I seem to remember one of the cool features about AoE2:DE at launch was that other players’ slow computers wouldn’t affect your gameplay experience. This was an enhancement to fix past latency issues that were experienced in CE and HD. Am I misremembering?
Where is that info published? It’s certainly not in the game anywhere I’ve seen. Is there an official chart from the devs somewhere? If not, there should be.
The benchmark score has always been some random number that means nothing to the average user. In the game, it is just says whether you can play multiplayer or not. A litmus test, in other words. There is nothing saying whether the score is “high”, “low”, “average”… nothing saying “if you have 900, don’t play w/ population over 200 or against more than 1 enemy”, or “if your score is 1300, the sky is the limit.”
Having some official chart on what the score translates to would be great, so we can adjust our gameplay experience, accordingly, and to help avoid out-of-syncs depending on what the lowest score is in a group of players.
Back in the day, we didn’t even know what the top score you could get was. Does anyone really know 4-5 years later? In 2020, there were anecdotal rumors of someone (AlexM) got a 1600 score, which then someone claimed was a lie and that 1400 was the top score. I’d assume the devs know, so a published official chart or would be great