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I've been a long time fan of Age Of Empires II. 0AD looks like a clone of it, more or less. I think I last checked in on 0AD 2 years ago, before there was AI.
by B-Con 13y ago
I've been a long time fan of Age Of Empires II. 0AD looks like a clone of it, more or less.
I think I last checked in on 0AD 2 years ago, before there was AI. Back then AOE II had poor performance issues that I really wanted addressed, like wrong colors (fixable by a user patch), only low resolution support (also fixable by a user patch? I forget), and horrible network management on busy LAN games (6 teams with 150 population each? Players will get dropped once battles start).
Then AOE II got picked up by a contracted company for the pure purpose of bringing an old game into the modern world, and HD got released with lots of fixes. It wasn't perfect, but there was much rejoicing.
Anyone played both 0AD and AOE II HD? Any comparison points?
- shire 13y agoBig fan of AOE also this looks much better been waiting for something like this for years.
- VonGuard 13y agoIf you like Age of Empires, GameRanger is a service that lets you host old games online. There are probably about 10,000+ games of Age of Empires 2 going on there right now, not to mention FIFA and about 1000 other old PC games that only worked via LAN. http://www.gameranger.com http://www.gameranger.com Plus, Gameranger is a 1-man operation. And he's a really cool man.
- TsiCClawOfLight 13y agoI played both, and I also really enjoyed both AOEII's. I think you will love 0ad. It's more complex than AOE IMO - some upgrade paths exclude others, so you have to make tradeoffs, there are sophistiscated terrain bonuses (e.g. view distance of towers depends on their location), soldiers can gather resources so you have to tradeoff economy vs. military even more... I just find it deeper. You'll love it!