Thoughts and Opinions on Age of Empires II’s Console Port After Three Hours or More
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and responsive.
I spent a lot of time playing and streaming the console port to get a feel for how it works, and overall I was very impressed.
The controls have been thoughtfully adapted to work well with a controller, and the automation feature is much less overpowered than I expected.
The William Wallace campaign has been modified for the console version, with the first mission combining the first four levels from the PC version.
A new difficulty mode, called ‘Story’, has been added for regular campaigns but not for Historic Battles.
In ranked play, you can choose to be matched up against other controller players or with cross input.
The mod browser is included, though it seems to be buggy.
Unfortunately, the scenario editor is not available.
Despite the Xbox One being a last gen console, the game runs smoothly and responsively.
I read that you can use mouse+keyboard on the Xbox version, seems like a win for console players.
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Horrible, these games are just not meant to be played on a controller.
Played for a half hour and could not take it anymore, thankfully it was on gamepass so i could try it.
Wow, it’s good to know the port isn’t complete garbage.
I assumed there would be a metric butt-ton of automation that would completely remove any skill from the game.
That’s why I was so hostile towards it earlier.
Does anyone know how to view multiplayer replays?
I looked at every tab and couldn’t find it.
At the end of games it gives you the option to save replay but I can’t find it anywhere on the menu.
>Speaking of campaigns – a new difficulty mode below “Standard” called “Story” has been added which somehow only works for regular campaigns but not Historic Battles…
weird
Any idea, if this affects achievements?
Biggest issue is mass building houses and making it a little neat.
Rotating the camera.
Trying to rush a big army with coordination.
But all in all I’ve out over 20 hours already.
Also I would love a fast scroll but I just have to play with rhe map.options and learn how to move around the map faster.
Still love the game.
I also feel they kind of nerfed the byzantine special unit but I haven’t played in so long I might remember it differently.
Still 9/10 port, I love it.
30minute que, says 00:01:46 three times 10minute one time relaunch the game and still 10minute que, love The game but que killing me.
So can we expect to be playing against console players?
Is there any advantage to console or would playing off a PC more efficient?
Everything’s fantastic.
Apart from online, because no matter how low the ping or how small the player count..
the units will jitter and lag a bit while moving.
Really puts me off.
It’s not smooth at all.
I’ve been trying to play it with mouse and keyboard but I was never able to set up the extra button 1 or 2 of the mouse on the hot keys, do you know if there’s any way the console recognize it?
are there any cheats equivalent to the pc version?
something like “how do you turn this on” “lumberjack” “aegis”?
I am using Xbox CLoud gaming on my Chromebook (I don’t have a gaming PC or an Xbox) and it is a pretty tough experience (though not mad about it, my setup is not optimal at all).
I can’t figure out how to get the controls to work without a controller.
>For ranked, you can opt-in whether you only want to get matched up against other Controller players or if you want cross input.
For lobbies, controller and keyboard players can play together, regardless the platform
That’s not fully true.
The current implementation isn’t well thought out.
* General cross-play settings live in the main options.
It’s available on all platforms.
But this setting is only to control cross-play between Steam and Microsoft.
* Cross-input settings are in the multiplayer menu, but they appear only for Xbox players.They can decide whether they want to be paired with PC kb/mouse players or not.
PC players (both: Steam and Microsoft) don’t have this setting.
As a consequence, as a Microsoft/PC player, having cross-play disabled in main settings I can be paired with an Xbox/controller player that has general cross-play enabled and cross-input enabled.
I’ve already reported it as a bug: https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/cross-play-settings-are-broken-after-xbox-release/223636
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