I’m still astonished at the value of the 136 scenarios included with the base game, and having played through them all since DE came out, I’ve been really impressed.
I was really excited to play the three new single player campaigns included in LOTW. It's brilliant fun, and you can make some really pretty things with it. As ever, part of the magic of AoE2 is that you pretty much anything the campaign designers can do, you can do too, using the in-game scenario editor. It’s hard to welcome fresh seasonal cosmetics, while these things remain unsorted. The same goes for a whole boatload of small quality of life issues, such as the weird framerate collapses when entering the civ select screen during online play, or the need to start fresh lobbies and send new invites when you want a quick rematch with friends. We’re at a point in the game’s rebirth where you’d hope it would be getting more stable, if anything. But it was a bit of a surprise to encounter such a basic obstacle at all. Given how diligent devs Forgotten Empires have been with patching DE since launch, I’m confident that this stuff will be fixed. I’ve got friends who’ve had no issue with crashes, so the stability issues aren’t universal - but they seem widespread enough to merit a mention upfront. I’ve crashed out of the game almost as many times as I’ve quit of my own volition, and while most of the borkages have happened when booting up or loading single player games, it’s knocked me out of a handful of 3v3 ranked games as well, which is not great at all.
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So there’s a bit of tough love here.įirst, and most bluntly, Definitive Edition has never been less stable as a piece of software than it is right now. And while there’s a lot about it that’s just as good as I’d hoped for, there are some surprising disappointments too. I’ve been rinsing it, both in ranked and single player modes, for nearly two weeks now, so I’ve had plenty of time to see how it’s affected the game as a whole. AoE2’s Definitive Edition has dominated my gaming time over the last year, even more than the original dominated my teens, and I’m thrilled at this sign that it’s sticking around.īut however pleasing it is that the expansion exists at all, my feelings are a little more reserved about Lords Of The West itself. The release of Lords Of The West is clear confirmation that AoE2’s experimental resurrection has been a success: the monster lives, and it’s going to get continued support from its creator and patron, Doctor Microsoft. The fact that Age Of Empires 2 has a fresh expansion pack, more than two decades after it first came out, is something I’m inevitably well happy with. Developer: Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch.There's a lot of creativity on show in the reborn AoE2's first expansion pack, but the soup is soured a little by stability issues and civ design power creep. Age Of Empires 2: Lords Of The West review
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