New Balance Changes & Auto Farm Placement!

TheViper | Professional Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Player for GamerLegion | Sponsored by Re-Bo

[SiteMtv]

"Auto Micro, Auto Macro, Autofarming.. why dont we make Auto-Everything?" -
MbL, 21 Century

[kevley]

If Viper shaved his head and grew the beard more he would look like a straight up viking

[SaneCondo]

The farm auto placement will be amazing, as the drop-off... But I hope in less bugs 11

[rdcdt]

It's wonderful auto place farm!!!!
I remember playing aoe2k and they were no late game because you have to reseed each farm manually. The trick was have hot key for idle vil, spam it with right click and it reseed all farm in less than 10 seconds!

[furorceltica]

T90 farm should become the default for auto-farm placement

[EhBahSuper]

For the people in twitch chat who claimed that the math doesn't work for the time required to build a Sicilan Donjon. Here is how we are supposed to understand the 50% faster (which I agree is hard to know how to interpret) :
- With no bonus : I need 125s to build 1 donjon
- If I build 50% faster : I need 125s to build 1 donjon + 50% of another donjon
- Which means in 125s I can build 1.5 donjon
- So to build 1 donjon, I'll need 125/1.5 = 83.33s

[CptManboobs]

0:50 Microsoft patching the game to buff T90

[paddy]

T90 and MBL are both going to have something to say about this...

[JohnSmith-tknt]

I thought the "Auto Dropoff" button they just added was a bad idea but after using it for a month i think it works out fantastic so im very open to the farm placement buff

[BelialTnTn]

As I said it elsewhere, why don't they just switch the passive of Mongols with Nomads, and make the bonus HP thing the Castle Age tech. It makes more sense as an identity for the civ (otherwise no one really reaserches it in Casle Age anyway, while being there since the start could have some uses), and the HP bonus thing wouldn't be really OP if you actually need a Castle and then research it.

[WigglyWings]

I love the auto farm placement, it's a good QoL feature.

[SirQuantization]

Autofarms means MUCH less clicking and tedium per game. It’s good for the wrists too

[summonerds]

I felt that mundane tasks should be fine to automate years ago when starcraft 2 automated many things and introduced lots of “QoL” changes to make those types of tasks “easier” so people could focus on the more “important” army micro. Having many years of time to reconsider, i have fully reversed that position. StarCraft 1 is so much more interesting to watch and play and a big part is the game making you choose between effective macro and effective micro. In 2 you can macro so easily that micro is everything, and at that point i found myself asking “why even have macro, why not just give players armies at the start and let them micro battle for the game?”

[quasibrodo]

I haven't tried the farm placement for myself but it looks like it takes an additional action or two. Well worth it, if you want to lay down 10 farms in the late how useful in the early game when you're creating 1-2 farms at a time. Also in the late game farm placement matters less. I don't think it'll make a big difference.

[yuuya]

"why dont we auto play as well?"

-- Otto the Prophet has seen it through

[Klautsche]

As a low Elo Player this will save me literal minutes of farm placing time per match, can't wait! :D

[martynkalendar]

I've always wanted this change with farms, this is great, didn't know they had it in aoe4!

[joelashworth]

This is perfect for my 500pop BF games where i need 200 farmers for my persian elephant spam

[capincrunch]

lol auto everything 😂 let me just start matches where bots play against each other

[JJBeauregard]

The Bengalis' changes are meant to nerf their Elephant Archers without nerfing the Rathas.