Battle of Africa 2 - Announcement (Prize: $20.000+)

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It is a great pleasure to finally announce the return of Battle of Africa.
Two years after the first instalment - Battle of Africa 2 will help set the standard as the first major team game tournament on Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. The teams will be competing over multiple weeks to earn a portion of the fantastic 20.000$ prize pool thanks to the amazing sponsors that helped make this event happen:
Microsoft (11.000$)
Oracle455 (4.000$)
PkZ (1.000$)
MembTV (4.000$)

Once the event is concluded, MembTV will add 1$ per current subscriber to the total prize pool

Battle of Africa 2 will take place between 10th of May and 7th of June. It will feature an extended qualification stage with 24 teams - and the main stage, which will include the best eight teams in the world. In terms of maps, you will get to experience some great old classics from the original Battle of Africa, as well as some new exciting environments to shake things up.

An extensive thread with a full timeframe, rules and settings will be created very soon - but for now, the most important details are - all the games will be played as 3v3, fixed positions will be enabled and slinging will be banned until the slinging player has reached the Imperial Age. A general timeframe can be seen below:

Streaming is open for everyone - check the official handbook for more details.​

 

I agree on this. Other idea would be to take march patch and apply april balance changes with AOE. It wouldn't take that much tine (except the "fix" to malay) but yeah, can't make a tournament with current patch

 

Can't believe I'm defending de but guys, the patch is not that bad. I bet if you avoid picking Malay, no player in the tournament will have a single (new) problem. And if there is a problem, just do a repeat of that 1 game out of 100.

 

Can't believe I'm defending de but guys, the patch is not that bad. I bet if you avoid picking Malay, no player in the tournament will have a single (new) problem. And if there is a problem, just do a repeat of that 1 game out of 100.

I have had units turn invisible in multiple games. Thought i got badaboomed, 11. I have also heard that ethiopians sometimes get 600 food upon advancing. Imo not a good patch for tournament play

 

Can't believe I'm defending de but guys, the patch is not that bad. I bet if you avoid picking Malay, no player in the tournament will have a single (new) problem. And if there is a problem, just do a repeat of that 1 game out of 100.

I bet its not at 1/100 and even to repeat one game will totally destroy the tournament because you cant turn back time and certain strats are revealed or a team losing will get another try etc. It is totally avoidable, and it would be totally inresponsible sticking with that patch known to cause every day problems just because one can hope that nothing will hope now during the tournament.

 

- Ethiopians sometimes get +600f after age up
- Paladins with 300 HP/ Mangudai with 180 HP(because players can research bloodlines multiple times without paying for it after the next time)

Would really like to see examples of these happening. Absolutely disaster patch if true

I've heard of units going invisible from others in the past though it hasn't happened to me. Fire ship fires when they attack go invisible all the time for me so I can't even tell if my units are attacking or not.

 

It has happened multiple times that you double research techs. It is a disaster patch, especially considering that this insanely stupid bug probably comes from the fact they tried to implement that cheat code to enable the 256 times tech... !?

It needs a fix urgently.

 

Probably Memb would make the call soon but using previous patch seems to be the only solution given the timing.

 

I have had units turn invisible in multiple games. Thought i got badaboomed, 11. I have also heard that ethiopians sometimes get 600 food upon advancing. Imo not a good patch for tournament play

That is very bad (invisible units). Makes sense to use previous patch if that is something that happens often. I guess I have been lucky and avoided the bugs. Ethiopians bug though from what I read is only a visual bug? Not sure. In other words I think you don't actually get extra food to use, it just looks like you do.

 

Would really like to see examples of these happening. Absolutely disaster patch if true

I've heard of units going invisible from others in the past though it hasn't happened to me. Fire ship fires when they attack go invisible all the time for me so I can't even tell if my units are attacking or not.

Multiple Bloodlines:

Researching techs multiple times in Ranked Games - Bug

I just played a ranked Mongols mirror on Arabia and got absolutely destroyed late game despite keeping up on unit production and having all the...

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+600 food Ethiopians:

Opponent got 600 food upon age up as Ethiopians new bug????

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@The Bloodless Yes I read it could be only visible but yet totally irritating having 600 food more than you can use in your bank

AI researching Imp multiple times because its possible

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/585571953407164426/706973712376660008/Screenshot_159.png

And a friend of mine first not believing its possible lost a game after being forced to research feudal thrice before he had the castle age button visible ^^

 

@Cysion any official comments on your most recent disaster? It's been more than 1 week with your newest mess, how much longer can we expect it to last?

 

- Malay need 166% to research next age
- Ethiopians sometimes get +600f after age up
- Sometimes you need to research feudal thrice (or even more) before you can click up to castle because the feudal button doesnt vanish after the first feudal age up (you just need to pay price once rest is free but block your tc unnecessarily and you hang around forever in feudal age)
- Units ignoring walls
- Paladins with 300 HP/ Mangudai with 180 HP(because players can research bloodlines multiple times without paying for it after the next time)
- You can get techs for free if you have the exact ressources required to buy it.

These things are game breaking, and there are already people on the game exploiting them to the max.

 

@Cysion any official comments on your most recent disaster? It's been more than 1 week with your newest mess, how much longer can we expect it to last?

Game has been broken for a week (mele units forever broken) and yet on Reddit the patch update thread has 500+ comments of people clapping.

Guess why they don't bother.

 

Straight up taking the old patch and applying new balance on it actually shouldn't be that difficult, would take at most ~~15-30 minutes and would then not have all the problems that the current patch has(which are likely unrelated to the balance itself)
I'm sure it'd be easy to arrange as long as there's a will to do it

also the issue with double tech and such is likely due to DE devs not properly preparing the engine for this new cheat code....
I'm really unsure if adding that cheat was worth all the trouble but I guess it allows you to have a fun event for SP folk soooo..

 

I think the double or tipple researching tech is due the new feature of watching the tecs that you have access, i have that option disabled and i haven't noticed that behavior, but i have seen tarcans with 11+6 attack in ranked games, also i have seen others complaining about upgrading 3 times the tec to apply the effect.

 

Whats better than climbing rocks as a man at arms, climbing rocks almost perpendicular to ground without arms, but also carrying wood around. This vill is hero.

 

Would be great if there was a tourney bracket in the traditional style. The docs spreadsheet is hard to read

 

hi yoh!

 

Would be great if there was a tourney bracket in the traditional style. The docs spreadsheet is hard to read

I made this one in challonge.com, por now is not defintiive yet because i can´t manage to put Qualfied instead of Round 3, but the overall looking is like it show there.

BOA2 QUALIFICATION - Challonge

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Seems like the tournament is not magically saved before bugs :D Now it just was a second of invisibilty, units jumping through space-time but it can be of bigger harm when it occure somewhere different and where the matches are closer

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Are you using the april patch? That's why AM used burmese instead of malay?

 

50k sponsor???

 

"It's fake guys. Good night guys. Tomorrow more."

Did anyone else catch that at the end of Memb's BoA2 stream today?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/629529348 (listen to the last 20 seconds)

 

Isn't he obviously talking about the starting screen that was (accidentally) displayed? Instead of the usual ending screen?

 

Isn't he obviously talking about the starting screen that was (accidentally) displayed? Instead of the usual ending screen?

And here I was thinking he was cheekily reversing what he said about the $50k tournament donation being real.

 

what are you talking about? he's saying "it's not fake".

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edit: ah, you're talking about the very end.