Despite the game now being about 18 months old, there are still some obvious features/fixes that are still missing.
Updated sinking animations for ships. The unique ships and fishing ships have nice updated animations, but not the galley line, fireship line, or transports. The old animations look so clunky compared to the smooth new ones.
Proper corpse decay. Corpses still just sink into the ground, instead of progressing through a series of decay images like they used to. I always find this less engaging after a large battle.
Persistent lobbies. After every game on the unranked lobby you have to create a new game and re-invite your friends. Surely this is something that would not be too difficult to change so it returns you to the game room like it does in single player.
More zoom functionality. Despite buying larger monitor than I originally had when playing DE, I am still disappointed at not being able to zoom out further and see more of the map. Though I know it works differently, Capture Age shows that it is both possible and useful to have more zoom options. It would be nice to see some of this flexibility implemented into the base game.
In game chat visible for spectators. T90 has been talking about this forever so I’m sure my voice will not make any difference, but I thought I’d mention it anyway.
Would be great for the devs to spend a bit of time on these features.
what do the parents have to do with anything? if they don’t want them to see that type of stuff, they should research the games they buy for the kids better.
some games aren’t meant for kids to play. you’re talking about a game where the objective is to literally KILL YOUR OPPONENT, and you usually do this by killing soldiers, civilians, and burning down buildings, but some blood and bodies is where you draw the line?
come on man, the game is rated teen as is, if someone’s going to get upset by some blood and bodies, it makes no sense for them to be playing aoe2 anyway.
so you’re telling me these people bought a game called “age of empires”, which prominently features pictures including battles, buildings being razed, and massive cities under attack and goes “hmm, i should buy this for my kid and restrict them solely to playing these pacifist game modes”.
at least try to be realistic.
so more blood and bodies is too much but burning down houses and murdering civilians is fine.
Frankly i don’t like it either, but let’s be real here. the blood in game is not realistic at all. but the whole thought of bodies slowly decaying over time, making it obvious where a massive battle took place, is kind of cool.
depends on if people came and cleaned them up. but usually they dug mass graves. but there is no such feature in game. but i still think it would be cool for bodies to stick around for 30-45 seconds, which would be roughly 6-9 years game time.
I forgot about wonder race, I’ve wanted to win a game by building a wonder for several months now but I usually forget to set it to standard victory so I’ll just play wonder race today and finally win by building a wonder for the first time since last year.