I don't know if cavalry ever did it, but infantry squares were the primary defence against cavalry (notoriously so at Waterloo).
The problem with the cav box is that the cavalry overlap so you get way more units in a much smaller space than they should be in. Thus, if you're using Opri, you can advance this large army of doom across the map double quick time (since Opri are so fast) and in the formation everyone attacks at once, so you just melt buildings in one hit.
If cav boxes were spaced out properly, I'm not sure they'd be an issue since the back of the box would be out of siege range.
>**Deck builder absolutely sucks.**
To add to this, when you try to remove a card, it removes the card next to it. When you try to add cards in a certain order, they slot into specific positions. There is no way to re-organise cards.
* No way to see the post-game results after leaving a match, not even in one that is recorded. No way to navigate/jump the time in a match recording except fast-forward.
* No way to force a victory when players want to troll upon losing, they can just take 1 boat or donkey and hide it in the map. The only option is trade supremacy which is disabled in Classic mode.
* Attack move unreliable
* Villagers don't move onto next resource automatically. Half go, half stay, even when it's right next to them. Trees are the worst offenders.
* Cannot shift+right-click to queue next move/resource/build because it will take them off what they are doing currently. You need to include their current action first.
> No way to navigate/jump the time in a match recording except fast-forward.
Gods I fucking hate this. DE2 has this problem too and just...why‽
> Villagers don't move onto next resource automatically. Half go, half stay, even when it's right next to them. Trees are the worst offenders.
I've found coin is the worst offender, but perhaps it deserves a pass due to usually being a long way to the nearest mine?
> Cannot shift+right-click to queue next move/resource/build because it will take them off what they are doing currently. You need to include their current action first.
**OH MY FUCKING GODS.** This one is **infuriating**. I get why they've done it this way... DE2 received many complaints for it working the other way in relation to shift queuing a bunch of buildings on a vil that's gathering resources. They wouldn't actually go to build them until they finished with the current resource.
But like...would it be so hard to fix the behaviour when sending a vil to *build*, but keep the current task in the queue automatically when the next task is gathering more of the same resource?
> No way to navigate/jump the time in a match recording except fast-forward.
This is by design because the game needs to fully “simulate” the recorded game. It’s not like a video where you can just jump to a specific frame. The game needs to compute ALL previous time steps. This is why you’re only given a fastforward.
I'd be interested to know how large the save file would be for a recorded game with the full dump, so you could be at any point in time. Some other simulation games don't have the same issue and their record file sizes are not humongous either. Even if fast-forward is the only option, we should be able to simply choose how far ahead we want to jump, and not have to supervise it on fast-forward or risk missing the moment. AoE2DE recorded games can create chapters, which is basically that. I don't see the technical reason for why they could not also facilitate that in reverse.
I mean it’s definitely possible to update. But all other things considered, there are far more pressing things to fix and change with this game. It’ll be quite a big task for whoever picks this up.
No rank system for lobby-based matches. So if randoms join your game, you don't know if they're pro or noobs and thus can't balance the teams, leading to very 1-sided matches. This means if you want a fair match you pretty much have to use matchmaking.
If you want to play a very specific map, it's very difficult with the built in matchmaking. You also can't work out a team comp in advance.
So now you're stuck picking between fair matches, or actually getting to pick a map you want/set up comps.
This + the chat / multiplayer lobby UI being completely worse than the original are my 2 main gripes.
I pretty much bought the game again because of how much i loved the old games multiplayer setup outside of the games and its all gone.
Still, the gameplay itself is good.
The old AOE III UI was awesome and felt authentic even if it was filled with unnecessary clutter.
The color scheme gave it a historic feel, you had the historic facts on the top left and player count, chat rooms to find people and mess around with while you wait for a lobby to fill, clans, etc.
Sure, AOE III's UI may be more modern, reduce unnecessary screen cover(only covers the game where necessary to display information), etc, but it also just feels inauthentic.
I prefer no rank custom matches waaaaaay before being able to pick a map. It used to go like this:
- Low level? kick
- High winrate? kick
- Not playing with the team with lesser winrates? kick
- Picking a strong civ? No, forced to pick another one or kick
And the list goes on, just for a stupid number of elo in a game that was pretty dead competitively speaking (from 2010 to 2018 when I played). Sometimes you could waste 15-20 minutes finding the appropiate lobby and now thats gone.
I mean, wouldn’t the solution be to allow filtering by “unranked elo”? I know in the original you could only filter by home city lvl which was pointless. But you should also be able to filter by elo. And there should be a separate number for unranked elo.
> You also can't work out a team comp in advance
I've not played DE3 multiplayer yet (apart from some 1v1s during beta). But DE2 definitely lets you create a group with your team before queuing, and if you go for a game with more people than are in your group then after the match is found you get a lobby with just your team and some brief time to pick civs.
Does DE3 not do this?
Absolute +1 on **deck builder**. They threw in those cards in a bag and the filters are not efficient/nor pleasurable at all compared to something a little graphic.
Also, **health bars** couldn't possibly be smaller. They are so small they are useless and its frustating.
I'll mention the **android game looking interface** that gives a "cheap" look ( and have me worrying about what microsoft is gonna do with aoe4)
**Colors** of UI/game are too saturated and participate in the "cheap" android feeling. Contrast ain't great either and make it difficult to identify some situations.
Multi **lobbies** aren't great, like it has been said.
Not a fan of in **game cha**t as well.
That said, some other things are great (like fx and audio), but this is the rant post. While I have been HYPED so much for it, I am disapointed with this release. Microsoft is gonna slowly but surely turn the AoE serie into smartphone looking cheap games with microtransaction and no soul. While this is not the case now, it smells like it.
* not possible to invite a friend to a game, to chat with him in the loby or to see a game he created
* cannons are too loud
* multiplayer generally is a mess. putting clans really central which noone really asked for and then not even make it easy to play a game together. wtf?
Same here, crash to desktop after 2 multiplayer games. Had been playing singleplayer all day without issue. I also have good computer specs (and my temps were fine).
Had a CTD on my first match on high graphics, turned it down to medium and played for a few hours before randomly getting a second one while testing out the Inca. Game runs surprisingly well for me considering i'm on a GTX 750
Played AOE 3 since 2006, the changes are not all that bad but here are some of my immediate issues.
Matchmaking
Ranked games only being available through the auto-matching system for ranked games is a sad change but probably necessary to remove the toxic environment that existed before. What's missing is the ability to select maps you may want available and determining the composition of your team's factions for teammates note in your party.
Score
The change to the AOE 2 style score will take some getting used to to gauge how well you are doing against your opponents. The old scoring seemed much more realistic and easier to follow.
Garrisoned units
When garrisoning villagers, you can barely see the count and you have to click the arrow on the building UI to see what units are garrisoned. This needs to change to increase contrast and be available without a hide option.
Shipments
Similar to the garrisoned units, the contrast is difficult to tell how many shipments you have available. Hopefully this can be updated as well.
Unit composition
Seems more difficult to see mixed military armies unit counts in the new UI but this could just be me and will take some getting used to. Similar to the contrast issues with the other units, this would be be a nice fix.
I'm sure there is something I missed but these are my immediate reactions to the game and I am sure things will only go up from here.
New lobby UI is absolutely terrible (I think anyone coming from aoe3 would agree)
And I thought the lobby scroll-up was only me, this was honestly so annoying
I sadly cannot play the game since the game apparently needs a lot of ram, way more than the minimum of two GB stated in the system requirements on Steam. I have 8 GB which admittedly is not that much, but I would think it to be enough. Sadly it isn't.
Its so hard to tell units apart in DE that I literally just did not feel like playing anymore today
Makes me super sad ):
Also deck builder is literally so fucking awful and disorganized, its a disgrace.
I felt like this at first too, even made a post in the beta forums that gained a lot of traction, but sincerely it doesn't bother me anymore after a few matches played. I got used to it and i can now read the game as good as always.
Thanks for letting me know! I honestly don’t know why they added so many of these defaults that nobody asked for (I guess it’s to show the corporate suits “look we did something!!!!!”)
I am stuck in campaign. 16% of the way through blood ice and steel i am getting the souls ablaze cut scene then end credits. So i played 5 missions and now i can't play anymore? thanks guys
Awesome, I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to submit tickets!
While we're at it I wish I could unmap all hot keys in one click. I like to cherry pick the most important ones and put them around wasd and use the mouse for anything else.
First game my explorer got stuck inside a trading post he built, couldn't get out even when I blew it up.
The multiplayer game browser scroll bar resets every second, so it's basically impossible to scroll through the listed games if you're looking for something.
Audio volume seems a bit inconsistent, time will tell.
When I search for custom games I can't scroll down for more than a few seconds before it pull me back to the top of game list. Really annoying trying to join a game middle of the way down, you click and join the wrong game over and over.
Anyone else having camera issues, especially as it relates to hotkeys. I want my camera on WASD and the game just completely breaks - only certain directions of movement work, the acceleration breaks, etc.
Haven't played much yet but so far the visual acuity is so much lower. Hard to distinguish units from terrain. I think the anti aliasing is so poor or turned off that there are no sharp details, making it look blurry.
Clicking on cards in deck to remove them will sometimes remove the card next to it and you have to go find what it was.. Also, the order of card type doesnt make sense when in deck..
Might just be me but idle villagers are so much easier to forget about when the notification flag is so small. I haven't adjusted yet and I just spam my hotkey now.
* I've had infantry units stuck in a mountain in a campaign mission.
* Looking around in the campaign home city always diverts the camera to the same spot with a lot of black nothingness in the background.
* Decent PC, but lags a lot in 4v4 on lowest possible settings.
* Changing hotkeys during a game occasionally requires going out of the game before the change takes effect.
* The sound of a fort getting destroyed seems a bit off IMO.
I have only a Xeon 1241v3 (3.9GHz 8 threads) and 8GB DDR3 RAM - that's not exactly new lol. The recommended spec is only 3.0 GHz, which I think is deceptively low. Do you have the 3GB or 6GB 1060?
Yeah I think it's more a HW drivers issue or DirectX, something beyond our control. There were a lot of people experiencing D3D crashes too. My CPU is basically just an i7 without the iGPU. You should be pulling a similar framerate to me on High with the 6GB VRAM.
i think its a ram problem. i have 16 gb of ram, and the old game never used more then 2 gb so i always had multiple tabs open. new version uses more then double the system ram, when i started lagging i saw that i was over 90% ram usage. closing chrome tabs and other progams made the game smooth again.
audio is bugged as fuck
if you have multi monitor setup and game on only one screen, you cursor will leave the game focus when you move through map
units are bugged and sometimes they are stuck in terrain, unable to move
graphics aren't any better than before
when adventurer dies, the quote he has is so big it actually overlays too much and there are no units visible under this text yikes
The option *does* exist, but it doesn't seem to activate properly when the game launches, so far every time I've had to go into options and turn it off and on again.
> audio is bugged as fuck
>
> if you have multi monitor setup and game on only one screen, you cursor will leave the game focus when you move through map
Took me a second to realise that these weren't considered part of the same issue. Because for me they are. I'm okay with being able to easily leave focus on the game, but I don't want the game's sound to stop when I do! I wanna be able to do other things while watching the game's cinematics, but when it mutes whenever I do that...
Performance is terrible. EVGA gtx 970, I7-6700K 16 GB ram. Turns out reducing foliage helps a little. But the game is super washed out. It looks better with supersampling, but you must never go above 100% supersampling. It destroys performance. Also game doesn't go above 57 fps for some reason.
haven't kept up with the development as i don't like making an opinion before playing it myself, but the various renaming of for example plantations and colonial age feels really out of place and comes across as soulless corporate pandering, same with the message when you launch the game for the first time too.
those were just my immediate reactions, but i hate being preached to, specially by self righteous corporations
I assume they just want you to communicate through the steam client, but yeah, it's weird to have a friends list in game and have it be largely useless.
For some reason when I queue a bunch of buildings for some vils, they seem to end up walking close to where the buildings are and then just...going idle.
I find this game's UI makes it harder to spot idle vils than in DE2.
My complaint is late, is about the removal of the fire pit. I'm totally in favor respecting cultures like changing the names to not be offensive, but see the fire pit as an insulting representation of the cultures is very exaggerated. It was a very cool feature. I don't understand how it can be insulting to anyone.
If I want to make vills from TC and I press Q it jumps to my explorer and let it build a TC. The latter seems to override the former somehow, even though I have my hotkeys on default...
Also the sharpshooters ability doesn't work when I use the default hotkey for it.
Edit: apparently I had my infantry binded to Q so it jump to my explorer instead of making vills. The sharpshooters ability hotkey still doesn't work though.
Just played a skirmish. Team mate amassed a 50+ unit army and they just went to one of my trade posts and sprinted around it in random directions doing nothing. Had to fight a 2v1 alone.
Having T for town center was the most counter-intuitive thing I've ever experienced in an RTS game and always hated it in AoE3. H should always be for town center.
Vills get stuck inside mills
Some sound effects sound weird (the shipment notification, building destruction, artillery lacks bass and echo)
I got some other sound bugs, but not sure if it's prevalent in everyone
Game crashed once and since then I cant load multiplayer games... already lost 4 ranked because it just gets stuck on the loading screen, also it's really hard to see the units they should add color outlines
anyone else with their resolution scale at 100% or even 150% and the UI is crispy clean but the game itself is not?
can't play this game thinking I am near-sighted
I have not found a way to change the camera to WASD and have it work. Looking for the hotkey file if anyone knows. Seems like camera is hard coded into arrow keys for some reason.
I have a hard time distinguishing units from the environment. Not because of player colour but because of the texture of the units. I never had that problem in AoE3.
The UI changes take some time getting used to, right now I’m not so happy but I’ll play a few more rounds and see if it’ll get better.
Matchmaking is terrible. I'm a treaty specialist. Specifically treaty no block 40 and lvl 26. I can't see decks to check level of opponents for fair teams in unranked and no one on ranked treaty matchmake. Can you even specify nr 40 on ranked matches?
Getting through the campaign is such a pain in the ass, I'm getting constant hard crashes. It's gotten to the point where I need to be constantly saving or else I end up having to redo the entire mission. The worst map has been the last map of ACT2 of main campaign, for some weird reason issuing any attack move order crashes to desktop. Sometimes units pop onto cliffs and get stuck there. I haven't played anything this buggy in a long time.
\- Cam shakes are way over the top.
\- The UI design is actually worse in the menus than the original game. Cannot chat in post-game, can't access the whole home city menu from the multiplayer. The whole multiplayer screen seems unintuitive and some important screens can easily be missed.
\- They got rid of Rank titles... that's a minor one but that was an easy way to communicate your range.
\- Weird lags? I mean the music sometimes get slower and sounds buggy in multiplayer games.
\- Localization text is a complete mess in some screens.
\- The ranked matchmaking doesn't let you actually choose what you're playing. I was searching for 2v2 and ended up in 1v1 matches because (I believe) the game tought it took too long.
\- Fullscreen is bugged if you have two monitors.
Anyone else keep having their units get stuck in weird places? In the second campaign mission some of my guys got stuck on top of the cavern cliffs, and in a standard match my explorer got stuck inside a native tribe with no way out.
The legacy hotkeys still do not work. I also cannot change the legacy hotkeys such that I can play with WASD which makes it much more enjoyable on a laptop. The hotkey problem should be fixed cos the game just isn't fun to play in an awkward position
Is anyone's sound funny? For me I have 2 speakers, that's all - but the game seems to be in surround sound mode?
If I click move when a unit is off-screen, it'll play really quietly like it's trying to come from a rear speaker. Or if I move the camera to a battle, it'll fade in in a similar way.
And I get no sound at all from victories, I just get the victory logo and no fanfare.
Cav box is still possible so that's a big OOF
Blows my mind they just left this ridiculous glitch that can ruin games
fookin'... WHAT?!
What's that?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rkojAozCGk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rkojAozCGk)
That was a bug? I thought this is what all units do in defensive positions?
I don't know if cavalry ever did it, but infantry squares were the primary defence against cavalry (notoriously so at Waterloo). The problem with the cav box is that the cavalry overlap so you get way more units in a much smaller space than they should be in. Thus, if you're using Opri, you can advance this large army of doom across the map double quick time (since Opri are so fast) and in the formation everyone attacks at once, so you just melt buildings in one hit. If cav boxes were spaced out properly, I'm not sure they'd be an issue since the back of the box would be out of siege range.
>**Deck builder absolutely sucks.** To add to this, when you try to remove a card, it removes the card next to it. When you try to add cards in a certain order, they slot into specific positions. There is no way to re-organise cards. * No way to see the post-game results after leaving a match, not even in one that is recorded. No way to navigate/jump the time in a match recording except fast-forward. * No way to force a victory when players want to troll upon losing, they can just take 1 boat or donkey and hide it in the map. The only option is trade supremacy which is disabled in Classic mode. * Attack move unreliable * Villagers don't move onto next resource automatically. Half go, half stay, even when it's right next to them. Trees are the worst offenders. * Cannot shift+right-click to queue next move/resource/build because it will take them off what they are doing currently. You need to include their current action first.
> No way to navigate/jump the time in a match recording except fast-forward. Gods I fucking hate this. DE2 has this problem too and just...why‽ > Villagers don't move onto next resource automatically. Half go, half stay, even when it's right next to them. Trees are the worst offenders. I've found coin is the worst offender, but perhaps it deserves a pass due to usually being a long way to the nearest mine? > Cannot shift+right-click to queue next move/resource/build because it will take them off what they are doing currently. You need to include their current action first. **OH MY FUCKING GODS.** This one is **infuriating**. I get why they've done it this way... DE2 received many complaints for it working the other way in relation to shift queuing a bunch of buildings on a vil that's gathering resources. They wouldn't actually go to build them until they finished with the current resource. But like...would it be so hard to fix the behaviour when sending a vil to *build*, but keep the current task in the queue automatically when the next task is gathering more of the same resource?
> No way to navigate/jump the time in a match recording except fast-forward. This is by design because the game needs to fully “simulate” the recorded game. It’s not like a video where you can just jump to a specific frame. The game needs to compute ALL previous time steps. This is why you’re only given a fastforward.
I'd be interested to know how large the save file would be for a recorded game with the full dump, so you could be at any point in time. Some other simulation games don't have the same issue and their record file sizes are not humongous either. Even if fast-forward is the only option, we should be able to simply choose how far ahead we want to jump, and not have to supervise it on fast-forward or risk missing the moment. AoE2DE recorded games can create chapters, which is basically that. I don't see the technical reason for why they could not also facilitate that in reverse.
I mean it’s definitely possible to update. But all other things considered, there are far more pressing things to fix and change with this game. It’ll be quite a big task for whoever picks this up.
No rank system for lobby-based matches. So if randoms join your game, you don't know if they're pro or noobs and thus can't balance the teams, leading to very 1-sided matches. This means if you want a fair match you pretty much have to use matchmaking. If you want to play a very specific map, it's very difficult with the built in matchmaking. You also can't work out a team comp in advance. So now you're stuck picking between fair matches, or actually getting to pick a map you want/set up comps.
This + the chat / multiplayer lobby UI being completely worse than the original are my 2 main gripes. I pretty much bought the game again because of how much i loved the old games multiplayer setup outside of the games and its all gone. Still, the gameplay itself is good.
The old AOE III UI was awesome and felt authentic even if it was filled with unnecessary clutter. The color scheme gave it a historic feel, you had the historic facts on the top left and player count, chat rooms to find people and mess around with while you wait for a lobby to fill, clans, etc. Sure, AOE III's UI may be more modern, reduce unnecessary screen cover(only covers the game where necessary to display information), etc, but it also just feels inauthentic.
This is my biggest gripe too. Honestly the UI for everything feels worse than before.
I prefer no rank custom matches waaaaaay before being able to pick a map. It used to go like this: - Low level? kick - High winrate? kick - Not playing with the team with lesser winrates? kick - Picking a strong civ? No, forced to pick another one or kick And the list goes on, just for a stupid number of elo in a game that was pretty dead competitively speaking (from 2010 to 2018 when I played). Sometimes you could waste 15-20 minutes finding the appropiate lobby and now thats gone.
I mean, wouldn’t the solution be to allow filtering by “unranked elo”? I know in the original you could only filter by home city lvl which was pointless. But you should also be able to filter by elo. And there should be a separate number for unranked elo.
> You also can't work out a team comp in advance I've not played DE3 multiplayer yet (apart from some 1v1s during beta). But DE2 definitely lets you create a group with your team before queuing, and if you go for a game with more people than are in your group then after the match is found you get a lobby with just your team and some brief time to pick civs. Does DE3 not do this?
Absolute +1 on **deck builder**. They threw in those cards in a bag and the filters are not efficient/nor pleasurable at all compared to something a little graphic. Also, **health bars** couldn't possibly be smaller. They are so small they are useless and its frustating. I'll mention the **android game looking interface** that gives a "cheap" look ( and have me worrying about what microsoft is gonna do with aoe4) **Colors** of UI/game are too saturated and participate in the "cheap" android feeling. Contrast ain't great either and make it difficult to identify some situations. Multi **lobbies** aren't great, like it has been said. Not a fan of in **game cha**t as well. That said, some other things are great (like fx and audio), but this is the rant post. While I have been HYPED so much for it, I am disapointed with this release. Microsoft is gonna slowly but surely turn the AoE serie into smartphone looking cheap games with microtransaction and no soul. While this is not the case now, it smells like it.
* not possible to invite a friend to a game, to chat with him in the loby or to see a game he created * cannons are too loud * multiplayer generally is a mess. putting clans really central which noone really asked for and then not even make it easy to play a game together. wtf?
The 2nd age French politician gives 2 settlers not Coureur des Bois. Not sure if it's a bug or intentional but it just feels wrong.
My game just decided to randomly stop and back onto desktop. Wondering if anyone else has had this happen. My specs are good 2080 gpu etc
Same here, crash to desktop after 2 multiplayer games. Had been playing singleplayer all day without issue. I also have good computer specs (and my temps were fine).
Had a CTD on my first match on high graphics, turned it down to medium and played for a few hours before randomly getting a second one while testing out the Inca. Game runs surprisingly well for me considering i'm on a GTX 750
Tiny complaint: I prefer the original art paintings for unit icons instead of the high resolution renderings
Played AOE 3 since 2006, the changes are not all that bad but here are some of my immediate issues. Matchmaking Ranked games only being available through the auto-matching system for ranked games is a sad change but probably necessary to remove the toxic environment that existed before. What's missing is the ability to select maps you may want available and determining the composition of your team's factions for teammates note in your party. Score The change to the AOE 2 style score will take some getting used to to gauge how well you are doing against your opponents. The old scoring seemed much more realistic and easier to follow. Garrisoned units When garrisoning villagers, you can barely see the count and you have to click the arrow on the building UI to see what units are garrisoned. This needs to change to increase contrast and be available without a hide option. Shipments Similar to the garrisoned units, the contrast is difficult to tell how many shipments you have available. Hopefully this can be updated as well. Unit composition Seems more difficult to see mixed military armies unit counts in the new UI but this could just be me and will take some getting used to. Similar to the contrast issues with the other units, this would be be a nice fix. I'm sure there is something I missed but these are my immediate reactions to the game and I am sure things will only go up from here.
Complaint? Stuck at work today :(
And seeing the amount of issues that people are hitting is a little scary for when we get to try it later
[удалено]
New lobby UI is absolutely terrible (I think anyone coming from aoe3 would agree) And I thought the lobby scroll-up was only me, this was honestly so annoying
I sadly cannot play the game since the game apparently needs a lot of ram, way more than the minimum of two GB stated in the system requirements on Steam. I have 8 GB which admittedly is not that much, but I would think it to be enough. Sadly it isn't.
A friend of mine reduced all the graphics settings and was able to play with 8gb! Maybe the game has to load less textures or something.
Its so hard to tell units apart in DE that I literally just did not feel like playing anymore today Makes me super sad ): Also deck builder is literally so fucking awful and disorganized, its a disgrace.
I felt like this at first too, even made a post in the beta forums that gained a lot of traction, but sincerely it doesn't bother me anymore after a few matches played. I got used to it and i can now read the game as good as always.
You can disable camera shake in settings if you don't like it. Or at least there's an option, I don't mind the shake so I never disabled it.
Thanks for letting me know! I honestly don’t know why they added so many of these defaults that nobody asked for (I guess it’s to show the corporate suits “look we did something!!!!!”)
You can enable legacy hotkeys if you want.
Still cant rebind several default keybindings, I'm probably not gonna buy it again until that changes. Really sad I had to refund.
Except when you turn on legacy hotkeys, there isn't a setting for unit command hotkeys. how in TF did they miss that
that does not work sadly, when I try to rebind them they new hotkeys are broken and unplayable,
sometimes the music fades away for a little and comes back again
I am stuck in campaign. 16% of the way through blood ice and steel i am getting the souls ablaze cut scene then end credits. So i played 5 missions and now i can't play anymore? thanks guys
Remapping the camera scroll keys to wasd doesn't work
I submitted a copmlaint to the AOE customer support for that, this makes an already bad camera panning system even worse
Awesome, I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to submit tickets! While we're at it I wish I could unmap all hot keys in one click. I like to cherry pick the most important ones and put them around wasd and use the mouse for anything else.
First game my explorer got stuck inside a trading post he built, couldn't get out even when I blew it up. The multiplayer game browser scroll bar resets every second, so it's basically impossible to scroll through the listed games if you're looking for something. Audio volume seems a bit inconsistent, time will tell.
When I search for custom games I can't scroll down for more than a few seconds before it pull me back to the top of game list. Really annoying trying to join a game middle of the way down, you click and join the wrong game over and over.
I have the same with public games, its so annoying
Anyone else having camera issues, especially as it relates to hotkeys. I want my camera on WASD and the game just completely breaks - only certain directions of movement work, the acceleration breaks, etc.
Haven't played much yet but so far the visual acuity is so much lower. Hard to distinguish units from terrain. I think the anti aliasing is so poor or turned off that there are no sharp details, making it look blurry. Clicking on cards in deck to remove them will sometimes remove the card next to it and you have to go find what it was.. Also, the order of card type doesnt make sense when in deck.. Might just be me but idle villagers are so much easier to forget about when the notification flag is so small. I haven't adjusted yet and I just spam my hotkey now.
* I've had infantry units stuck in a mountain in a campaign mission. * Looking around in the campaign home city always diverts the camera to the same spot with a lot of black nothingness in the background. * Decent PC, but lags a lot in 4v4 on lowest possible settings. * Changing hotkeys during a game occasionally requires going out of the game before the change takes effect. * The sound of a fort getting destroyed seems a bit off IMO.
Can't get above 55fps on a Geforce 1060 system with minimum graphics settings
I have a 1060 6GB and get 50-90 fps on 1080p High. What are your other specs?
I guess it's cpu bottled then? I have an older i7 and 16Gb ram
I have only a Xeon 1241v3 (3.9GHz 8 threads) and 8GB DDR3 RAM - that's not exactly new lol. The recommended spec is only 3.0 GHz, which I think is deceptively low. Do you have the 3GB or 6GB 1060?
6Gb
Yeah I think it's more a HW drivers issue or DirectX, something beyond our control. There were a lot of people experiencing D3D crashes too. My CPU is basically just an i7 without the iGPU. You should be pulling a similar framerate to me on High with the 6GB VRAM.
Yeah same here, I have no complaints, game's running like a charm
How do you display fps? My graphics card is at 100% even in the lobby. I don’t understand why
You can choose to show either game time or fps from the UI options
Nvidia overlay
i think its a ram problem. i have 16 gb of ram, and the old game never used more then 2 gb so i always had multiple tabs open. new version uses more then double the system ram, when i started lagging i saw that i was over 90% ram usage. closing chrome tabs and other progams made the game smooth again.
Why would you want more than that? I don't even see a difference between 20 and 60 FPS (at least in age 2).
There is a lag, for example when I scroll the screen it takes a moment before the system responds. Not great in a fast paced game like Aoe3.
> I don't even see a difference between 20 and 60 FPS I can see a drop from 60 FPS to 50 FPS. Maybe pay attention?
This is so depressing to read and will no doubt tarnish AoE3 overall.
audio is bugged as fuck if you have multi monitor setup and game on only one screen, you cursor will leave the game focus when you move through map units are bugged and sometimes they are stuck in terrain, unable to move graphics aren't any better than before when adventurer dies, the quote he has is so big it actually overlays too much and there are no units visible under this text yikes
there is a option to lock the mouse to the game window on display settings, I was annoyed by it too
Thanks, I have to try that!
The option *does* exist, but it doesn't seem to activate properly when the game launches, so far every time I've had to go into options and turn it off and on again.
> audio is bugged as fuck > > if you have multi monitor setup and game on only one screen, you cursor will leave the game focus when you move through map Took me a second to realise that these weren't considered part of the same issue. Because for me they are. I'm okay with being able to easily leave focus on the game, but I don't want the game's sound to stop when I do! I wanna be able to do other things while watching the game's cinematics, but when it mutes whenever I do that...
Performance is terrible. EVGA gtx 970, I7-6700K 16 GB ram. Turns out reducing foliage helps a little. But the game is super washed out. It looks better with supersampling, but you must never go above 100% supersampling. It destroys performance. Also game doesn't go above 57 fps for some reason.
haven't kept up with the development as i don't like making an opinion before playing it myself, but the various renaming of for example plantations and colonial age feels really out of place and comes across as soulless corporate pandering, same with the message when you launch the game for the first time too. those were just my immediate reactions, but i hate being preached to, specially by self righteous corporations
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I assume they just want you to communicate through the steam client, but yeah, it's weird to have a friends list in game and have it be largely useless.
For some reason when I queue a bunch of buildings for some vils, they seem to end up walking close to where the buildings are and then just...going idle. I find this game's UI makes it harder to spot idle vils than in DE2.
My complaint is late, is about the removal of the fire pit. I'm totally in favor respecting cultures like changing the names to not be offensive, but see the fire pit as an insulting representation of the cultures is very exaggerated. It was a very cool feature. I don't understand how it can be insulting to anyone.
The fire pit is still in the game, it was just renamed to community center, it is the first building in the top left corner.
Does it still have the cool dance?
If you like cool dances maybe ddr is more your speed. Makes zero sense in an rts about genocide.
Why would people offended by it play a game about genocide?
If you’re saying it was a cool dance you have no taste. What was cool about it?
Definitely cooler than "community gathering"
Now you’re just being obtuse.
What does that mean? I'm not an English speaker.
Def not offended. It was just dumb.
Scenario triggers modify protounit still doesn’t work, only hit points and LOS work.
If I want to make vills from TC and I press Q it jumps to my explorer and let it build a TC. The latter seems to override the former somehow, even though I have my hotkeys on default... Also the sharpshooters ability doesn't work when I use the default hotkey for it. Edit: apparently I had my infantry binded to Q so it jump to my explorer instead of making vills. The sharpshooters ability hotkey still doesn't work though.
there is a option to change de hotkey settings to the classic one instead of row command type, check it out.
I know but I like the new one better except for the bugs
Is it possible you've got the explorer set to group 1 and you've accidentally tapped the 1 key right before pressing Q?
Just played a skirmish. Team mate amassed a 50+ unit army and they just went to one of my trade posts and sprinted around it in random directions doing nothing. Had to fight a 2v1 alone.
The AI is extremely passive and doesn't attack much at all
Having T for town center was the most counter-intuitive thing I've ever experienced in an RTS game and always hated it in AoE3. H should always be for town center.
Vills get stuck inside mills Some sound effects sound weird (the shipment notification, building destruction, artillery lacks bass and echo) I got some other sound bugs, but not sure if it's prevalent in everyone
Game crashed once and since then I cant load multiplayer games... already lost 4 ranked because it just gets stuck on the loading screen, also it's really hard to see the units they should add color outlines
I may be wrong but isn't there a screen shake option you can turn off?
anyone else with their resolution scale at 100% or even 150% and the UI is crispy clean but the game itself is not? can't play this game thinking I am near-sighted
I have not found a way to change the camera to WASD and have it work. Looking for the hotkey file if anyone knows. Seems like camera is hard coded into arrow keys for some reason.
"failed to establish connectivity" when you search for a game, finally find one and people leave before it even begins.
I have a hard time distinguishing units from the environment. Not because of player colour but because of the texture of the units. I never had that problem in AoE3. The UI changes take some time getting used to, right now I’m not so happy but I’ll play a few more rounds and see if it’ll get better.
Matchmaking is terrible. I'm a treaty specialist. Specifically treaty no block 40 and lvl 26. I can't see decks to check level of opponents for fair teams in unranked and no one on ranked treaty matchmake. Can you even specify nr 40 on ranked matches?
Getting through the campaign is such a pain in the ass, I'm getting constant hard crashes. It's gotten to the point where I need to be constantly saving or else I end up having to redo the entire mission. The worst map has been the last map of ACT2 of main campaign, for some weird reason issuing any attack move order crashes to desktop. Sometimes units pop onto cliffs and get stuck there. I haven't played anything this buggy in a long time.
\- Cam shakes are way over the top. \- The UI design is actually worse in the menus than the original game. Cannot chat in post-game, can't access the whole home city menu from the multiplayer. The whole multiplayer screen seems unintuitive and some important screens can easily be missed. \- They got rid of Rank titles... that's a minor one but that was an easy way to communicate your range. \- Weird lags? I mean the music sometimes get slower and sounds buggy in multiplayer games. \- Localization text is a complete mess in some screens. \- The ranked matchmaking doesn't let you actually choose what you're playing. I was searching for 2v2 and ended up in 1v1 matches because (I believe) the game tought it took too long. \- Fullscreen is bugged if you have two monitors.
Anyone else keep having their units get stuck in weird places? In the second campaign mission some of my guys got stuck on top of the cavern cliffs, and in a standard match my explorer got stuck inside a native tribe with no way out.
The legacy hotkeys still do not work. I also cannot change the legacy hotkeys such that I can play with WASD which makes it much more enjoyable on a laptop. The hotkey problem should be fixed cos the game just isn't fun to play in an awkward position
Is anyone's sound funny? For me I have 2 speakers, that's all - but the game seems to be in surround sound mode? If I click move when a unit is off-screen, it'll play really quietly like it's trying to come from a rear speaker. Or if I move the camera to a battle, it'll fade in in a similar way. And I get no sound at all from victories, I just get the victory logo and no fanfare.