Considering picking up AoE 4. Really enjoyed sc2 back in the day, but drifted away after blizz killed the competitive scene. Fast forward a few years and I’m so sick of dota 2. It sounds like AoE 4 is a slower game but I don’t have much experience with AoE.
I enjoy almost everything about sc2. Diverse races, rock paper scissor style unit counters, etc.
External link →As a veteran SC2 player, I hope you'll check out Stormgate. It's being made by Frost Giant Studios, including key members of the former SC2 development team. (We enter closed beta this December.)
There's some discussion in this thread on the pacing and gameplay feel of the respective RTS games and how SC2 has a higher server tick rate than other competing RTS games (past and upcoming). Stormgate runs on 64 Hz servers, which we believe makes it the most responsive RTS yet. (3x faster than SC2, 8x faster than typical 8 tick RTS games.) Stormgate will even support rollback, which we haven't seen in another RTS.
AoE 4 is a lot of fun, though, and I recommend it. I've played it quite a lot with my wife, who has been a longtime fan of Age of Empires since AoE2.
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