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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by hot_gril on Sunday January 15, 2023 @11:05PM (#34396659)
In the Definitive Edition, there has been observed cheating in online ranked mode where players give themselves infinite resources. Evidently there's a way to do that without going OoS. This was probably the same in the original. This is besides the less complex cheat, removing fog of war. Seems the only thing stopping most people from cheating is, they don't want to.

Also, I used to play the Mac version a lot. It was great! Shame they made the remakes Windows-only.

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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by alternatetwo on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:27AM (#34397502)
You can call the command creation functions yourself, making the game think it's part of the simulation [1]. These types of cheat have been around ever since the original game, and the HD edition [2].

[1]: https://redrocket.club/posts/age_of_empires/ [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tl8AjDfnBk

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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by hot_gril on Monday January 16, 2023 @04:11PM (#34405529)
I was thinking of wireshark-capturing the game's calls too, but I figured someone else already did it and wrote a nice article about it... and there it is.
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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by brnt on Monday January 16, 2023 @05:39PM (#34406434)
> Shame they made the remakes Windows-only.

They run brilliantly through Steam on Linux, fwiw.

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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by hot_gril on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @02:17PM (#34417254)
Sorta. You have to mess with the DLLs and Proton settings to make multiplayer work, and even then it's laggy. It also works in Wine on Mac in some cases, but for me it always had problems.
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Re:1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Emp... by brnt on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:34PM (#34432680)
Never had to mess with anything for multiplayer AoE (or any other so far). That was in the before times, remember transgaming?
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