Age of Empires II: HD Coming to Steam

i ****ing loved that game.

still do ......**** whatever gaming service made it stop and hamachi for not working most of the time ....**** all of them!!!!

Gbear wrote: »

Bundle here for that and AOE3

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/26189/

25 quid for the pair.

AOE3 is pretty good.

Even though i'm looking at my physical copy of AoE 3 right now, and trying to figure out how to activate it without install off the CD's, i've just bought that.

AoK one of my favorite games of all time and my first real online gaming experience, AoE being my first on 56k! :D

But to spend 20 quid on Nostalgia is abit much.

YouSavedMyLife wrote: »

AoK one of my favorite games of all time and my first real online gaming experience, AoE being my first on 56k! :D

But to spend 20 quid on Nostalgia is abit much.

Aye, but it's fancy nostalgia, plus for a fiver more you're getting AoE: Complete and an upcoming DLC! PC Gaming is going to cause my mortgage lender some serious problems.

Grimebox wrote: »

With match-making? I'm sold if that's anything like Starcraft 2's match making system.

I wonder if the game is even balanced.

We used to play on black forest maps so my strat was to harvest nothing but wood and use the market to get anything else I needed. It meant I didn't have to contend over any resource point like gold/stone. Ridiculous when I think back now

that strat is still used today i used it with the french in treaty games
i gather nothing but food for the 40minutes
then i use a card which switchs all food to gold
then when the game starts i have over 300k gold, 0 food , 40k wood
then i put all 80 villagers on food
great tactic the market though is more balanced in aoe3

In the original you could pause the game for everyone in multiplayer, I wonder if they'll keep that in.

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

you can still do that
but if one person clicks resume
well then the it will over ride the pause for everyone

But it was never 1 person that hit pause/resume, a lot of the time it's 2 which meant that when 2 people tried to unpause the game 1 would pause it while the other re-paused it.

Denny M wrote: »

I used to play AoE 2 a lot with some friends, we were playing Black Forest when one of them came up with a hilariously effective tactic; he used few trebuchets to dig a line for his army through the trees, avoiding someone's walls and towers to attack him from behind :pac:

Ahh the memories. I think before Age of Kings was patched or the Conquerors came out that you could create a farm from a cut tree. So basically all you would do is get your villy's to hack each tree at least 3 times, then waste some wood to 'plant' the new farm. The tree which has still like 90+ wood remaining in it gets converted into the developing farm, then you delete the developing farm so you don't lose excess wood from your resources and you make a nice little path that way through the trees. Trebuchets were too slow.

The other way was to use onagers with chemistry researched. (Or was it siege Onagers?) and merely attack the ground at take out a nice pattern of trees in a matter of seconds. There was another technique too that I can't think of right now.

Another really cruel thing people used to do on Black forest was use the wooden walls (palasides or something?) and build them one after the other, while waiting for slower stone wall to be built miles back. Because wood was in such abundance the gate would merely consist of deleting and rebuilding wooden walls which would often be a ridiculous 4 or 5 walls think. They'd be destroyed in matter of seconds of course, but unless the attacker micromanaged his troops welll they'd just all start attacking random walls and slow down their penetration all the while actually being more vulnerable to archers. Cheap and lousy but effective.

Favourite was building walls around a trebuchet.

other guy be wondering why i wasting stone just outside his base building little square boxes.

Stick a trebuchet insider took ages for him to get to it

half his town gone by the time he did.

Jernal wrote: »

The other way was to use onagers with chemistry researched. (Or was it siege Onagers?) and merely attack the ground at take out a nice pattern of trees in a matter of seconds. There was another technique too that I can't think of right now.

It was definitely only Siege Onagers, I can remember some of the campaign missions where you were given a couple to shortcut your way through the map :P

Taylor365 wrote: »

How are they going to handle the multiplayer aspect?

Based on the trailer, it looks to be like any other Steamworks game, with proper game lobbies and all that lark.