Age of Empires II HD

[UnicoPCMaster]

Alcuni giorni fa avevo notato quei punti interrogativi, chissà cosa annunceranno:

http://www.forgottenempires.net/new-year-new-website

New Year, New Website!
by Cysion | Jan 22, 2015 | News | 0 Comments

A new year, a new website! Not that this is a rule, but we figured we might stay with the times. As you can see on the front page we have no less than 3 projects in the making. One will be announced in the next weeks probably.



What else to expect? More articles for Age of Empires II will keep popping up in our Strategy Center. Including highlights for cool Steam Workshop items. If you’d like to see some highlighted, don’t hesitate to fire us an email. Any bugreports on the new website are welcome as well :$

http://www.forgottenempires.net/aof/strategy

[UnicoPCMaster]

I miei eroi:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221380...0717319285584/

[UnicoPCMaster]

http://www.ageofempires.com/blog/?p=1677

We (Still) Want YOU to Stream for Us!
Posted on February 11, 2015 by IamPREZSTEVE

Calling all expert Age of Empires players: we’re still looking for guest streamers for the official Age of Empires Twitch channel!



magine a world where you could tune into twitch.tv/ageofempires at any time and watch Age of Empires content streamed live… what a wonderful world it’d be. Help us make this a reality!

We play games with the community live on stream every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but we’re looking for more guest streamers to fill the remaining time. Guest streamers get perks like free Age of Empires games, Age of Empires-branded swag, and the ability to promote their personal channels to thousands of viewers!

Note that streaming requires fairly powerful computer hardware as well as plenty of internet bandwidth. We’re looking for expert players who already understand the ins-and-outs of streaming. If you meet those requirements and you’re interested, please send an email to [email protected], subject line ‘Age of Empires Guest Streaming’, with the following:

Your online handle/nickname
Computer specs (CPU/RAM/Video Card/Operating System)
Download/upload speed (use speedtest.net or another bandwidth testing service)
Your Twitch channel URL
The Age of Empires games you plan on streaming and your approximate skill level in each

We’re excited to get more of the community involved with our Twitch channel. We’ll be back online soon!

[yuppol]

Ciao a tutti, avrei alcune domande da fare almeno le faccio tutte insieme senza fare 30 post.
Sono indeciso se prendere o no questa versione rimasterizzata.
1 AOE mi piace da impazzire e oramai è parecchio che non ci gioco. Lo consigliate?
2 ci sono in previsione espansioni per questo o direttamente aoe nuovi?
3 Se non consigliate questo quale consigliate?

Grazie in anticipo!

[UnicoPCMaster]

Originariamente inviato da yuppol

Ciao a tutti, avrei alcune domande da fare almeno le faccio tutte insieme senza fare 30 post.
Sono indeciso se prendere o no questa versione rimasterizzata.
1 AOE mi piace da impazzire e oramai è parecchio che non ci gioco. Lo consigliate?
2 ci sono in previsione espansioni per questo o direttamente aoe nuovi?
3 Se non consigliate questo quale consigliate?

Grazie in anticipo!

1 Io ci continuo a giocare con soddisfazione, mi è quasi passata la voglia di un sequel e preferire qualche altra "espansione" del II
2 Al momento c'è roba discutibile appena uscita come castle siege (http://www.ageofempires.com/CastleSiege.aspx) e che uscirà, come World Domination (http://www.aoewd.com/), poi è saltato l'annuncio che la microsoft ha creato uno studio (decisive games) che sta cercando personale per un non definitito titolo strategico famoso microsoft, al momento non si sa cosa, anche i Forgotten Empires non si dedicheranno più a nuove aggiunte su AoE II;
3 Rise of Nations, Age of Mythology, Age of Empires I?

[yuppol]

Originariamente inviato da UnicoPCMaster

1 Io ci continuo a giocare con soddisfazione, mi è quasi passata la voglia di un sequel e preferire qualche altra "espansione" del II
2 Al momento c'è roba discutibile appena uscita come castle siege (http://www.ageofempires.com/CastleSiege.aspx) e che uscirà, come World Domination (http://www.aoewd.com/), poi è saltato l'annuncio che la microsoft ha creato uno studio (decisive games) che sta cercando personale per un non definitito titolo strategico famoso microsoft, al momento non si sa cosa, anche i Forgotten Empires non si dedicheranno più a nuove aggiunte su AoE II;
3 Rise of Nations, Age of Mythology, Age of Empires I?

Gentilissimo grazie. Allora lo prendo al volo. Mi sai dire anche se ci sono espansioni per aoe 2 hd? almeno prendo direttamente tutto un pacchetto.

[UnicoPCMaster]

Si, in pratica c'è Forgotten Empires che è un'espansione/mod amatoriale che poi è diventata ufficiale per AoE II hd.

[Goriuk]

A me personalmente era piaciuto un sacco, con le possibilità di oggi non capisco perchè non creino un gioco di quel genere ma con delle meccaniche rivoluzionarie.

Non vorrei chissà quale grafica, mi basterebbe quella, però con delle meccaniche ultra avanzate, anche con diplomazia etc..

No civ non mi piace, è a turni

[UnicoPCMaster]

Davvero giocabile:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/2213...26864927227731

Announcing Age of Empires II: LD Edition
1 aprile - MS Ryz0n
AOE II: LD
Through extensive user research with specialized focus groups, it was determined a fundamental feature required reinstatement within the series. Today we are pleased to announce Age of Empires II: Low Definition Edition.

http://compass.xboxlive.com/assets/4...g?n=aoe2ld.jpg

Designed with your CRT monitors in mind, AOE II: LD is available for all AOE II HD owners for a limited time. Re-live the experience the way it was designed, with an internal render resolution of 800x600 glorious pixels. Squint to make out letters and words like you did while playing during computer class instead of finishing homework. Or in the evenings to ‘study’ for that history exam. Or at a friend’s house until you got kicked out to go play outside because it was sunny and their parents needed to use the internet for something before they ran out of the 10 hours of internet time that came on the AOL CD….

http://compass.xboxlive.com/assets/0...g?n=AOELD3.png

That's an eagle scout there...we think...maybe?

Moving on! So how do you get this modern marvel? Just right click on your game in the steam library, go to “properties”, and the “betas” tab. Select aoeii:LD from the drop down menu and you’re off to the races! Just don’t forget to feed your Tamagotchi before sitting down for an evening of classic history. 56K modem sound effects not included.


We’ll probably get lots of letters asking why make this change now? Why delight players so, over a decade and a half after the game came out? It’s best to let the research report from our Fecundity User Department speak for itself, an excerpt is as follows:

We don’t really have any idea what that means aside from going for the highest buzzword per sentence ratio possible, but happy April 1st anyway!

http://compass.xboxlive.com/assets/f...g?n=AOELD1.png

Note: AOEII:LD represents game changes that should remain functional in online experiences...if for whatever reason you want to play multiplayer like that.

Stay tuned next week for our next real AOE patch - with more on the way through the year.

[IL_mante]

ottimo così girerà anche sui nokia symbian

[UnicoPCMaster]

Fine del supporto Windows Xp e non solo:
www.ageofempires.com/blog/?p=1942

Ad esempio...

I am extremely excited to reveal that we’ll be working with the Forgotten Empires team to formally bring a new expansion to the Age of Empires franchise later this year.

[Alfa89]

Originariamente inviato da UnicoPCMaster

Fine del supporto Windows Xp e non solo:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/d...scn=1428525073
www.ageofempires.com/blog/?p=1942

Ad esempio...

Perchè non rischiare il tutto per tutto con un quarto capitolo

[oce]

Originariamente inviato da Alfa89

Perchè non rischiare il tutto per tutto con un quarto capitolo

Magari

[UnicoPCMaster]

http://www.forgottenempires.net/age-...-civilizations

Age of Empires II HD – Dev Blog #1 – New Civilizations
by Cysion | Apr 17, 2015 | Age of Empires, Dev Blog, News | 1 Comment

We’ve got another expansion to make, so where to start! We’re all joyously filled with crazy, weird ideas, bouncing them off the wall and eachother. But we’ll have to squeeze those ideas into a proper game. So where to start? Just like last time, it starts with the core of the new content, the new civilizations.
A Theme

In Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten, we were presented with a rather obvious civ choice. Ensemble Studios had left hints behind on which civs they would’ve loved to add to the game. Some were nations that appeared in campaigns but were never turned into a proper, playable civ. Those were the easy choices, but now that we’ve used the most obvious ones, where do we go next? Over the last year(s), we’ve received a lot of feedback from players on possible new civilizations. Ranging from Medieval powerhouses like the Normans and the Khmers to less obvious or specific suggestions such as the Kingdom of Jerusalem or the Principality of Pannonia. But unlike our broader approach to AoF, we’ve decided to build out more of a thematic flair and pay a visit to a continent south of Europe with a rich history: Africa. We’ll be covering civilizations both born within the content, as well empires that held great power in the region – including one that has been requested many, many, many times by the fans.

But to keep things a bit exciting, they will all be revealed over the coming weeks, so feel free to speculate

Oh except for the first one!
The Berbers

The Berbers (~700 AD) are the first African civilization to be seen in the new expansion pack. We caught a glimpse of them in the original El Cid campaigns in “The Conquerors”, where they are portrayed in a more generic term as Saracens. Berbers, however, are more than worthy of becoming an Age of Empires civilization. With dynasties across Northern Africa, the ancient Berbers will primarily be a Cavalry & Naval civilization. They’ll have 2 unique units and will also feature a unique technology that affects the entire team.

http://www.forgottenempires.net/wp-c...P-1024x787.png

Since we’re early in development, we don’t have a lot of screenshots yet, but the Camel Archer is already properly functional in the game and looking good. As if it has always been hopping around in the Age of Empires II universe. It was of course teased with the overall expansion announcement.



And last but not least, the Berbers will have their own campaign, but we’ll share more on that later as well.

So this will be it for the first dev blog, it’s more of a tease than a proper “dev” blog, but we’ll certainly dig a bit deeper in the next episodes. We’re hoping to do these monthly, make sure you don’t miss out

[UnicoPCMaster]

http://steamcommunity.com/app/221380...3446166461570/

June's Update
Wow May is gone already, and time has been flying by for all of us here at Microsoft Studios, Skybox Labs, and Forgotten Empires. We have a massive overhaul to Age of Empires II HD coming up here in June, so I will be making several posts to cover this stuff in detail over the next week. For those who are more of the TLDR crowd though, let’s do a summary of key takeaways. There are two main points of pain here as we go through this update, one around file size downloads, the other around updating to the new mod SDK and the effect on the workshop. I think most people will find the changes worth it at the end of the day.

Redoing the data structure for Age of Empires content.
This underlying work was necessary for several of the other game features, both the improved mod management system, as well as the multiplayer lobby. While on its own this item isn’t exactly user facing, it does require us to change how the depots are configured in Steam. Because of those changes, our June patch will require you to re-download a significant amount of data (estimating about 2-3GB right now). Unfortunately we can’t do a pre-load for the update.

Localization Improvements
Localization and string tables are being improved and condensed. We’re seeing a few bugs get resolved from this around localization as well. Nothing super fancy.
Bugfixes
Most of these are around single player crashes in campaigns, but there are numerous bugfixes to existing and newer features across the board.

Multiplayer Lobby
I’ve got a lot to cover in this below for the full brief, but at the most basic level this involves having a single lobby screen regardless of what content you own / wish to play / etc. In our new lobby browser you’ll be able to see if a game has been hosted with expansion content or if it is the base game.
We want people to check out all of the new awesome civs in the AoF expansion, so we’re going to let players who don’t have the expansion get a taste of the new civs. If a vanilla only player joins an expansion game, they will be able to choose from a rotating pool of civilizations. Initially this will be a couple of base civs, plus one civilization from the expansion to try. There are a ton of other rules and conditions here to cover, but we’re hoping to see a lot of new multiplayer games running with the AoF content!
Re-vamping Mods
Two years ago when AOE II HD was released the steam workshop SDK from valve was far more limited than today’s offering. While some features have been fairly easy to add, the June update will see a full overhaul to the latest Steam SDK (May 2015). Tired of verifying files to remove a mod? Publishing a mod and having trouble fitting all of your files? All of these will be solved!
But there’s a downside here, in order to accomplish both this and the Mod Manager, it means that old mods will no longer function. Thankfully we’ll be making it fairly easy to migrate to the new mod system, and if the author updates their mod then you’ll be good to go.
We’re also unbundling a few packages even further to help modders make visual changes to just individual units without needing to replace an entire container.

[UnicoPCMaster]

http://www.forgottenempires.net/age-...atural-wonders

Age of Empires II HD – Dev Blog #2 – Natural Wonders

by Cysion | Jun 9, 2015 | Age of Empires, Dev Blog, News | 6 Comments


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[IL_mante]

molto interessante si qualcosa sul prezzo?

buona l'idea di unificare il multiplayer in effetti non si trovavano molte partite a the forgotten, così è un ottimo compromesso, anche il poter giocare con le meccaniche di forgotten a chi non ce l'ha potendo scegliere tra una rosa casuale di civiltà!

[UnicoPCMaster]

Hanno unificato il multiplayer di AoE II e Forgotten Empires:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221380...8356184813511/

MS IamPREZSTEVE [Amministratore] 19 ore fa
Patch 4.0
The patch you've all been waiting for has arrived.

Discuss it here.

EDIT: We're aware of an issue in which old local files, like scenarios and RMS scripts, are not relocating to the new locations. We're working on a fix for this issue, but in the meantime, you can get around this by manually relocating the files.

Notes Before You Update
We've discovered a bug inside the Steam update system, where certain people may experience a never-ending cycle of updating, reporting corruption, verifying cache, and then updating again. When we originally launched the HD Edition on Steam, mods have been stored inside the AgeHD\mods\ directory as extensionless files. Somehow these files confuse Steam and that triggers the corruption message. If this should happen to you, please manually delete these extensionless files inside your mods directory and then the update should work.

To get to your installation directory, right click on the Age of Empires II: HD Edition in your Steam library, select Properties, then select the Local Files tab, and click the Browse Local Files button. A Windows Explorer will open up to the correct location. One you've upgraded to the latest version, this won't happen again because we've done away this system entirely.

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[Teox82]

Non ci servono ottanta fazioni dell'Africa,ci servono truppe personalizzate per ogni civiltà o almeno per ogni regione. I soldati dei vichinghi sono uguali a quelli dei mongoli.I Maya hanno le balestre ecc. Dovrebbero sistemare queste cose!!

[UnicoPCMaster]

http://www.forgottenempires.net/age-...ing-at-e3-2015

Age of Empires II: Teasing at E3 2015

by Cysion | Jun 20, 2015 | Age of Empires, News | 17 Comments

Our latest dev blog had some content redacted at the last minute, but we’re happy to reveal that now! The producer of the Age of Empires series at Microsoft, Ryan Chaply, was present at E3 and teased some upcoming goodness for the whole Age series.
Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms

First and foremost, the name is out! Age of Empires II HD: The African Kingdoms will be the name of the new expansion pack, coming out later this year on Steam.



Additionally, a new civ has been announced, including a small teaser video with further information regarding the Malians and the Berbers. As well as little hints for further additions to the game. We’ll certainly cover more of those in extended detail in future posts, but we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss out on some possible speculation ��

E3 Teaser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2Zig-WIjWc

We’ll keep you posted with more goodness next weeks, including some in-depth detail on the latest patch notes and the strengths of the new mod manager.

Ormai si sapeva che sarebbe stato dedicato alle fazioni africane ma non mi piace il titolo, per quel che vale.


Espansione in arrivo anche per AoM:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1067222