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When it first came out in 1999, I played a lot of Age of Empires 2. Its blend of historical real-time strategy, with detailed rock-paper-scissors military unit management made it one of my favorite games of all time. I love the rhythm of having my villagers collect resources while I improve the village's defenses, build and upgrade its soldiery, and ultimately launch invasions of my enemies.

So when an updated HD version came out in 2013, I gave it a try. I was disappointed. Although it was a decent update, which offered a lot of modding tools and a general visual improvement, it didn't catch my imagination. It was, in essence, a nostalgia play.

A new version, called Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, has captivated me entirely. Developer Forgotten Empires and Xbox Game Studios have done a fantastic job of taking a 20-year-old game and making it feel fresh. Although it's really the same game, the Definitive Edition has made enough changes to make it feel like new, especially while we wait for Age of Empires 4 to arrive.

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition Cheats — From Cobra Car to Instant Win. Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition Download, Release Date, Gameplay, Civilisations, Cheats. The definitive edition is a remaster of the original Age of Empires game from 1997. Microsoft Studios announced new 4k graphics, improved balancebased on UserPatch, different zoom modes, a classic mode, multiplayer, a map editor and mod support. The new graphics look closer to aoe2. Multiplayer Guide for Khmer Introduction. This is a multiplayer guide for Khmer civilization for Intermediate level. My ELO is around 1200 – 1300 so if your rating is higher than that, this guide might not be very useful. This guide is for land maps only. Khmer is a very interesting civ because: No dependency for building, or upgrading to the.

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition looks better than ever before, with support for 4K resolution. It has a richer color palette, better lighting, and a host of redesigned units and buildings. I'm especially taken by the way buildings crumble to the ground when they finally succumb to siege. The ability to zoom in on the action is nicely implemented.

Music and voice acting have also been updated, giving the game a more grandiose feeling, especially during the campaigns, which are heavily narrated.

All the old campaigns have been included, with updates, as well as a new campaign based on the waning days of the Khanate. This includes four new civilizations and three story campaigns that offer a rewarding challenge.

In one new campaign, there's a timed challenge that pits Tamerlane (aka Timur) against the heavily fortified city of Delhi. It's reasonably easy to use catapults to get past the outer walls, but the city's cramped streets are heavily defended by war elephants. Unit management becomes more difficult as the enemy takes out my seriously vulnerable bombardment units, leaving me unable to destroy the city's last citadel. As I say, it's a nicely designed challenge.

New game modes have also been added, including one called Empire Wars, which drops the player into a town with a ready-made population of villagers, all busily collecting a balanced portfolio of food, wood, gold, and stone. This takes the chores out of the early game, for those who tire of such things.

Much-needed game-control improvements have also been added. Unit queues are now more efficient.

Each building in Age of Empires games builds multiple types of units. Stables, for example, can build light cavalry, heavy cavalry, scouts, camel riders, and more. In the past, I could only queue up one type at a time — say, 10 knights — and then go back and queue up the next desired units. Now I can queue in any order. It's nice to create archers and spearmen alternatively, so that I have a more balanced ranged army right from its creation.

Civilians can also be instructed to construct certain buildings in a particular order. So, I can direct them to build a network of, say, towers, a gate, and defensive houses, and leave them to complete the job.

The most useful change is the ability to automatically reseed farms. In the old games, exhausted farms had to be relaid manually, which was a nuisance in the middle of a frenzied campaign. Unwary players could find themselves bereft of food, one of the game's four essential resources. Now, I can stack up a lot of wood, and order multiple auto-reseeds that leave me free to ignore this tiresome chore, especially late in the game. The same goes for fish traps.

These useful changes show that Forgotten Empires and Microsoft have paid attention to the kinds of 'quality of life' improvements rival games have made, and that strategy players now expect.

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Playing online is a totally different experience than playing computer-controlled opponents, almost to the point of being a different game. There's a bunch of hard lessons to learn about common strategies. Now, the transition from AI to human enemies is eased with a specific tutorial called Art of War, that can save a lot of dismal defeats online.

The transition to playing real humans is now much smoother. Online play has also seen a lot of user interface improvements as well as a switch to server-based contests.

In single-player mode, the game's AI has been spruced up. Perhaps it's this change that I like the most or, to put it another way, it was the AI's limitations that I liked the least in the 2013 re-release of Age of Empires 2. Path-finding is much better too; units generally go where I want them to go. AI enemies are less likely to feel like they're cheating, or worse, to behave self-destructively.

AI has come a long way in the last two decades, and Definitive Edition's improvements in this area really show. On the whole, this is an excellent update which I believe will please lapsed players looking to return to an old favorite, as well as new players who are curious about a genuine classic.

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is out now on Windows PC. It's also available on subscription service Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Hi there Age fans!

We've been watching some of your wonderful beta streams, and come to realize that no matter how good you are at the other Age games Age of Empires: Definitive Edition might take a little bit of getting used to! To help with that the best Age player on our team here at Microsoft Studios, Will McCahill, wrote up this list for you!

Good luck everyone, and have fun playing!!

A Quick Reference for Age II HD Players Who Want to Play AoE: DE

Key differences:
No starting scout – you only get 3 villagers. Use one of your villagers to scout at the start
No garrisoning – you can't hide your villagers in the event of an attack
Loom – No equivalent early game upgrade in Age:DE, villagers are a little stronger though
Houses support only four population – Unlike Age 2's five
No Palisade walls or equivalent – Walls cannot be made until they are researched at the granary starting in the Tool Age

Resources –

• Granary: can only accept food from Berries and farms
• Storage Pit: Accepts all wood, gold, and stone. Can only accept food from elephant, shore fish, crocodiles, lions and antelope.
• Town Center: Any resource can be dropped off at the Town Center
• Hunting: Gazelle (deer equivalent) spawn in larger groups and can be hunted efficiently
• Farms: Aren't available until a market is built. A market can't be built until the tool age. Cost 75 wood each (compare to Age 2's 60 wood each)
• No Sheep or equivalent
• Berries – Are the same!
• Wolves – Replaced with lions and alligators. Villagers can kill lions and alligators 1 on 1 without upgrades if they throw the first spear (alligators are slow so you might want to micro your villager back a bit)
• Boar – Replaced with elephants. Elephants have high DPS but are slower than a villager enabling you to kite.
• Trees – Have a variable amount of wood. Generally, 40 wood per tree (compare to Age 2's 100 wood)
• Blacksmith upgrades are at the Storage pit – Upgrades are available starting in the Tool Age

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Stone Age – Dark Age

1. Drush – Clubmen are only slightly stronger than villagers. It is rare to be able to do any real damage to your enemy until the tool age

Tool Age – Feudal Age

1. UpgradeCost – 500 food, same as AOE2
2. Market – Unlocked in the Tool Age (requires granary).
   • Required for farms
   • Has villager efficiency upgrades by resource type
   • Wood efficiency upgrade also improves archer range
3. Slingers – Strong anti-archer/anti-fortification unit that costs food and stone. Created at the barracks. Has no upgrade path meaning it's strength peaks in the Tool Age. Generally used for rushes

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Bronze Age – Castle Age

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1. UpgradeCost – 800 food (no gold!)
2. Wheel – Critical upgrade from the Market that improves villager movement speed by 30% and unlocks chariots
3. Chariots/chariot archers – Very strong 'trash' units in that they only cost food and wood to create. Chariots are created at the Stable. Chariot Archers at the Archery range
   • Chariot archers – upgrades for wood improve chariot archer range, other upgrades are at the storage pit
   • Chariots – Can be upgraded to scythe chariots (which are basically paladins with splash damage) in the Iron age
4. Swordsmen – Prior to Bronze, players have access to Clubmen and Axemen. Those units cannot be upgraded to Swordsmen. Short Swordsmen can be created at the Barracks starting in the Bronze age and have an upgrade path similar to AOE2 Militia.
5. Academy – Requires a stable. Strong and expensive infantry (Hoplite, Phalanx, Centurion) can be made at the academy
6. Government Center
   • If you are booming – this should be your first building in the Bronze age
   • Town Center – Government center is required to build a second town center (You can build them for just 200 wood! Much cheaper than AOE2)
   • Functions similar to a University
   • Logistics – Key upgrade for infantry focused civilizations. Makes barracks units cost only ½ of a population slot
   • Nobility – key upgrade for cavalry focused civilizations. Prerequisite to upgrade for scythe chariots

Iron Age – Imperial Age

New game modes have also been added, including one called Empire Wars, which drops the player into a town with a ready-made population of villagers, all busily collecting a balanced portfolio of food, wood, gold, and stone. This takes the chores out of the early game, for those who tire of such things.

Much-needed game-control improvements have also been added. Unit queues are now more efficient.

Each building in Age of Empires games builds multiple types of units. Stables, for example, can build light cavalry, heavy cavalry, scouts, camel riders, and more. In the past, I could only queue up one type at a time — say, 10 knights — and then go back and queue up the next desired units. Now I can queue in any order. It's nice to create archers and spearmen alternatively, so that I have a more balanced ranged army right from its creation.

Civilians can also be instructed to construct certain buildings in a particular order. So, I can direct them to build a network of, say, towers, a gate, and defensive houses, and leave them to complete the job.

The most useful change is the ability to automatically reseed farms. In the old games, exhausted farms had to be relaid manually, which was a nuisance in the middle of a frenzied campaign. Unwary players could find themselves bereft of food, one of the game's four essential resources. Now, I can stack up a lot of wood, and order multiple auto-reseeds that leave me free to ignore this tiresome chore, especially late in the game. The same goes for fish traps.

These useful changes show that Forgotten Empires and Microsoft have paid attention to the kinds of 'quality of life' improvements rival games have made, and that strategy players now expect.

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Playing online is a totally different experience than playing computer-controlled opponents, almost to the point of being a different game. There's a bunch of hard lessons to learn about common strategies. Now, the transition from AI to human enemies is eased with a specific tutorial called Art of War, that can save a lot of dismal defeats online.

The transition to playing real humans is now much smoother. Online play has also seen a lot of user interface improvements as well as a switch to server-based contests.

In single-player mode, the game's AI has been spruced up. Perhaps it's this change that I like the most or, to put it another way, it was the AI's limitations that I liked the least in the 2013 re-release of Age of Empires 2. Path-finding is much better too; units generally go where I want them to go. AI enemies are less likely to feel like they're cheating, or worse, to behave self-destructively.

AI has come a long way in the last two decades, and Definitive Edition's improvements in this area really show. On the whole, this is an excellent update which I believe will please lapsed players looking to return to an old favorite, as well as new players who are curious about a genuine classic.

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition is out now on Windows PC. It's also available on subscription service Xbox Game Pass for PC.

Hi there Age fans!

We've been watching some of your wonderful beta streams, and come to realize that no matter how good you are at the other Age games Age of Empires: Definitive Edition might take a little bit of getting used to! To help with that the best Age player on our team here at Microsoft Studios, Will McCahill, wrote up this list for you!

Good luck everyone, and have fun playing!!

A Quick Reference for Age II HD Players Who Want to Play AoE: DE

Key differences:
No starting scout – you only get 3 villagers. Use one of your villagers to scout at the start
No garrisoning – you can't hide your villagers in the event of an attack
Loom – No equivalent early game upgrade in Age:DE, villagers are a little stronger though
Houses support only four population – Unlike Age 2's five
No Palisade walls or equivalent – Walls cannot be made until they are researched at the granary starting in the Tool Age

Resources –

• Granary: can only accept food from Berries and farms
• Storage Pit: Accepts all wood, gold, and stone. Can only accept food from elephant, shore fish, crocodiles, lions and antelope.
• Town Center: Any resource can be dropped off at the Town Center
• Hunting: Gazelle (deer equivalent) spawn in larger groups and can be hunted efficiently
• Farms: Aren't available until a market is built. A market can't be built until the tool age. Cost 75 wood each (compare to Age 2's 60 wood each)
• No Sheep or equivalent
• Berries – Are the same!
• Wolves – Replaced with lions and alligators. Villagers can kill lions and alligators 1 on 1 without upgrades if they throw the first spear (alligators are slow so you might want to micro your villager back a bit)
• Boar – Replaced with elephants. Elephants have high DPS but are slower than a villager enabling you to kite.
• Trees – Have a variable amount of wood. Generally, 40 wood per tree (compare to Age 2's 100 wood)
• Blacksmith upgrades are at the Storage pit – Upgrades are available starting in the Tool Age

Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Guide

Stone Age – Dark Age

1. Drush – Clubmen are only slightly stronger than villagers. It is rare to be able to do any real damage to your enemy until the tool age

Tool Age – Feudal Age

1. UpgradeCost – 500 food, same as AOE2
2. Market – Unlocked in the Tool Age (requires granary).
   • Required for farms
   • Has villager efficiency upgrades by resource type
   • Wood efficiency upgrade also improves archer range
3. Slingers – Strong anti-archer/anti-fortification unit that costs food and stone. Created at the barracks. Has no upgrade path meaning it's strength peaks in the Tool Age. Generally used for rushes

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Bronze Age – Castle Age

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1. UpgradeCost – 800 food (no gold!)
2. Wheel – Critical upgrade from the Market that improves villager movement speed by 30% and unlocks chariots
3. Chariots/chariot archers – Very strong 'trash' units in that they only cost food and wood to create. Chariots are created at the Stable. Chariot Archers at the Archery range
   • Chariot archers – upgrades for wood improve chariot archer range, other upgrades are at the storage pit
   • Chariots – Can be upgraded to scythe chariots (which are basically paladins with splash damage) in the Iron age
4. Swordsmen – Prior to Bronze, players have access to Clubmen and Axemen. Those units cannot be upgraded to Swordsmen. Short Swordsmen can be created at the Barracks starting in the Bronze age and have an upgrade path similar to AOE2 Militia.
5. Academy – Requires a stable. Strong and expensive infantry (Hoplite, Phalanx, Centurion) can be made at the academy
6. Government Center
   • If you are booming – this should be your first building in the Bronze age
   • Town Center – Government center is required to build a second town center (You can build them for just 200 wood! Much cheaper than AOE2)
   • Functions similar to a University
   • Logistics – Key upgrade for infantry focused civilizations. Makes barracks units cost only ½ of a population slot
   • Nobility – key upgrade for cavalry focused civilizations. Prerequisite to upgrade for scythe chariots

Iron Age – Imperial Age

1. Upgrade Cost – 1000 food, 800 gold, same as AOE2
2. Zealotry – Similar to the Spanish Supremacy unique upgrade and Loom, Zealotry greatly increases villager strength/combat capabilities. It also provides a speed bonus but reduces resource collection by 50%

And for those of you who learn best by watching, here are some good AoE Youtube channels to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6gvgy0LRMx_OF6yi6ccTtA

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https://www.youtube.com/user/Resonance22Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/ZeroEmpires

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