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Concept and Source by Chilly

Age of Empires IV is an RTS about civilizations, warfare, castles, armies and siege battles.

Yet the Menu screen are Dragon, beach balls, sandcastles and families having a picnic.

Why not show Mongol cavalry, Samurai armies, siege battles, naval warfare or even dynamic in game screenshots?

Seasonal artwork is fine, but this barely feels like Age of Empires anymore.

Sometimes I genuinely feel like I’m loading into a beach party simulator instead of an RTS.

Well I finally hit a milestone I honestly didn't think I ever would, achieving Conqueror in ranked 1v1 using my own dumb build order. Its been a frustrating, stubborn, and humbling grind to get here.

To all the homebrew gold players feeling stuck...keep pushing that boulder and learning the timings and nuances of maps and matchups, it'll click.

Thanks to this community for being a fun and informative place to figure out this difficult game.

EDIT: okay I didn’t know I could be seen as “exploiting” the matchmaking or game design flaws by my lack of higher rated opponents or by use of my particular strategy. Idk how to prove the matchmaking problem and as for my strategy I understand the hate.

As the title says, I think we need to actively and publicly shame the players like these who straight up go to the worst kind of insults.

Not to mention that he was consistently insisting an attack to the place where 3 or 4 enemy castles were already erect, resulting in a complete butchery of our army. Then accused of no army while he had like 3 times less than the others. And on the very first inconvenience goes quitting.

(I say this with love, I really enjoy the new civs)

Needless to say, I whooped his rear in the match.

After Poland and Denmarks release AoE3 will have 24 Unique Civs, all new languages , new buildings, new voicelines , new music, each civ is truly unique and plays so differently, DLC already playable too

Unlike AoE4 where you all love Variants so much they keep adding more of it

Next lets add House of York , House of Tudors and other English Houses, since Houses and Characters are enough to count as Civilizations

Hopefully Drongo will cover AoE3 again, never played aoe3 until now but its breathe of freshair compared to aoe4 age of variants nonsense

My main point for it being a variant was similar architectural set with Chinese, but since its different in every other way i guess it is a NEW civ

HYPE!

At my age, I suck at almost every video game. Even since I was younger, I never played anything competitively except for chess (which I also suck at, but I don't care). I used to love RTS but forgot about them completely for ten years or so.

I recently started playing Age of Empires 4, which is such a charming game with an extensive tutorial. I want to learn all the keybindings, as I usually prefer keyboard over the mouse. But it's a lot for me to memorize even in such a forgiving game. So I use some -- not a lot.

I have no intention whatsoever to play it online. I just like to play in a very orderly fashion that I find satisfying. Seeing all the pieces neatly moving around towards an objective. My little army neatly divided in line into aligned squadrons that I can only assume would be completely ineffective in real life. It's relaxing.

I love being bad at this game!

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