Keep coping, keep crying.
You’ll never get what you want.
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a expansão é pro 4.
engraçado q vcs nem sabem o q comentam!
comunidade cheia de mimimi, por isso cada vez temos menos player ativos.
This guy is living in an alternative world
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Do you think the community would move on to AoE4 if 2 stopped getting updates?
They havent moved on in a quarter of a century, they arent going to move on now
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No! I want Age 2 to have all the updates.
I hate that the AoE community is so hostile towards players of other AoE games.
They are not the competition!
Many people play multiple games in the series and they are made the same developers, at last partially.
Getting more people to play AoE2 means more people will try out AoE4 too and vice versa.
An AoE2 player is way more likely to hear about a new AoE4 DLC and is also way more likely to be buying it then some random person that doesn’t play any AoE games.
It’s not like the most of the AoE2 player base will just move over to AoE4 if AoE2 would stop getting updates.
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Personally, my preference for AoE2 over AoE4 has nothing to do with updates.
I’ve never played AoE4—only watched games—and never felt any urge to try it. I didn’t like the camera angle, and the units looked bland, emotionless, and cartoonish to me. It just didn’t charm me the same way AoE2 does.
You don’t just play an RTS to win in a cold, calculated manner like chess. You also play for the ambiance, the charm, the fun of controlling the units, and the emotions they provide.
Even if I had never played AoE2 before, I’d still be more tempted to control the unit on the left rather than the one on the right. There’s just no emotion or distinctness in the right picture.
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Biggest update ever, while with 5 new civs the expansion will be as big a Conquerors and Forgotten. Task failed succesfully 
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After playing KCD2 quite a lot you realise how cartoonishly big weapons are in AOE2. But it helps visibility from that scale
I agree that some versions of AoE need to be sent out to pasture and for the focus to be on just one. That one should be AoE II.
Harsh for other AOEs, for example AOE3 is now stuck without Poland-Lithuania (a major european power at the time) despite having Malta as a civ… but overall money talks, which game gets support depends on how expensive it is to produce and how much it will bring, AOE2 is strong on both axes.
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It’s also about emotion and uniqueness.
They’re exaggerated for dramatic effect, but not to the point of being laughable or unbelievable. 100% realism would be boring anyway.
That’s why Karambit Warriors are holding big-ass sword sized knives.
Not the worst offender. Frankish throwing axemen throw Gimli’s double battleaxe instead of the light francisca they used. For them the model is completely wrong.
But I think visibility is the main reason by far. You want your unit to be recognisable instantly despite only having a very limited zoom (and for a long time there wasn’t any zoom at all and a lower resolution before DE). This means giving units bigger weapons so you can easily see what they are using. The slightly unrealistic look is a side effect.
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Yes, exactly. That is why I delayed getting AoE4 for years. And after buying it at a good discount through a sale months ago, I have only played it once or twice.
Researching techs and building things is just playing a game of whack-a-mole with the shiny gold icons. When a gold icon can be afforded, I click it. No immersion with that whatsoever. No bonding with the game.
The 200 max pop count is also bad, considering siege units take up multiple pop slots. The games I’ve played vs AI just become stalemate tug of wars, where we both try to battle it out while constantly bumping into the 200 pop max with our small armies. I kill several units in their army clump with my army clump, then we just rebuild back to max pop army clumps and rinse and repeat for an hour or two. The very zoomed-in camera helps nothing, as well
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When I seen the look of the gold mine and building animation, I was not thrilled. Also as someone who enjoys making scenarios, no editor at launch was the final blow.
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No active pause at launch, I don’t know if it has been updated, didn’t help.
Also only playing in blue. In the english campaign you played as the blue english against the red french, how can you not get it right ?
mas aí que entra a estrategia mano, vc tem q matar a economia de seu inimigo não apenas os exercitos. basicamente essa é a essencia de todos os age of empires. também tem jogos que podem aumentar a população para até 10000.
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Go ahead and play that way 100% of the time if you want… that’s how AoE4 is designed. AoE2 allows for more play-styles due to its superior design and higher pop count limits that have been in the game for a decade or two now. And, fortunately, battles don’t always feel like “Little Clump A” fighting “Little Clump B” over and over in AoE2 like they do in AoE4
Please advise where to increase pop to 10000, let alone 500, without using a mod. What button do I click?
