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Man, I wish Microsoft would opensource Age of Empires source code. That community is still around miraculously and would most likely rejuvenate the game.
by justanotherhn 6y ago
Man, I wish Microsoft would opensource Age of Empires source code. That community is still around miraculously and would most likely rejuvenate the game.
- Ericson2314 6y agoI would have thought the commercial "remasters" mean no open sourcing, but EA is doing both, so I guess not.
- myle 6y agoDo they have it? I was under the impression that they had to resort to hacks in order to release the recent remastered version.
- danbolt 6y agoThe UserPatch mod for the older CD release is really interesting, as it modifies the binary to give a lot of new AI script functions. Some of the ones for customized targeting have almost a declarative, map/filter feeling to them, such as `up-filter-range`. [1] I think the newer versions of the C++ compiler are much more optimizing today than compared to what what Age of Empires II released on. I'd imagine it wouldn't be possible, or perhaps a lot harder, to make these AI mods with the Steam re-releases. [1] http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/reference.html http://userpatch.aiscripters.net/reference.html
- pkphilip 6y ago0ad is pretty good though. Not quite Age of Empires but still pretty decent. https://play0ad.com/ https://play0ad.com/
- rubidium 6y agoDefinitely. AoE2 is a lifetime game for me. I played it in middle/high school, stopped for a while, picked it up in college for 2 years, stopped for 5 years, was amazed it was still a thing in late grad school (2013), stopped for 7 more years, and have just restarted playing again during the lockdown :) voobly is still a thing, and the best part is I’m still using my cd’s from 2002 with the free Aofe patch (pre-steam) from 2014 to play!