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Holy shit! Finally 4k with ui scaling but why the f**k no anno 2070? This also needs ui scaling. 2205 has it..
Holy shit! Finally 4k with ui scaling but why the f**k no anno 2070? This also needs ui scaling. 2205 has it..
2070 is still fairly modern (no pun intended) compared to the other two games, and also doesn't really fit in with the historic theme :)
Anno 1503 Multiplayer wtf :D after 18 years, that was some major stuff(big backlash) back in time(im getting f**king old).
Imagine how happy we were once we got it all properly working :)
Not sure if i like the 1404 "rework".
"Support for new resolutions all the way up to 4k" - does that mean that 4K textures have been added to 1404 or is that just about being able to select current day resolutions in the client and have the HUD scaled accordingly?
Because if nothing was added, you are basically paying 15$ for a crash fix. And that is outrageous.
Implying that porting the entire 10 year old game to 64-bit is a simple "crash fix" is selling all the work the team put into the new version quite a bit short :)
Not to mention all the other changes, some of which we will go into with future updates.
Any details on this now? :)
Not yet, but we will have a separate blog post for each of the four games over the coming weeks to look at them in detail.
Don't get me wrong- it was very important for us to preserve the original gameplay, so don't expect any huge changes. Think items like multi-screen support, or building multi-placement.
will the game owners gonna get free update ? im so confused
edit : i just saw comment on website, guess we not and not even a discount ^^
There is no upgrade available, no.
Any plans to bring this to GOG, seeing as the regular versions of these are already available on the store?
No, as the multiplayer is handled via Uplay, and needs an Uplay account.
Are there perhaps any performance optimisations done, especially in 1404? It used to get much slower late game and I don't know whether it was just because of the memory leak or if there also were other issues.
The porting to 64-bit should in general improve the performance, yes.
Does writing "an Uplay" indicate that it's pronounced oo-play and not you-play, and that I've been saying it wrong for years? Real question!
That is an excellent question! I guess sometimes old habits are ahrd to shake :p
Are we allowed to buy individual updated version from the collection? I'm only interested in Anno 1404 and 1701
Yes!
Hello /u/Com_Raven thank you for the awesome news.
I'm a bit confused about the new Anno 1404 version being available on Steam. There is already an Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery game on Steam right now so does that mean the current owner of this game will get a free update to x64 version or will there be a new entry?
If it is the later, I cant find the store page so I can wish list the game. Would you mind sending me the link. Big thanks.
The new version will be available on Steam from launch on June 25 onwards. Hope that clears it up :)
I assume they've made no changes to the gameplay itself. I would have liked to have seen some small QoL upgrades from later games that would make a huge impact on these games. Things like the ability to drag to build multiple houses/field, and the possibility to copy layouts.
There are some changes like that, like multi-placement of buildings in 1404 for example. We will have a blog detailing all the changes made to each game in the coming weeks.
Having to pay $15 to unbreak a game is pretty messed up.
edit it doesn't really matter if it took a bunch of work to fix, it's basic decency/good business to unbreak the products your customers paid for.
It's less of a case of "unbreaking the game", and rather "11 years after this game came out, software has changed and 64-bit operating systems are now normal, so we can take advantage of that".
I don't believe that it is standard practice to spend months of work updating and improving games that came out 11, 14, 18 and 22 years ago, to be honest.
I remember the heartbreaking news when they announced the multiplayer will not be added. This is amazing news!
I'm buying them all. On Steam. Because Praise Gaben
That might be tricky, as only 1404 History Edition is coming to Steam.
Is this also the case for the old games (Anno 1602 and 1503)?
Yes, all four games will have multiplayer via Uplay (in the case of 1503, for the first time; in the case of the others, replacing their previous MP solutions).
I don't believe that it is standard practice to ignore a gamebreaking bug for over a decade and then charge 15 € for a fix when you finally get around to it, to be honest.
I would not call a basic limitation of how 32-bit software in how it can address memory a bug.
I expect that they integrate the campaign, etc into the Venice add-on and fix the memory bug. I really hope there is more as well. And I would be really grateful, if they release a patch to the current version to at least fix the memory issue.
This is no easy patch :) Changing to 64-bit means also completely changing the system requirements to be much higher than advertized when people bought the original games, and that it would potentially not run for many of them.
39,99€ is a hefty price...
Value is naturally a very objective thing that everyone measures differently, but I like to think that 4 games, each of which you can spend hundreds of hours with, for 40€ is a pretty good value, assuming you enjoy the series, of course.
Hurts my soul. I just bought the entire collection back in December 2019, had I've known this was coming out 6 months later I definitely would've just saved my money. Now the question is will customers who have just recently purchased the game (or already own in on Ubisoft) get a discount of some sort?
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no discount available.