Where is the support?

[SlenderBadger98]

@PryingIvy454910

• Improved pathfinding and general unit movement behaviour. The units move so clunkily in this game its just so sad to see. Now its obvious this team knows how to get this right because they have done an amazing job with AOE2 in this regard so why not just apply the knowledge to AOE1 as well?

Regarding path finding, I suggest these changes:

• Reduce unit collision/hitbox size
• Force minimum-range units to distance themselves from enemies, to attack them
• Replace the standard pathing with the CTRL (or ALT in some cases) + secondary click one

• Addition of Gates. This is just a must, there is no reason that gates should not be part of the game. Just add them in. They will still be easy enough to break down using catapults for offensive players so no reason to not have them. I also don’t buy this argument that they shouldn’t add them because the original game didn’t have them. If the original version of something just wasn’t that good, there is no reason to keep it. There are many features added in all 3 games in the DE versions that weren’t in the original so why this weird insistence that somehow the lack of gates is this sacred original feature that we can’t touch?

There’s a split opinion on this topic, and you can find lots and lots of discussion around it, specially on Steam. I personally agree this game should have gates on walls. Otherwise, we are still going to be forced to wall-off sections, build towers, etc., in order to increase our defenses.

• Faster projectile speed. Projectiles in this game move painfully slow and are just unnatural to look at, and this is one thing that really diminishes the sense of immersion for me in this game, obviously some ajustments will need to be made to compensate for this but I am sure forgotten empires will be able to figure that out.

I recommend NOT using 1x, but 1.5x game speed. 2x is just too fast/unrealistic for me. As for proyectile speed, I think arrows are fine. Maybe missiles should get a boost?

• Adding unit formation and aggression stances. Again no reason to not have this. Unit formations should be available after a certain age (Maybe the third age?) and aggression stance from the start, this will just help with controlling the units and thus make the game more enjoyable.

Indeed, unit formations since Bronze Age and being able to toggle aggressive stance on/off are two additions that would benefit this game greatly.

• Limited ability to garrison units. I don’t think the town centres should shoot arrows but they could at least allow garrisoning of villagers in later ages, maybe from the second age? Also archers should be able to garisson in towers and those towers should shoot more arrows like in AOE2.

This is probably the most polemic request on your list, but you do have a point.

• Letting archers, villagers, and maybe even slingers garrison inside towers seems reasonable.
• Allowing non-military units, such as priests and villagers, to garrison inside town centers sounds interesting to me, since those units don’t have a chance most of the time. I would even go a little bit further: letting artifacts garrison inside town centers, so it is mandatory to destroy the TCs in order to gain control over them.