This game didn't promise much on launch and i believe it barely met the perks it stated in its trailer. The number one problem i have is the lag. Even on a human vs computer 1v1 i experienced lag and couldn't imagine how bad it would be for multiplayer. I've never had an issue with severe lag on the original AOE2 when we had 4v4 human matches.
Other issues present are no changes at all to the engine, meaning the AI is as terrible as it was before. You'll see no attacks with any form of co-ordination or the AI utilizing its allies with markets.
Textures added are few and far between and underwhelming. The farms and fire look worse than their predesscors. There is already Steam workshop mods to change some textures back.
Finally there has been a mod to the game rules which allows the population limit to go from 200 to 500. Unfortunatley there was no changes made to miliary managment so this is a useless addition. You can only select a maximum of 20 units at once and there is a 15 unit creation limit on all buildings, severly crippling your chances of controlling a military bigger than 150 units.
I sincerley hope patches are coming to atleast fix the lag issues but as the game stands, it's basically the same as the initial release but with more lag and no changes made to help this game work more efficently in the modern era of RTS games.
Other issues present are no changes at all to the engine, meaning the AI is as terrible as it was before. You'll see no attacks with any form of co-ordination or the AI utilizing its allies with markets.
Textures added are few and far between and underwhelming. The farms and fire look worse than their predesscors. There is already Steam workshop mods to change some textures back.
Finally there has been a mod to the game rules which allows the population limit to go from 200 to 500. Unfortunatley there was no changes made to miliary managment so this is a useless addition. You can only select a maximum of 20 units at once and there is a 15 unit creation limit on all buildings, severly crippling your chances of controlling a military bigger than 150 units.
I sincerley hope patches are coming to atleast fix the lag issues but as the game stands, it's basically the same as the initial release but with more lag and no changes made to help this game work more efficently in the modern era of RTS games.