdity.
The Ottomans have the same number of unique units though.
Ignoring the Byzantine mercenary system we don’t yet know how many unique mercenary units their are, or which civs they borrow unique units from as mercenaries. Also unique techs can alter how a generic unit looks and works. For example the HRE man-at-arms is basically a unique unit because of how drastically unique techs changes them.
A flamethrower ram sounds like they would get more use than the great bombard. all the revealed Byzantine unique units sound awesome and useful in multiple situations.
The Ottoman unique units in comparison are very niche.