Especially mission 1 remains one of my favourites for just that.
While I think that it highlights the Teutons' weakness to ranged units more than their strengths so may have to play around that in mildly awkward ways, it's still just solid good Age of Empires that manage to mix normal gameplay with fun mission design. This hit just the right difficulty for me. The only slightly irritating one is the 4th with an akward split base at the start, and a difficult attack out of the blue that just may force you to restart once. The first mission sets a nice tone with it's almost RPG-like quest feeling. Every mission is memorable and make Mongols feel really fun - which may just be because Mangudai and Drill Siege Rams are amazing, but this campaign really lets you play it out to your heart's content. I love almost everything about this campaign. I particularly noticed it in mission 2 where it lets you get rid of an enemy base faster, but I found that okay since that mission used to be amongst the harder ones. The Sarazens notably changed since the old days due to the archer bonus, but it fits in without major issues. You even get to use the galley bonus without making water too important. The campaign does a good job at highlighting the Sarazen's specialties, as units like Mamelukes perform well better here in than in multiplayer. Saladin offers some varied and fun missions, but I somehow remembered it as far more challenging than it was. The only serious issue is that the new campaign narration is far less fun than the classic one. The difficulty curve however is well designed and the last mission finally puts on some pressure, although it weirdly fizzles out after a while.
The Siege of Paris can be somewhat frustrating though as most of that mission consists of babysitting your units from running off in all directions, and the AI difficulty scaling is just not enough to provide a decent challenge. I suppose this is as classic and vanilla as it gets, and much of it is AoE at its best with building bases and tearing down castles. This one went through fairly quickly and was fun enough, but obviously not very interesting for decently experienced RTS players. Many modern games give learners way too little room in tutorials. It's a pretty good introduction campaign overall that strikes a good balance between introducing absolute noobs and giving players freedom to try stuff on their own. I'll group them by expansion and roughly sort by difficulty to get some order in here: Age of Kings There were some that were rather frustrating and some really wonky difficulty curves, but overall all of them had their strong points. Had a lot of fun with these and already miss them. r/projectceleste - Age of Empires Online Official Forums - Bug Reporting/Ask for HelpĪrchive of Old/Inactive Channels - WIP - here Other AoE Communities
0 kommentar(er)
