My point is historical inaccurate stuff has always been a part of the game's internal logic and core identity, whatever the reason. Every civ has access to trebuchets even when they shouldn't according to history records and findings, because the gameplay requires so. Crossbowmen will always be...
In case I was not being clear enough, I wasn't trying to justify Microsoft's decision to release this DLC and the Roman civ. Saying AoE2 has been highly historical inaccurate from the start isn't defending Microsoft, since the game was also released by Microsoft back then. However this doesn't...
You are comparing different genres here: Star Craft is science fiction, or shall we say straight-up fantasy. It's never supposed to represent things that actually existed, events that actually happened. AoE on the other hand is supposed to be based in real history, to reenact real historical...
Then they added Huns, apparently the most beloved civ for a long time, to the game. My historical immersion has been ruined and I demand a refund.
Seriously though, adding Romans is indeed ridiculous but this game has always been ridiculous history-wise. There must have been a time where the...
It might be controversial but I'm saying this: AoE2 (or maybe the whole AoE franchise) never had anything to do with historical accuracy. Romans don't fit into the medieval timeline and we already have Byz, sure, so what about Goths with gunpowder? Yeah sure they were meant to also represent the...
I seem to remember one or two years ago someone saying T90 or some other caster was biased against Viper and that's because the casters were inclined to favor the underdog of the set, since underdogs winning creates more hype. Viper was clearly the underdog coming to the playoffs because of his...
2020: 5 S-tier Non DM Solo tournaments, Viper won 2 of them.
2021: 7 S-tier Non DM Solo tournaments, Viper won 2 of them.
2022: 7 S-tier Non DM Solo tournaments, Viper won 2 of them.
I don't know, this somehow sounds like Viper's competitiveness hadn't changed much during the last two years...
No one cares about whether an event is sponsored/hosted by GL or not. It doesn’t affect how the tournament is played. Like you said GL were heavily involved in like 2 of the last 8 S-tier solo tournaments, which by pure coincidence are the only ones won by AM. This doesn’t mean anything in the...
According to Liquipedia, there were 7 S-tier solo EW/RM tournaments in 2022. Viper won 2 of them, Yo won 2 of them, while the rest were won by Vinchester, Hera and TaToH respectively. 3 wins for GL and only 1 for AM. And the first S-tier tournament in 2023 was also won by Viper. The AM...
https://twitter.com/Debbie8190/status/1635814936453447680
As far as I know this probably impacted his performance against Hera also but should have nothing to do with the Villese set.
I don't know much about cultures but I can confirm I've seen people on Chinese social media saying that Germans have racist tendencies and that Chinese like to cheat in games. Kappa, I guess.
Fair enough I guess, but like you said, your frustration mostly comes from other changes that made the game "too easy" "dumbed down", or shall we say more predictable. More accessible shared exploration is by no means the most monumental step toward that direction, I think this is something we...
What does shared exploration from the start have to do with scouting though? You didn't scout your allies to find out what they would be doing, if you wanted a plan just type or speak. The situation here is essentially unchanged, you might be able to see what your allies will be doing from the...
Communication isn't harder than, say, learning a build order. I would argue it's the more basic and accessible thing, it's just people don't always realize they could and should do this. Shared exploration and pinning are both tools assisting in this communication process: with them...
I struggle to see why this change would make the game "easy and dumb". If AoE never allowed shared exploration then you might argue it would change how the game worked, but the game was never that hardcore. Building an otherwise useful building (and researching a cheap tech) in exchange for...
You don't see the pros playing in an AoE2 S-tier event smile all that often either.
Also, while AoE3 DE has the smallest player base and hasn't been getting much love from tournament organizers compared to other AoE games, it gets, as far as I see, the most frequent and substantial updates by...
I don't exactly know how people reacted when AoE3 first came out since I was just a kid then, but like I said a while ago, I think there wasn't, isn't and won't ever be a single AoE community. Each AoE game has its own community and they all kinda hate each other. Microsoft assumed that making...
I sincerely support this. I first played AoE3 as a kid then maybe a year later AoE2 so AoE3 is the ultimate nostalgia game for me. People here just see it as a complete failure, something not even worth their time bashing and this really saddens me.
People in the Chinese community are saying that lately he's been playing PUBG 11 hours a day. Though I guess here in AoEZone people would say that it's nothing serious compared to playing AoE4 for more than one hour, which is the ultimate betrayal to AoE2 and the most heinous crime that a human...
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