I think first priority should be blood and gore… that is really essential
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not really, it can be added with mods, trust me, there will be someone doing that in the very first day of realease lol. CRew on sieges weapons could not be added with mods. At least should be an option to enable or disable them. At this point of the game the siege machines are killing the inmersion of the game, it has very gergous graphics and sound design like to ignore the importance of them…
Mods are horrible to add features to a game.
While the modders make sure that their mods are compatible with the game, they don’t check if it is compatible with other mods.
And judging by how many problems are with this game, you’d want a lot
If mods.
So things that should be core like blood should be either in the game or come as a official DLC. So that in every update the onus is not on the modder to update their mods, but on the official developers to include it in their updates.
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well having the option to disable or enable would be a nice option. But if we dont have something basic like crew on siege I doubt we get blood … I miss those old games when CoH added mutilations after explotions. That was amazing and miss it a lot in all modern RTS games.
Do we really need another thread about this? There are like half a dozen already.
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I think we need to keep in mind that creating new models, textures, and rigging on top of making the new animations takes a ton of time and work.
With 11 days till release, I doubt this will implemented. However, since it is a game, I’m one of the few with the opinion that having crew does not matter. Unpopular opinion I know, but I just dont think it is that important, especially when it comes to playing the game. Just my 2 cents 
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Honestly I wouldn’t even be so sure of that. I bet many, many people do not care about having them.
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Then, don’t buy the game or buy it on a VERY DEEP sale. Buyers are entitled to nothing but how they want to spend their money. Relic/World’s Edge following Age 2, and Age 4 is Age 2.5.
I, in turn, can say that I do not see most of these “complaints”, at least in the Russian-language segment of resources.
My opinion has not changed, it is a useless, meaningless thing that does not help the game to become better, and can even make it worse.
PS
I want to remind you that before citing any poll results from this forum, you need to report that 2-3% of the entire AoE community is located here, the game covers many millions of players who do not have time or desire to sit on the forums.
Thats okay if its your opinion, I would like you tell me one single game where you can say it made the game worse.
By my end I can mention a lot of RTS games (most of them) that got stunning siege weapons with crew on them. In my opinion there are several ways to add them without affecting the gameplay, all I can relate is mediocrity when I see such beautiful graphics with a manless unit moving by itself next to him.
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Very very very big agree here.
Imagine you play a racing game with stunning graphics but there are no streets but only a green screen on the ground and you have to imagine it to be a street LOL.
The difference is, the gfx of aoe4 don’t seem stunning so far…PLUS there is a green screen.
Maybe imagine FIFA, but there are no players, only their clothes “running” around the field and the players are invisible.
Would be so damn hilarious to see the clothes score a goal
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yeah nice one! and imagine them justifying it by saying its because of redeability… 
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I’ve been asking for this since 2019 trailer, and it pains me a lot to say that is something that is not going to happen.
We will have to wait till early 2022 for mod tools to fix it, such as blood on units and buildings size scale.
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Please devs add crew to siege machines
Yes please !
I’m a big fan of age of empires 2 and 3. And age of empires 4 manages to get the best of both. Except some points where age 3 is better, there is a lot more attention to detail in unit animations. I’m not asking for everything, but crews for siege units are a minimum. Even age of empires 2 and mythology have it for small siege engines.
I say it again, but for me it’s an Age of Empires I downgrade.
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How does it makes sense to have one dude operating a cannon.
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In both cases they were way outnumbered by non manned siege.
Unless you want like, only 2 siege units having crew the comparison kinda doesn’t work.
Most aoe games had no siege crew on most of their units.
I don’t care about the siege crew debate but it felt like you made quite a few jumps just so you could say Aoe iv was a downgrade to aoe 1.
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There’s literally like 3-5 topics on this same siege crew shite. I wish they’d stop cluttering everything and just stay in one topic. It shouldn’t even be the most important thing that needs improvement, there’s more impactive problems out there.
The argument is always that AoE2 had ‘manned siege’ for like a whopping 3 units. Does a big ole cannon with some tiny people really impact gameplay? No. With or against the argument, I really don’t think it matters as much as it’s made out to be.
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I am at my house, trying to make my catapult attack or make it move.
Sadly, the thing need a engineer (me obviously) to move, aim and attack.
Not having crew in age of empire 4 is immersion breaking and do not respect the hard work done by engineer in history.
If only the crew was the only problem… but all the game feal so wrong .
( homing projectile, unmaned siege, cavalery charge that stop to figth enemy units, litle buildings for big people, units that are over spaced, road/decoration are wasted has land painting around buildings, absence of balistique, infinity farm production, golden gosth around buildings that are decoration insted of units slott, no season mecanic, stuck whit a lame uniform map that is dead and do not evolve, land shape that stay unafected by units batle or nature growth… and i pass)
Rigth now, aoe4 feal like a plagia game, made by a shady person, to strip out people money and aoe fame.
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To be honest personally i don’t mind it to much, doesn’t make the game less fun for me.
But wouldn’t mind if they indeed add it tho.
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That’s the outlook I have. A few dudes beside a cannon or not, it really doesn’t impact gameplay.
This is a game where you’re an omnipotent being that controls the lives of soldiers, all while materializing villagers by shoving food in a town center.
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