u/zuzmuz

Seeing the rebirth of rts games, most games like aoe2, aoe4, comand & conquer, wc3 etc.. are getting remastered version and also tbs games like HoMM is getting new instalment like olden era. I really wish we can have a remastered LoM.

No game resembles it. it's unique.

I still love playing every once in a while, but the fighting is clunky it could really be improved, and the factions could get some rebalancing. the graphics good get a HD rehaul keeping the aesthetic the same just more refined.

I'm not an experience player whatsoever, I'm around 1100, and just play for fun, but seeing all the discussion of people saying they're locked at certain elo, I'd like to give my opinion.

I just won against a player who went all in fast castle conqs with spanish. he could've won easily if he knew how to close the game but I noticed a couple of things

- build orders are easy to learn, but they're not guaranteed to win you games, if you don't know how to close it, a player with better strategy and adaptation will beat you every time, so in that way, strict build orders are overrated, if something doesn't go as planned you just crumble with no plan B
- the most important skill in my opinion to climb the ladder consistently is: learn how to defend and adapt. learning to exploit a strategy will let you climb for a while but you'll get hard locked at some point
- I'm horrible at taking fights, my micro is not that great, but I make up for it with map control and relentless expansion and resilience. some players just fold when they fail to execute a specific strategy, they let the other player get away with rebuilding again, they don't do enough damage to the economy and therefore don't take advantage of the pressure.
- not panicking and getting decision paralysis is maybe the most important skill to get better at the game. It's not the perfect deer push, it's not the impeccable archer micro, these are all great to perfect the higher your elo is, but at mid elo, I feel people overrate build orders, I would even say it's maybe detrimental, because you learn to not make decisions, the decisions are made for you, some 2500 elo player wrote down the best way to play the first 15 min, after that you're lost. I would suggest just playing normal builds learning how to adapt to pressure later.

it's like in chess, there's openings, tactics, strategy, and endgames. As a mid elo, memorizing openings is counter productive, because most games will get to midgame and if you don't have solid grasp on tactics and strategy you'll always lose. You might win a pawn or get a better position in the opening, but not knowing how to convert it makes it useless.
Just play solid openings, try not to make any mistake and let the game flow and learn how to adapt, you'll start winning more consistently.

Sorry for the yap, I'd like to get your opinions

Hey, I'm an age of empires 2 player here, very interested in getting into aom retold (never played the original).

my question is how's the state of ranked. I'm asking this because aoe2 is very active but also very competitive, you have to be very decent to even have 1000 rating. I'm asking here before jumping in cold.

aoe2 is very min maxed at this point with a lot of content online to improve and get better at the game, with a lot of streamer showing what can be done and teaching peoples new meta.

I'd like to figure out the game on my own, and play in a more chill games with other people.

any player who played both can give me a little bit of insight.

appreciated