It’s long overdue, but the new AI has finally arrived for Age of Empires II HD! And not only for The Forgotten, also the base game received a fresh AI script.
AI scripters Archon and Promi (known for their work on the AI scripts “The Horde” and “Promi” on the original FE mod) teamed up to script a new standard AI for the HD edition. However, this came with a few fresh challenges: the mod and HD version have vastly different AI capabilities, so while they could use their knowledge and experience, they couldn’t just reuse their old work. However, the result is one that may be seen: the new AI can take on the old AI 1v4 on the hardest level and will give a good challenge to casual players who want to step up their game a bit. However, if you still wish to play the old AI: you can select it as “Conquerors AI” when setting up your game.
Some other improvements:
- The AI will now retreat and regroup its troops, no longer suiciding themselves one by one to your castles.
- The AI will make units depending on your army composition, trying to counter you.
- The AI now makes unit combinations that make sense. No longer will you see petards and longswordsmen flooding out of their bases.
- The AI no longer cheats! Originally the AI would cheat on hardest (receiving +500 resources every time it aged up), now it plays fair on all levels.
All in all, a lot of new variation for your compstomps!
We also welcome a new campaign to this patch. You might remember the Battles of the Conquerors from the original game. We came up with a variant for the Forgotten. Cleverly named “Battles of the Forgotten”. In a series of 8 scenarios, we tried to cover some of the civs that had less coverage in the AoE2 campaigns so far: Chinese, Britons, Vikings, Magyars, Japanese, Mayans, Turks and Persians.
So that’s a lot of hours of new content added to the game for free, enjoy!
Okay so wheres the new patch for the Original Mod? As far as I was aware we still had balance issues.
Major performance issues in singleplayer and multiplayer after patch 3.6a. AoE HD locks up and is completely unplayable after ~40 minutes in a match. Hoping for a fix soon, any updates would be appreciated.
Yes, it’s a known issue and currently has the highest priority. We’re exploring some promising leads and there will probably be a new patch soon™
Does this issue occur if I’m not using AoE HD? When FE came out I simply installed it on top of the old version I’ve had for over ten years
Nop, it only affected HD. For those who have HD though, the issue has been resolved in 3.7 🙂
lol didn’t check the patch notes so I didn’t know that there was an AI update. therefore I was so furious at myself cuz I couldn’t even beat hard AI consistently. great work guys.
Any chance of some new units like some form of lancer cavalry? So many of the civs used lancers yet only the Magyars have any to use. They could be a general stable scout-esque unit with bonuses against infantry.
No plans at this point to add new units except scenario editor ones 🙂 It would really change balance for all civs again, which is a bit too tricky.
But it’s sad that you still don’t make a campaign for the Incas, they’re the only new civ not having their own campaign 🙁
But where’s the download link?
Same question here -_-”
It is automatically downloaded if you have the Steam version of the game, in fact, you should already have patch 3.8 there by now 🙂
Link?Where will i download it?