I played the original AoE when it was a new game, and beat every campaign except the Holy Man one. The AI is now much harder to beat. Try playing the custom game with the last option set to Classic Mode, then on the Definitive Edition mode (or whatever it is called). You can see the difference there. Maybe experiment with custom games and work up to the campaign with the newer, more aggressive AI.

The camp difficulty settings are broken in both AOE 1/2, so my advice is do not even bother, go and find a more player friendly as all you will do with these are get frustrated to the max simply because the games AI cheats, so do not waste your timer.

Oh and i actually just this week, gave AOE4 a chance, and big surprise. but when the game is updated by the devs it breaks every save game you had, so on single player camp if you do not complete a camp in one session then your save game is at the mercy of being broken in any updates before you get back to it........how this franchise is still around is beyond me.

Damn Omega Man seems to have real issues.

Yes the game is harder because the AI is less incompetent and yes the AI is cheating as it is basically any strategy game.

I beat the campaign on the hardest difficulty and honestly, just change your approach and you'll be fine. This is a strategy game. Not some city-builder sim. So if whatever you're doing is not working you have to change what you're doing.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Schlangenbob:

Damn Omega Man seems to have real issues.

Omega Man is actually right.

You can notice, that definitve editions have very low % achievments for campaign completion

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Omega Man:

The camp difficulty settings are broken in both AOE 1/2, so my advice is do not even bother, go and find a more player friendly as all you will do with these are get frustrated to the max simply because the games AI cheats, so do not waste your timer.

They replaced original AI with new AI in campaigns - new AI does not cheat, but it is super effective (on the land maps, on water is broken), and broke difficulties in campaigns with that.

These classic campaigns were balanced arround original AI, and with new effective AI, many missions became extremely hard - for example Genghis Khan 3 - Into China,, where player deals with 4 enemy AI