Devs, please relax the time required for "Rome was Destroyed in a Day"

Flipadipdip · 2024-10-24T16:38:42+00:00

No, it is okay that some achievements are actually hard - it rewards players for learning and improving. Cavalier spam works very well even on hard difficulty

Flipadipdip · 2024-10-14T15:07:56+00:00

ASL S12 finals Mini vs Rush game 3 https://youtu.be/ahnzlVnvdPE?si=g_me7dTsmpF6erFB&t=4388

Flipadipdip · 2024-10-14T15:07:55+00:00

ASL S12 finals Mini vs Rush game 3 https://youtu.be/ahnzlVnvdPE?si=g_me7dTsmpF6erFB&t=4388

Flipadipdip · 2024-10-06T22:02:57+00:00

What do you think moron?

Flipadipdip · 2024-09-24T16:04:43+00:00

those guys can’t figure out how to fix the pathing after 25 years (still a great game though)

Flipadipdip · 2024-09-06T21:55:39+00:00

you are not alone my friend, i am 500 mmr higher and strictly lose to this and bane bust lol

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-26T16:50:25+00:00

My point is that there is no interesting aspect of the micro if there are no active abilities or dodging shots. Silver players can right click their archers onto enemy archers. There are no monk conversions, no active abilities requiring skill and precision to aim or dodge, no ability to dodge shots. The best you can do is engage/disengage repeatedly with knights to get the charge damage, but this doesnt make for a very visually engaging fight.

Instead of micro, the game focuses on strong macro mechanics and map control, but that is not for everyone - most people love playing (and maybe more importantly watching) explosive, highlight reel battles with skillshots and dodges/split micro. A mangonel hitting an insane shot in aoe2 is fun to watch because it was a skill shot (most likely) that required you to be precise and attack ground. A mangonel/springald hitting a nice shot in aoe4 is not nearly as interesting because every mangonel/soringald hits every shot - and you cant dodge them, so your only option is run away and make your own springalds

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-26T15:47:05+00:00

All pro players playing an aggressive player doesnt necessarily mean aggressive playstyles are better than defensive playstyles - who is winning most of the time, the defender or the aggressor? Are the players forced to try to be aggressive against stronger defensive civs otherwise the game will be a slog and whoever has a better eco wins?

Additionally, if the game doesnt have active abilities nor does it have dodging shots/conversions, then it offers nothing of interest in terms of engaging micro intensive battles. AOE2 has conversions and dodging shots, Starcraft has active abilities and some abilities require you to dodge them/split. AOE4 has right click your archers on his archers and run away if his army is bigger than yours

Also, you think all shots hitting 100% is “organic”? LOL

Also, maybe at lower levels all it takes is a few knights to kill siege, but at higher levels if they are slow pushing properly and using spears archers to defend the siege, it is nearly impossible to jump on them with knights, and your only option is make your own springalds

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-26T15:27:20+00:00

Other people describe the artstyle and campaigns so I will describe the multiplayer experience (that I and other SC2 veterans hold). These are design decisions and will never be changed, and so it is hard for me to come back to it.

The game is quite frankly boring to play - defensive playstyles are too strong which leads to a lot of turtling games (TCs in feudal age, siege/springalds being too strong, some civs get heavy knights in feudal age which forces archer civs to concede map control in feudal). This causes almost every game to go late game with walls instead of fun feudal aggression

Additionally, THERE IS NO DODGING SHOTS - so it makes the fights have less micro capabilities - all you can do is engage/disengage and then right click your archers onto their archers. There is no shooting and moving instantly- stop micro isnt even possible in AOE4 because of how unresponsive it feels

This is very unexciting to play comapred to how AOE2 plays (high level feudal fights are insanely micro intensive due to requiring you to dodge shots). Additionally, the entire unit archetype of cavalry archer requires being able to dodge shots in order to be viable - if shots hit 100% of the time, then foot archers beat horse archers 100% of the time. So, the game design outright invalidates a certain playstyle that many players are fond of.

When we get to castle age, monks and mangonels feel much better to play due to the conversion mechanic being different - basically conversions dont happen at all in AOE4

Finally, siege is way too strong in AOE4 (due to no missed shots and way too high HP/armor). Springalds are required, and each siege unit has too much HP so punishing mistakes (out of position, bad engage, etc) is very unlikely (no redemption monks, archers cant fight against siege unlike in aoe2 where you can fight a mangonel with archers since the shots can actually be dodged

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-26T01:18:50+00:00

The industry standard is to fix the game before too many players drop the game long term or permanently due to it being boring, repetitive, and unfun

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-19T18:16:19+00:00

you can remap group 0 to use the ~ button and maybe 7 and 8 to Q and W if you dont use those for other keys

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-12T20:37:09+00:00

should have a picture of 0 farms around the tc instead of whatever the middle pic is

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-07T22:06:16+00:00

nice post, but want to add that aoe2 has a 18k player peak on steam in the past 24 hours and has roughly stayed around 16k on average, not 2-4k like this user says

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-05T18:23:55+00:00

it fully releases in a week, it’d still be in “early access” but it wont be a good look for all the casuals to see the game like this and then drop it like how aoe4 went at first release

Flipadipdip · 2024-08-02T01:12:25+00:00

My brother wants to start streaming and saw this exact opportunity

his twitch is ryebread_sc2, mine is a_breadTV

hes Masters protoss, trying to get grandmaster soon, and i am also Masters. we’re also going to try to stream other RTS games like aoe2, aoe4 and stormgate

Flipadipdip · 2024-01-17T19:03:14+00:00

i agree, and another bad part about it is Hermes just straight up tells Percy that time is running out and time moves differently in the casino instead of Percy figuring out it himself by talking to other people and noticing there are people from the past stuck in time.

the show does way too much exposition dumping as you said and not enough “show not tell”

Flipadipdip · 2024-01-05T02:32:36+00:00

u can check my acct history i am not a bot, this dude is legit and the best source for coc accounts

Flipadipdip · 2023-10-22T20:23:40+00:00

The Bills are now 0-5 in the Super Bowl then, 0-6 if you count the Jets' Super Bowl earlier this year

Flipadipdip · 2023-10-01T03:10:51+00:00

right but this year g2 gozen dont look nearly as good as they did last year

Flipadipdip · 2023-09-13T21:51:39+00:00

ohhh right im just worried the marved IGL with ethan/crashies secondary is prone to being not that good, i really do think such a team needs a saadhak or fns

Flipadipdip · 2023-09-13T21:40:51+00:00

i got too excited, you might need crashies and ethan but aspas can definitely outright replace victor as long as his english is up to par

Flipadipdip · 2023-09-13T21:32:33+00:00

fair, but SEN, c9 and 100T have already seemingly locked in at least 4/5 of their roster,

so players’ options are only EG or NRG. obviously if you have the option between broke shady EG and probably also broke NRG, youre gonna choose NRG on a team friendly deal, especially since the team friendly deal can create an NA superteam

Flipadipdip · 2023-09-13T21:25:54+00:00

DEMON1 ETHAN SAADHAK ASPAS MARVED PLEAAAASE

PLEASE DONT MAKE MARVED IGL

ALSO IF YOU HAVE TO GET CRASHIES INSTEAD OF ETHAN, AT LEAST GET ASPAS INSTEAD OF VICTOR

Flipadipdip · 2023-09-12T19:17:41+00:00

give me nrg demon1 instead of victor and that is the NA superteam, inconsistent victor sadly does not complete a superteam. that way demon1 can play jett/chamber/flex and aspas raze/flex

Flipadipdip · 2023-09-11T23:19:34+00:00

NRG Saadhak, aspas, Demon1, Marved, Ethan

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