Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content, “The Last Khans” with 3 new campaigns and 4 new civilizations. Mayans are the best tournament civilization in Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition because they have unit compositions and transitions available to answer any map and situation. Plumed Archers are their most valued units which get accompanied by a strong set of infantry units. Published on Aug 1, 2018 Age Of Empires 2 HD Steam Edition Vs Age Of Empires Definitive Edition Military Unit Visual Graphical Comparison / Benchmark List Includes Age of Empires Scout Unit.

The is a list of Pros and Cons about the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.
More AoE II Guides:

• Cheat Codes.
• All Civilizations Guide (Bonuses, Tips and Strategies).
• Chronological Order of Campaigns.
• Simple Fast Castle Build Order.

Intro

I have been playing age of empires on and off since it came out in 1999, after trying the DE edition I believe some features made the game drift a bit from the original classic
The following is a list of Pros and Cons based on my experience, and from what I have observed on streams and youtube.

Cons List

Game Mechanics

Setting Gather Point
Trying to set a gather point from TC to deer is very hard.

Interface / Quality of Life Features

Building Queues

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Queuing units are now represented by a number on the icon instead of the classic multiple icons view.
This is rather very challenging to get a good idea of whats happening .. specially in tight situation where you toggle through buildings fast.
It would be a good idea if there was an option to revert back to original queuing interface.

Multiplayer

Map Selection for ranked games
The idea of being forced a random map from the map pool is very annoying, given that most players have been playing a few set of maps most of the time. Specially on the competitive scene.
This issue has also been tackled in video here:
Having to do performance testing continuously
Why is this necessary, shouldn't it be done only 1 time.

Graphics

Health Bar / Selection
The new health bar looks very different and there is no way to revert back to old look.
Also the selection border for units is very thick compared to what it used to be.
Icons

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Even with HUD scale maxed out, the icons still look very small compared to the classic version.
Units proportions
It feels like some units have changed in proportions, an example is paladin.

Settings

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Game doesnt reset keys for conflicting actions
In classic aoe, setting a hot key for an item would automatically reset that key for all other conflicting actions. eg. if you set hotkey for building farm 'F', it automatically resets that key for all other buildings if they are using 'F' as hotkey.
Although there are warnings, they are not always accurate. Setting a button for idle villager does not give warning for other conflicting entries.

Bugs

Unable to cancel in progress research / building / production
This happens after changing HUD to exactly 125%.
Icons are not clickable once they are in progress.

Pros List

Quality of Life

Number of villagers / Idle / Per resource

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It is really great that these numbers are now visible straight away rather than clicking on the economy icon.

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Zooming in and out
Queuing research with unit production

Multiplayer

Matchmaking
Server Based multiplayer
Alot better than peer to peer.
Spectating any game in progress
Was only possible on voobly, wasn't possible on the HD version.
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WELCOME BACK TO HISTORY!

The wait is over! Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is available now at the Microsoft Store on Windows 10. We are so excited for you to experience all the new features that we’ve brought to this classic RTS.

Beyond the upscaled 4k visuals and remastered soundtrack, we’ve found that these quality-of-life gameplay improvements sometimes feel like such a core part of Age that people can forget that they weren’t in the original! Here are a few highlights that you might not realize got added:

Fantastic New Features and Where to Find Them

• Attack Move: One of the community’s most-requested improvements is now in the game! Hold A and right-click to send your army to a location and attack any opponents on the way!
• Fast farm reseeding: With a villager selected, right-click on an exhausted farm to reseed it!
• Customizeable UI: Change the size of font and UI panels in the Settings menu!
• Full screen toggle: Switch between full screen and windowed mode by hitting Alt + Enter.
• Higher population cap: Change population cap​ in the game creation lobby. You can go up to 250 population per player… 5 times higher than the original cap of 50!
• Rally Points:With any unit production building selected, right-click at any point on the ground to have all units produced at that building gather there.
• Villager Rally Points:With the Town Center selected, right-click on anything you could send a villager to gather or build. New villagers created at that TC will head straight to that resource, without you needing to assign them! (For example, right-click on a nearby tree. The next villager will walk straight to the tree and begin chopping wood, instead of going idle and waiting for commands.)
• Select Idle Villagers: Can you believe this one wasn’t in the original game?? Hit hotkey . to immediately select the next idle villager and get them back to work!
• Select Idle Military:You didn’t build those chariot archers so they could sit there and look pretty (although, with the new graphics, they certainly do). Hit hotkey , to find your idle military units and send them to destroy your opponent!
• Unit queueing:Okay, seriously? You couldn’t queue units in buildings before now? Well now you can! Just keep clicking the unit portrait for whatever you’d like to build! Or, to take it to the next level, Shift + click to queue 5 at a time. Efficiency!
• Multi-building queue: For when you need a ton of archers, NOW. Select several of the same production building (e.g. barracks) by holding Ctrl + left-click. Then click the unit portrait as normal (or use the hotkey) to distribute the queue evenly among all selected buildings. You can even shift + click to distribute five units at a time into the queue. Hope you have plenty of resources!
• Right-click mouse scroll: Zoom around the map like never before! With no unit selected, right-click and drag to exactly the area you want to see!
• Mouse zoom: Speaking of zooming, you can now zoom in and out dynamically using your mouse scroll wheel.
• Go to Event Hotkey: Nothing is worse than hearing the attack horn and not knowing where the action is happening! Hit hotkey backspace to cycle the camera through the most recent events on the map.
• Walkable farms: No more farm walls! You can walk right over farmland and destroy your opponent. (If you need some defenses of your own, research ACTUAL walls at the granary starting in the Tool Age.)
• New default key layout: Building hotkeys are now mapped to the UI grid by default, making it easy to remember which key to hit to build your dock! (hint: it’s T.)
• And MORE!

Again, these are only our favorites among the many quality-of-life upgrades present in Age of Empires: Definitive Edition. Which are your favorites? Drop a comment below or head to our forums for more discussion!

Discuss of 3 comments

• Is there any button to gather all military units to a single place ? Like in AOE 3 ?

• where are the gates for the walls.....trapped my forces in ;[

  • Click a section of wall then hit Delete on your keyboard, it will destroy one section.

• Palmyral's trade boat not return 2x gold. Please fix this bug!