Aoe3 has it.
One SINGLE button to choose a building to place.
Ah ok, it has been a very long time since I played AoE3. Man the keys must go all the way out to like J then.
Sure, but you still need 2 button clicks to build anything. I thought that was the primary complaint.
primary was “actually fully remapable hotkeys”.
No point of argue that he meant in details, cause even if you right and even if you right about “it was not in ALL previous AOE games” What this will change?
The issue is still here.
I still want and wait for really fully remapable hotkeys.
Hotkeys is not compatible with previous games… may be i would care less if it would be some other game… but they too similar and all Relics need just a little bit of remapableness. It’s almost done…almost… done…
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I’m not even arguing…
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Random Map is a special option which randomly picks one of the other maps for you to play on. It’s normally a staple for custom games.
I can’t speak for AoEO as I’ve never played it. AoE1-3, and AoM all had single click hotkeys for buildings.
imo the issue isnt’ having sub menu, the issue is there’s way too many secondary panels, construction menu is without a doubt the worst offender here, why are there 4 submenus for that, offer an option with just 2 for all our sakes, the other subpanels mostly don’t bother me as much, but i’m sure there’s ways to improve
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Myth afaik has it as well. They also added it to AoE 1 DE
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This post got hidden, nice, I am not allowed to say the truth lol?
Yep and there is NO REASON to make it in this way of having to spam multiple buttons to choose ONE building.
Aoe4 is already a LOT faster and more multitasking/macro intensive than these other games.
Just adds to the meta of 0 micro and just spam while executing tasks poorly but much at the same time.
All these things just add up so badly, that you CAN NOT micro the counter units in fights, just make multiple tc, spam vills and spam units and not watch them mostly.
Just watched the finals of elite classics, these pros had super poor micro in fights, but not because they are bad.
Just because the multitasking doesn not ALLOW you to micro
Game has soon been out for 2 years, it had been announced many years back and received TONS of feedback in the multiple betas.
80% of the feedback was ignored and the game is still in terrible shape.
Microsoft has to increase the DEV budget ASAP or this game will die eventually.
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I agree with some of those and would be welcomed additions
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Where are you seeing this option in AoE2? Everything I can see you need to use a second click. I can’t find anywhere with an option to remove the initial build key.
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Yeah gee in DE I can’t find a way. I feel like it was possible in the original game but it’s quite possible I’m remembering wrong. I don’t have it installed anymore to check. I said earlier and I’m not ashamed to admit I wasn’t a big user of hotkeys until I saw the grid in AoE4.
If I’m wrong about that one I apologise. I can definitely confirm it’s the case in the other games I mentioned though 
I’m still kinda bamboozled about how, of all the things I originally mentioned, it was the hotkey discussion which took off. I guess people are really passionate about it!
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Of course everyone’s allowed to say their piece, but keep it friendly. The potty mouth belongs elsewhere.
Some quick life advice, if it’s of any interest: you’ll find others respond much better to constructive discussion rather than courseness and abuse.
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Oh nothing to apologize for, I was wondering if there really was a way that I have simply never seen or couldn’t find.
If such a thing did exist I would not use it generally, since as I said before it’s just way too many keys on the keyboard. I would however, probably use it for one thing in particular in AoE2 which is quickwalling. Villagers have some open spaces for hotkeys at their first level so it would work to make like Z and X for example into wall and gate.
My dream is for hotkey customizations to actually reflect in the in-game UI. Like literally rearrange the buttons to still be grid, but change to the keys you assign them to.
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I hid your post because of your choice of language. I happen to agree that aoe4 is inferior. Feel free to criticize the game with language that doesn’t trash this place.
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The lack of actual fully customizable hotkeys is what eventually got me to finally give up on the game a few weeks ago. I’ve reported more than a dozen of bugs/missing-features for the current “customizable” hotkeys which haven’t been fixed since they were first released. Sadly, I personally felt like I had to move on after seeing no progress on this subject for so long.
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Could you specify which keys are missing?
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I would but I got posts deleted when I tried to insist on the subject before. You can check a few of my previous posts which talk about the missing and bugged hotkeys.
Kudos to OP,
i think he got all important problems. I think that are the reasons people are somehow staying away from the game. I also lurk around and check the updates, but everytime i think they fix stuff i dont really care about. Like these monsters/water etc. that are not the reasons i dont play the game anymore.
I like to play other games too and dont like the AOE4 way of hotkeys. It feels like they are not really customisable and after i start a match in a new season to check the updates the game feels awkward (i mean input wise; hotkeys) then i check settings and can’t change them. After that i go on and play other games.
I’ll quote myself:
I even tried to fix it with mapping all the tabs on the same hotkey so “w” triggers all tabs “QWER” together + unique key like “s”. but the game only goes into the “q” tab even if the “s” key is only assigend in the “w” tab.
So easy fixes, it feels like all the feedback is a one way lane into the void. It would be so much better if just one Dev is checking these threads and gives active feedback. Communicate with the community.
Like the dev from manor lord, you can even write the dude on discord and he does polls about this or that and the community can decide and help.
That are just my 2 cents.
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Pretty much spot on they listened way too much to pro players and casters/streamers and abandoned the majority who is casual players.
And where are all of them now? They ran back to AOE II DE…
On point 12 they can add a tick box option to see map for competitive play vs seeding for normal optimized map seed (thr actual intend of the map designers vision for the maps.
Bought the anniversary addition and only played 29.6 hours (majority campaign and custom), which is much lower than expected.
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if you will feel better, you are not alone, I did same 
also failed.
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