Having played the game for a bit, one of the charming things is that the path finding still feels a lot like the original. It's certainly better. As mentioned,

Having played the game for a bit, one of the charming things is that the path finding still feels a lot like the original. It's certainly better. As mentioned, the new version fixes a lot of villager collision issues. They preserved the behaviors that made AoE what it was and fixed some of the bad aspects of it.