Age of Empires II HD Out Now for Those Who Preordered - How is it!?

Apparently there were 10,000+ players playing the game today so I wanted to see what opinions were. :D

Was doing a 1v1 with my friend and it was crazy laggy might have been his ISP. Also when I tried to do a multiplayer match game crashed at loading screen.

Single player works fine :) I think the game is quite buggy though I hope they resolve some issues.

Haven't tried online, yet.

Most of the textures are the same, some have had minor changed. 

Here's a couple of screens I quickly took to compare, I can grab some more.


EDIT: Not sure how to fix squashed image, open them in new tabs.

Original (with 1080p patch):

Re-release:

Changed the farm texture for some reason. Made it look too cartoony, would rather they change it back.

Old:





New:

has a bad netcode apperently.

has a bad netcode apperently.

AfroPirate

[QUOTE="AfroPirate"]

has a bad netcode apperently.

C_Rule

Why making a HD Edition of something where beautiful graphics is the least important part of the game at all o_O

If I feel the need to play it I just grab my old CD and play it, no matter that it is not in HD.

It's still the same but in HD. Water, cliff sides, farms, fire, ground texture are some of the changes that come to mind. I would say you get your moneys wroth for the multiplayer. It was easy to find games and had a fun time playing against other people, with my buddies. And the steam workshop means people will hopefully come up with some great mods. Like somebody said they didn't like the farms look in HD, you can go to the workshop and download the old ones, or in my case the farms from Age of Mythology farms.

Why making a HD Edition of something where beautiful graphics is the least important part of the game at all o_O

If I feel the need to play it I just grab my old CD and play it, no matter that it is not in HD.

Justforvisit

It's running sluggish for me.

has 213 achievements on Steam, nice. :) Great game, remember the hours I put into it when it was originally released.

0 A.D. looks better to me.

0 A.D. looks better to me.

Hexagon_777

Pretty disappointing to hear the performance so far. Definitely not preordering now.

Meh, I'll settle with the original if I will ever be in the mood again, looks to me that it just has some altered trees and HD TM fonts (seriously? you can't even superscript TM without the forum glitching?).

Changed the farm texture for some reason. Made it look too cartoony, would rather they change it back.

C_Rule

They don't have to, modders already did. You can find them in the workshop.

What I downloaded from the workshop is the 320kbps 44hz soundtracks because the game's music is in 192 variable kbps. Sounds much better.

Age II still probably my favourite RTS before World in Conflict, but I haven't pre-ordered. Price is a little too high. Waiting for the inevitable Steam sale. Sounds like they should do some optimizing.

Nice to see they added a million Steam achievements though.

Be sure to turn the scroll speed up. It'll help with the illusion of poor performance. Once the lag issues are sorted it'll be AOE 2 HD Internet Edition and that's awesome.

[QUOTE="Justforvisit"]

Why making a HD Edition of something where beautiful graphics is the least important part of the game at all o_O

If I feel the need to play it I just grab my old CD and play it, no matter that it is not in HD.

kraken2109

No offense but this looks horrible.