Re:Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
by b_ttercup on Thursday July 27, 2017 @10:48PM
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Yeah AoM was the best. I was introduced to programming in their editor. Made it into a short turn based rpg.
The ESO servers are still online (at least till a couple of months ago).
I had issues with AoE 3. In case you forget your password, you can't recover it because they don't send recover emails, sending emails to some support emails from their support page/faq doesn't work (getting "Message could not be delivered").
And each account is connected to one cdkey. A last option is to play with friends/other people on game ranger, or buy a new game, and create a new ESO acount.
Re:Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
by speleding on Friday July 28, 2017 @05:00AM
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AoE 3 plays great on LAN, you only need a single copy to play with friends if you apply the latest patch (which removes the CD key dependence). I still play it regularly with my kids. If you're not all on the same LAN there's software around that will set up a tunnel to make it appear you are to AoE (forgot the name).
With friends I play the steam version (we all have it on steam) via game ranger.
Strange, steam and game ranger. But it works.
I just can't play a random game via ESO.
Re:Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
by sleepychu on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:31AM
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Are you thinking of Hamachi?
I just run OpenVPN on my server with password authentication and really weak (but fast) crypto. Obviously only for LAN games, don't run a minimal security configuration for anything important.
Re:Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
by speleding on Friday July 28, 2017 @10:48AM
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Yes, that's the one, thnx
Re:Age of Empires: Definitive Edition Beta
by marcrosoft on Thursday July 27, 2017 @08:32PM
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I never really played the campaigns but as far as multiplayer all sequels/expansions after RoR were crap. AoK was OK but still a big let down.
Why do you say so? The original AoE always struck me as kind of clunky, specially because of the atrocious path-finding. But I never actually played it in multiplayer.
The pathfinding was quite good when you consider the constraints - target platform (Pentium 90 with 16 _MB_! of RAM), dozens of units moving independently, etc.
And multiplayer was really where the fun was for many of us. This was pretty early in the multiplayer era, so being able to play with up to 8 players in the same game over the internet seemed amazing.
So many great memories playing custom scenario maps on AOM back in 2005-2006. I still have some of the maps but I lost my own "Lobster Escape" creation.
Also fun fact, around 2013 I discovered that the original ESO multiplayer servers were still online and hosted by Microsoft, the game didn't allow you to login because the SSL certificate was expired, but Fiddler2 actually got around that issue and I was able to login with my old ESO account details (these were originally created as live/hotmail accounts with a custom domain).