Oh, sorry, the dunking comment was aimed at franknezu - not you. If it came across differently, that’s my bad.
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None of the above. They should innovate. Not back track to how they made their game 20 years ago.
This not how games are made. Back when Ensemble made AoE 1, they looked at the RTS that were out during that time i.e. C&C + Red Alert 1 and the first two Warcraft, played them a lot internally and held presentations on what those games did great and where they fell short. Based on their feedback, they designed AoE 1 to be the way it was. That was in 1997 and still applies 26 years later. 
It’s no shame to take elements from other games that could potentially work in your game.
The quote is your whole argument in a nutshell.
That argument says; It’s okay not to add or change anything unless i can copy it from someone else who has proven it to be succesfull.
Obvious there is alot wrong with that.
It also highlights the state of RTS today, there is no one to copy from. I feel like AoE is partially to blame.
Why?; no inovation.
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I think you’re late to the party if your issue is fundamental things about AoE4. It was revealed half a decade ago, released two years ago, and has shown a commitment to very specific gameplay. Your energy is better spent suggesting features for AoE5 or other games in the making.
I grant you. I don’t seem to find abundant support here.
After playing IV for a while, it’s a real dissapointment. II was the last great game, it didn’t have this ‘balance’ overall, for example one could play with the Teutons and put 12 archers in one tower and it would make a difference. More unique capabilities. Today everything is becoming gray. Because apparantly , that sells.
Moar advanced gunpowder units! infantry and wine not cavalry! Arquebuses and Muskets! Go XVI century! 
A third Landmark choice! 
Gruhfiks 
Ottomans for the Horse Archers! Mor Horse Archers in general! Mounted Horses with Crossbows replacementssss! 
The unicitycity of all Civs! Especially those lacking a bit!
Water play! 
Outpost Weapon Emplacements re-emplaceable!
Balance of the strategic triad (Boom/Rush/Tech or whatever)!
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they should add new camera options with new angles, for example one that is a mix of classic and panoramic, far away but with the classic angle, I took a break from aoe for several days, and the camera angles seem so strange to me compared to other games.
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or maybe, to add to this, keep current classic and panoramic distances as options but change that and the angle into 2 sliders, one for zoom out, one for angle, smt from steep to shallow and close to very far, should be perfectly doable, and you don’t really need to add extra zoom or angles to pull that off, parameters needed are all in the game already
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Please, on behalf of the non-competitive casual players add in crossplay between PC and Xbox like you have for AoE2. I just want to play private matches with my friends against AI, and we’ve been stuck on AoE 2 because we can’t play together. I don’t care if multiplayer cross play isn’t ready, just let us play with our friends.
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I appreciate that they have reduced the number of villagers from 26 to 23, which it was originally, but I think that if you remove 3 villagers from the wood and are left with 20 initial villagers, it would be the most optimal
Hi Dev Team, thanks for adding new features like connecting to team walls in the upcoming update, this news made my day!
Here are just some ideas and wishlist items:
Along with the upcoming update to resize landmarks and wonders, please consider resizing outposts, military buildings, and houses to be taller while maintaining the same tile size. I believe there have been other posts in the forum with visual suggestions regarding this.
More player colors (white probably wouldn’t work, so sub a different color there):
Please fix river splines so they connect to larger bodies of water on Mega Random Maps:
Not full building rotation since Age 4 uses a grid, but allow placement of buildings in one of 4 directions:
Currently, all buildings are forced to face one direction. AOE 2 is a 2D game, so it makes sense that every building faces one way, but AOE 4 is 3D, so some variety for building direction would be cool, instead of this:
Please animate the building’s animals:
Display Player Banner on military buildings like castles, outposts, wall towers, and possibly add new bannermen unit for each civ in the future:
For Casual Games:
Add game setting to increase Pop from 200 - 500
Huge and Ludikris Map Sizes
Seige on Walls:
Add option for Treaty Timer.
Diplomacy, with the option to start the game with everyone as Neutral for more interesting games of diplomacy where wars and alliances are formed naturally throughout the match:
Add upgrades at all markets to reduce the tribute tax to 0%
Future features for water and naval gameplay to make water maps fun and more strategically interesting:
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Please allow for building wood bridges across rivers. The bridges would be destructible, but could be built in different directions like walls through the spline system:
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Possibly give fertile land bonus, making building farms next to rivers more productive. This might give incentive for players to build more bases in the middle of the map around rivers while building wooden bridges across rivers to connect both sides of a base:
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Please consider making naval warfare more interesting in future expansions. Refer to Rise and Fall Civilizations at War. You can put units on the decks of ships, board and capture enemy ships, ram and destroy enemy ships, and build seige on ships. It would be amazing in future DLC for Norse and Venice to have naval warfare include new features. Perhaps each civ can get a new carrier type ship that units can stand on the decks of:
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For possible DLC which will include Venice, allow for Venice buildings to build on Land and Water… I think it would look amazing:
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Add random waterfalls to cliffs that spawn next to rivers or water:
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#1 thing I have been wanting them to change, and this is incredibly easy, is to add a toggle for the numbers that appear over your army’s heads when they’re in control groups. I can’t stand it, it’s so visually cluttered and unappealing and it adds absolutely nothing. I already know what control groups my units are in, let me turn the damn numbers off please. I cannot believe this isn’t an option still.
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None of the above.
Improvement/adding of Animation, Textures, Sound. Bringing “E-sports” and “Readability” as excuses to a graphic look of 2010 game? I beg to differ.
Bug Fixes lol, why is that even in options - that is a default - that is every day task for any devs that respect their player base.
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Oh, we all should comply with 2010 graphic in 2023.
I played AoE 4 for months around 70 C temps on the card on my 1080 Ti @ 2k on high - 60 FPS setting in game.
The game doesn’t listen to your settings, limiting the FPS.
1vs1 AI on 70 C temps with the present animations and effects in AoE4 is a sad joke. Is a well cool card in a well cooled case, no excuse for this temps.
I found a work around and now, with same settings, my card very rare reach 50 C. 20 C difference is no joke.
60 FPS is enough for an RTS, you’ll be able to see plenty of animation and effects, if there is a desire to be added/ improved. I have a feeling that behind “E- Sports” and “readability” blinding beams nothing will be done to > animation, effects, textures.
So please, don’t tell me about average cards or “unrealistic” demands.
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They rewrote the terrain rendering, shadows and AO in the Season 5 update. This provided a noticeable improvement to how the game looks.
Should they do more? Sure. But this has nothing to do with “eSports” or whatever complaints you have about a game using your GPU (70C under load is fine, you’re not going to damage your card that way).
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Most desired features:
- Be able to reconnect
- Be able to fast forward and rewind replays
- Crossplay with Xbox
Others:
- Clan
- Clan leaderboard
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The 2010 graphics is your opinion.
There is a lack of diversity in the fauna, scale of the buildings and more fluid animation, but the design seems decent to me
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Damn man… that game! Rise and fall! So many games played witha. Friend!!
Amazing game!! With heroes!
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