Age of Empires II: Age of Kings

The exchange rate caps out though, so within normal play I wouldn't have thought it would ever get that bad.

It can get pretty bad. The minimum selling value is 14 or thereabouts, and I've seen the buying value exceed 300 gold.

Downloa-COUGHCOUGH- legally acquiring this game right now. Man, the nostalgia.

Did the tutorial campaign. The game turns out to be pretty fun. I had awful lag on it at first but apparently there's a bunch of beta patches and the performance patch helped a lot. (Right click the game on steam > properties > betas > choose one from the dropdown menu.)

Too bad I feel like I'm absolutely awful at the game.

Beta patch now available. Oops. Beat me to it.

Visual fixes:

• Windows DPI scaling no longer zooms the in-game perspective
• Default scroll speed increased

Multiplayer fixes including:

• Quitting a multiplayer game triggers a resignation instead appearing as a ‘drop’
• Private lobbies stay private
• Quick match no longer crashes
• Long Steam usernames no longer cause crash
• Hotkeys for multiplayer are correctly saved
• Lobby now enforces that you only play multiplayer with the same build version
• Visual indications of players in your lobby and in game who have low frame rate
• Better networking verification prior to entering game (prevents getting stuck on the voting screen)
• Performance warning if you have high ping to one other player who isn’t host or if your data is being relayed
• Multiplayer quick match speed defaults to normal
• Quick match has additional map size filter
• Multiplayer Lobby doesn’t lock to a region for displaying games

Achievements fix:

• Single player unlocks achievements properly

edited 21st Apr '13 8:59:05 AM by JAF1970

Did not realize that the population cap had been raised from 200 to 500. Crushing one's opponents beneath a Million Mook March of Champions, Halberdiers, and Huskarls is quite entertaining, but since the selection cap is still 40, and there's no "send all military to this spot" command, it's also a logistical nightmare.

Can't you define different groups for your military?

Ctrl + 1 or some other number.

Why are seemingly half the mods farm textures? Are the new ones that bad?

edited 15th May '13 8:59:35 PM by Rationalinsanity

The new farms are fine in their own right, but it's a pretty jarring shift from their old appearance. Personally, I don't really care one way or another.

Just got the Legacy Pack off Steam. About to fire up The Conquerors for the first time in years. One of my favourite games of all time.

Can't wait!

Forgotten Empires is becoming official. Woop woop!

Dang I think I can count on my hand the number of times something fan made becomes official. Anyone else know of any other games where something like this has happened?

You may want to check these pages: Ascended Fanon, Ascended Meme, Official Fan-Submitted Content.

The Forgotten release date of November 7th.

The Forgotten? What's it about? :)

Ever heard of Forgotten Empires? The Forgotten basically makes the contents of the mod official, and adds some additional content on top of that.

I like what I see, and I see what I like. :)

Pricing confirmed for $10.

Edit: herp derp how do I markup

edited 29th Oct '13 5:57:29 PM by ABNDT

AoF is released.

Ooh, nice menu remix.

edited 7th Nov '13 10:28:19 AM by ABNDT

Game is currently 85% off on Steam. Why am I not just posting this in the Steam sale thread? So I can also mention, a couple months overdue, that they're working on a new expansion pack. The focus: African civilizations, with the Berbers being the first ones revealed.

I've already got the legacy bundle (AOE2 + Forgotten + AOE3), does that mean I'll automatically get the new expansion when it's released?

edited 19th Jun '15 3:20:20 PM by Meklar

Doubt it.

I did hear about the planned expansion as well. As far as I can tell, some of the other African civs I like to see, especially considering their interactions with the outside world, are the Mali and the Abyssinians (ancient Ethiopians).

EDIT: Just saw a clip. Mali confirmed!

Is there anything else aside from Abyssinia (and no, I don't include Songhai or Ghana since they're also within the same purview of the more famous Mali) that we're likely to see?

edited 20th Jun '15 5:18:42 AM by EarlOfSandvich

Realized just now they've had the latest blog post for a while, and yes, it does have the clip I've mentioned.

And going by that new image, some sharp eyes are also seeing the Abyssinians and Portuguese^note Which isn't African, but did interact with African civs at the time coming. Still trying to see what the fifth will be. The Swahili (from modern Somalia to modern Mozambique; I believe it most likely because it did have extensive trade ties with Arabs and the Portuguese, not to mention influences further inland)? The Sudanese? Benin (in modern Nigeria)? All of which with a robust history.

edited 8th Jul '15 1:18:47 AM by EarlOfSandvich