#Age of empires iv update#
#Age of empires iv upgrade#
#Age of empires iv free#

And oooh boy do they delete walls, castles (called keeps in this game) and every other siege. I thought it would be a chore to pack/unpack trebs and cannons (and other smaller siege support weapons) but they really pack/unpack in 1 second flat. Also, they look fucking TINY, only the cultural landmarks stand out and are big enough IMO. No fucking clue what is a barracks what is a stable and what is an archery range. I CANNOT tell the buildings apartвЂ¦ like, at all. No more guesswork for вЂњbut is it actually walled off or just optical illusion?вЂќ Very clear distinctions where you can build your palisades/stone walls. + Only a select few buildings can train 5-units at a time, and itвЂ™s usually a cultural defensive landmark.

#Age of empires iv upgrade#

You explore the map with them, gather sheep to your TC and in Age II (Feudal) you can upgrade them so theyвЂ™ll hunt deer or boars and bring them to your workers. + Scouts now are a hybrid of scouts from AoE2 and explorers from AoE3. + Pace is a little funky, a bit quicker than AoE2 but not the zoom-zoom-blink-and-youвЂ™ll-miss-it of SC2. This same archer has a different look in every civ, in every age. Everyone has access to a basic вЂњarcherвЂќ unit, even England where Longbowmen are strictly better, but they can make basic archers. + UNIQUE SKINS for every civilization for the same units. Archers feel like a backline unit (as they should) that supports the frontline of melee and cav. If you watch AoE2 at all nowadays, you know archery civs reign supreme. It seems like they not only nerfed ranged damage, archer HP but also implemented a counter system like in Warcraft 3 (you got light armor, heavy armor, pierce damage, shock etc.) Pretty cool and works well. I tried to mass Elite Longbowmen in my 1st game and they surprisingly uneffective even in 100+ numbers. You build a gate inside a stone wall and they just go up there. + Really like that you can put archers and all ranged units (but not siege equipment) in general, on stone walls. + Pretty faithful to AoE2 but unique enough to not feel like the same game remade in a different engine (feels like this is made in the same engine as AoE3 DE was made in) This is basically what AoE3 shouldвЂ™ve been. + No bullshit cards, no call ins from home city etc. They have a unique playstyle from the get-go. + I think the civs are pretty unique, instead of copy pasted like in AoE2 with 1 unique unit and 3 boosts in total to eco/military. There will be a 20,000$ Tournament Released a couple weeks after Launch! OPEN Bracket so if anyone wants to try out when the games out there is more info here: Overall the game still needs a lot of work, and I expected bigger changes by now from the beta.

#Age of empires iv update#

SO Stress Test ended for now, As soon as there is another coming I will update here. Has anyone else looked into Age of Empires 4? Any thoughts? So if you haven't heard much about the game that would be why so far. Unfortunately all the content available for the game up until now has been NDA so I cannot share much more about the game until this Friday, and the devs for their game have been awful with marketing and shown literally 0 gameplay. It seems they're going to support the Age of games once again and since frost giant is years away I know what I'll be trying. Microsoft has been supporting Age of Empires 2 DE with huge tournaments lately (100k prize pool tournament this weekend actually) and also released AoE 3 Definitive Edition recently too. They will have access to 4/8 Civs in this stress test

#Age of empires iv free#

It's a free weekend trial/stess test so I'd recommend everyone to try it out. Considering Blizzard hasn't been updating Starcraft 2 i'm thinking there could be a lot of hope in this coming RTS title.