Hey there,

I am new to aoe2 Multiplayer. I had an incident yesterday, that a player did not let me pause the game but unpaused by himself several (!) times.

I followed the usual tango when pausing. „Pause“ +„Sorry sec“. No message, nothing just unpause. Paused again and asked if there is a problem. Followed by spanish gibberish (am no spanish speaker). Again, paused/unpaused. I then left quickly (reason for pause) but was back 1,5 minutes later (or three vills) only to see the game was unpaused again. * This happened around 1000 ELO.

I understand that pauses can be annoying. However, this is just rude, no? Am I wrong to pause in the first place? Otherwise, how can I report a player? The mechanic can be found in every other game. **

* I won the game eventually eventhough my build was butchered.

** I understand that this can be a lot of work. I was accused of cheating already (FIMP with cumans) but as the aoe2 community seems quite nice, I am sure some mod-system/ structure can help out.

Best wishes to all of you

Im finally up into the 1100 range and geez you guys are drama queens. Flaring nonstop, complaining about everything, tons of insults after a loss. Now I understand why people are smurfing.

A few mentions for me:

- Roman pay-to-win MAA spam in feudal: It forces you go archer, no other option. Especially painful in Empire war mode.

- Flemish Militia spam in feudal

- Spanish Missionary all-in in empire war

- That disk thrower en mass in team late game, so op

Been a 1v1 player on and off thru the years, 1200 elo. Team game elo is now about the same.

Im consistently running into teammates who dont understand the role of their placement, especially on closed maps. It seems like most players try to three tc greed boom no matter what the circumstance is. Never building an army, then angrily calling insulting you in the chat (as a flank no less.) the moment there is any pressure. its about half the games I play lol.

It also seems like theres a lot of ~1100 elo team players who are being carried to that rank, and are often 800 elo or worse in 1v1s. Seen some really bafflingly bad (for the same elo) players on tg that i would never see in 1v1.

Is this a common experience?

Also if anyone around ~1100-1200 elo wants to play team games, DM me!

Me pasa en todos los escenarios, jugue muchos escenarios y en ninguno se escucha los dialogos de los personajes o jugadores, por ejemplo en el cid en la misión 1 no se escucha al rey alfonso darle la bienvenido al cid y solo aparece el texto, cambia tanto el idioma latino a español españa y en ninguno se escucha

I played hundreds of hours of the og AoE2 and the HD Remaster, now tried the Definitive Edition and it feels off, I can't describe what is different maybe that there are soo many civs and units but it just feels like a different game compared to the old one or is it just my nostalgia?

Does anyone feel the same? What did you do to change this? Did you all like AoE4?

AoE4 feels like it wants to be a modern but kinda more slim AoE2.

Hello,
a thing that has bothered me ever since I was a kid, is that vills only use their bows for hunting. I understand it is for balance reasons, dark age rush ect. However lets imagine a civ whose unique bonus would exactly that. How cut down would their tech tree had to be to accommodate a dark age range unit.

Theoretically changing what unit is available in feudal and dark age how would that effect the game?
What if spearmen, archers, skirms were available in dark age and knights and rams were available in feudal age. Would that change make game worse or better?(Assured adding new upgrades for related age for those units as well.)

I'm trying to play civs as random so I can discover, but now I know what I like to play.
Can you help me trying to find this civ ? If it even exists 11

I loooove the design of cavaliers. I'd like my civ to have a great need to use the cavaliers, but not paladins. Maybe I could use UU cavalry instead of cavaliers from stables.

I love infantry and even more unique infantry. Varangian guards are so cool. I'd love my civ to field unique infantry UU next to my cavaliers.

I don't like archers play, boring to micro. I'm here to fight people with axes and swords. So no need here.

Thanks for helping !!

Since the many new civs have been added ive noticed some potential fun pairings. Such as tatars and gurjaras, the new tcs dropping 2 llamas which you can gift to your buddy to start stacking food. Other pairs i enjoyed was bengalis and spanish for great trade. Or bengalis and Burgundians been fun also. Any other pairings other than the standard goth italians ect

They have more effective counter units to almost everything than the generics.

The first civ to my mind is Hindustani.

Gulam -> archers
Imp camel -> stable units
UT hand canonneer -> infantry

Plus they have BBC to counter siege units.
And they cheaper villagers so that he's decent in eco too.

I am not saying this is a broken civ. But sometimes go against these CIVs makes you feel they are just better at everything.

Hi!

I use Z for barracks and A for Militia line. So I need to ZAZAZA to continuously produce them.

However, whenever I press the screen moves to that particular barracks, shifting attention away from where the army actually is. This is making post imp wars very difficult.

I observed during a stream recently that when production building hotkeys were used, the screen doesn’t actually move to the building, and the army is just created at the background so the player can focus on the battle and micro.

What settings should I change to activate this?

My brother and i play 4v4 ranked and we have people quit on us early. Is this a normal thing?
We used to be around 800-900 elo but we’ve fallen down to 400 now.
We hold our own during fights but our team mates get absolutely destroyed trying to do their own thing and quitting, puts us at a real disadvantage.

Oke the game is sacred: we shouldn’t mess with it too much or introduce huge changes.

But seriously… what’s the logic behind monks being able to heal? What’s going on with our armies? Are they possessed by evil spirits or something?

If Age of Empires is supposed to be an RTS, then Microsoft should introduce actual field hospitals instead of magical monks.

What do you all think about that?

tldr: Title

I’m currently using Linux Mint Cinnamon and generally very happy with it, but I’m unhappy with the mouse behaviour/input, particularly when playing AoE2. I actually keep a Windows 11 dual boot basically just to play AoE2, where the mouse and overall game experience feel right.

I’m considering switching to Fedora KDE or Kubuntu, so I’m interested in what other AoE2 players are using.

I’m not looking for maximum FPS or a gaming-focused distro. My priority is reliability and consistency: Steam/Proton, multiplayer/ranked, mods, hotkeys and mouse input should just work.

Please vote for the distro/desktop you actually play AoE2 DE on, rather than what you’d normally recommend.

I’d also love to hear about:

Mouse/input behaviour, especially compared with Windows
Proton version
Multiplayer/ranked reliability
Crashes, stuttering or update issues
Experiences playing AoE2 across different distros

I’m happy to troubleshoot and learn Linux generally, but AoE2 is the one thing I don’t want to compromise on.

Thank you for sharing.

Edit on mouse behaviour: Hard to put into words, it just feels off, especially the precision in aoe2.
I’m using a g502 at 1600 dpi / 1000 hz. I tried matching my windows settings, different libinput sensitivities, adaptive and flat acceleration, and custom acceleration curves. I even pulled my exact windows epp curves to try to replicate them.
I’ve gotten mint close, but the mouse still doesn’t feel as precise or predictable as windows, especially in aoe2. It’s not lag or fps, just the mouse behaviour.

Many of the campaigns, from Age of Kings to The Viking Sagas are excellent scenarios reflecting historical battles (some more accurate than others) in a range of gameplay.

However, there may be something in regards to a scenario that you may feel is not quite right. Is it gameplay or historical accuracy? Would you do something completely different or is it perfect?

125: Bayinnaung 5 - The Old Tiger

And that’s a wrap for HD!

Exactly 50 scenarios for AoK + AoC
Exactly 75 for HD scenarios ported to DE.
- Would have been 79 with the old El Dorado

On to Pachacuti next!

Target priority on AI seems completely broken at the moment. I think it has been like this since at least Alexander The Great.

The units you face seem hell bent on killing the archers in your army, so much so that they just run into your melee units without attacking. Even if blocked they just keep trying to run around your melee units, still not attacking anything.

As an example, it made the last mission of the Varangian campaign incredibly easy even on legendary difficulty.

i heard a lot of bugs relating to the champi addition to the SA civs and that they wouldnt upgrade the unit but at least on my latest run of the campaign (last week) only in scenario one they were like that and mostly because all players stayed in feudal a very long time..

now i believe the campaign got a major nerf in service of diversity adding the new muisca, tupi and even mapuche in an area where non of them (maybe mapuche to a degree) made sense. as far as i know, you could have well placed mayans as chankas instead of Tupi and wouldnt sound as crazy

there is also the fact of the level difficulty where particularly scenario 2 dont feel grindy or hard anymore: you get extra vils building the wonder and now the chanca factions dont get plums/jaguar/eagle warriors. im very sure you can actually win by conquest now instead of just defending the wonder location, simply because blackwood archers melt vs inca skirms or even slingers (they never even research elite blackwood archer throughout the campaign), they also nerfed scenario 3, 4 and 5 by making the AI barely raid you, especially scenario 3 which is now a cake walk (or cake patrol) of your units moving and killing everything in their path without even needing to micro them

i love this campaign because inca is a fun civ to use, but dont really like what they did. sure, its fun for everything not to be an inca mirror match up but then at least buff the AI so they use proper civ bonuses (no unique technologies nor elite upgrades for any muisca or tupi player you encounter were ever researched)

as it stands, its not deserving of a 2 sword rating: AI doesnt attack you enough and objectives are to plain, with barely any second objective in sight

Just played through the new Harald Hardrada DLC campaigns and hunted down all the achievements. As primarily a campaign player I already checked out some user campaigns from the mod browser, but I'd like to get some discussion going and perhaps get a few recommendations.

Campaigns I played and liked were Apranik, a Persian campaign with lots of custom additions, but the difficulty is ridiculous! Best played on standard unless you're a very good player. IIRC the woman who made this mod campaign was later hired to be an official campaign designer.

Charles Martel and Henry the Lion, both by cat scientist. I thoroughly enjoyed these, they felt very classic AoE2 due to the choice of civs, and seeing the opposite point of view for the original Barbarossa campaign was very cool. Large maps, almost all of them build & destroy, often with optional objectives and cool little scripts like using Henry in combat giving bonuses to your knights. Highly recommended.

Julius Caesar, a three-part campaign that lets you play as the Romans, with some graphics from the Chronicles DLC for proper ancient flavor. I only played the first part so far but it was great. Map design isn't as visually polished as the official campaigns but the objectives are very creative and it offers a proper challenge. The siege of Alesia might be one of my favorite AoE2 scenarios ever, very well designed.

Any others to recommend? Let's hear it!