This used to be my favorite game of all time, until this year.
I have noticed this game has deteriorated significantly since 2021 and especially this year. I am no longer excited to play custom campaigns or multiplayer matches, and I haven’t played multiplayer in at least 8 months. After the latest few DLCs, I’m not very excited for the next one.I also now watch significantly less Aoe2 videos or streams then I used to.
Why has this game deteriorated?
Well for starters, the bugs. I have encountered so many more bugs this year than any other year I have been playing DE, or any other Version of aoe2. Here is a list of bugs I have personally found affected me this year, some of them quite drastic.
1: Constant Crashing
2: Units constantly freezing when tasking them to move.
3: Monks becoming stuck and frozen
4: PATHING. Never has pathing felt so terrible as it is in it’s current state since Mountain Royals.
5: A number of senario editor bugs (Most of which have by now been fixed). Many triggers causing game to crash. Modify attack or Armour not working making several custom and official campaigns unplayable. Beach terrain type not working.
6: Most recently I have experienced a bug where all of my published mods are unavailable because the game now uses my steam account instead of Microsoft account. Since the devs have said this was unintended i’m labeling this as a bug.
Secondly, content and DLCs. The quality of DLCs (in my opinion) are far worse this year. The quality of campaigns are significantly worse than the campaigns released in previous DLCs and it’s other content isn’t as good either. The increased price isn’t that big of an issue, but I thought I would mention it since it is weird that the DLCs that are worse are more expensive than the actual good DLCs.