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Age of Empires II HD

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Markbnj said:
Thanks for the screen. FYI the link is showing up broken here, but if you copy and paste it to a browser tab it displays fine.

Doesn't look a lot better, but certainly doesn't look any worse. I'm thinking this is probably worth it just to get the game into my Steam lib.
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The only graphics that got updated are the water and building fires as far as I know. The main benefit is that you can see a lot more now, it basically has the widescreen mod built in. Also they've upped the max pop limit to 500.
 
Red Storm said:
I'd say it's worth it just for the built in multiplayer and Steam Workshop support. I'll post a screen of what it looks like on my 1080P monitor:

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Can you post that image again? I'm not getting it.

How does it play at 1920x1080? Isn't everything too small?
 
Red Storm said:
The only graphics that got updated are the water and building fires as far as I know. The main benefit is that you can see a lot more now, it basically has the widescreen mod built in. Also they've upped the max pop limit to 500.
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Awesome, that will make for some huge sprawling civs.
 
GFX where changed from 16 bit to 32, works a lot better than trying to play the original on windows 7, just played a multiplayer match, works well, a lot smoother than the original
 
I recently bought AoE3 on sale because at the time it was the only game of its type on Steam and I'd been having trouble getting multiplayer games to work; Steam made that easier. I also bought Empire Earth on sale on GoG.

I wonder if I should've waited (if I'd known) and bought this instead. I've actually not played it, just AoE 1 Gold.
 
quixoticduck said:
I recently bought AoE3 on sale because at the time it was the only game of its type on Steam and I'd been having trouble getting multiplayer games to work; Steam made that easier. I also bought Empire Earth on sale on GoG.

I wonder if I should've waited (if I'd known) and bought this instead. I've actually not played it, just AoE 1 Gold.
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II was the stand-out hit of the three, as far as I'm concerned.
 
quixoticduck said:
I recently bought AoE3 on sale because at the time it was the only game of its type on Steam and I'd been having trouble getting multiplayer games to work; Steam made that easier. I also bought Empire Earth on sale on GoG.

I wonder if I should've waited (if I'd known) and bought this instead. I've actually not played it, just AoE 1 Gold.
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AoE 2 gets the best reviews, but AoE III is very much worth getting.
 
The HD version is just a money grab. It doesn't even look that impressive. AoE 2 one of the best RTS games but has not aged well.

Age of Empires 3 on the other hand has aged very well. Great game play as well. Too many elitists shoot it down though.
 
KMFJD said:
Just finished a 2 hour match, they definitely need to optimize the netcode
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Yeah playing it on a 2nd machine, I'm getting some noticeable lag even in single player. And on my main rig the text has disappeared from most of the buttons and menus, and I can't get that fixed. :|

Edit: Looks like for Win 7 disabling 2nd monitor fixes lag.
 
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Did you try the dx8 fix?

Go to your Steam Library and right click on AoE2 HD Edition.
Go to Set Launch Options
Enter '-dxlevel80' [No quotation marks]
 
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