So in honor of the Steam lobbies being down, I thought I would devote this evening to finally learning how to play on Voobly. I *think* I have downloaded all the basic Voobly stuff as well as some AoC files and run the "Wololo Kingdoms Converter".
What I *CAN* seem to do now, is join a lobby, launch into a game, etc, as long as the game is "old fasioned Age of Conquerors", i.e. NO "new" races like Berbers or whatever, NO Palisade gates, etc, etc, etc. Even though I do own all that stuff on Steam.
Now I'm sure there's supposedly an installation guide somewhere but I've had no luck finding it, and everything is a wall of overwhelming crud and "DOWNLOAD VIRUS NOW" buttons.
So I'm hoping someone who has done this can tell me...
(1) What do I need to do to be able to play with all the "Expansion" races on Voobly? I see an "age2_x2.exe" in my directory, but that never seems to be what Voobly starts when I create a lobby and launch a game.
(2) What's the best way to set my hotkeys? When I try to run the "age1_x1.exe" or "age2_x2.exe" files manually, they appear without any text in them at all. I saw somewhere that means I am missing "language files", but when I got the supposed link on aoezone.net to download them, I click on the "english" one and nothing downloads it just takes me back to the home page.
(3) I have heard of the glorious "use mousewheel to rotate gates" mod... but nothing about that seems to be coming up when I start any of the games that I am able to start.
Thanks if anyone can help!
What I *CAN* seem to do now, is join a lobby, launch into a game, etc, as long as the game is "old fasioned Age of Conquerors", i.e. NO "new" races like Berbers or whatever, NO Palisade gates, etc, etc, etc. Even though I do own all that stuff on Steam.
Now I'm sure there's supposedly an installation guide somewhere but I've had no luck finding it, and everything is a wall of overwhelming crud and "DOWNLOAD VIRUS NOW" buttons.
So I'm hoping someone who has done this can tell me...
(1) What do I need to do to be able to play with all the "Expansion" races on Voobly? I see an "age2_x2.exe" in my directory, but that never seems to be what Voobly starts when I create a lobby and launch a game.
(2) What's the best way to set my hotkeys? When I try to run the "age1_x1.exe" or "age2_x2.exe" files manually, they appear without any text in them at all. I saw somewhere that means I am missing "language files", but when I got the supposed link on aoezone.net to download them, I click on the "english" one and nothing downloads it just takes me back to the home page.
(3) I have heard of the glorious "use mousewheel to rotate gates" mod... but nothing about that seems to be coming up when I start any of the games that I am able to start.
Thanks if anyone can help!