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[FaLgoR]

Do you usually play scenarios in age of empires 2? Much people don't play Random Map, but only scenarios. What's your prefered scenario? Mini-castle, GWarz, Germz Blood, Grave Blood, Spider Blood you know... I really like Mini-castle because team work is the key for win the game (and some lucky helps too ;D).

[trinest]

Ihave only played this game 1 and it was along time ago.

I dont know what it was in but it was just a saved game with alot of poeple and the time I was on allwaysed losed

[Cool_Freaker]

I used to be so addicted to custom scenarios. For about a year I would play non-stop. I liked Hero Castle Blood, where you had to convert units and stuff, I found it more fair... Normal Castle Blood, where it was based on luck was ok as well. Didn't like Mini or Fair Castle Blood much for some reason...

Archers Hellfire was always fun, as was Germs Blood and Grave Blood. Didn't like Spider Blood much either. Defense was fun when it was a challenge... specially when you get to the end and everyone's maxed out the land space with towers and units and all the sabotuers with Khans come in and start to whack everything

[Jhearad]

Did anyone here ever get as far as making their own scenarios and maps for the game at all. I know I had a go at maps and made a few, but wouldn't go so far as to claim that they were at all good. I never tried doing anything more imaginative than that though. Things were just complicated enough to keep me from wanting to do much more, and it was time that could be better spent playing the scenarios made by other people.

[spawn_syxx9]

I am just wondering if they will have these on the new Age of Empires 3?

I am still pretty sure though that Warcfrat had something to do with them releasing this.

[SpiltBlood]

i play random map and i hate deathmatch because you get tomany resources and its no fun. i like making a village and getting resources the hard way it makes it interesting. dose anyone play online? i cant get it to work online...

[Cool_Freaker]

Yeah, started playing online again today after about a break of more than a year - which I needed after playing two years straight.

Anyway, whats the problem? You simply need to install Age of Empires II, go to http://www.microsoft.com/games/ and find Age of Empires II. From there go to Downloads and get the English patch. Run it, and then go to http://zone.msn.com/
Make sure you're using Internet Explorer, somehow installation won't work on Firefox. Sign in using your .net Passport (or make one), then click on CD Rom up the top. Choose Age of Empires II, and it will download some files to your computer. Say yes if it asks you to install (duh). Then just click on a game room, and find a game that's not full, or host one yourself.

[FaLgoR]

SpiltBlood, on Jan 22 2005, 04:39 PM, said:

i play random map and i hate deathmatch because you get tomany resources and its no fun. i like making a village and getting resources the hard way it makes it interesting. dose anyone play online? i cant get it to work online...

yes, I think it too. Deathmatch is for rooks. There is no fun :/

[Cool_Freaker]

FaLgoR, on Feb 1 2005, 02:39 AM, said:

yes, I think it too. Deathmatch is for rooks. There is no fun :/

Not necessarily, there are a lot of pro DM players too. It does have less variation than say an RM game, but there is certainly strategy there. Especially if you don't manage to kill your opponent(s) quickly, the game gets drawn out, and it's a huge grab for resources, granted you don't play one of the custom maps with gold mines/trees/stone everywhere.

[cse-icons]

yeah, one of the best games I played so far...
was addicted to it and played all night sometimes..

I played scenarious or campaigns in the beginning but later random map only.

I have played it over LAN for some time and it was great competing and lot better than against the computer..

A few improvements in age of mythology were good... and now am playing that more often... (actually i did not like it first but later felt this was better)..

heard that age of empires 3 is going to be released. can wait to play it....
saw a few screenshots somewhere....may be their site..

[gotspooned]

I prefer age of mythology... but in age of empires i'd say i like cutom settings the most <3 <3

[FaLgoR]

cse-icons, on Feb 1 2005, 04:52 AM, said:

yeah, one of the best games I played so far...
was addicted to it and played all night sometimes..

I played scenarious or campaigns in the beginning but later random map only.

I have played it over LAN for some time and it was great competing and lot better than against the computer..

A few improvements in age of mythology were good... and now am playing that more often... (actually i did not like it first but later felt this was better)..

heard that age of empires 3 is going to be released. can wait to play it....
saw a few screenshots somewhere....may be their site..

age of mithology sux
I don't like it. Its full of monsters and other things. I prefer the conquerors...

[Jhearad]

I agree about the deathmatches not being so much fun generally. I found they tended only to work when you have enough players that anyone launching an early attack has to worry about another player hitting his base while he is gone. That helps to keep people wary for a while and means they have to maintain a force rather than just buidling one up as quickly as possible. Resources wear down quickly if you have to keep replacing units from small battles so you have to think a bit more carefully about what to do.

[iGuest]

Hey you know them multiplayer maps we all played on zone before it quit?

Ya you know the ones like

Mini-castle and such if you could get me a link to download them please

-alex

[pasten]

FaLgoR, on Jan 19 2005, 01:41 AM, said:

What's your prefered scenario? Mini-castle, GWarz, Germz Blood, Grave Blood, Spider Blood you know... I really like Mini-castle because team work is the key for win the game (and some lucky helps too ;D).

What are those names? Are they really in Age Of Empires 2? I have scenarios like El cid, and other(I don't remember now, played a year back).

Anyway, I liked this game very much, more because it was the first game when my new computer was brought.

I usually create more villagers and some soldiers at first. You can see that by doing so, you needn't bother about resources later in the game, where situation becomes tight. I almost forgot how I used the tactics to complete all of the main scenarios.

This game requires good rememberance, for example you are creating farms and then move some soldiers to oppeonent area and put some villagers on lumber, then select a villager to create a castle..... now you must have forgot to see the soldiers sent to opponents area. But fortunately you remember by the sound it beeps.

Huh, there can be complete manual on startegies, tricks, and hints. This game really requires hours to complete unlike shooting games like QUAKE III etc.

Recently I played the demo version of AOE 3. The graphics are so amazing with 3d look. Hoping more RTS's with 3d effect.. (I remember a complete 3d rts named HOMEWORLD part I and II, more about this in a new topic soon).

Edited by nitish, 02 January 2008 - 10:55 AM.

[Karel]

nitish, on Jan 2 2008, 11:53 AM, said:

What are those names? Are they really in Age Of Empires 2? I have scenarios like El cid, and other(I don't remember now, played a year back).

These are scenarios made by players all over the world. It is some kind of small level, where you play with 4 or 8 players against each other (teams or ffa) with fast gaming (a game takes 20 to 30 minutes mostly) and it required a lot of good tactic and fast reaction to win such a scenario.
I had about 400 to 600 scenarios. Now I deleted them all, because I dont play AOE2 any more since 3 years.
They were 1.0c and The Conquerors expension. But most of the expension scenarios had almost the same codes as AOE2 itselve and could easily be compiled to a good format.

I dont know where to download these scenarios (maybe from clan-sites). But you can still play at sites such as Gamespy (I got them all from there, but that was before Zone quited and before Gamepark started), and Gamepark.
When the host of a scen-game selects the scenario it will automaticly transfer to you. Just ask him if you wants to select all scens you want one by one, and click Ready (the host of course) and you will have the scenarios you want in a few minutes.
So, ask in the general-chat for these scenarios and there will probably be someone who will help you.

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Student Math at the University of Twente (Netherlands)
English is my 3th language, so please dont qoute... I know my english is crap.

Edited by Karel, 06 January 2008 - 04:31 AM.

[jlrr94]

I used to play AOE 2 but I just played at the network with my brother, I really don't like to use the scenarios of the game, I usually create them but then I change to Age of Mythology:The Titans Expansion and it's much better than AOE 2!

[iGuest]

Hey, in custom scenarios, how do I get the computer to be more aggressive? I have them in transports, and I want them to land on my island.

-question by Chris

[room2593]

In a custom scenario editor, you have to select the opponent's difficulty when you add them. You can do it afterward, too. It should be a drop down menu.
This will make them harder or more agressive.
Be careful, tho... don't make them too strong.

I love conqueror's. About six of my friends used to get together every sunday and play for about 5 hours. We got to be excellent...
The top few of us could take on hardest armies for fun.

[iGuest]

anyone playing? anyone know there to find custom scenarioAge Of Empires Ii

Hello everybody,

•  I'm still playing AoE2 once in a while. I was wondering if someone is still playing and wants to play online sometime.

 

• Does anyone know where to find old custom scenario's? I had lots of floppy discs years ago, but guess what. I can't find them. Besides that I don't have a floppy entrance anymore, lol. I would be very happy to find a cool map. Maps I liked were, #1 Hitman, then some bloods etc. Just want a lot to change my game now and then.

 

•  There's something else too. I started creating a custom scenario a few year's ago. I got stuck at some point. Can anyone help me out so I can continue my scenario? I did pretty good so far. Where I got stuck is that when a unit is created by trigger it won't move from it's spot. Anyone?

 

Can anyone help me out with one of the 3 points?

Kind greetings,

zoonmaniak

[Quatrux]

I used to play this game, sometimes when I want to relax I just turn on Age of Empires, a random map and play it, but the last time I've done it was almost a year ago as it's quite monotonic if you play a lot of it.