#aoeiide

[blackaddersplays]

A week after release I again played Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition after a few patches and got to test some spectating and also multiplayer team games. Have a look if you're interested in some cast expert games from TheViper, MbL, Hera, Mr. Yo or Villese, and see the whole experience with the game as I upload the whole stream to show it all - you can use time stamps in the description for navigation to content you want.

I also got a game for the Age of Mythology fans, but AoL_RecoN's match unfortunately ended in a crash, so it's not whole :-/ Yes, problems persist.

[blackaddersplays]

On Thursday Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition launched and so I streamed the experience after release to see the changes from Beta a week ago - I streamed on 14th November night about 7 hours after launch. I again perform tests and show FPS, CPU/RAM/GPU usage.

My computer: i5-3570 3.40 GHz quad-core, 8GB RAM, playing off normal HDD, system on SSD, GPU AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB (should be similar to Nvidia 1060), 1920x1200 resolution, 60Hz display.

The video description includes time stamps for specific parts for better orientation.

In the meantime some things have been attempted to be fixed (like the pretty much non-functioning multiplayer), there was a first small patch, but players are still reporting similar issues and from my checking out of things, it's still not working well 2 days after launch (number of the shown games is still limited, largely cannot join any spectating, lag/stutter is still in, maybe slightly better, but not by much if so, and could just be random observation, looking also at other streams).

[blackaddersplays]

You might've read my written account or seen the live stream on Friday, here are the videos from the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Beta also on YouTube for better comfort - I've added some time stamps into the description so you can find points of interest if you're looking for specific things - I recommend especially the second video with the latest version of the game.

It's mostly about multiplayer as that's the relevant part for me and my activities in the community, but I also look at the single player/campaign a bit. 

Tomorrow (Thursday), I'm planning a launch stream for the standard session since I have one, but there's also the X019 at 20GMT with AoE things I want to watch, so I'm thinking maybe we could do some AoEIIDE, then do live watching of the presentation and then back to gaming, we'll see.