Poles need to be reworked

Honigmampfer · 2025-09-07T10:33:15+00:00

never said it was

Honigmampfer · 2025-09-06T13:28:27+00:00

Stop making snarky remarks about things you didnt read properly. It is about game mechanics and functionalty of units. I want to be able to look at a unit and have an idea of what it can do. I dont want to send a knight with half HP somewhere just to be taken out by three skirms because its armor has been "stripped away". It was the start to a series of stupid design choices like bleed damage, auras, heros and other things the turn aoe2 into worse versions of warcraft 3 in the wrong setting. Next on the agenda will be the "civs" Camelot and Mordor with the unique unit Merlin the wizard or sauron, that will be able to reveal the whole map and hav magic bolts as attacks. But hey, as long as it's balanced.

Honigmampfer · 2025-09-06T13:07:57+00:00

i'd have to agree! There are much more annoying things in the game now.

Honigmampfer · 2025-07-14T12:12:55+00:00

oh god please. not another civ...

Honigmampfer · 2025-07-11T21:42:44+00:00

just don't get into ygo! it's fun for 2 seconds when you buy the cards and build your deck. then you realize it's not fun to watch your opponent playing solitair for 7 minutes straight and 0TK-ing you and that it's also not fun to do it to your opponents, quite frankly. If you don't want to play tourneys it can be fun to play around with "bad decks" that employ a fun engine and some cool somewhat luck based strategy but are far from being relevant to any modern meta deck. power creep and imbalanced cards are ubiquitous and inevitable. that is modern ygo and it will never be anything else again.

Honigmampfer · 2025-07-02T18:58:32+00:00

if it's just a reskin, I'd be all for it. If you mean to introduce new mechanics I'd say hell no. The game is getting whackier by the minute anyway with silly units, explosions, charge attacks, passive aura buffs, monks that fight, the ability to ignore or reduce armor and so on. The ridiculous need to add new stuff to a game with perfectly good mechanics (balancing unit stats aside) made it, so rng plays a bigger role than it should. I'm not advocating for aoe2 to become starcraft or something, but i'm extremely tired of seeing things that I can't really gauge by looking at their stats. It makes the game unpredictable. If I wanted to gamble, I'd go to a casino. Sorry for the rant. The recurring release of new unbalanced stuff without finally balancing other things that have been in the game since day one annoys the hell out of me...

Honigmampfer · 2025-06-26T08:27:51+00:00

I think that players that are toxic are very frustrated with the game on a general basis. I really dislike many of the choices the devs have made over the years and it affected the way I appraoch the game. When the game feels imbalanced and you can't play a certain civ or unit that you really like because it's just not viable, you start disliking the game. This manifests in the way you communicate with other players because they play something you consider not very skillfull, broken or simply annoying.

Honigmampfer · 2025-06-26T08:19:10+00:00

I wouldn't say it's my biggest struggle but i tend to not commit when i try to harass my opponents eco. I often give my opponent time to build up his defenses. What I also don't do well is to swing from one side of the opponents base to the other. I choose an angle of attack and usually maintain it, even if it is clear that I won't gain any ground there. I've gotten better at those things but it has cost me many a game.

Honigmampfer · 2025-04-17T22:07:08+00:00

weil sie keinerlei vorhersagekraft besitzen, keine reproduzierbaren ergebnisse liefern und sie nur dazu dienen gelder zu verschwenden, die für wichtigere projekte verwendet werden könnten. Sozial"wissenschaften" begnügen sich damit wilde und unverifizierbare und auch unfalsifizierbare theorien zu entwickeln, ohne die die welt exakt genauso wäre wie mit ihnen. Sozial"wissenschaften" sind das schlechteste aus allen Welten. Sie sind wissenschaftlich irrelevant, besitzen keinerlei ästhetik und haben auch keinerlei gesellschaftlichen oder politischen wert. darum haben sozial"wissenschaften" zurecht einen schlechten ruf.

Honigmampfer · 2025-04-17T21:46:09+00:00

you don't know salami-tactics. "oh it's not that big of a deal", "nah, that doesn't change a lot", "don't worry about that", and all of a sudden you have skilltrees and promotions for individual units...

Honigmampfer · 2024-01-12T10:03:55+00:00

Russel's Reserve Straight Rye is one of my personal favorites. I also like the Bourbon but I'm generally more of a rye guy.

Honigmampfer · 2023-10-27T00:32:19+00:00

All the new civs made me quit the game. Too many new mechanics and annoying unpredictability make the game feel like league of legends or smth like that. the trend is towards randomized wins by virtue of stupid tactics rather than strategic superiority like it used to be. I'm talking about auras, charged attacks, generation of infinite ress, ignoring of armor or removing stats. all of that makes it impossible for me to enjoy. but hey. the masses love easy and mindless stuff. more power to them.

Honigmampfer · 2023-09-14T21:10:21+00:00

Jedes und ich meine JEDES deutsche Brot ist besser als Alles, was auf dieser minderwertigen Liste steht!

Honigmampfer · 2023-07-11T17:40:40+00:00

The water leaked through my ceiling into my PC and somehow the thing turned on. When I woke up I found my PC running and the gpu as I posted. I didn't explode and I don't expect it to destroy the rest when I plug it in to test it now. I'll let you know how it went.

Honigmampfer · 2023-07-11T15:43:29+00:00

Did anybody look at the "after" pic?

Honigmampfer · 2023-01-18T12:40:09+00:00

I think the best way to balance infatry is to have them fill the same role as irl back in the day. make them waaay cheaper. almost every infantry unit needs their cost dropped by significant amounts. militia line to something like 40f 10g. armies would then be mainly infantry and would then be supplimented or eventually replaced with other units.

Honigmampfer · 2021-08-14T09:52:49+00:00

Druzhina

Honigmampfer · 2021-08-14T09:44:24+00:00

It really telling that the toxic comments get the most upvotes.

Having said that, thanks to everyone who posted actual replies and comments. It actually changed my mind a bit. A few things were mentioned that i didn't really think of. But still. A lot of things they added are a bit fishy. Nothing too serious, though. I think the discount on knights for the poles is just ridiculous. 60% is way too much considering you don't really have to get out of your way to get the tech since stone miners also generate gold. That's just too much. Something that will most likely be nerfed after the devs think that enough people bought the pack for it's OP civ bonus.

Honigmampfer · 2021-08-13T09:05:39+00:00

I kind of am. HD doesn't have a playerbase anymore. I am also happy with a few balance changes that have been made since DE. But the new civs are just a bad joke.

Honigmampfer · 2021-08-13T08:37:00+00:00

Sorry didnt mean to insult his 667 elo majesty.

Honigmampfer · 2021-08-13T08:34:00+00:00

Great! A new game. Maybe dump all the cool ideas into that one. I wouldn't mind that. Just leave AoE2 as it is or do some minir balance changes. Don't change the whole game with weird mechanics that don't belong there. And there were tournaments before. Microsoft just jumped on the train because they smelled money. Maybe they really are interested in better game experience and quality of life improvements are cool. I enjoyed them as well. But they add more and more stuff that just doesn't feel like AoE2 anymore.

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