The game is back and it has been fleshed out again for the 2nd time. Like some kind of fifa or generic sports game, it keeps making me come back for more. New editions to the game include waypoints, villager/resource counts, graphical enhancements. Some new civ's have also been added to the game. There are tons of new stuff in this version of AOE2. But unfortunately while I can give it the thumbs up because it does what it sought out to do. I would like to point out some very major problems that can be easily corrected.

This version of the game as of 12/13/19 is plagued with lots of server stability problems which will lead to frequently dropped games. You are not even safe in local host mode, In fact I think I've lost connection to games more under local lan than actually on the server. This makes the game very frustrating as in older editions to the game, you were allowed to wait for people to reconnect, save the map. In this version if you are dropped from the game, you immediately lose with no chance of reconnecting.

The rest of my gripes are quite small, nothing new but the new civ's are quite strong in the current meta but not unbeatable. Cumans are probably unfair in high level play though. The cursor bug still exists where you can easily guess something is somewhere simply by hovering over it.

Despite the problems, I do think the game is worth looking at and it looks like there are updates beyond the horizon.

The game is back and it has been fleshed out again for the 2nd time. Like some kind of fifa or generic sports game, it keeps making me come back for more. New editions to the game include waypoints, villager/resource counts, graphical enhancements. Some new civ's have also been added to the game. There are tons of new stuff in this version of AOE2. But unfortunately while I can give it the thumbs up because it does what it sought out to do. I would like to point out some very major problems that can be easily corrected. This version of the game as of 12/13/19 is plagued with lots of server stability problems which will lead to frequently dropped games. You are not even safe in local host mode, In fact I think I've lost connection to games more under local lan than actually on the server. This makes the game very frustrating as in older editions to the game, you were allowed to wait for people to reconnect, save the map. In this version if you are dropped from the game, you immediately lose with no chance of reconnecting. The rest of my gripes are quite small, nothing new but the new civ's are quite strong in the current meta but not unbeatable. Cumans are probably unfair in high level play though. The cursor bug still exists where you can easily guess something is somewhere simply by hovering over it. Despite the problems, I do think the game is worth looking at and it looks like there are updates beyond the horizon.