Top 10 New Features in Definitive Edition

I put together a list of all my favourite new features from DE that people might not have discovered yet. It's way more than just new graphics, civilizations, and campaigns.

0:27 Farm & fish trap queue
1:10 New scenario editor options
2:40 Art of war advanced tutorials
3:32 Seeing if you can afford a tech at a glance
4:00 Changes to deleting units
4:30 Updates to queues - mixed, command, and global
5:15 Rotate gates
5:45 New game options (maps, resources, Empire wars)
7:08 Updates to AI (behaviours and commands)
7:55 Hotkeys
8:50 Number of villagers on each resource
9:20 Age of Embers 2

Game: Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition, with Forgotten Empires, African Kingdoms, Rise the Rajas, and Last Khans expansions

[OlrikMeister]

definitive edition easily adds another 20 years to the lifespan of this game

[FeastOvGoreglutton]

Trebuchets automatically pack and unpack when you tell them to do something.

[BaronPraxis]

I am one of those people who played the campaigns and loved them, then went online and got roflstomped. The Art of War tutorials were a pleasant surprise.

[Skaitania]

Shift+Del

or as history calls it: The Black Death 1347 - 1353

[Joker-ywhl]

When Spirit gets married, will he become a Spirit-in-law or Spirit of the law-in-law?

These are the questions

[ZetruH]

The achievements are really good now, they are fun challenges like "destroy your town center at the beginning of the game and still win" or "
gather 20 sheep in a random map game.", instead of crap like "play 5, 000 times against the Persians" or "destroy 10, 000 buildings"

[t-rex]

my favorite new feature is how you can now manually lower your rank without having to play worse, by simply picking any civ that isn't cumans.

[sonkew]

SotL (2:30): "... feature that probably took one minute to implement..."

every programmer: "You ungrateful users!, Why don't you implement it yourself next time!"

[ModestPelican]

I haven’t played this game in years, but I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the vids mate!

[Spawn]

"Super easy, barely an inconvenience" Loved it!

[seizan]

- showing an extra feature
- showing awesome features I missed
- watching SotL pllay with the ambers

This video is a solid 11/10

[matthewexline]

Just being able to rotate the gates is enough of a reason to get the new version lol.

[naomi_moon]

I was afraid DE was just gonna be a graphics update, but all these QoL features are honestly great and I'm glad I bought it.

[maxs]

Who else didn't notice you could play with the embers? : o

[fredrikemilsson]

"It can do all sorts of things."
*Tells AI to 69*

[jenbak]

1:56 Unexpected Screen Rant reference EDIT: Pitch meeting*

[twoboxtoofurious]

Microsoft in 5 years: We are announcing Age of Empires 2 Final Final Ultra Definitive Edition

[GonDragon]

My favorite it's the addition of colorblind modes. Now, I can play play on an 8 players map, without mixing Yellow and Green player, or missing orange units on the green minimap <3

[natee]

You mentioned rotate gates with mouse but forgot:
- Gate foundations issue refund for unbuilt portion of wall segments they were placed over (0% built = 100% refund).
- Diagonal gates no longer require extra wall segments on their posts.

Also variables and player attribute effects in the editor!!

[princessbinas]

These improvements are so handy. I personally like the mixed queues, how you can tell villagers to build different buildings before tasking them back on a resource, and the villager counter (total villagers and the ones on each resources).