Age of Mythology: Retold

[Infinitron]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1934680/view/4615714711209032205

Age of Mythology: Retold is Available Now!
Will you become mythic?

Today is the global launch for
Age of Mythology: Retold
and we couldn’t be more excited. 22 years since the original game became legend, this project has been a complete labor of love by all involved. We have such passion for the game, the potential of mythology for epic stories and the chaos you can create when armed with god powers.

We are so thankful to established and new players alike who’ve played so far. Today we open up the game to everyone and can’t wait to see the adventures you have. As we celebrate this moment, we want to hear from you. Share your stories, your memories, and what you’d like to see us change and balance as we grow the game. We’ll be listening.

Prostagma!
Age of Mythology: Retold
is now available! Ready to get mythic? Play the Greek, Egyptian, Norse and Atlantean pantheons, all the missions, and all the fun today!

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Age of Mythology: Retold
, and unsure where to start? Check out our full launch overview to help you dive in where suits you best!

 

[Johannes]

Is it how close to the original in gameplay? Why are they not calling it just AoM 2, it looks reasonably different at a glance

 

[ArchAngel]

Reporting back, I must say using controller is not as bad as I expected as they adjusted UI for it. Once I get used to it, it should be good enough to finish the campaign but never good enough for MP.

Game has some nice automation features around worker management and some nice smart building options where you do not need to select a worker before you start building something, you just select a building, put it somewhere and game picks up closest worker, sends it to build it and after returns it to whatever it was doing.

I just need to figure out how on controller I get feature of holding Shift when I want to build multiple of same building.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

Is it how close to the original in gameplay? Why are they not calling it just AoM 2, it looks reasonably different at a glance

Its the same game with some tweaks that are on the level of balance patches. I think the largest changes are the increased population limit, reusable god powers, and fifth age that is unlocked by building the wonder. But that last age only serves as late game ender and unlocks nothing new, it simply gives all your mythic units a stat boost, enables you to build titans multiple times and lowers the cost when reusing wonders. For most part of the game you won't even notice these changes, since they mostly affect late game.

 

[ArchAngel]

I am playing the first campaign in the list, I think I am nearing the end now. I never played this originally as this showed up after Age of Empire games and I was fed up by the gameplay of those games at that time.

So far it has been fun. They came up with decent reason why you get to play as all factions at some point.

I found the Norse the most fun one. You just spam Hero units that also work as builders. You can move your army around and build whatever you want wherever you want and you always got a lot of builders at hand that build shit fast. And you can recruit different Giants as mythic units. Their only problem is lack of catapults but that is solved a bit if you can get some of your Giants to survive reaching enemy stuff, they Club anything to death fast.

As for UI, I kind of got used to using a controller although I am still fairly slow as a result (I read this game works with K&M on Xbox so I might try to plug those in). What I am most irritated is that I can only control whole armies as using control groups is not practical on controller but then all units move at the speed of your slowest units (catapults)..

 

[Lacrymas]

I played the first few missions of the campaign yesterday and the AI seems a bit better than original, but it's still not as brutal as AoE2's, maybe it ramps up after a few more missions. A Good Plan is still surprisingly tough, though, and the first time I noticed the AI being better. The AI trains better armies in the next mission too, regularly sending 4 colossi along with the rest of its army.

 

[ArchAngel]

If anyone is interested in casting of a live RedBull tournament that is going on now it is here: https://www.twitch.tv/egctv

AoM Retold seems to be faster than AoE games and more fun to watch.

 

[ArchAngel]

I watched a fair bit of these games and AoM Retold is pretty cool. Games are not long. I would say 15 to 20 minutes normally, some last below 10 if one side does a good attack on smaller maps and finds other unprepared.

And casters confirmed that it is faster than AoE games, mostly due to defensive buildings not being as strong and God powers being very powerful if used well.

 

[PlayerEmers]

AoM games being faster was always the case since the original game. Retold looks the same even with all the balance changes and mechanic changes and additions.

 

[ArchAngel]

I was able to connect K&M and game works with it, but Xbox and M$ are retarded and it seems if mouse has high polling rate it creates delay when using it.. so my cheap mouse that works perfectly on my old PC works like crap on best Xbox.. so now I am getting a new mouse for it. Maybe I can even try some AoM Retold FFA after that.

 

[Lacrymas]

Don't play on consoles, the fuck.

 

[ArchAngel]

Don't play on consoles, the fuck.

Make the cost of PC components go back 10 years and I will not play on console.

 

[Lacrymas]