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[madd-hatter]

n_K, on 11 April 2013 - 13:27, said:

Nope, free apparently; http://www.voobly.co...view/widescreen

lol...

It was reserved for Silver Membership and up users. Trust me, I bought a Silver Membership in order to experience it; It wasn't previously available to a "Normal" member while playing a ranked game.
They are feeling the heat from Steam. I'm sure they've noticed a good percentage loss of their AoE memberbase in the past few weeks.

[+Asik]

Now don't get me wrong I'm super excited about this release and pre-ordered it as soon as I heard about it. I do however have numerous nitpicks:

- They didn't collaborate with the modding community at all, and AoE2 has evolved a lot with this community throughout the years. UserPatch and Forgotten Empires offer many important bugfixes and content updates, none of which are present in AoE2:HD. As a result, players have to choose between a game that has Steam integration and one that's actually improved over the original, rather than having both. Contrast this with the approach Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition took and which is unambiguously a better game than the original.
- I hope this is fixed soon, but in the meantime the game has severe performance issues. The mouse randomly stops responding in the menus, and the framerate in-game feels jerky.
- Many report connectivity issues and desyncs.

[Azies]

This remake is ****. I actually use my old AoE II disks with AoE II Forgotten Empires mod, works better, and looks better than this cash in tat.

[+techbeck]

How does single player work? Do the same classic cheat codes still work as well?

Azies, on 23 April 2013 - 15:37, said:

AoE II Forgotten Empires mod

??

[n_K]

techbeck, on 23 April 2013 - 15:41, said:

How does single player work? Do the same classic cheat codes still work as well?

Think so, in some pre-release trailer they had the classic gun car on the map.

[watchthisspace]

Asik, on 12 April 2013 - 01:51, said:

Now don't get me wrong I'm super excited about this release and pre-ordered it as soon as I heard about it. I do however have numerous nitpicks:

- They didn't collaborate with the modding community at all, and AoE2 has evolved a lot with this community throughout the years. UserPatch and Forgotten Empires offer many important bugfixes and content updates, none of which are present in AoE2:HD. As a result, players have to choose between a game that has Steam integration and one that's actually improved over the original, rather than having both. Contrast this with the approach Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition took and which is unambiguously a better game than the original.
- I hope this is fixed soon, but in the meantime the game has severe performance issues. The mouse randomly stops responding in the menus, and the framerate in-game feels jerky.
- Many report connectivity issues and desyncs.

There is meant to be a patch coming by the end of the week to fix a lot of performance issues: http://steamcommunit...36718633144719/

[-Razorfold]

watchthisspace, on 24 April 2013 - 06:40, said:

There is meant to be a patch coming by the end of the week to fix a lot of performance issues: http://steamcommunit...36718633144719/

Patch came out earlier today.

[watchthisspace]

-Razorfold, on 24 April 2013 - 07:03, said:

Patch came out earlier today.

Interesting. It's not showing up on my Steam page as there being any update(s). Are you talking about the beta patch?

[Dot Matrix]

Astra.Xtreme, on 07 March 2013 - 17:47, said:

Agreed. I'll be a little disappointed if they remove the cheat that spawns Shelby Cobras.